Politics is a vicious business

A petition to dump Erin O’Toole is already circulating and you don’t even have to be a party member to sign.

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured Sept. 7, 2021, is already under attack for the election results. O’Toole tried to move his party to the centre, but he will now be punished for that by the same people who trashed Peter MacKay for his caustic 'stinking albatross' reference to social conservatives, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

September 27, 2021

Politics is a vicious business. A petition to dump Erin O’Toole is already circulating and you don’t even have to be a party member to sign. Who can forget how ignominiously the New Democrats disposed of leader Thomas Mulcair after he took them so close to power that they could taste it? Perh...

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