The Candice Malcolm Show - September 23, 2021


O'Toole was weak and dishonest to run as a progressive


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Length

20 minutes

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190.54439

Word Count

3,814

Sentence Count

224

Misogynist Sentences

6


Summary

In this episode, Candice talks about why True North has been much more critical of the Conservative Party of Canada and its leadership candidate, Erin O'Toole, since he became the party's new leader, and how he got there.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Aaron O'Toole misrepresented who he was to Conservative members.
00:00:03.280 He promised that he was true blue, and then he ran a campaign as a weak-willed red Tory
00:00:07.400 who refused to stand his ground or defend Canada.
00:00:10.040 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:16.740 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast today.
00:00:19.560 Now, you've probably noticed that we here at True North and here at The Candace Malcolm Show
00:00:23.520 have been much more critical than usual of the Conservatives and of Aaron O'Toole.
00:00:28.260 Now, I know that much of the reason why people like this program, like this channel,
00:00:32.720 the reason that you tune in to True North is because we don't typically take an overly critical view of Conservatives.
00:00:38.700 That's what the legacy media does.
00:00:39.940 The legacy media is there day in, day out to criticize Conservatives,
00:00:43.740 to show their double standard, to push Liberal talking points,
00:00:47.000 push the Liberal worldview, push Liberal wedge issues,
00:00:49.400 and basically do Dustin Trudeau's dirty work.
00:00:51.800 We're different. We give Conservatives a fair shot.
00:00:54.320 We try to remain open-minded, and we don't innately have a bias or a bigotry against Conservatives.
00:01:01.500 So much of the legacy media, deep down, those journalists hate Conservatives.
00:01:05.220 They don't like Conservative values. They don't like Conservative people.
00:01:07.940 They don't want those values represented in their Parliament, in their government, in their society.
00:01:13.040 And that is why they're so unfair to Conservatives.
00:01:15.840 Here at True North, we disagree. We like Conservative values.
00:01:18.460 We think that Conservative values are Canadian values, and that is incredibly important to show both sides.
00:01:24.580 So yes, so to people who like True North because we're typically more fair to Conservatives,
00:01:29.820 and they wonder this week, why is Candace, why is True North being so unfair to Conservatives?
00:01:34.700 It's for that exact reason.
00:01:36.340 We want to see a Conservative party that is strong, a Conservative party that is Conservative.
00:01:40.840 There's no point in having two Liberal parties.
00:01:42.960 And so the reason that we are being critical of Erin O'Toole and of the Conservative party
00:01:47.580 is because we hope that they will listen, and we hope that they will learn
00:01:50.300 that the way that you win an election in Canada is not to apologize for Conservatives.
00:01:55.220 It's not to back away from your Conservative values.
00:01:57.560 It's not to flip-flop and change your mind and look indecisive and look weak.
00:02:02.280 The way to win as a Conservative is to own it, is to be proud of it,
00:02:06.580 to push common sense, to push your values, and to not appear like you're unsure,
00:02:13.080 or that you're afraid, or that you're embarrassed, or that you're trying to hide something.
00:02:17.880 And that is the reason why we are being critical in this week after the election.
00:02:21.940 Hopefully, we can all move past this stronger.
00:02:25.000 So I want to go back in time a little bit on the program today,
00:02:27.660 and I want to talk about how Erin O'Toole became leader of this party,
00:02:32.620 how he became the leader, and what he did in order to get there.
00:02:36.060 So recall that after Andrew Scheer stepped down from leader in 2019,
00:02:40.500 there was a leadership race to replace him as leader of the Conservative Party.
00:02:44.460 There were four main candidates that emerged sort of as a frontrunner.
00:02:48.000 So we had Peter McKay, who is a very high-profile politician from Nova Scotia.
00:02:54.720 He was a cabinet minister in the Harper government,
00:02:57.380 and he was sort of known as one of the leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party
00:03:01.440 that merged with the Canadian Alliance to create the new iteration,
