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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I, and several others I know, were prepared to vote for O'Toole until he buckled to the fringes of his party. I could be wrong but I believe that if he had campaigned in the middle and controlled the libertarian bozo faction he would be PM right now.
Canada is a centrist/left leaning country generally although we are also a pragmatic bunch. We want good governance without the US-style bumper sticker politics. The brand of government O'Toole ended up representing didn't fit what Canadians want. When are the Cons going to learn?
Yes, I believe the Conservatives scored an own-goal and now we all have to put up with Trudeau even longer.
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I was considering voting conservative for the first time in my life in the last federal election because I was sick of Trudeau and O'Toole seemed fairly reasonable. That ended as soon as he bowed to the anti-vax crowd and refused to endorse vaccine passports. What an unforced error that was