Erin O’Toole takes big gamble by siding with trucker convoy protesters

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by siding with truckers rolling to Ottawa in protest against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. That support could galvanize his leadership, or sink it. He’s willing to take that chance.

Many people, including this writer, believe those who refuse vaccines put the rest of us at risk, and for that there should be consequences. In coming to their defence, especially in coming to the defence of protesting truckers and their supporters, Mr. O’Toole risks his own political future.The truckers aren’t coming to Ottawa to protest against new federal cross-border restrictions. The Americans have imposed similar restrictions.

Elections are won and lost among middle-class suburban voters. It’s hard to imagine Mr. O’Toole’s support for the unvaccinated winning over many of those voters, and easy to imagine it alienating most of them. The Conservative Leader knows this. Is Mr. O’Toole hoping to accommodate conservative populists who have grown impatient with his more progressive stands on the environment and minority rights by catering to anti-vaxxers? He says no.

JohnIbbitson globeandmail He is securing the Fuck Trudeau crowd… but the tent doesn’t have room for anyone else🔤

JohnIbbitson globeandmail Organized by Holocaust deniers.

JohnIbbitson globeandmail I'm not, never will be, a Conservative. But never in my life would I have believed that one day I would read that a political leader was taking a 'big gamble' by siding with people who are exercising their fundamental right to protest government overreach.

JohnIbbitson globeandmail What does he actually have to lose? 🤷‍♂️ actually in a few months , he’ll be a backbencher in the HOC.😂😂😂

JohnIbbitson globeandmail Big gamble? O’Toole is pandering to the lowest common denominator in the right-wing to hold onto the leadership.

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