Erin O’Toole wants all Canadians to see themselves in his Conservative Party.
“Canadians haven’t always seen themselves in our party. We are going to change that,” he says in a new online ad.
O’Toole recognizes that winning an election will require him to convince voters who backed other parties last time around, and he has already started wooing “working families” and union members.
But the new spirit of glasnost in O’Toole’s iteration of the party clearly does not extend to inmates in federal penal institutions (who can vote).
In response to the news that federal correctional facilities will inoculate 600 prisoners with COVID vaccine, the Conservative leader tweeted that “not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadians or frontline health workers.”
It was a response that was applauded by the party’s base. “Paul Bernardo gets vaccine before all the grandparents in LTC (long-term care facilities)? Only in Canada,” said one online respondent.
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See Also:
(1) Filling in the family story behind an empty medal box
(2) Opposing Prisoner Vaccination, Erin O’Toole Is Unmasked
(3) Erin O’Toole presented himself as the new Stephen Harper. So far, he’s the old Andrew Scheer
