On Monday afternoon, way back when Patrick Brown’s departure from the Ontario Tory leadership race was still just a rumour, longshot candidate Tanya Granic Allen took her seat in a white armchair in a cavernous television studio in Toronto’s northern suburbs. It is an unusual position for Granic Allen, 37, who has worked extensively but mostly anonymously behind the scenes in campaign politics, and in niche advocacy against abortion and the Ontario sex-ed curriculum. Granic Allen is Catholic. More like a freelance campus conservative, working on campaigns at all political levels, while also picketing pharmacies for stocking the morning after pill with the Campaign Life Coalition. “I’m happy and proud to stand up for parental rights, and if that makes me a social conservative for doing so, then I will wear that badge,” she said.

Source: National Post March 01, 2018 20:03 UTC