00:03:04.500 which was the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:03:07.100 He was a central figure in that.
00:03:09.040 So he comes from the PC side of the party, the Progressive Conservative side.
00:03:13.660 He's a well-known red Tory.
00:03:16.000 Other candidates, we had Erin O'Toole, and we'll get into him in a moment.
00:03:19.940 Next, we had Leslie Lewis, who's a tremendous candidate.
00:03:22.780 She's very well-educated, very articulate, social conservative.
00:03:26.780 She's from Toronto.
00:03:27.500 She's from an immigrant family and community, and she was great.
00:03:31.340 But the problem with Leslie Lewis is that she was unknown to Conservatives.
00:03:35.520 She didn't have a deep history in the party, a little bit inexperienced,
00:03:38.720 and that kind of came out a little bit during the campaign.
00:03:41.540 And no one really knew if she had what it would take to win.
00:03:45.200 And finally, we had Derek Sloan, who is a social conservative.
00:03:48.700 He was really seen as being strong on some of the issues.
00:03:51.980 However, it became very apparent through his campaign that he was irresponsible,
00:03:56.820 he was selfish, and a bit of a loose cannon.
00:03:58.740 He really didn't have what it took.
00:04:00.920 And because of it, just shortly after he lost,
00:04:03.820 he ended up leaving the Conservative caucus and moving to Alberta,
00:04:06.940 running a bizarre independent campaign, and basically got no support whatsoever.
00:04:11.380 So he shot himself in the foot, and he is out of the picture.
00:04:15.020 But back to the leadership race.
00:04:17.780 So we had these two social conservative candidates that each had their own flaws.
00:04:21.980 And then we had these two sort of more experienced candidates,
00:04:25.460 former cabinet ministers, both of them, both Erin O'Toole and Peter McKay.
00:04:29.020 They're both from Atlantic Canada originally.
00:04:31.180 They're both from political families.
00:04:32.640 Both their dads were politicians and Conservative politicians, representatives.
00:04:37.480 And they're both sort of seen as red Tories.
00:04:40.100 So for Conservative voters, they didn't really have a very strong option.
00:04:43.600 There wasn't an obvious apparent leader out of the bunch.
00:04:48.200 It was sort of a given that probably Peter McKay would win
00:04:50.920 just because he had the most name recognition,
00:04:53.260 and he had this sort of well-known political pedigree.
00:04:56.380 It was sort of like the Conservative version of Justin Trudeau.
00:05:00.240 And that is when Erin O'Toole sort of emerged as a realistic option.
00:05:05.060 He is a former military man.
00:05:07.280 He seemed like he was really strong on law and order,
00:05:10.180 a fiscal conservative.
00:05:11.560 He was obviously not a social conservative.
00:05:13.500 He made it very clear from the beginning that he was not pro-life,
00:05:17.420 that he would not put any restrictions whatsoever on abortion.
00:05:21.680 However, he did claim that he would respect the beliefs of social conservatives,
00:05:26.740 that there would be room for them in the party,
00:05:28.760 which at the time was better than Peter McKay.
00:05:30.600 Peter McKay kind of came out there and said that the reason that Andrew Scheer lost the election
00:05:34.720 was because of his conservative values, his social conservative values.
00:05:38.020 And that was a problem to Peter McKay,
00:05:40.820 whereas Erin O'Toole proposed the other side and said,
00:05:43.980 no, there's room, there's a big tent, there's room for these people in my party.
00:05:48.580 And that was the reason why he won.
00:05:50.500 That was the reason why he won.
00:05:51.740 He presented himself as true blue.
00:05:54.300 He was strong on some of the issues.
00:05:56.080 He was adamantly opposed to a carbon tax.
00:05:58.580 He talked about balancing the budget.
00:06:01.000 He presented himself as a conservative.
00:06:02.980 This is what Erin O'Toole looked like back in 2020 when he was running for leader of this party.
00:06:08.920 Who's going to defend our history, our institutions against attacks from cancel culture and the radical left?
00:06:15.140 I am a proud conservative.
00:06:17.820 I've fought on a range of issues from military and veterans to foreign affairs, public safety, and certainly the economy.
00:06:25.040 I'm Erin O'Toole, and I'm running to unite conservatives on the path to victory.
00:06:29.900 I'm not a career politician.
00:06:31.560 I'm not a product of the Ottawa bubble.
