Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s decision to boot Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan from his caucus has some factions of the Canadian conservative movement wondering about their own future in the party.
That includes firearms advocates, who say they’re concerned about what it will mean for the party’s grassroots.
Sloan was removed last week for what O’Toole called a “pattern of destructive behaviour” that was undermining the team.
In his short tenure as a Conservative MP and leadership candidate, Sloan’s extreme views did create controversy.
But some social conservatives saw O’Toole’s decision to kick him out as a rebuke of their efforts to organize for the party’s policy convention.
Charles Zach of the National Firearms Association says his members are also organizing for the convention and now wonder how much leeway they’ll get to advance their ideas.