But there was no mention of taking back Canada in the nationally televised speech that O'Toole delivered in the wee hours of Monday morning. Instead, there were direct and explicit appeals to those who have voted for other parties in the past, or who have turned away from the Conservative party. He was upbeat and humble as he sketched his personal story and praised teachers and health workers. He criticized the Trudeau government — for its fiscal policy, for its ethical controversies, for its handling of the pandemic — but promised to lay out a "positive vision" for a Conservative alternative.
He would fight, he said, for working families and offer "serious leadership. Politicians are often afflicted with short memories and O'Toole might soon be asked whether he is attempting to pivot. For a night, at least, the Conservatives seemed to have a leader who might be more marketable than the last one. His path to victory and the views of the Conservative base will now have ramifications for his leadership and the positions his party takes between now and the next election.
But the issues to which O'Toole will be asked to apply himself and his party now extend well beyond cancel culture. The Conservative leadership race failed to produce a climate plan that went much beyond what Andrew Scheer and Stephen Harper before that had to offer in If anything, the window of acceptable Conservative climate policy seemed in danger of narrowing when MacKay condemned O'Toole's vague endorsement of a "pricing regime" for industrial emitters.
O'Toole briefly suggested he would end government subsidies for fossil-fuel industries, only to quickly retract that position. When O'Toole introduced himself to the rest of the country on Monday night, he made no mention of the climate crisis.
A month from now, the Trudeau government will take its turn to address the country when Governor General Julie Payette — if she can withstand the controversies encircling her — presents a throne speech to open a new session of Parliament. But the Liberals have signalled a desire to seize the opportunity presented by the need for economic stimulus and embrace several of the issues — from child care to vulnerable workers — that have come to the fore over the last six months.
The new Conservative leader and his party might not share all of those concerns, but it's not clear that they can afford to ignore all of those issues. Of course, the pandemic will leave behind a significant deficit and the new Conservative leader will almost certainly end up arguing for less spending than the Liberals are prepared to commit. The Conservative platform will also inevitably lean harder on tax cuts.
But within those parameters there is a lot of space that might be contested. Does O'Toole's Conservative party, for instance, want to do anything to address the state of long-term care in Canada? Would it support increased federal funding for improving it? How about new national standards? What about income inequality, precarious work and low-wage work? How would O'Toole reform employment insurance? On child care, O'Toole has proposed doubling the existing tax deduction for child care expenses and, for a limited time, making the tax credit refundable.
But would O'Toole do anything to directly create new child care spaces? Over the last six months, the Conservatives have castigated the Trudeau government's attitude toward Parliament.
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