00:06:34.220 Politics, he is a principled conservative.
00:06:36.780 He doesn't run away from a fight.
00:06:38.740 He doesn't get intimidated by the left or the media.
00:06:41.860 I'm pretty blue on all elements.
00:06:45.300 I do respect human rights and the decisions of our courts.
00:06:48.740 A plan to get serious on public safety, support the rule of law, and end the unfair demonization of law-abiding firearms owners.
00:06:56.420 So that was Erin O'Toole 18 months ago, and the Erin O'Toole that emerged on the campaign trail in the past six weeks was a different person.
00:07:09.760 He was a different, he had a different set of priorities.
00:07:12.640 He spoke differently.
00:07:13.480 He was talking about different things, and that is a problem that so many conservatives are having right now with Erin O'Toole.
00:07:20.080 It's not so much that he ran as a red Tory.
00:07:21.980 Look, there's room for red Tories in the party.
00:07:24.120 And when I say red Tory, it's not even really clear what this term means anymore,
00:07:27.120 because it used to mean someone who came from the progressive conservative wing of the party, the old party, that was sort of more big government.
00:07:33.440 They were okay with big spending.
00:07:35.240 They were sort of more socialist on the economic front.
00:07:39.500 And then, you know, they were conservative because of just party loyalty.
00:07:44.620 You know, perhaps they believed in law and order, these kind of things.
00:07:48.420 And then it really kind of changed to mean that a red Tory was someone who was liberal on social issues and moral issues.
00:07:55.780 They were pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, all the same kind of things that the liberals on the left were,
00:08:01.800 but then maybe they were fiscally conservative.
00:08:03.980 And that was sort of what a red Tory was.
00:08:06.220 Today, it's not even really clear what it means.
00:08:08.760 It seems like the whole party is in support of gay marriage now, and that abortion issue is not going away.
00:08:13.740 There's people who really morally oppose to abortion.
00:08:16.760 And then other people who just really don't care about the issue and they don't want to talk about it,
00:08:21.060 they don't want it to be central in the campaign, they just want it to go away.
00:08:23.980 And because of that, they'll just sort of mirror the liberal talking points on that issue.
00:08:28.540 So this term, red Tory, it's not even really clear in today's landscape.
00:08:32.480 Like, is a red Tory woke?
00:08:34.540 Are they far left?
00:08:35.840 Do they believe that little kids should be getting hormone treatments to change their gender?
00:08:41.540 Like, these are questions that haven't really been addressed.
00:08:44.620 But back to Erin O'Toole.
00:08:46.760 The problem with him in this campaign was the fact that he had presented himself as the real deal,
00:08:51.980 as a real conservative.
00:08:53.360 And then as soon as the writs were drawn up and he started speaking,
00:08:56.820 it became really clear that his strategy was to basically hug the liberals,
00:09:01.420 show the Canadian public that he was very much a liberal,
00:09:04.740 and that the main difference between him and Trudeau was that he was just more competent,
00:09:08.540 a better manager.
00:09:09.220 And so he would continue to promote Justin Trudeau's vision for the country.
00:09:13.100 He would just be a better manager of that government.
00:09:16.440 And that's why he failed.
00:09:17.060 That's why he lost the election, because he really just didn't provide a clear enough distinction
00:09:22.060 between him and Trudeau.
00:09:23.480 And no, nobody wants a conservative party that promotes liberalism.
00:09:27.040 They want a conservative party that promotes conservatism.
00:09:29.500 So over at TNC, we compile a list of the five biggest flip-flops that Erin O'Toole did on the campaign.
00:09:36.100 So I'm going to go through those quickly.
00:09:37.640 So I think the first and the worst was that he proposed a carbon tax,
00:09:42.400 which was the exact opposite of what he had said earlier.
00:09:45.120 So during his conservative leadership campaign,
00:09:47.520 O'Toole was adamant that he would repeal the liberal government's federal carbon tax.
00:09:51.780 This is what that looked like.
00:09:53.100 This is a picture of him with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation signing a pledge,
00:09:57.480 saying no carbon tax pledge.
00:10:00.000 I, Erin O'Toole, promise that if elected prime minister of Canada,
