O’Toole’s bad luck

According to Erin O’Toole, he was ahead in the polls and on his way to an almost certain victory until the last week of the campaign when—unfortunately for him—a sudden surge in COVID spooked Canadians into voting Liberal.

Former Conservative party leader Erin O’Toole in a recent media interview basically claimed that what brought him down was a sudden stroke of bad luck, writes Gerry Nicholls.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

October 12, 2022

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole may have lost the last federal election because he lacked a rabbit’s foot or a four-leaf clover. I say that because in a recent media interview O’Toole basically claimed that what brought him down was a sudden stroke of bad luck. ...

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