O'Toole should show 'leadership' and show unvaccinated Conservative MPs the door: Former PM Mulroney

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole should show leadership on mandatory vaccinations and show any of his unvaccinated MPs the door, says former prime minister and Conservative leader Brian Mulroney. Mulroney said that if he was the leader today, he would require all of his MPs to roll up their sleeves and receive the COVID-19 vaccine, calling it a 'no-brainer.'

Mulroney said that if he was the leader today, he would require all of his MPs to roll up their sleeves and receive the COVID-19 vaccine, calling it a “no-brainer.”

“Of course. That's leadership,” he said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period with host Evan Solomon.

“Who am I to argue with tens of thousands of brilliant scientists and doctors who urge the population desperately to get vaccinated? And we're going to have some members of my caucus, for example, who are going to say ‘I'm not going to do it’? They have to do it.”

After a few weeks of conflicting messaging on the party’s position on the House of Commons’ new rules mandating vaccination, O’Toole said on Wednesday that his caucus has agreed to “respect and abide by” the policy but at the “earliest opportunity” his party will be challenging it.