Saturday, March 20, 2021

O'Toole's Speech

Last night, Erin O'Toole delivered a speech to the Conservative convention. It was all about change. First, he started with the facts:

We have lost two elections in five-and-a-half years. In that time, we have had four leaders. We must present new ideas, not make the same arguments hoping that maybe this time more Canadians will come around to our position.

Then he stated the obvious:

We are never going to win over Canadians just by relying on Justin Trudeau to continue to disappoint. His scandals, as outrageous as they often are, will never be enough to defeat him.

Then he lambasted the Liberals:

The Liberal government has used the worst health and economic crisis in generations to help some well-connected friends get ahead. While hundreds of thousands of Canadians got left behind. But even that will not be enough to defeat him. The Conservative Party can defeat him. But only with the courage to grow. To move beyond a party that does well only in certain parts of Canada, while leaving other Canadians out.

But he didn't say what kinds of changes the party needs to make. He did said he would introduce a jobs recovery plan. But it was pretty thin gruel. There's a reason the party's numbers are flat. Canadians know that Mr. O'Toole is pretty thin gruel.

And they know that O'Toole leads a party that is fixated on turning back the clock. That policy will no longer sell.

Image: macleans.ca


22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does anyone think that an O'Toole government would not have used the pandemic to help well-connected friends get ahead at the expense of everyone else? With O'Toole, I get the sense that every accusation is a confession.

Cap

Owen Gray said...

O'Toole's problem is credibility, Cap. It's the whole party's problem.

Lorne said...

In the financial world, it is often said that past performance is not indicative of future results. I think that disclaimer can be safely ignored when it comes to the Conservative Party of Canada, Owen.

Owen Gray said...

Their position on climate change proves that, while the face is new, they're still the same old party, Lorne.

thwap said...

We can see from the dismal showings of hard-right premiers like Ford, Kenney, and Moe, how O'Toole's gang of idiots would have handled the pandemic.

The real issue is that the Conservative Party of Canada is a brain-dead party, supported generally by the most ignorant, deluded, and/or stupid from among the electorate. (Ignorance is not the same thing as stupidity and some of that party's supporters are redeemable.)

They can do no better than to mouth incoherent platitudes and demonstrate hypocrisy once given power. O'Toole gave no details about what sort of changes he meant because he has no idea how to square the circle of making super-corrupt capitalism appealing to people who don't have their heads up their asses.

Anonymous said...

O'Toole comes across with all the sincerity of say, a bad Ponzi scheme dealer or tax cheat like Donald Trump. In other words, he will never convince enough Liberal voters to come over to his party. The fate was all but sealed today when the party rejected even the simplest of facts into its platform "climate change is real". No amount of lipstick is going to fix this pig. BC Waterboy.

rumleyfips said...

Otoole's performance had all the sincerity of a late night infomercial Huckster. The frantic pace of his speech accompanied by manic dashes about the stage spoke of a frightened man.

His hysterical appeal for support from Bloc voters was simply magical thinking. Join with the rednecks who sported ' let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark' bumper stickers? Mais no ! Ask Alberta politicos to sit with frenchies? In a pig's ass!

Then he told his supporters (?) that they had been cowards for the past five years. The outlook isn't brilliant for the mudville team today; for Erin, silly Erin has struck out.

Owen Gray said...

I agree, waterboy. Like Trump, this party simply rejects facts.

Owen Gray said...

Like Casey, rumley, O'Toole keeps watching the strikes cross the plate.

Owen Gray said...

O'Toole has memorized the Conservative talking points, thwap. But he's devoid of ideas.

The Disaffected Lib said...

Eight out of ten Erin O'Toole's agree the Conservative Party is not fit to govern Canada. He told the delegates that the party of angry, fearful old white guys just doesn't cut it any more. Besides, young Canadian voters think old people smell funny.

Then, having the hard, cold facts explained to the assembled Morlocks, today they voted to reject recognizing climate change as real but here's the kicker: the resolution was rejected by delegates from every province west of Quebec but endorsed by every province east of Ontario.

Owen Gray said...

And O'Toole presents himself as the bringer of Canadian unity, Mound. Something somewhere is disconnected.

Anonymous said...

When the. Second coming here in Alberta blames everything including a kids movie from Netflex for their problems and, believes they must separate from the rest of the country, it isn't difficult to understand why anything east of Quebec knows Climate Change is this countries biggest threat to our survival, and whereas AB can't get its head out of 1960, no one with a bit of a brain is going to support 0'Tool east of the big Q. Anyong

Owen Gray said...

When our vision extends no further than our own backward, Anyong, the rest of the world will leave us behind.

Trailblazer said...

Conservatives everywhere are having difficulty adjusting to Socialism for everyone as governments worldwide prop up industry and workers alike!

The climate deniers of western Canada have never come to terms with the PetroCan era , which does not seem such a bad idea anymore?

TB

John B. said...

I didn't see it. I guess I won't bother. I'll wait until they find another one. Is Michael Chong still hanging around with those cartoon characters?

Thanks, everybody.

jrkrideau said...

Delegates voted down green-friendly policies by a margin of 54 per cent to 46

It is good to see that the Cons are advancing rapidly towards the 19th C.

Policy lapses like this may even threaten the Cons hold on some of the Ontario rural ridings that have been Blue since Sir John A was a boy.

Owen Gray said...

They cling stubbornly to the past, jrk. That's why they don't have a bright future.

Owen Gray said...

There are none so blind, TB, as they who will not see.

Owen Gray said...

You have to wonder why Chong still gathers with these folks, John.

the salamander said...

.. FYI .. I was quite surprised at Michael Chong.. thought he really had regressed. Perhaps they have finally beat him down by insulting his leadership aspirations..

That aside.. the laughable & ludicrous CPC 'brain trust' has accomplished the impossible !! With the majority of Canadian Mainstream Media either embedded or in bed with 'conservative values' (whatever that is) the population of Canada cannot recognize anything coherent coming from 'the big tent' or Erin O'Toole. The pratfalls just keep on coming.

The ones that slayed me were the recent 'fireside chat' & the 'outhouse' larf. If mishandling one Grey Cup publicity punt sank Robert Stanfield - 'hold my beer' is the personal motto of the O'Toole'

Sitting there in old Nova Scotia with his fave Nova Scotian Rebecca & their dawg & slurping Scotia beers from the can.. Burping blather about that mean guy Trudeau. Some quacking outside that the Prime Minister's Office would be moved to a Johnny on the Spot was a real winner - haw haw !! His 'when my Country Called' him going 'full commando' from Royal Military College.. and off to the Crusades.. Down with Infidels.. Something or other like that.. RCAF & bombs away. The guy can't even identify his actually Commission, Service Branch or rank. He did however get essentially a full ride to Law Degree via being in the trading reserve. Kudo's m'man ! But cut the larding of how noble you've been

He was in the bag with Stephen Harper when they signed FIPA during the secret mission to Vladivostok, Russia with the Chinese so he can just shut his gob about 'standing up to China' !

He was in the bag when Harper destroyed protective environmental legislation re Canada's Inland Waters to 'cut red tape' and remove any water related impediment to Resource Extraction or Pollution

Must I mention Election Fraud ? Live & Robo black ops ?

Owen Gray said...

It's more of the same, sal. Some tunes keep playing in some heads -- over and over again.