number 6, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is a dead letter. Remember when Peter Mackay shook hands with David Orchard? At that moment the Progressive element was betrayed. This was the point of Bobert's original post--conservatives are more ruthless than progressives in advancing their agenda. Orchard thought he was shaking hands to seal a bargain. Mackay knew he wasn't shaking hands at all, he was strangling the runt called progressivism.