Has said a lot more about who the conservatives chose to run against him than him himself.
In 2015 he ran against Stephen Harper who was at that point very unpopular because of several scandals of his own (which people seem to have forgotten) plus his vehement anti-science views and actions. Amongst many other things. The people had enough of him which is why he got shellacked in the election.
In 2019 he was put against Sheer. With a lacking personality and an equal lack of charisma, he never really connected with anyone. The results spoke to that - JT paid the price for his bumbling and scandals, but Sheer never connected well enough with people to take the easy win he should have had.
That's the conservatives fault for putting forth the people they did - hell, with Sheer and Maxime Bernier competing against each other at the end, it was basically an unlikeable guy versus a somewhat unknown also unlikeable guy who also had a lot of questionable actions behind him already at that point. And knowing what we know about Bernier now we should all be glad as hell HE didn't win and end up one step away from becoming PM.
And they risk doing it again at the next election with Erin Otoole. I like him more than I ever liked Sheer, but from what I've seen of him on the public stage so far two things should concern anyone who wants to see the Liberals lose the next election:
- His personality still doesn't exactly shine or connect with people.
- His willingness to go on tasteless attacks that remind people of US politics right now.
- His party is stacked with people who follow the MAGA nonsense in the USA right now. Just scroll through the social media of many members of his party for a wakeup call about who many of these people really are.
If there's one thing that turns off Canadians more than anything else right now, it's Trump style politics. ESPECIALLY in the last week.
If Otoole allows his party to go that way the Liberals will be quick to use that against them by simply running ads reminding people that the Conservatives are "The MAGA party of Canada" using the words of many in the party to clearly demonstrate such.
And they are destined to lose again.