"At no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an Inaugural Address as about yours." -- rock ribbed Communist sympathizer and former "Progressive Party" nominee Henry Wallace at JFK's inauguration, 1961.
If Maxime Bernier had been elected Leader I would be more optimistic about Tory prospects in Quebec.
Where they are polling now is not good enough for any kind of significant gain, and they lost a QB seat in a by-election.
Ontario is where the lion’s share of potential gains will have to come from. The PCs are poised to win the provincial election (though they’ve blown it before), Rob Ford is the new leader there, he beat some “moderate” lady.
Wallace was so far left that even the Dems insisted on Truman for VP back in 1945. But then he went to a different position in which he could do more damage, Secretary of Commerce, a position that Truman canned him from.