[mykalberta]

With the media in this country the way it is, Harper cannot allow his more "rural" riding MPs to speak to the press openly else the media will as they have done in the past take their opinions as the opinions of the whole party and use them to slander the party across the country and say look - there is the secret agenda we have been talking about blah blah blah

MPs can operate their own departments as they see fit, however the message from the Conservative party must be clear, concise, and forceful.

What having a centralized voice has allowed them to do is remain a more centrist party with a chance to form government else they would be nothing more than the Bloc - a joke who has no chance of forming government.