It's truly a shame that Mr. O'Toole didn't speak out following Renata D’Aliesio's G&M article in May 2016 which revealed how Erin's long time buddies at Canada Company had denied scholarships to the children of Captain Brad Elms of the Royal Canadian Regiment following his death by suicide from PTSD.

Renata's article stated, "The sudden death of Captain Brad Elms of the Royal Canadian Regiment shook many in the Canadian Forces. The country’s top commander, General Jonathan Vance, then a lieutenant-general, flew in for his funeral."

And yet here is Erin not quite a year later as he vies to be the Conservative Party Leader finding time to write about "Sam Sharpe – one of two members of Parliament who gave his life for our country in the Great War, but today is almost forgotten, for the tragic reason that he took his own life".

Of the recognition of Sharpe's suicide, "It’s a chance we’ve been sitting on for nearly two years."

Unbelievably opportunistic or simply wholly inappropriate?