Ron Dart and the High Tory tradition

Not long ago I interviewed Ron Dart, a retired academic at the University of the Fraser Valley on a subject about which he has written extensively: Ron Dart and the High Tory tradition. An excerpt:

What is a Tory? Here in Canada, members and supporters of our federal and provincial Conservative Parties are known as Tories. But what does this mean? Is it similar to the Republican Party to our south? Or is there something distinctive about our Canadian conservative tradition that gives the Tory label a different connotation? Many of our fellow citizens would be at a loss to answer these questions.

But not Ron Dart, with whom I was privileged to talk some weeks ago.

Dart is Canada's resident expert on this country's Tory tradition and an admirer of George Parkin Grant, whom I was privileged to hear on two occasions, and Stephen Leacock, both of whom exemplify the Tory tradition.