Erin O’Toole hoping for another chance after campaign review blames brand, data issues
Global News
O’Toole’s personal performance was given mixed reviews in post-2021 election review, which source says found Conservatives fallen “well behind” Liberals on campaign tactics.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is hoping for another chance after a post-election review found fault with the Conservatives’ brand and data game in the 2021 campaign.
It is now in Conservative MPs’ hands to decide whether or not he’ll get that chance.
A post-election review conducted by former MP James Cumming leaked out to Ottawa reporters as Conservative MPs were digesting the findings Thursday morning.
Sources told Global News the “dozens and dozens and dozens” of recommendations in the Cumming report — which was assisted in Quebec by Christian Paradis, a former Harper-era cabinet minister — have been accepted by the party leadership.
According to one Conservative source, those recommendations include:
The message coming out of O’Toole’s camp on Thursday was an appeal for more time — to address those perceived “brand” issues and to build up a new data game, a costly and risky proposal — and to better acquaint Canadian voters with O’Toole rather than switching horses once again.
But there is little doubt, including among O’Toole’s supporters, that the leader has been diminished since last September’s disappointing federal election results.
“He’s so limited in his ability to actually do what he wants because caucus can vote him out,” one sympathetic conservative source told Global News Thursday.
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