00:10:02.680 I will immediately repeal the Trudeau carbon tax and reject any future carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme.
00:10:10.740 And here it is, signed, Erin O'Toole, dated June 18th, 2020.
00:10:15.880 Okay, so we all know how that went down.
00:10:18.560 A few months later, in April 2021, Erin O'Toole released his party's climate change policy,
00:10:24.140 and it included this whole complicated scheme where they put a price on carbon,
00:10:28.720 and then they played this, like, weird semantics game where they tried to say,
00:10:32.800 no, it wasn't a carbon tax, it was a carbon savings account,
00:10:36.180 even though Justin Trudeau also claims that his carbon tax is not a carbon tax, it's a carbon price.
00:10:41.300 So you had the same semantical game.
00:10:43.380 A lot of people were really mad about that when that came out.
00:10:47.420 And, you know, by the time the campaign rolled around,
00:10:50.820 Erin O'Toole was just basically spouting the same things that we heard from the liberals non-stop.
00:10:55.260 Here's a CBC article from August 2021.
00:10:58.020 How the Conservatives came around to supporting a carbon tax.
00:11:01.540 It says here, O'Toole now admits the most efficient way to reduce emissions is through putting a price on carbon.
00:11:07.820 And then here we go, in the last week of the campaign,
00:11:10.940 again, the Conservatives go to the Toronto Star.
00:11:13.860 This is a Toronto Star exclusive, the most left-wing newspaper in the country who hate Conservatives,
00:11:18.480 are getting exclusives from the Conservative Party.
00:11:20.740 And here it says, Erin O'Toole says,
00:11:22.720 that the liberals' carbon price won't automatically get scrapped if he's Prime Minister.
00:11:26.680 So he went from adamantly opposing carbon taxes so much that he was willing to sign a pledge and stand by it
00:11:32.080 when he wanted to run the Conservative Party to sort of being squishy about it,
00:11:37.560 saying, here's my plan, it's not a tax, it's a carbon price,
00:11:40.720 and it's going to go into a carbon savings account.
00:11:43.080 And then by the time the campaign rolled around, it was like,
00:11:45.820 no, Justin Trudeau's carbon taxes are here to stay.
00:11:49.100 Of course, that wasn't the only walk back that we saw during his campaign to become Conservative leader.
00:11:54.980 O'Toole was unequivocal that he would defund and privatize CBC's English properties.
00:12:00.240 He also said that he respects independent journalists
00:12:02.520 and that he would fully recognize the Independent Press Gallery of Canada,
00:12:05.880 that is the press gallery that I am the president of,
00:12:08.560 and that he said that he would give our press gallery equal standing to the PPG in Ottawa.
00:12:13.400 Then fast forward a few months in the Conservative platform,
00:12:16.220 O'Toole only pledged that he would review the mandate of the CBC.
00:12:18.880 He no longer said that he would defund it.
00:12:20.940 And throughout the campaign, he failed to grant interviews with independent journalists,
00:12:25.580 failed to let independent journalists into his campaign.
00:12:28.940 Next, this is something that really upset Social Conservatives
00:12:31.700 and people who believe that the purpose of the Conservative Party
00:12:34.600 is to push a moral vision for the country.
00:12:37.400 O'Toole had previously claimed that under his leadership,
00:12:39.980 Conservative caucus members would be able to vote freely,
00:12:42.460 vote according to their morals and according to their conscience.
00:12:45.080 But then, of course, during the campaign,
00:12:46.980 he said that MPs who do not fully support his platform
00:12:49.760 would not be able to sit in his caucus.
00:12:51.880 They would not be able to sit as Conservatives
00:12:53.960 unless they agreed with his platform,
00:12:56.180 which his platform was very socially left-wing.
00:12:58.860 So that's another flip-flop.
00:13:00.440 Next, he flip-flopped when it came to protecting the conscience rights
00:13:03.700 of doctors and hospital workers.
00:13:06.260 So in O'Toole's leadership platform,
00:13:08.760 when he was running for leadership of the Conservative Party,
00:13:10.920 he stated that he would protect the conscience rights
00:13:13.240 of doctors and health care workers.
00:13:15.440 He said that health care workers would have the right
00:13:17.260 to refuse patients looking for abortions
00:13:19.780 or looking to do euthanasia,
00:13:21.860 that that would be up to the doctor and their moral rights.
