“Do you beat your wife?”Conservative leadership candidate, Kellie Leitch, released her list of “Canadian values” test questions for immigrants Monday. Leitch’s questions were less explicitly sectarian, but you didn’t need to be a theologist to get the drift. But it’s not values that we need to tighten — it’s the integrity of a very successful immigration system that is under increasing stress after being used as a source of electoral fodder by the Liberal government. RelatedJustin Trudeau’s pledges on immigration had the desired impact — a shift in allegiance of a number of visible minority communities to the Liberals. As Howard Anglin, a former chief of staff to Jason Kenney when he was immigration minister, wrote recently in iPolitics, the Conservatives considered a values pledge for new citizens.

Source: National Post March 06, 2017 23:33 UTC