Kamloops MP McLeod celebrating O’Toole’s Conservative leadership win
KAMLOOPS — Erin O’Toole promises to lean on Conservative values, focusing largely on the Canadian economy and its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new Conservative leader is someone Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod supported during his first leadership run in 2017 and again during this one. McLeod says O’Toole, as a former Royal Canadian Air Force officer, will bring an analytical perspective to the party.
“What I like about Erin is he’s really policy-oriented,” she noted. “He’s thoughtful. His RMC (Royal Military College of Canada) training is you have a problem, you analyze and you have a strategic plan to go forward, so I think he’s going to be the person that’ll be best suited in terms of helping us move forward.”