O’Toole: Advice to the Prime Minister: Keep it up!

Erin O’Toole: While some of my Conservative friends have been frustrated with my positive comments from time to time, I try to remind them that the Carney government are largely doing what we had advocated for many years. I have used a little joke at some of my public speaking events that I should ‘start charging royalties’ for the Liberal government’s use of my 2021 Secure the Future platform in 2025. This usually gets a few laughs, but it also explains why I have been cheering the government on at times. If conservatives believe a policy is only good for Canada when we propose to do it, we are being insincere and fueling cynicism about politics at a time our country needs a healthy dose of unity. This does not mean giving the Carney government a free ride, but it means being serious in the role of opposition and to always remember to be a patriot ahead of being a partisan. Canada needs this approach at this moment…