Posted on 02/02/2022 10:31:49 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
In a secret-ballot vote Wednesday morning, Conservative MPs chose to oust their leader after just 17 months and one failed election at the helm. After a marathon caucus meeting, where O’Toole made an eleventh-hour pitch to keep his job, 73 MPs voted to launch a leadership race with 45 voting to keep O’Toole on.
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Yay
He might have lost anyway, but I would attribute the margin to the convoy—politicians are pretty good at seeing which way the wind blows, and unless the conservatives want to loose a third of their base to the Maverick party and another third to Bernier, O’Toole had to be O’Tossed.
From the excitement, he must have been their McConnell.
I watched Candace Bergen yesterday in the Canadian Parliament (YouTube) questioning the liberal…very impressive.
“The vote was forced by a petition from caucus members concerned that he took the party too far away from its core conservative values on social issues.
The vote appears to have been triggered by Conservative members angered by his support of a Liberal government bill banning conversion therapy earlier this year.”
Accusing the truckers of being vile racist and violent didn’t help.
“Accusing the truckers of being vile racist and violent didn’t help.”
Yep
Nail meet coffin
A very Canadian cross between McCain and Romney. Not as violent and bad-tempered as McCain but not as principled as Romney.
He pandered to the base for the sake of collecting the (weighted) votes of the two conservative candidates who would have beat the snot out of the two establishment candidates had the votes not been weighted, and then signaled his intention to betray the base in his acceptance speech.
She’s a tiger!
OK, Now get the little Fidelista Trudeau, Jr.
Out. Basta Ya!
Nope. Just the same name. Weird, because the names are not run of the mill.
Excellent! He’s the Mitt Romney of Canada’s Conservatives.
A Canadian MTG.
Annette O'Toole, one of my big celebrity crushes in the 70s.
What a tool!
They need a Canadian Trump.
Oh, my.
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