Erin O’Toole, the Man of Rubber

If O’Toole does win on Sept. 20, he will wake up with a mounting pile of IOUs to people like François Legault, who will be telling him to ‘pay up.’

As Erin O’Toole often boasts of his military record, there is more than a hint of irony that a man who once defended his country would now want to give it away, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

September 15, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—“I will give Quebec the powers of a nation.” Quick: what Quebec nationalist said that? Was it premier Maurice Duplessis in the 1950s, PQ premier René Lévesque in the 1970s, or his successor premier Jacques Parizeau in the 1990s? Nope, none of the above. It was Conservative...

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