Ever since September’s federal election, I’ve defended keeping Erin O’Toole as Conservative leader.
Yes, O’Toole and his cadre of advisors failed to gain ground on the increasingly unpopular Justin Trudeau precisely because they were so very un-Conservative.
Erin O’Toole says the Conservatives need to stay the course to defeat the Liberals in the next election amid increasingly public challenges to his leadership.
In an interview with The West Block, O’Toole claimed his party’s belief is that the Liberals actually lost the recent federal election because they failed to secure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau another majority mandate.
OTTAWA — Sen. Denise Batters may no longer be welcome in the Conservatives’ national caucus but she’s still a member of the party’s Senate caucus.
Conservative senators have chosen to keep Batters in their fold, notwithstanding party leader Erin O’Toole’s decision Tuesday to kick her out of the national caucus after she challenged his leadership.
OTTAWA — Erin O’Toole kicked Sen. Denise Batters out of the Conservative caucus Tuesday — one day after she challenged his leadership.
“As the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, I will not tolerate an individual discrediting and showing a clear lack of respect towards the efforts of the entire Conservative caucus, who are holding the corrupt and disastrous Trudeau government to account,” O’Toole said in a brief statement released late Tuesday.
The front page of Tuesday’s National Post highlighted the obvious troubles of Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole , namely dismal polling numbers and party revolts. But the cause deserves attention too: Both deliberately jettisoned any semblance of principle in pursuit of partisan gain and for some reason aren’t popular with conservatives or voters. Weird, huh?
OTTAWA — Conservative members should be able to vote within the next six months on whether or not Erin O’Toole should remain leader of the party, says one Senator who has launched a quickly contentious petition calling for an expedited leadership review process stating that O’Toole “can’t win the next election.”
OTTAWA — Arguing that Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has betrayed the party’s principles and can’t win the next election, a Conservative senator has launched a petition to have the party’s membership vote on O’Toole’s leadership by no later than June 2022.
The petition, organized by Saskatchewan senator Denise Batters, appears to be the first serious threat to O’Toole’s leadership since the 2021 election concluded on Sept. 20.
O’Toole is perfect for the Conservalibs. No need for change.
The Conservative MP leading outreach efforts for leader Erin O’Toole says a six-year-old promise to create a ‘barbaric cultural practices’ hotline still hangs over the party’s attempts to rebuild relationships with racialized communities today.
“It’s there,” Tim Uppal says. “It is there.”
Uppal served as the minister of state for multiculturalism in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government when it entered the 2015 federal election campaign.
I didn’t need another reason to write off the Conservative Party. Identity politics murders reason and decency. I don’t give a damn who was offended by the hotline but evidently the CPC braintrust are willing to turn a blind eye to any horror.
It is encouraging to see that the Conservative party has announced its shadow cabinet, as the party is in dire need of revitalization. Its election campaign was feeble and void of the slightest daring. It presented no core contrast with the Liberals and did not provide much of a counterpoint to the disastrous government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu has apologized for sharing misinformation about the severity of COVID-19 and the safety and efficacy of vaccines against the disease.
In a written statement released Tuesday, Gladu called her remarks “inappropriate.”
“Upon reflection, I recognize how dangerous it is to share misinformation about the severity of COVID-19 and the safety and efficacy of vaccines,” she said
What does Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole think of Justin Trudeau’s “hard cap” on emissions from the oil and gas sector, announced by the prime minister earlier this week at the U.N.’s climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland?
Don’t know. O’Toole hasn’t shared his thoughts. Not a word.
He’s formulating a response acceptable to his base in the Annex.
Erin O’Toole is stuck up in a tree, and he can’t get down.
His own party is at the bottom, waiting, and he doesn’t know what to do. His voters are waiting. His leadership-race supporters are there too and, well, that’s a bit awkward.
He doesn’t dare go anywhere people might ask questions about politics, or government, or issues of the day, because one of those questions might be about vaccines, and whether his MPs are vaccinated. So Mr. O’Toole doesn’t go out into the public eye much. He doesn’t say much.
Up to 30 Conservative MPs have banded together to form the “Civil Liberties Caucus” to speak up for unvaccinated Canadians who are losing their jobs.
According to MP Marilyn Gladu, the caucus was organized in October after the party had its first caucus meeting since the election.
Conservative MPs were concerned about constituents who have lost their jobs after refusing to get a COVID-19 shot for various reasons.
Erin O’Toole insists the Conservative caucus is united behind his leadership.
But can he be as confident about the party’s grassroots?
The reaction from a handful of third-party organizations, which represent swaths of the Conservative faithful, suggests the answer is likely a no.
“If they keep throwing their base under the bus, there’s not going to be anyone on the bus,” said Sheldon Clare, president and CEO of the National Firearms Association, adding that he remains a Conservative member for “right now.”
I suggest Conservatives look elsewhere for a political home and westerners should give serious consideration to separatist parties. The CPC braintrust will keep their leftward course. Another version of O’Toole is what to expect from any replacement so they may as well keep him as leader.
As for me? Won’t be O’Tooled again!
Mulroney said that if he was the leader today, he would require all of his MPs to roll up their sleeves and receive the COVID-19 vaccine, calling it a “no-brainer.”
