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After Scheer resigned as leader in late 2019, O'Toole ran a successful leadership campaign, defeating former cabinet minister Peter MacKay in the 2020 leadership election. After he assumed the leadership, O'Toole marketed his party to working-class Canadians.
Sep 20, 2021 · Mr. O’Toole, 48, became the party’s leader via a virtual campaign just over a year ago, replacing Andrew Scheer, who had led the party to defeat in Parliament in the 2019 election. O’Toole...
Aug 16, 2021 · Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has unveiled his party’s plan try to win Canadians’ votes in the upcoming federal election. His new platform details the Conservatives ’ plan to phase out the...
- Rachel Gilmore
Aug 19, 2021 · O’Toole’s leadership campaign and slogan earned unflattering comparisons to Donald Trump. In a country built through Indigenous dispossession and systemic racism, many were quick to wonder ...
- Brian Budd
- Promised An Inclusive, Diverse, Forward-Looking Party
- Failed to Make InRoads in Key Battles
- Leadership Questions
- PPC Effect?
Throughout the campaign, O'Toole pitched himself as a new breed of Conservative by distancing himself from the policies of past leaders like Stephen Harper and Scheer. Harper and Scheer were more closely tied to the Conservative Party's more right-leaning predecessor parties — Reform and Canadian Alliance. "It is a conservatism that reveres strong ...
But O'Toole may have invited scepticism about his allegiances on the divisive issue of firearm regulations. In early September, he reversed course on a platform promise to overturn a ban on some 1,500 makes and models of what the Liberal government described as "military-grade weapons." The Liberal government first introduced the ban with an Order ...
There were some wins for those under the blue banner election night. The Conservatives gained seats in Atlantic Canada and unseated cabinet ministers — one in Nova Scotia and two in Ontario — showing some voters are ready for change. Preliminary results show prominent and outspoken Conservatives like Pierre Poilievre and Michelle Rempel Garner were...
The coming days will also see analysts looking into whether the People's Party of Canada managed to siphon enough votes away from Conservative candidates to keep them from joining Parliament. In the final days of the campaign, O'Toole tried to appeal to those PPC supporters, arguing conservative-minded voters sick of the Liberal government should p...
Sep 4, 2020 · On March 10, 2018, Erin O’Toole was locked up in a room at the Hilton Markham Convention Centre as part of Christine Elliott’s campaign to win the leadership of the Ontario Progressive...
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Aug 23, 2020 · Erin O'Toole has won the leadership for the Conservative Party, promising to present a vision to make Canada more prosperous and reaching out to broaden the party's base of supporters.
