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Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre and new party leader Erin O'Toole. O’Toole, who has infused his middle-of-the-road political personality with a more populist tone, is not making a big deal about the need to bring the fisc, as some call it, back into traditional alignment, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 23, 2020

OTTAWA—I may have missed it, but I don’t think we’ve heard from Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre on his new party leader Erin O'Toole’s position that a Conservative government would take 10 years to balance the government's books. The usual Conservative obsession with deficits h...

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