Well, I had some hope for him - although I was always concerned about the support of the social conservatives given how fanatical they are about disenfranchising anyone who doesn't fit their mould of a proper human being. But still, I didn't want to believe everything I heard on the media about how O'Toole hated gays, yada yada yada.
But then he started talking about how he'd immediately start removing the federal benefits provided to support people through Covid-19, leaving it all to the Provinces - dumb, imo. He decided Alberta needed 'special' treatment to continue their ravaging of environment for oil, dumb, imo. He wants to defund the CBC, and follow the time-unproven "Crack down on criminals" agenda. And, most important for me, he wasn't even able to get his party to agree that climate change is a serious issue. Anti-climate change attitudes are not the way to a successful political party in Canada. If O'Toole had been able to persuade his party to accept that climate change is an issue, he'd still be a viable candidate in my eyes, even with the other issues.
So yeah, I looked at him and was not impressed. If he got elected, he probably wouldn't be any worse than Trudeau, but as I'm looking for something better - I'm not going to vote for him.