Third Annual McLaughlin College Public Policy Address, York University
Dalton Camp Says It's Time for A Political Phoenix to Rise From the Ashes

TORONTO, March 8, 2000 -- The National Post covers the inchoate Canadian Alliance Party as if it were the only defining national political issue of the day. A Globe and Mail editorial this week (The new lineup in Canadian politics: deck chairs shifted) offers voters its roadmap to cutting through the confusion of the current political board game, assigning federal political parties points left or right of centre as if that positioning were all the electorate needs to know. And now, respected political commentator, columnist, and former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Dalton Camp, claims that the centre itself doesn't hold in an era when political parties are captives of commercial and journalistic agendas.

Still, Camp's critique of the Right allows for a re-emergence, phoenix-like, of political parties which he says have lost their way or been led astray by increasingly powerful forces such as corporations, including those who own and run the media. Camp will advance this thesis during the third Annual McLaughlin College Public Policy Address, entitled Confessions of an Optimist: Wither the Right?

WHO:
Dalton Camp
Columnist, pundit, former President of Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

WHAT:
Annual Public Policy Address, McLaughlin College, York University
Confessions of an Optimist: Wither the Right?

WHEN:
Thursday, March 9, 2000
1:30 p.m.

WHERE:
McLaughlin Junior Common Room (104)
York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
(Closest parking in Visitor's Parking Structure)

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For more information, please contact:

Sine MacKinnon
Director, Media Relations
York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22087
sinem@yorku.ca

Prof. David Shugarman
Master, McLaughlin College
York University
(416) 736-2100, ext. 77083
dshugar@yorku.ca
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