O’Toole’s big challenge will be to walk his talk

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, in a recent speech to the Canadian Club, attacked elites, globalization, Bay Street finance, and the corporate focus on shareholder value. It has already caused dismay among traditional Conservative supporters.

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured on Oct. 28, 2020, arriving for the Conservative party caucus meeting at Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa. Mr. O’Toole’s efforts, despite divisive language, to become a more populist politician will lead all of our political parties to focus on genuine grievances of large numbers of Canadians. If so, this could mean the average Canadian will be better off, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

November 9, 2020

TORONTO—Are Conservative parties now populist parties, shedding their traditional role as the advocates of balanced budgets, low taxes, light regulation, and free trade? It seems they want to sound like parties of the working class, even if they fail to deliver once in office. Trumpism crystali...

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