00:13:24.400 It said that Aaron O'Toole would defend the conscience rights
00:13:26.620 of all health care professionals
00:13:27.760 whose beliefs, religious or otherwise,
00:13:29.440 prevent them from carrying out or referring patients
00:13:31.380 for services that violate their conscience.
00:13:34.320 Then, in the party platform that came out during the election,
00:13:37.100 this promise was reiterated.
00:13:39.480 It says that we will protect the conscience rights
00:13:41.820 of health care professionals.
00:13:43.060 The challenges of dealing with COVID-19 have reminded us
00:13:45.680 of the vital importance of health care professionals.
00:13:47.920 The last thing Canada can afford is to drive away
00:13:50.380 any of these professionals out of their profession.
00:13:53.420 But then, surprise, surprise, halfway through the campaign,
00:13:55.540 Aaron O'Toole flipped on that position
00:13:56.940 and said that doctors will not have the right
00:13:59.800 to refuse to refer patients for abortions.
00:14:02.540 He said they will have to refer because the rights to access
00:14:05.960 those services exist across the country.
00:14:08.400 We have to respect conscience rights,
00:14:10.280 but we have to be there for referral.
00:14:12.340 So, the exact opposite of what he had said all along.
00:14:15.720 So, as you can see, there's a trend going on here.
00:14:18.180 And the worst example of this flip-flopping
00:14:19.580 had to do with Justin Trudeau's gun ban,
00:14:22.340 which Aaron O'Toole had opposed.
00:14:24.300 He had used the support of gun owners,
00:14:26.580 legal gun owners, to win the leadership.
00:14:28.600 He relied on that support.
00:14:29.960 And then, when it came to the election time,
00:14:32.940 even though it was really clear in his platform
00:14:34.680 that he was going to reverse the liberal gun grab,
00:14:37.700 the liberals came out and banned 1,500 firearms,
00:14:41.480 rather arbitrarily.
00:14:42.640 Andrew Lawton, here at True North,
00:14:44.140 came up with an extensive documentary
00:14:46.340 looking at this issue.
00:14:47.300 So, if you want to know more about this issue
00:14:49.480 and understand it, go over and check out Assaulted,
00:14:51.980 which is Andrew Lawton's four-part series on this.
00:14:54.880 But regardless, Aaron O'Toole completely reversed his position.
00:14:57.620 And this is, to me, the most problematic one,
00:14:59.820 because when it comes to Justin Trudeau,
00:15:02.240 when it comes to the liberals
00:15:03.980 and the way that they ran their campaign,
00:15:05.580 this idea of creating wedge issues.
00:15:07.720 So, Aaron O'Toole is supposed to be a law and order guy.
00:15:10.820 He has a military background.
00:15:12.580 That is one of the strongest areas
00:15:14.840 that he had from a conservative perspective.
00:15:17.600 And so, you would expect that if Justin Trudeau
00:15:20.220 tried to create an election wedge issue over guns,
00:15:23.960 Aaron O'Toole would stand up and say,
00:15:26.000 do you know what, Justin Trudeau?
00:15:26.940 You want to make this election about law and order
00:15:29.020 and safety and illegal guns
00:15:30.780 and the problem of gun control.
00:15:32.520 Let's have that conversation.
00:15:33.620 Let's talk about the number of illegal firearms in Canada.
00:15:36.720 Let's talk about the way that you have loosened sentences
00:15:39.780 for people who are found with illegal guns.
00:15:41.720 How, let's talk about revolving door prison systems
00:15:44.120 that allow dangerous criminals
00:15:45.340 who commit violent acts with guns
00:15:47.620 are allowed back on the streets.
00:15:49.180 He could have turned the table.
00:15:50.280 He could have stood his ground and said,
00:15:51.540 if you're going after legal firearms owners,
00:15:54.180 what you should be going after is dangerous criminals.
00:15:57.540 That is what was expected of Aaron O'Toole.
00:15:59.740 That's the idea behind being a conservative.
00:16:01.860 Instead of allowing the liberals to create the narrative
00:16:04.440 and then just sort of weak-willed stepping back
00:16:07.760 and saying, oh, okay, well, we'll just change our position
00:16:10.300 and go with the liberal position.
00:16:12.020 No, conservatives want to see you standing up,
00:16:14.540 standing your ground,
00:16:15.400 fighting for your position and your values.
00:16:17.580 And again, Justin Trudeau is weak on this issue.
00:16:20.060 So why not go after Trudeau on an issue that he is weak?
00:16:24.140 This, in a nutshell, is why Aaron O'Toole lost the election.
