Conservative MPs who challenge leadership will be booted out, O’Toole warns
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O'Toole laid down the law Wednesday as he headed into a two-day Tory caucus retreat, one day after showing Sen. Denise Batters the door.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is warning his MPs that they risk the same fate as a senator expelled from the party caucus if they challenge his leadership.
O’Toole laid down the law Wednesday as he headed into a two-day Tory caucus retreat, one day after showing Sen. Denise Batters the door.
“You don’t want to make that decision, but really, she made it for herself,” he told reporters as he arrived for the meeting, flanked by members of his leadership circle.
“People that are now allowing their frustrations and their own personal agendas or issues on the pandemic to interfere with our progress are not part of the team.”
He argued that the Conservative caucus needs to keep focused on defeating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and holding his Liberal minority government to account. He added that anyone “who’s not putting the team and the country first will not be part of this team.”
Expelling Batters is the most serious consequence O’Toole has meted out for any member since his Sept. 20 election loss, which has triggered grumblings over his performance and internal struggles over the Conservatives’ stance on vaccine mandates.
The Saskatchewan senator and longtime party stalwart launched a petition Monday aimed at forcing a referendum on O’Toole’s leadership within the next six months, instead of waiting for a scheduled leadership confidence vote at the party’s national convention in 2023.
As of late Wednesday, her office said the petition had garnered around 3,700 signatures. The party, however, has dismissed Batters’ petition as an invalid way to trigger a leadership review _ something she and her supporters reject.
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