Federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole is starting to puzzle Canadians. Here is a guy with a fairly straight forward reputation as a bland, do-nothing conservative. Okay, he might even be a nebbish. What did you expect: bells, bands and women throwing him their panties everywhere he goes?
O’Toole is puzzling political analysts across Canada. Why is he bothering to encourage social conservatives such as former MP Brad Trost and that ilk to run? Don’t we already have enough social conservatives in parliament? Frankly, we should be concerned. There are continued reports of O’Toole and his staff promoting the extreme right of the conservative party. And it is not even the left of centre politicos who are noting it. It seems it is other conservatives who are doing the complaining about O’Toole’s preferences among new candidates.
Did we even know this guy might secretly be in favour of stopping abortions in Canada? That is supposed to be something that liberals whisper to each other in the confines of their same-sex boudoirs. Maybe he has one message for the hoi polio and another for Canada’s social-conservatives.
But here we are, likely within weeks of the clarion call for an election, and the complaints are piling up about their leader. The conservatives are starting to think of him as their very own “Elmer Fudd.” You know, the guy from the Looney Tunes cartoons who “thought he saw a wabbit!”
This just might be overreaction to the polls that show the conservatives in the second-place doldrums. The conservative MPs are all looking at each other and wondering who will not be there for the next session of parliament. Mind you, there is a lot of dead wood warming the benches in Ottawa and we should all welcome the opportunity to do a little housekeeping.
When you consider the help guaranteed from stalwart provincial conservatives such as that obliging premier Doug Ford in Ontario and “pipeline king” premier Jason Kenney in Alberta, there is a growing opinion that Canadians are definitely in danger of having a Trudeau majority for Thanksgiving dinner this year!
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