CONSERVATIVE CONFLICT

Re Erin O’Toole, Will You Please Stand Up (Editorial, Jan .27): I believe Erin O’Toole is standing up for a business-first position. It’s just morally difficult to do so when we know that vaccines, masks and limited gatherings are necessary to keep us safe.

MPs such as Pierre Poilievre, Candice Bergen and Andrew Scheer are free to take this position, which I find well back from the moral threshold of what is best for society.

However this Conservative kerfuffle, and Mr. O’Toole’s liminal stance, do not seem to be about doing the right thing, but about winning in the restrictive face of law and order.

Brian Emes Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.