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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sbv to c/[email protected]
 

Interesting interview with Erin O'Toole. He seemed to be a throwback to socially and environmentally progressive Conservatives of previous decades.

He isn't particularly candid, but the interview is still worth a listen.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll need to listen to this. I'm curious to hear about the environmental policy. This has never been a strong suite (imo) of the conservative party.

[–] sbv 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O'Toole talks about climate change along with pocketbook issues as problems that need to be dealt with.

I don't recall if the Conservative policy under him reflected that, but it's nice to hear him acknowledge that it's an issue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's easy to take that stance when you walk away from political accountability. I don't think his platform in 2021 was any more green than Scheer's two years prior.

[–] sbv 5 points 1 year ago

You're right - it's easy to talk big when you don't have to do anything.

However, acknowledging climate change is better than nothing. I can't believe it's 2023 and we're still giving Conservatives props for acknowledging climate change, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everything I hear about this guy, since he left the leadership, makes me really regret that the party didn't give him more of a shot. I think we could have done far worse than him as PM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Judging him based on his personal opinions when he's permitted them do NOT give an impression as to how he'd be as a PM for the precise reason he was so different and so party-line while leading the federal Blues: if he wasn't permitted an opinion as a leader, he wouldn't be permitted an opinion as a PM.

The same, tired, pro-oil, anti-Canadian, republican shit we got when he led the party then, would have been the theme of him representing his party in the PM spot.

Ultimately the blues don't care whom their mouthpiece is, as long as he can say the lines while serving, and scapegoat out when the chickens come home to roost. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[–] sbv 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. He seemed pretty middle of the road.

It's too bad the Conservatives ousted him. It seems like folks who did him in are pretty far from mainstream Canada, but maybe Poilievre&co are more of what Canadians want right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As long as Poilievre is in charge the Conservatives will never gain power. Farther right is not how you win.