Manning was the kind of transparent whore that Easterners saw through... they went from passing around a chicken bucket to collect donations to accepting pensions and getting Peter McKay to break his promise to reunite the right.
They really should push the crazies to go join Bernier, so that the complacency of the Liberals can be challenged with some pragmatic ideas. I didn't like Mulroney either, but in retrospect you can see why he was the most popular PM in modern times.
Really we pay too much attention to the west... buying them a damn pipeline and propping up dying industries. They believe their own propaganda too much, IMO...
To add: they are also magnificently ungrateful to Ontario for indulging them forever... please, folks... United We Roll... seriously ? It's a farce...
If you want to challenge "Trudeau's friends" then put forward a candidate that is not a fringe nutbar, so that the millions of swing voters in Ontario will vote for them.