Ehemalige Vorsitzende der Konservativen Partei Erin O’Toole: „Rat an den Premierminister: Machen Sie weiter so!“
https://erinotoole.substack.com/p/advice-to-the-prime-minister-keep?r=1vwckj&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true
Ehemalige Vorsitzende der Konservativen Partei Erin O’Toole: „Rat an den Premierminister: Machen Sie weiter so!“
https://erinotoole.substack.com/p/advice-to-the-prime-minister-keep?r=1vwckj&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true
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“While some of my Conservative friends have been frustrated with my positive comments from time to time, I try to remind them that the Carney government are largely doing what we had advocated for many years. I have used a little joke at some of my public speaking events that I should ‘start charging royalties’ for the Liberal government’s use of my 2021 Secure the Future platform in 2025.”
It’s refreshing seeing someone acknowledge how disturbingly right wing Carney is
This would seem to give cover for any MPs considering crossing to the liberals. If the former leader agrees with what the Liberals are doing, it’s reasonable for some of the MPs to agree too. Especially if they’ve supported O’Toole in the past.
Honestly I think O’Toole’s Article is a really good illustration of the PC/Reform split within the party and why so many moderate/PC wing leaning Conservatives are finding floor crossings more attractive. O’Toole mainly focuses on what he agrees with regarding Carney’s policies etc. but I think the fact that Poilievre’s leadership is so unaccommodating to moderates & what is O’Toole’s wing of the party highlights why they are increasingly complimenting Carney and considering switching sides etc.
That’s more impressive than anything I’ve seen from the CPC in years. I don’t agree with a lot of it, but it’s a far more (to use O’Toole’s own frequently repeated word) *serious* take than we’ve come to expect from them. This version of the Conservatives would have won last spring’s election handily.
CPC should never have kicked out otoole, but instead rallied behind him.
Canada needs a leader and not an attack dog that has aggression dialed to 11 at all times. Many have said before: in some other timeline, Carney would have been the leader of the CPC.
I don’t know where the CPC will go from here: obviously their support is still strong, falling just a few points behind LPC – but they need to stop playing politics, drop the wink to the far right. Be on the right side of history and not push for things like anti-vaxx bills and stop trying to build a campaign out of fear and hatred.
Pragmatically, the CPC and Liberals aren’t dichotomous polar opposites and there is a fair bit of common ground on key economic issues. They are like two circles of a Venn diagram with an overlapping region. This is actually a good thing since there is some common ground to build unity and consensus from. The areas that don’t overlap (e.g. social, indigenous issues etc.) require more work and compromise to move forward.
I much prefer this approach where each party can find areas of commonality rather than the current combative approach from the extremes of the political spectrum that only see things in terms of „us vs them“.
So-called strategic voters ALSO argued in 2021 that O’Toole was a threat to Canada, and we all needed to ABC vote to stop him.
The idea that he’s ideologically distinct from Poilievre isn’t backed by much evidence.
So this makes it pretty clear the Poilievre CPC is praising Carney, because strategic voters made Poilievre the most ideologically influential man in the country.
Wow this level of class seems super rare for right-of-centre politicians at least in the last decade if not longer. 2008 McCain vibes. Would love to see this from the CPC instead of division and lack of substance PP is peddling.
Canada needs a serious opposition party. It’s sorely lacking right now.