Liberals Should Promote Progressive-Canadian Party

While I do not belong to any political party today, ( I used to be a card carrying Tory), I receive regular mailings from the Liberal Party of Canada. Now, while I tend to lean a little right, I have never believed in the Harper Conservatives. They seem to be to be more Alliance and Reform than Progressive-Conservative. There is another party that has the heart of the true P-Cs, in fact, they are the P-Cs, Progressive-Canadian Party of Canada. As I mentioned above, I am not a member but my leanings are that way. Did I also say that I would far prefer the Liberals over the Harper Conservatives?
Today, I sent the following letter to the new Liberal leader, Michael Ignatieff (Iggy), offering my sincere congratulations, good luck wishes and suggestion to split the vote on the right.

Mr. Ignatieff:
Congratulations on achieving your new leadership role and I wish you the best of luck in achieving victory over Harper and his Conservatives.
I have no active party affiliations now but am an ex Progressive-Conservative who left the party when Mulroney was campaigning for the MST (Mulroney Sales Tax).
Part of the problem the Liberal Party has today is that the centre and left vote is split between yourselves, the NDP, and Greens. Since the Conservative Party emerged from the PCs, Alliance and Reform, there is no such split on the right. Since any merger of the Liberals with the parties of the left is a non-starter, you must engineer a split on the right.
I suggest that you give some publicity to the Progressive-Canadian Party. I am sure you know that they are the renewed PCs, a true progressive conservative party. The trouble is, they are also Canada's best kept secret; nobody knows about them. If they could become better known, I am sure that they would draw a lot of votes from Canadians who would normally vote Conservative but would be unlikely to ever vote Liberal. Fewer votes for Harper's party equals more Liberals elected and if a few Progressive-Canadians were elected, they would be easier than Conservatives to work with.

Best wishes,
Doug

I don't know if Mr. Ignatieff will even get to read my suggestion, but I hope he does. If he does, I expect it could have two benefits. It could help the Liberals and it would give the Progressive-Canadians some much needed publicity.

I could live with that.