FOG BLOG CANADIAN POLITICAL LOG: ERIN O'TOOLE OUT AS CONSERVATIVE LEADER, VOTED OUT BY PARTY!

Erin O’Toole is voted out as Canada’s Conservative leader...A week after protests in Ottawa, it suggests that a new kind of right wing is ascendant......It has been a bad week for moderate conservatives in Canada. On January 28th a “Freedom Convoy” of tens of thousands of protesters in pick-up trucks, eighteen-wheelers and suvs shut down much of downtown Ottawa, where they stayed for several days. The spark for the protest was the introduction of a law which requires lorry-drivers who enter the country, including Canadian ones, either to be fully vaccinated or to stick to quarantine rules.

Although the protesters called for the resignation of Justin Trudeau, the Liberal prime minister, it was the main opposition leader who got the boot. On February 2nd 73 of the 118 Conservative members of parliament voted to sack Erin O’Toole, the party’s relatively centrist leader. Mr O’Toole has only been in the job for 17 months. Candice Bergen, his deputy, was voted in as interim leader.........