Conservative MP and party leadership contender Kellie Leitch doesn’t really want a conversation on Canadian values. Modern conservative groups keep questioning immigrants’ values because they know their liberal political opponents, who are prone to the same prejudiced scapegoating, will struggle to condemn them. Many have criticized Leitch’s proposal by saying it is impractical, since no one person or group can define or determine Canadian values. There are such things as Canadian values, and they explain how our politicians have been peddling a fear of foreigners for the last 150 years. Suspicion of all immigrants who are not white, or are not members of the former British Empire, is a Canadian value.

Source: thestar September 15, 2016 09:56 UTC