Conservative caucus removes O'Toole as leader
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The Conservative caucus has voted to remove Erin O'Toole as the party’s leader. The majority of caucus voted Wednesday to replace O'Toole as the leader of the party, in a secret ballot.
The majority of caucus voted Wednesday to replace O’Toole as the leader of the party, in a secret ballot.
In total, 118 votes were cast at Wednesday morning’s virtual meeting, 73 MPs voted in favour of replacing O’Toole, while 45 MPs voted to endorse his leadership.
One-third of the caucus signed a letter earlier this week to force the leadership review, an expression of what party insiders said was a broad dissatisfaction with O’Toole’s performance.
Under the Reform Act powers that enabled this vote to take place, O’Toole needed to secure more than 50 per cent support to hold on to his job, a threshold he failed to meet.