O’Toole’s CERB stumbles a tough way to make a first impression

Fiscal conservatism may be a Tory badge of honour, but Erin O'Toole's challenge is to reach Canadians in the moderate middle.

New Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole will sooner or later have to decide whether to distance himself from hardline fiscal and social conservatives if he wants to bring the Conservatives back to power, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

September 7, 2020

OTTAWA—You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Erin O’Toole should have remembered that last week. O’Toole has won the Conservative leadership. It is now his job to win the country. The decision to attack the Canada Emergency Response Benefit was downright dumb. It cast O’...

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