For some Conservatives, it became clear more than a year ago that Erin O’Toole wasn’t going to survive as leader, Stephanie Levitz writes.
OTTAWA — For some Conservatives, it became clear more than a year ago that Erin O’Toole wasn’t going to survive as leader of their party.In that chasm between O’Toole and many members of his party — and the breakdown of good will and communication that created it — lie the reasons that 73 of 119 Conservative MPs voted on Wednesday to kick him out.
In the months following that speech, however, O’Toole sidelined supporters of his rivals in the leadership contest, going so far as to kick one rival — Derek Sloan — out of the Conservative caucus altogether. “We’re a big tent party, we always have been. But he started creating camps in that tent with that speech.”
Conservative MP Alex Ruff, a longtime O’Toole supporter, said the team-building necessary for new MPs under a new leader was impossible in the Zoom era. At the point in last summer’s election campaign when the Conservatives were on track to potentially form a minority government, many figured that a victory would help soothe some of the ongoing tensions.And even as he struck an optimistic tone in the days that followed, his supporters sensed that the beginning of the end could be upon them.
It seemed to help that many Conservatives believe in the right of the party’s grassroots to handle all matters of leadership. The irritants had piled up: A snap motion to push a bill banning conversion therapy all the way to the Senate; an apparent flip-flop over mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations on Parliament Hill; a leak of a damaging story about Alberta MP Shannon Stubbs, in what was perceived as retribution for her call for an earlier leadership review.
Internal pressure was brought to bear on O’Toole to consider what grassroots Tories had been asking for via several competing petitions, including one from Conservative Sen. Denise Batters: move up the leadership review. The second day of the meeting featured Cummings’s post mortem of the 2021 election campaign — but details from it were being leaked to the media even as O’Toole’s MPs were hearing them for the first time.
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