O’Toole shouldn’t worry about third-party sound and fury

Whenever you hear a 'third-party' advocacy group grandly and dramatically claim it’s launching a media campaign to either elect or defeat a particular political party or candidate, take it with a mountain-sized grain of salt.

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured Dec. 3, 2020, at a press conference in the West Block on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

February 4, 2021

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Every once in a while, the theatre of Canadian politics features lesser political actors who strut and fret their hour upon the stage, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Okay, that’s just my Shakespearian-style way of saying, whenever you hear a “third-party” advocac...

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