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If Conservatives keep O’Toole as leader, more conservative voters will move to Bernier

The four most likely leadership candidates would be Candice Bergen, Pierre Poilievre, Michelle Rempel-Garner, and Michael Chong. Rona Ambrose remains a dark horse possibility.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured Sept. 29, 2021, at a ceremony on the eve of the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Parliament Hill. Should O’Toole resign, then the coming leadership review could be rescheduled as a leadership race. That would almost guarantee a return to the party’s social conservative roots, and certainly a watering down of O’Toole’s progressivism. Why? Because the CPC bench is full of political skaters of that persuasion, and almost no left-wingers, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 4, 2021

HALIFAX—The most spectacular self-immolation of Election 2021 was Annamie Paul and the Green Party; but the more consequential one belongs to Erin O’Toole.

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