TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canada’s Conservative Party must change if it wants to govern again, leader Erin O’Toole said, noting that the transgressions and scandals on the part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are not enough for an election victory.
In the keynote address of the Conservative Party virtual policy convention, billed to be his last chance to make an impression on Canadians following an underwhelming six months since taking the party reigns, O’Toole conceded that his party has lost two elections and gone through four party leaders in the past five years by “making the same arguments and hoping Canadians come around to our positions.”
During the speech, O’Toole unveiled his party’s “Canada Recovery Plan,” which entails recovering the one million jobs lost during the pandemic, balancing the budget over the next decade and enacting anti-corruption legislation to “end abuse by Liberal insiders.”
However, the Conservative leader tempered speculations about a potential shift on the party’s environmental policy, only going so far as to say that he is committed to protecting the environment.
The Conservative Party convention comes at the turn of what promises to be a rollercoaster political cycle. Canada has twice been pushed to the brink of an election since the last federal campaign, held in October 2019, and there is strong speculation that an election will be triggered sometime in 2021.
However, a recent Angus Reid Institute poll found that half of Canadians desire to see a change in leadership in Ottawa, although most oppose a spring election as the country battles the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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