Will Canada's Conservative Party Form The Next Government In Canada?

New York Times: To Unseat Trudeau, Canada’s Top Conservative Leans Left

OTTAWA — The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Erin O’Toole, lacks the name recognition, celebrity pedigree and charismatic hair of his Liberal Party rival, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A former corporate lawyer with nine years of service in the House of Commons, he came into the snap elections campaign new to the leadership of his party, unfamiliar to most Canadians and not especially popular even among many Conservatives.

Yet Mr. O’Toole, 48, the son of a former provincial legislator, has made remarkable progress since last month when the prime minister unexpectedly called the elections, in part by repudiating several of the traditionally conservative stances he championed to win his post.

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Update: Canada's Conservatives Are Using Soaring Inflation To Help Defeat Trudeau (Zero Hedge)

WNU Editor: Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole may be leaning left, but his right flank is deserting him. A third of my friends who are conservative voters are going to vote for the other ideological conservative party in Canada known here as the People's Party of Canada (PPC).

If this trend continues in other regions of Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau will barely win the election, but it will be a minority government and a very unstable one at that.