The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 25, 2026


Pierre Poilievre should ignore the terrible advice from Erin O’Toole and other fake Conservatives


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Aaron O'Toole was always a liberal. He was a liberal even when he was the Conservative Party Leader between 2020 and 2022. But for some reason, a gaggle of conservative networkers on social media are saying it's purity testing to say that O'sofle is a liberal, and that's why he's losing.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt here. I don't want to break anyone's heart by saying this, but former
00:00:05.720 Conservative Party leader Aaron O'Toole is a liberal. And he was a liberal even back
00:00:11.340 when he was the Conservative Party leader between 2020 and 2022. But for some reason,
00:00:17.820 there is a gaggle of conservative networkers on social media who are saying that it's purity
00:00:23.220 testing to say that Aaron O'Toole is a liberal. Well, these people are looking mighty silly today 0.97
00:00:29.800 after last afternoon an article came out from Global News 0.66
00:00:34.320 where Aaron O'Toole said that Pierre Polyev needs to moderate his positions,
00:00:39.480 especially on culture war issues.
00:00:42.560 No, that's not going to help Pierre Polyev win.
00:00:45.620 In fact, do you know how we know this would not help Pierre Polyev beat Mark Carney?
00:00:50.540 Because Aaron O'Toole tried it.
00:00:52.620 He tried it against the extremely unpopular Justin Trudeau in the 2021 election,
00:00:58.060 and he lost.
00:00:59.800 Yes, he won the popular vote, but he only got like 34% of the popular vote.
00:01:05.860 He could have beat him.
00:01:07.500 Justin Trudeau was extremely beatable in 2021,
00:01:11.380 but it turns out people didn't want to replace Justin Trudeau with Justin Trudeau-lite.
00:01:16.560 They actually want someone who's going to propose bold change.
00:01:20.060 In fact, Pierre Polyev did not win in 2025,
00:01:23.380 not because he was too hard on the culture war issues.
00:01:26.480 Pierre Polyev did quite well in 2025, and he fell short of winning.
00:01:30.360 I believe the gap between where he is and winning was him not having bold enough policies
00:01:36.580 on several different issues.
00:01:38.520 If he ran on a massive tax cut, I think he would have won.
00:01:41.380 On other policies like immigration, if he ran on bigger reductions, I think he could
00:01:46.060 have won.
00:01:46.720 There are many other areas I think he needed to go harder, but the idea that somehow he's
00:01:52.100 too strong on culture war issues or he emphasizes them too much and that's why he's losing is
00:01:57.160 ludicrous and anyone saying that oh my goodness you're purity testing Aaron O'Toole by saying
00:02:01.740 he's a liberal they're delusional he's a liberal he was always a liberal he betrayed the base
00:02:06.820 constantly as leader he said he was going to get rid of the carbon tax and then replaced
00:02:10.460 his promise to get rid of the carbon tax with his own carbon tax where you didn't even get a rebate
00:02:15.100 you had to spend it up with your O'Toole bucks on like solar panels and whatnot he said he was
00:02:20.100 going to get rid of the firearms ban and then he reversed his position on that later it was his 0.89
00:02:25.600 strategy was asinine and people like fred delori trying to give peer poly of advice on cbc's power 0.93
00:02:32.160 and politics when he was erin o'toole's campaign manager in 2021 is also silly was fred delori 0.93
00:02:39.100 good at one point sure probably was fred delori when he's campaign manager is not as good as fred
00:02:45.660 Deloria is just communications director. Maybe he has a gift for communications. But is the guy
00:02:50.780 helping set the policy as well? No. Aaron O'Toole is a liberal. I'm not sure what Fred Deloria is,
00:02:56.220 but don't listen to him.