Can O’Toole unite his own party, let alone the country? To answer that question, one has to get to the bottom of another one: Who really is Erin O’Toole? mariedanielles dives in to answer that question:
Picture a young Tom Cruise in aviator sunglasses, his hair barely displaced by the breeze on the tarmac. He trades the shades for a helmet and swaggers over to a jet. He’s about to save the day and look good doing it.comes out in 1986. A few years later, still a teenager, you walk into a recruitment centre and apply to be a fighter pilot. You make it to air crew selection. It’s three intensive days of tests and simulations. Now, here it comes: the moment you’ve been waiting for.
O’Toole spent most of his childhood in Bowmanville, Ont., and some in Port Perry not far away. His parents moved to the area from Montreal when he was one, so his father could take a promotion at the GM headquarters in Oshawa. He finished his active military service in 2000, joining the reserve and attending law school at Dalhousie University. Eventually, he and his wife, Rebecca, who he met during his final military posting in Nova Scotia, moved to Ontario. O’Toole worked for two law firms on Bay Street. Rebecca, they both admit, had the “fun jobs,” working for Hockey Canada, the Toronto Argonauts and the Olympic broadcasting consortium.
When the Harper government fell, O’Toole put his hat in to become interim leader, not gaining much traction. Then, in October 2016, he joined the permanent leadership contest. Andrew Scheer beat him to it by several weeks. Their campaigns’ strategies, policies and tone were so similar it’s “maddening” to look back on, says a campaign staffer. Both offered non-controversial ideas and appealed to party unity.
Although O’Toole acknowledges climate change is a real problem and proposes market measures to lower emissions, he would eliminate the carbon tax and, like any Conservative politician seeking support from Alberta, will bend himself into pretzels for the oil and gas sector. What appeared to be a foray into ideas outside the Conservative norm—a pledge to end “fossil fuel subsidies”—lasted in O’Toole’s policy book for exactly a day.
No overtly socially conservative policies made their way into O’Toole’s 50-page policy book, which features a robust, if often predictable, roster of ideas on the energy sector, gun ownership, tax reform and defunding the CBC. He promises to eventually balance the budget. There is more-controversial fare: O’Toole supports using the notwithstanding clause to enforce mandatory minimum sentences, for example, and making it a criminal offence to block transportation infrastructure.
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