O’Toole’s big blue tent looks more like the Ford/Trump sideshow

The Conservative standard bearer has continued his party’s policy of demonizing Justin Trudeau, never missing a chance to depict the prime minister as a preening celebrity.

New Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, left, pictured on his way to his first caucus meeting as leader on Sept. 9 alongside his chief of staff, Tausha Michaud, and the party's new national campaign manager, Fred DeLorey. To date, O’Toole’s main departures from the standard Conservative line have been shelving his party’s defining fixation with the federal deficit and casting himself as a champion of workers, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 16, 2020

OTTAWA—One of the more interesting questions before Canadians this fall is what kind of a party leader they’ll get in Erin O’Toole. In the midst of COVID-19, people don’t seem to be paying much attention to what the new Conservative head is actually saying. But what is clear so far is that ...

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