Defeated Tory MP says review of Conservatives' election loss will examine O'Toole's performance
CBC
The defeated Conservative MP now tasked with determining where his party's federal election campaign went wrong says he intends to "hit the ground running" within the week — and his work will include a review of leader Erin O'Toole's campaign performance.
"I've already reached out to people within the party, outside the party. I've already started to arrange some interviews for next week and I intend to start travelling within the next couple of weeks," James Cumming told CBC's The House this week.
Listen: James Cumming discusses '360' review of Conservative campaign
Cumming said the report will "absolutely" include a thorough examination of O'Toole's actions during the campaign, as well as those of his campaign team.
"I'm very pleased that Erin is very interested in seeing what he could have done better," he said.
Cumming was narrowly defeated last month in the riding of Edmonton Centre, losing to Liberal candidate Randy Boissonnault by just 615 votes. Two years ago, Cumming beat then-incumbent Boissonnault by more than 4,500 votes.
At the party's first post-election caucus meeting Tuesday, O'Toole announced that he had tapped Cumming to conduct a "a 360 review on where we fell short, what we did right."