As public moves left, conservatives talk about moving right

“There's some not-so-good news coming up here,” quipped Thompson MacDonald, a board member at the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, the organizers of the annual networking conference for Canadian conservatives being held in Ottawa this weekend.The not-so-good news he was introducing to the right-wing gathering was pollster André Turcotte and his annual poll measuring the “pulse of the [conservative] movement.”