Roundup: The many leaks from the Cumming Report

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The Cumming report on the Conservatives’ election failure was released to caucus behind closed doors yesterday, and lo, leaks appeared in every news outlet in the country, so let’s go through some of them:

  • From Global: O’Toole’s performance got mixed reviews, with a strong finish but was “over-managed” by the end of the campaign. It was determined he needed to spend more time on the road and not in his studio, and they need to completely rebuild their voter-identification database.
  • From The Toronto Star: Party memberships should be free (which is a terrible gods damned idea), and that the party’s reputation is still suffering from the “barbaric cultural practices tip line” promise in 2015.
  • From the National Post: They were hobbled by party infighting, a lack of ethnic outreach, and the soft response to Quebec’s Law 21. As well, it concluded that O’Toole is still the “right person to lead the party.”
  • From CTV: The party needs more diverse candidates.
  • From CBC: The party failed to craft policy on some important issues, and apparently O’Toole didn’t respond well to criticism in the question-and-answer session following Cumming’s presentation. And they went nuts when Global’s leaks hit the wires while Cumming was still speaking.

I did note that while O’Toole told a press conference afterward that he takes responsibility and promises changes, it was remarked upon that O’Toole seemed to change his tune on the use of the studio, which they crowed about through the campaign and insisted it was better than in-person events because they could reach more people through their teleconferences, but changing his tune about something is nothing new (as we all saw during the election, over and over again).

Meanwhile, O’Toole told said press conference that he was going to meet with truckers, but also denounced extremists among them, which is an extremely hard circle to square considering that it’s the extremists who organised the whole bloody grifter convoy, and any legitimate truckers frustrated by vaccine mandates are going to be hapless nitwits in the bunch. The fact that O’Toole remained silent about the fact that the organisers of said grifter convoy are demanding that democracy be overturned in favour of some delusional Jacobin committee comprised of said convoy organisers and senators is also a problem, as is the fact that he wouldn’t address the fact that these same organizers are doxing MPs, and the Sergeant-at-Arms is warning that their Ottawa residences are being targeted. It does show that O’Toole has basically left objective reality behind, as his latest shitpost video essentially demonstrates.

https://twitter.com/mattgurney/status/1486849795515953156

https://twitter.com/mattgurney/status/1486850305757167622

https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1486755945292124167

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau is isolating after a COVID contact, but has thus far tested negative.
  • Marco Mendicino says she’s “shocked” that Twitter gave a pass to MPP Randy Hillier’s tweet calling Omar Alghabra a “terrorist.”
  • François-Philippe Champagne says that the potential takeover of a Canadian (on paper) lithium company by a Chinese company did get a security review.
  • Draft national standards for long-term care have been proposed to the federal government, and now it becomes a question of getting provinces to sign on.
  • The Star talks to the Russian Ambassador to Canada, if you’re morbidly curious.
  • Althia Raj calls on the government to fix its whistle blower protection laws.
  • Susan Delacourt worries that there are legitimate erosions of democracy happening while a bunch of cosplayers are claiming tyranny as part of the grifter convoy.
  • Colby Cosh (quite rightly) pans the Commissioner of Elections decision to give George Chahal a mere $500 fine for electoral interference in stealing flyers.

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4 thoughts on “Roundup: The many leaks from the Cumming Report”

  2. The problem with O’Toole is that he comes across as a man who believes in nothing. So it’s credibility. As for the Cummings report I heard Mr. Cummings speak of it basically again nothing interesting or revealing.

  3. So reality is going to continue circling the drain for the rest of this parliament, as the CPC fights against itself and O’Toole drags himself to make nice with whatever extremists Scheer and Poilievre decide to “bring coffee”. Then the next election will come about and those same friendly sausage makers will throw rocks or knives or Molotov cocktails at Justin Trudeau instead of gravel, while O’Toole victim-blames him for being “divisive.” I can’t with them anymore. The party itself has become a national security risk. The report should have just been a printout of Stephen Gordon’s signature tweet: Disband the Conservative Party of Canada; it is beyond saving.

  4. There will always be people who will support a “party” with fractured or no policies just because they purport to be “conservative” Folks who lie to themselves must find a like party which will lie to them.

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