O’Toole’s anti-cancel-culture campaign is really a defence of commemorative status quo By Randy Boswell. Published on Jan 27, 2021 11:23am What O’Toole is really doing is exploiting the “cancel culture” debate to rally opposition to anyone messing with the reputation of Macdonald and other Conservative luminaries. Conservative Party Leader Erin O Toole (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
Erin O’Toole launched his campaign for the leadership of the federal Conservatives one year ago today on Jan. 27, 2020 with a video message in which he positioned himself as a champion of Canadian heritage and an avowed enemy of “cancel culture”.
The video was filmed in a snowy Major’s Hill Park in downtown Ottawa, with the Parliament Buildings and a statue of Rideau Canal builder Lt.-Col. John By providing background scenery.