 By 1955, there was a widespread feeling among Tories that Drew was not capable of leading the party to a victory.At the same time, the Liberals were in flux as the aging St. Laurent tired of politics.Drew was able to damage the government in a weeks-long battle over the TransCanada pipeline in 1956—the so-called Pipeline Debate—in which the government, in a hurry to obtain financing for the pipeline, imposed closure before the debate even began.