Scheer Has Been Steady In 1st Year As Tory Leader Analysts Say

OTTAWA ' There is money in the bank. Voters in the hopper. And from many angles, a spring in the step of many Conservatives these days.

One year of Andrew Scheer, observers say, has not exactly been flashy but he has done the Conservative Party some good.

"He's been steady," says Tim Powers, a conservative strategist and vice-chairman of Ottawa-based firm Summa Strategies. "You'd probably give him a solid B or B plus."

Carl Vallee, a former press secretary for the government of Stephen Harper, and now a partner in Montreal strategy firm Hatley, calls Scheer "very, very constant."

THE CANADIAN PRESS Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer speaks to reporters during a meeting of the General Council of the Conservative Party of Canada in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., on May 13, 2018.

Scheer, the 39-year-old, dimple-cheeked father of five, has spent a year fashioning himself as the everyman to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's jet-setting millionaire ways. His advertising plays up the fact that while Trudeau grew up with a silver spoon or two, Scheer was raised in suburban Ottawa by middle-class parents who didn't even own a car.

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