Commenting on the Manning Centre a while back, someone wrote:
I left Toronto today after an exciting weekend at Preston Manning’s inaugural roundtable discussion in Toronto. [...] The weekend was full of hope for what Mr. Manning is seeking to accomplish: building the infrastructure of the right.
The weekend conference was held in the gallery of the Toronto Stock Exchange and our group of 100 conservative thinkers and builders spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday hashing out ideas and discussing the future of conservatism. [...]
Without arming any Liberals with any details I will however say that this Manning Centre effort is what conservatives have long been waiting for. [emphases added] – Link
I had heard of the centre way back when Manning came up with the idea but had not been following it in the news. And so I was quite surprised when I came upon this discussion dated May 2008!
Still more surprising were the links shown on this page, to which my gut reaction was: “Doesn’t compute!”
I did find some discussion from another worried blogger here, and I plan on going through it more carefully in the days ahead.
