For Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, what could be a make-or-break effort to define himself in the eyes of voters starts now.
Polling suggests his party begins a summer campaign behind the governing Liberals, who are eyeing a majority. The numbers also show that O’Toole, a former veterans affairs minister from a riding in the battleground Greater Toronto Area, is not particularly well-known or popular.
It hasn’t always been easy for O’Toole to get a word in edgewise since winning the Conservative leadership last August.
