When Will We Hear The Same From A Canadian Conservative PM?

Apparently, British Conservatives have finally realized that there's more to Conservatism than mere tax cuts. And it looks like their leader, David Cameron, has the courage to march to his own drum irregardless of what the social trends are. He wasn't afraid to say that returning to public morality and personal responsibility is the only way to avert Britain's social collapse:

"I want a mandate for restoring responsibility to our society. A mandate to call time on the twisted values that have eaten away at our social fabric. A mandate for tough action to repair our broken society."

Cameron, speaking to a Conservative party audience in Glasgow, said the deeper cause of Britain's "family breakdown, welfare dependency, debt, drugs, poverty, poor policing, inadequate housing, and failing schools" is a "society that is in danger of losing its sense of personal responsibility, social responsibility, common decency and, yes, even public morality."

Cameron's Tories would put an end to the prevailing political trend of "moral neutrality," he indicated. While politicians themselves may be fallible, he said, this is no reason to abandon the concept of moral life and "social virtue" in political life.

"We as a society have been far too sensitive. In order to avoid injury to people's feelings, in order to avoid appearing judgemental, we have failed to say what needs to be said. We have seen a decades-long erosion of responsibility, of social virtue, of self-discipline, respect for others, and deferring gratification instead of instant gratification."

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So the British Conservatives get it. What about the Canadian Conservatives? The Conservative party has a strong Social Conservative caucus it inherited from the good old Reform and Alliance parties. It's time for Stephen Harper to finally remember what party has brought him to power and seize the policy initiative. It's time for a Conservative Prime Minister to start promoting Conservative family values as alternative to Liberal social experiments that bring Canada to a social and economic collapse.