O’Toole attack on Guilbeault an appeal to blue collar class, says strategists

The tone and style of the Jan. 11 video is an example of Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives 'ramping up,' and 'doubling down' on their rhetoric, says NDP strategist Cameron Holmstrom.

Conservative Party Leader Erin O’toole released a video earlier this month attacking Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, accusing him of trying to 'end fossil fuel usage in 18 months,' when Guilbeault, in fact, said Ottawa plans to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

January 27, 2022

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole's mid-January video criticizing the Liberal's climate change policy was derided by some commentators for misquoting Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and blurring the truth, but strategists note it was a pointed appeal by the Conservatives to "entir...

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