text: You comment illustrates very clearly what I say . . . the left wants to paint conservatives black.  "Traditional social institutions" might mean your description to you, but to the vast majority of Canadians it means "the workings of how societies establish subsystems that facilitate their survival."
  
  The negative connotation you paint is the left's construct, established solely to discredit the notion of conservatism, not because it reflects the reality of conservative thought.