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.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A populist turn”
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