The Conservative Leadership Race....Again

One candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, Kellie Leitch, has been receiving a bit of attention lately, and not the good kind.  I suppose that when you're running for office, any attention is good attention.  In any case, here is a sample:

First, a week or two ago, was this article about Ms Leitch's campaign video, The Magic of Kellie Leitch's Batshit, Beautiful Campaign Video.  It featured odd grimaces, loooong pauses, pregnant pauses while looking off screen....  It was weird, that's for sure.

The comedy group "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" re-worked Leitch's presentation and came up with their own interpretation.

This particular Ms Leitch, of course, is the same one who hit the federal election campaign back in 2015 with a call for a "Barbaric Cultural Practices" snitch line, along with her Conservative colleague, Chris Alexander.

That whole matter just hasn't gone away.

In this campaign, Ms Leitch has changed gears slightly, and is now asking that new immigrants be given an interview and have to pass a test of "Canadian Values".

Rick Mercer had this to say about that....


So.  I'll leave it to you to decide if this is good attention, negative attention, good regardless, or what.  Personally, I wish we didn't have to deal with people like this.  It's identity politics.  Politics that plays to feelings of hate and fear in a certain subset of voters.

Can't we move beyond this?