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It's a bit like when those Texas democrat idiots fled the legislature to avoid being forced to vote "no" on a bill they wanted to vote "no" on anyway and had enough numbers to successfully block. They flew to DC on a private jet, posted pictures of themselves celebrating from inside the cabin (complete with champagne), then hid in DC with their DNC friends crowing about how they'd "owned the republicans" by failing to show up for work.I don't understand how the convoy can be political when all the politicians have run away.
Sauce?Eric O'Toole was dismissed from the Conservative party by secret vote.
It's a bit like when those Texas democrat idiots fled the legislature to avoid being forced to vote "no" on a bill they wanted to vote "no" on anyway and had enough numbers to successfully block. They flew to DC on a private jet, posted pictures of themselves celebrating from inside the cabin (complete with champagne), then hid in DC with their DNC friends crowing about how they'd "owned the republicans" by failing to show up for work.
Sauce?
Source:Erin O’Toole ousted as Conservative leader after caucus revolt
The vote on O'Toole's leadership was forced after 35 MPs put their names to a petition calling for an immediate leadership contest.
By Alex Boutilier
Posted February 2, 2022 12:52 pm
Updated February 2, 2022 1:02 pm
3:15 O’Toole ‘terribly damaged’ even if he survives leadership vote: political science professor ![]()
Lisa Young, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, joins Global News’ Linda Olsen to discuss Erin O’Toole’s future as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Erin O’Toole is no longer the leader of the Conservative party.
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.
The definitive vote was forced by 35 MPs unhappy with O’Toole’s leadership after last year’s disappointing election results.
But the root of the anger goes back much further. O’Toole won the leadership claiming to be a “True Blue” conservative — a contrast with Peter MacKay, who despite holding senior cabinet roles in Stephen Harper’s government, was labelled by the O’Toole campaign as a red Tory.
Yet once the leadership was secured, O’Toole took the party in a much different direction. After pledging to scrap the Liberals’ carbon levy, O’Toole promised a version of his own — which he steadfastly denied was a “tax,” despite it applying a surcharge on purchases like gas.
O’Toole’s election platform promised roughly $100 billion in new spending over 10 years — equivalent to what the Liberal government was pledging, which rankled fiscal hawks within the movement.
Conservative MPs who went along with O’Toole’s perceived pivot to the political centre became even more frustrated after the approach failed.
O’Toole made few changes to his close-knit group of advisors after the election, and caucus meetings grew more fractious — including a difficult meeting in late December.
An election post-mortem, conducted by former MP James Cumming, did little to quell the caucus discontent.
Nope, Canadian politics rarely sees crossover, especially among those members of Parliament who have ever held leadership positions. What will happen is O'Toole will quietly return to being a backbencher (as the previous Con leader Scheer did), though depending on how bitter he is over losing this vote he might just quit from Parliament entirely in a few weeks time.Will O'Toole just flip to the Trudeau fags now like Lez Cheney and Kinzinger?
With my downvote extension:Basically this is what our Politics looked like since circa 2015, with little opposition.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aJxwqlLsY4:114Of particular note re: this video is the 45,000 views, and barely 250 likes.
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Their half-hearted attempt to break up the border crossing just made it spread. No wonder they backed right off.
I seem to remember some coping and seething about this from the shills here yesterday, did I imagine it?Eric O'Toole was dismissed from the Conservative party by secret vote.
They really don't understand the damage done by their years of shitting on the working class. Treating "essential workers" like expendable mindless serfs with unworthy opinions and concerns and rights that can be trampled on a whim has painted them into quite the corner.