If the government takes those priorities too far, O’Toole said he will lead the Conservatives back into political battle. It’s a position that’s been crafted in discussions O’Toole said he has had with his new leader, Andrew Scheer. And it comes one month after the Liberals and Conservatives traded some partisan barbs over NAFTA. That’s because trade is the Conservative legacy — the original free trade deal with the U.S., NAFTA, the Canada-EU pact, were all instigated by Conservative governments. He said they struck up a rapport when he was the Conservative parliamentary secretary on trade and she the Liberal trade critic.

Source: National Post September 03, 2017 11:26 UTC