Susan Delacourt writes that the truckers came gunning for Justin Trudeau and took out Erin O'Toole instead:
They rolled into Ottawa looking to get rid of Justin Trudeau, but they got the Conservative leader instead.
In so doing, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” currently occupying Ottawa has actually handed Trudeau a gift, at least in the short term.
Yet bizarrely, it didn’t take long for truck horns to start blaring in celebration on Wednesday when Conservative MPs unceremoniously dumped leader Erin O’Toole. Had it not been for the fact that the trucks were still stubbornly parked in place in front of Parliament Hill, they might have done a victory lap.
“Freedom Convoy Success,” declared Keean Bexte, a self-proclaimed Alberta nationalist who writes for an outlet called The Counter Signal.
Success? They have replaced O'Toole with a woman who wears a MAGA and declares that she supports the truckers. Marieke Walsh reports that:
The Conservative Party’s newly elected interim leader, Candice Bergen, advocated in internal discussions against asking the protesters occupying Ottawa to go home, according to an e-mail obtained by The Globe and Mail.
“I don’t think we should be asking them to go home,” reads an e-mail from Ms. Bergen to then-leader Erin O’Toole’s senior caucus team on Monday.
While the Conservatives debated the contents of a possible statement on Monday, protesters were outside Parliament Hill for a fourth day, blockading streets and ignoring traffic laws. On Thursday, many businesses remained closed over safety concerns, and residents of the core were on day seven of horns and fireworks disrupting their lives.
A Conservative Party spokesperson did not provide a response on Thursday to a request for comment on Ms. Bergen’s stand and whether it has changed.
The Conservative Party has become a clear and present danger to the public and civic health of Canada.
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