American politics can be a distraction, we agree, and labelling Canadian conservatives as MAGA acolytes is manipulative. But we also agree the federal Conservatives could have done better in the last election, engaging more effectively with female voters, making stronger connections between issues that matter to women — for example, reducing violent crime on streets. “There was a way their platform could have taken down a lot of this rhetoric on the left about women’s rights,” Stella says, “because, frankly, it’s just sensational.”