Federal Conservative Pary leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch arrives at the party's summer caucus retreat in Halifax earlier this month. ( Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS )It’s popular among many Canadians to dismiss Kellie Leitch’s plan to screen potential immigrants for “anti-Canadian values” as a bad move on her part. An Oxford resident took me to a traditional English tea room staffed entirely with immigrants from eastern Europe. He has called immigrants “poison.” This is the ugly path that Leitch has decided to follow, one of divisiveness and fear. What many of those surveyed may not have known, though, is that potential immigrants are already heavily screened, their backgrounds checked for security risks, criminal records and those with major health and financial problems.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 09:33 UTC