00:16:27.880 It's not so much that he was a left-wing.
00:16:30.180 I don't think that Canadians, by and large,
00:16:32.140 really care about left versus right.
00:16:34.120 What they do care about is seeing someone who has conviction,
00:16:37.620 seeing someone who is confident and sure of themselves,
00:16:40.020 and seeing someone who has something to say,
00:16:42.400 who has a vision for the country
00:16:43.660 that's not just pushing platitudes,
00:16:46.260 pushing talking points,
00:16:47.320 saying the same banal platitudes
00:16:50.040 that we hear over and over from politicians.
00:16:52.400 They want to hear someone who has an idea,
00:16:54.580 who has convictions, and who stands their grounds.
00:16:56.700 That's not what Aaron O'Toole did in this campaign.
00:16:59.420 Instead, he was sounding a lot like Justin Trudeau,
00:17:01.880 and you can see this on election night.
00:17:03.220 Now, I'm going to play this clip.
00:17:04.300 There's not anything wrong, per se,
00:17:06.040 with what they're saying here.
00:17:06.980 They're talking about how Canada is this great,
00:17:08.860 big, diverse country, and we're inclusive,
00:17:10.800 and we like everyone, and everyone's a part of it.
00:17:13.700 Yeah, that kind of stuff is just common knowledge at this point.
00:17:15.700 You don't really need to create a whole political speech
00:17:18.200 about how diverse and great this country is.
00:17:20.460 We hear that every day from the liberals.
00:17:22.340 And so, again, it's not like there's anything wrong with this message.
00:17:24.520 It's a fine message, but it doesn't inspire.
00:17:26.840 It doesn't excite.
00:17:27.780 It's more like we're being lectured about how we have to like each other.
00:17:31.340 Instead of really presenting this vision for the country,
00:17:34.640 it sounds like Aaron O'Toole here
00:17:36.180 is basically trying to convince you that he is just like the liberals.
00:17:39.960 So let's see this montage of, side by side,
00:17:43.400 Trudeau and Aaron O'Toole on election night
00:17:45.460 basically delivering the same speech.
00:17:47.900 No matter how you voted,
00:17:50.680 just like no matter where you come from,
00:17:52.940 what language you speak,
00:17:54.500 the colour of your skin,
00:17:56.040 the way you pray,
00:17:57.860 I hear you.
00:17:58.720 Above all,
00:18:01.500 we must continue to show Canadians
00:18:03.620 that whether you're black, white, brown,
00:18:06.680 or from any race or creed,
00:18:09.000 whether you're LGBTQ or straight,
00:18:12.140 whether you are an Indigenous Canadian
00:18:14.120 or came to Canada five weeks ago
00:18:16.740 or five generations ago,
00:18:19.440 whether you're doing well
00:18:24.600 or barely getting by,
00:18:26.300 whether you worship on Fridays,
00:18:28.300 Saturdays, Sundays,
00:18:29.620 every day or not at all,
00:18:31.260 you are an important part of Canada.
00:18:34.160 For our shared journey
00:18:36.420 on the path of reconciliation.
00:18:38.880 It's a conservatism that believes
00:18:40.540 reconciliation is more than a box to check.
00:18:44.500 It is the very keystone of Canada
00:18:46.680 reaching its potential.
00:18:48.400 And it starts with clean drinking water
00:18:50.660 as a basic human right
00:18:52.600 still denied to Indigenous children born today.
00:18:55.960 Let us not forget the past
00:18:57.980 and the dark days we have come through together,
00:19:01.640 but let us still more look to the future
00:19:04.460 and all that is still to come.
00:19:07.360 One that addresses is the challenges of today
00:19:10.320 while advancing the dreams of tomorrow.
00:19:12.860 And all that we have still to build together.
00:19:15.940 A conservatism that builds Canada up.
00:19:31.160 Let's build it up.
00:19:32.600 Canadians don't want weak politicians.
00:19:34.820 They want someone who is sure of themselves,
00:19:36.600 someone who stands their ground,
00:19:38.080 someone who presents and promotes
00:19:39.680 their views with passion and conviction.
00:19:42.200 They don't want another version of the Liberal Party.
00:19:44.280 They don't want a weak leader
00:19:45.700 who's going to change his mind
00:19:47.080 and just say anything to get elected.
00:19:49.720 That's why the Conservatives lost.
00:19:51.180 That's why Erin O'Toole is not Prime Minister today.
00:19:53.680 And if the Conservatives ever want to win in this country,
00:19:55.860 again, they have to figure this out
00:19:57.580 sooner rather than later.
00:19:59.060 I'm Candice Malcolm,
00:19:59.760 and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.