David Orchard was a prominent member of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada before that party's dissolution.
He was a strong opponent of that dissolution, having run second to Joe Clark
? in a leadership race in 1998, and made a deal with
Peter MacKay that included assurances that there would be no merger with the
Canadian Alliance. MacKay reversed himself and conducted the deal to form the
Conservative Party of Canada, a move which was approved by 90% of the old PC members, but this included many new memberships sold to Alliance members.
Orchard presently runs his
Campaign for Canada at
davidorchard.com
and
vivelecanada.ca
.