Conservative caucus to vote on whether to enact power to remove O'Toole

The federal Conservatives will be holding its first post-election in-person caucus meeting on Tuesday, where the national caucus is expected to vote on whether or not to give themselves the power to potentially oust Erin O'Toole.

It’s one of four key votes that the caucus is expected to take during the meeting, in line with the party’s observance of the Reform Act. The initiative from Conservative MP Michael Chong came into effect in 2015, and is meant to empower party caucuses on Parliament Hill.

The Act sets out four powers that caucuses can decide on whether or not they want to enact

The votes on whether to grant these powers are supposed to happen at the first post-election caucus meeting, but other parties’ observance of the rules has not been consistent in the past.

If Conservative MPs and senators decide tomorrow to enact the power to prompt a leadership review, 20 per cent of caucus would need to sign a formal agreement to trigger the process, and then it would require a majority of caucus to vote to remove the leader through a secret ballot process.