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Who is Erin O’Toole? Too early to say

Erin O’Toole currently has a foot in two camps—those who want a modern, centrist party that takes climate change, social justice and the role of government seriously, or, the moral purists who insist everyone think and behave as they do and despise those who don’t. It is a hard balance to maintain. Someday soon, perhaps after the policy convention, O’Toole is going to have to more explicitly pick a side.

On his right flank, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured Feb. 18, 2021, also has to beware of noisy critics like Maxime Bernier and the new, Western-based, right-wing Maverick Party, led by former Conservative MP Jay Hill. As well, social conservatives organized by Derek Sloan and others are competing for a significant presence at that upcoming policy conference and they are no friends of O’Toole’s, who some describe as Liberal-lite. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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February 22, 2021

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