It was the first months of O’Toole’s leadership of the Conservative Party in the fall of 2020, and his team had launched initial advertisements to signal a shift to supposedly pro-worker politics. In another video ad, he wished a happy Labour Day to workers and spoke wistfully about being raised in a “General Motors family.” (As labour scholar Rawan Abdelbaki pointed out in The Breach, he slid by the fact that his father hadn’t been a worker but a manager, and later, a Conservative MPP who supported Ontario Premier Mike Harris’s major cuts to public services.)

— The Poilievre Project by Martin Lukacs (35%)