Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has spent nearly a quarter-million dollars of taxpayers’ money on jobs in his office for party supporters..Global News reported O’Toole spent $240,000 on the positions even as he and many of his MPs were hammering the Trudeau Liberals for sending taxpayer-funded contracts to Liberal-connected firms..“O’Toole has allowed his deputy chief of staff, Steve Outhouse, to continue to operate his own communications business which, among other things, has accepted contracts — paid for with funds donated by party members — to help nine individuals compete in Conservative nomination contests all while continuing his taxpayer-funded employment in the opposition leader’s office (OLO),” said Global’s David Akin..“Someone should remind O’Toole and his team that we are supposed to be the party of accountability,” one Harper-era Conservative now out of politics told Global..Global reported other contracts coming out of O’Toole’s office included:.$83,000 to Jim Ross who was in charge of the O’Toole leadership camapaign’s field operations. Ross is a senior consultant with a firm called ElectRight which provides voter contact services to candidates and campaigns.$72,000 to ex-MP Alupa Clarke. Clarke was a Conservative MP from the Quebec City region who won in 2015, but was defeated in 2019. He subsequently became O’Toole’s leadership campaign chair in Quebec.$30,000 to strategic communications consultancy Pathos Strategy, whose principals are Dan Robertson and Dimitri Soudas. Robertson play a key advisory role in O’Toole’s leadership campaign and was subsequently hired by the OLO to provide communications advice. Soudas is best known as Stephen Harper’s longtime communications aide and Quebec advisor.$20,000 to Katarina Homolova, a public relations advisor who worked in the OLO when Andrew Scheer was leader.$14,000 to M5 Consulting Group. One of its senior consultants is Supa Meikle who, according to his LinkedIn profile, joined the firm in January a month before he joined O’Toole’s OLO as a senior advisor.$18,000 to Intercede Communication, the firm founded by Outhouse in 2016 to provide communications.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has spent nearly a quarter-million dollars of taxpayers’ money on jobs in his office for party supporters..Global News reported O’Toole spent $240,000 on the positions even as he and many of his MPs were hammering the Trudeau Liberals for sending taxpayer-funded contracts to Liberal-connected firms..“O’Toole has allowed his deputy chief of staff, Steve Outhouse, to continue to operate his own communications business which, among other things, has accepted contracts — paid for with funds donated by party members — to help nine individuals compete in Conservative nomination contests all while continuing his taxpayer-funded employment in the opposition leader’s office (OLO),” said Global’s David Akin..“Someone should remind O’Toole and his team that we are supposed to be the party of accountability,” one Harper-era Conservative now out of politics told Global..Global reported other contracts coming out of O’Toole’s office included:.$83,000 to Jim Ross who was in charge of the O’Toole leadership camapaign’s field operations. Ross is a senior consultant with a firm called ElectRight which provides voter contact services to candidates and campaigns.$72,000 to ex-MP Alupa Clarke. Clarke was a Conservative MP from the Quebec City region who won in 2015, but was defeated in 2019. He subsequently became O’Toole’s leadership campaign chair in Quebec.$30,000 to strategic communications consultancy Pathos Strategy, whose principals are Dan Robertson and Dimitri Soudas. Robertson play a key advisory role in O’Toole’s leadership campaign and was subsequently hired by the OLO to provide communications advice. Soudas is best known as Stephen Harper’s longtime communications aide and Quebec advisor.$20,000 to Katarina Homolova, a public relations advisor who worked in the OLO when Andrew Scheer was leader.$14,000 to M5 Consulting Group. One of its senior consultants is Supa Meikle who, according to his LinkedIn profile, joined the firm in January a month before he joined O’Toole’s OLO as a senior advisor.$18,000 to Intercede Communication, the firm founded by Outhouse in 2016 to provide communications.
