Conservative insiders say these are the four biggest challenges that new CPC Leader Pierre Poilievre will have to face. New from StephanieLevitz:
It was an internal civil war that had its roots in the way O’Toole campaigned for leadership, and the pivot he made after as he led the party towards the 2021 election.Caucus was never able to find a groove in the virtual world that was the pandemic Parliament, and the very topics that divided the country — questions and doubts about vaccines, vaccine mandates and lockdowns among them — also divided caucus.
The mood under her watch lightened immediately, but that doesn’t mean the previous tensions have evaporated.Though Poilievre had the support of a majority of the party’s MPs, there is still a group who backed Jean Charest, demonized at every turn by Poilievre during the race. And some of those MPs denounced Poilievre in turn.
Some of that success was linked directly to her social conservative supporters. Most ended up supporting O’Toole. She issued a statement that drew criticism for comparing the atrocities of the Holocaust to COVID-19 vaccines. She’s suggested global bodies like the World Health Organization and World Economic Forum are trying to take away Canada’s sovereignty and circulated a conspiracy theory that there’s a condition called “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” linked to vaccines. There is no such condition.
But to what extent he continues discussing that — or gives his MPs who espouse controversial views prominence — will be an arrow in the quiver of his critics, who already say the federal Conservatives are giving too much oxygen to dangerous ideas.A knock against former leader Andrew Scheer when he took over the party in 2017 was that he hadn’t done enough thinking around the team he would put in place inside the Official Opposition Leader’s office, and that crew only came together piecemeal.
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