Erin O’Toole is no longer the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. In a secret-ballot vote Wednesday morning, Conservative MPs chose to oust their leader after just 17 months and one failed election at the helm.

After a marathon caucus meeting, where O’Toole made an eleventh-hour pitch to keep his job, 73 MPs voted to launch a leadership race with 45 voting to keep O’Toole on. The definitive vote was forced by 35 MPs unhappy with O’Toole’s leadership.

There have been extensive tensions within the party from those who felt the trucker convoy should have been supported and from MPs who don't support climate change policies or vaccine mandates.

It’s unclear who else will run as caretaker while the party’s national council decides the structure of a leadership race.

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