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Forty-two minutes after Andrew Scheer’s come-from-behind victory over Maxime Bernier Saturday evening made him the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the Liberals sent out a fundraising email accusing him of being “out of touch.”

“He has opposed equal marriage and a woman’s right to choose, and has no plan to grow the economy or support Canada’s middle class,” it reads.

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Though Scheer’s leadership campaign relied less on proposing policy than did the campaigns of some of his rivals, the Liberals and NDP are using those he did promote to paint his election as a victory for the far right.

Liberal MP Adam Vaughan, in attendance Saturday at the CPC’s Toronto convention to begin the work of trying to respond to Scheer’s victory, said the Saskatchewan MP’s win “tells you very clearly that this is a party that’s turning the clocks back.”

“We’re going back to the debates we thought we’d settled back in the ’80s,” he said in an interview with the National Post.