O'Toole kicks off final week of campaign on the attack

After weeks of running what he's described as a 'positive campaign,' Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole came out swinging hard against his main opponent, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday, levelling personal attacks at his morning event, and in a series of new attack ads.

“The differences between Justin Trudeau and myself are stark… When Mr. Trudeau was partying—and we've all seen the photos— I was doing search and rescue missions in the military. Every Canadian has met a Justin Trudeau in their lives: privileged, entitled, and always looking out for number one,” O’Toole said. His remarks during the morning announcement in Liberal-held Kanata-Carleton had a backdrop of young children and their parents playing, while O’Toole focused considerably more on criticizing Trudeau than on the parent-focused policy promise of the day. “He was looking out for number one when he called this expensive and unnecessary election in the middle of a pandemic. A $600 million power grab. An election that has done nothing to stop the fourth wave, it's only made things worse by taking the government's eye off the ball. That's not leadership, it's self interest. And it's Justin Trudeau through and through,” he continued. In his remarks, O’Toole also touched on the resurfaced SNC-Lavalin scandal, as an example of Trudeau promising to be one kind of leader and governing like another.