It is way too early to decide if Kellie Leitch will be or should be chosen by the Conservative Party of Canada as its next leader. If she did nothing else last week, the orthopaedic pediatric surgeon-turned-politician showed one thing. There is very little difference between the CPC and the Liberal Party headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Leitch came under fire after she mailed out a questionnaire asking, among other things, if immigrants to Canada should be screened for “anti-Canadian” values. The reaction to her comments were swift.
There is no sense discussing how the progressives viewed Leitch’s proposal. But what some of her fellow Conservatives, including the interim leader said illustrates the fact conservatism is pretty well dead in Canada. The party once headed by Stephen Harper now has no real desire to protect Canadians from the threat of terrorism. Pandering and political correctness reign supreme.