Erin O’Toole will be the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.The Durham MP won the race to replace Andrew Scheer as leader of the party in a physically distanced hybrid convention Sunday night.
That capped off a campaign forced to pivot repeatedly to adjust to life and politics in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.This race was the second at bat for O’Toole after he previously ran and lost to Scheer in the 2017 Conservative leadership race, taking third place in that campaign.
But O’Toole clinched the win on the third ballot in a reveal that came roughly six hours after it had been scheduled to take place Sunday at 6 p.m.