.JohnIbbitson: Put Erin O’Toole on list of best prime ministers we never had
at the close of the spring session. The member for Durham came tantalizingly close to winning the 2021 federal election. But like so many Conservative leaders before him, he was undone by his own party.
When Andrew Scheer was forced out of the Conservative leadership, having failed to defeat the Liberals in 2019, Mr. O’Toole’s team planned to pitch him as a sensibly conservative alternative to Mr. Poilievre, who was also expected to run. But Mr. O’Toole had two problems. First, Canada was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments were providing massive, debt-fuelled economic supports to bolster a frightened electorate. This was not a good time to be a leader of the opposition.
So he pivoted, proposing a form of a carbon tax as well as pension supports for gig workers, increased health care funding, housing subsidies and even supports for unions. On voting day, the Conservatives surpassed the Liberals in the popular vote. But the Liberals won the suburban vote splits in Greater Toronto and Vancouver.
But the same issue of transitioning to address the priorities of suburban middle-class voters awaits him. How does he get from where he is to where he needs to be?
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