O’Toole’s attempt to entice Canada’s soccer moms into the Conservative fold skewered by his own hard-liners

In one sense, O’Toole’s call for change may just be his way of telling party members to put their MAGA hats away until after Canadians go to the polls again.

In a March 19 keynote speech, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole urged the Conservative faithful to have the courage to jettison some of their extremist positions in order to win over moderate voters outside the party’s Prairie and rural Ontario strongholds.Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 24, 2021

OTTAWA—Seldom is a political situation encapsulated so completely in a single moment as in the climate change gaffe at the Conservative policy convention. First, note how party leader Erin O’Toole contorted his request that Conservatives take a more reasonable stance on global warming as someth...

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