Conservative Party

Candice Bergen was voted interim leader of the Conservatives on Wednesday evening after a majority of party MPs voted to remove Erin O’Toole as leader earlier in the day.

Bergen has been the MP for the Manitoba riding of Portage—Lisgar since 2008. She most recently served as the Conservatives’ deputy leader and has been among the party’s most prominent voices in the House of Commons.

As interim leader, Bergen will not be allowed to run for permanent leader when that race is conducted. A date has not yet been determined.

The trucker convoy, the remnants of which seem determined to make those living in the Ottawa core indefinitely miserable, would have been a challenge for any Conservative leader to reckon with. But for Erin O’Toole, it crystallized everything that has plagued his leadership, expressing opposing positions within days of each other, appearing embarrassed to be a conservative, being outshined by his own caucus, and leaving everyone unsatisfied in the end. If it was indeed the trigger for the party revolt that ousted him Wednesday, it is a fitting one.

Honestly I thought O’Toole would survive this challenge and I am no fan.

I do wonder what motivated such a large defeat beyond his obvious shortcomings as a Flip-Flopper etc.

Were the MP’s party to intelligence indicating widespread defections from the CPC?

The current party platform is little different from the LPC causing my withdrawal of support. 

Maybe a new leader will change my mind and I’ll return but I suspect not.

Erin O’Toole voted out as leader by Conservative MPs

The party’s members of Parliament met virtually today to cast secret ballots after about one-third of them signed a notice that triggered a leadership review.

Ontario MP and national caucus chair Scott Reid said in a statement that 73 Conservative MPs voted to replace him while 45 endorsed him.

There are 119 Conservative MPs, including O’Toole. As caucus chair, Reid said he did not vote.

Conservative MPs will vote today on whether to keep Erin O’Toole as their leader or plunge the party into another leadership race only 18 months after they finished the last one.

MPs opposed to O’Toole’s leadership have collected enough signatures to prompt today’s secret ballot on his future. That vote is expected to take place sometime before noon ET.

A vote by 50 per cent plus one of the 119 sitting Conservative MPs calling on O’Toole to step down would force him to make way for an interim leader immediately.

Sources tell CBC News that O’Toole’s caucus opponents believe they have the necessary votes, with at least 60 MPs agreeing that he has to go.

I hear we should know by noon, but I suspect it will be later. The Sun is live blogging.

OTTAWA — For days, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole loyalists have been working the phone, calling members of caucus and the party in the hopes of him surviving the latest — and greatest — threat to his leadership.

But multiple sources within the Conservative party say O’Toole has encountered more closed doors than expected, as previously staunch allies seem to be turning their backs on the leader on the eve of a crucial vote on Wednesday morning.

Embattled Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told MPs Tuesday he was open to changing his party’s policies should he survive a caucus vote on his leadership, two sources told Global News.

O’Toole faces what he called a “reckoning” with the Conservative caucus Wednesday after 35 MPs signed a petition to force a vote on his leadership over the weekend.

For anyone who doesn’t watch the mainstream media, what’s happening in Canada has been one of the most exciting things in the two years since COVID left China and turned most of the world’s Western politicians into tyrants. Across Canada, outside the despotic confines of Justin Trudeau’s brain and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, people are galvanized by the 45-mile-long truckers’ convoy that drove into Ottawa in pursuit of liberty. The Canadian opposition, however, although given a golden political opportunity, had nothing to say for a week, only stirring itself on Monday to a few weak pieties. Jordan Peterson gave them a solid scolding for their dismal performance.

There’s an old sixteenth century proverb that goes, “Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.” When it comes to the current state of Erin O’Toole’s shaky relationship with his Conservative caucus, it appears that everything but the hangman’s rope has been accounted for.

… The MP told True North that O’Toole is finally facing his day of reckoning because of “his lies and his attacks on caucus and his attacks against our party.”

“This is not an Andrew Scheer-led movement, it isn’t a so-con movement. The movement to remove Erin O’Toole as leader is as diverse as the Conservative Party itself,” another Conservative MP told True North.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is prepared to fight.

He turned to social media late Monday after a group of his MPs submitted a letter to the party’s caucus chair to hold a leadership review.

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole faces a caucus revolt, with 35 MPs signing a letter calling for a leadership-review vote over concerns about the direction of the Official Opposition party.

The letter, sent to caucus chair Scott Reid on Monday, would require a leadership-review vote by Conservative MPs as early as Wednesday’s regular caucus meeting. If more than 50 per cent of caucus voted against him, Mr. O’Toole would have to step down immediately.

MPs would then have to elect an interim caucus leader while the Conservative Party calls a leadership race. Two sources said at least 63 of the elected 119 Conservative MPs are willing to vote against Mr. O’Toole.

Why can’t Pierre Poilievre be the Tory leader?

Rather than running and hiding whenever “progressive” reporters ask tough questions, Poilievre, an Ottawa-area MP, responds frankly.

Erin O’Toole faced restive MPs and grassroots questions about his leadership on the first day of a Conservative caucus retreat — and worse could be yet to come Thursday when MPs are presented with a long-awaited post mortem on the party’s election loss.

Wednesday marked the first time O’Toole has met with his team this year as he continues dealing with calls for his leadership to be reviewed and some in caucus questioning his ability to even do the job.

The freshly scrubbed of all things ‘icky conservative’ party is living its best life with O’Toole as leader. It makes no sense to replace him just as it makes no sense to vote for the CPC if you are a conservative. Find a new home.