By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--December 1, 2016
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-- BombThowers
Some people run before they learn to walk.
I’m referring to Sam Oosterhoff, who was sworn in yesterday as an MPP (Member of the Provincial Parliament) in Ontario, Canada. The 19-year-old is the youngest MPP in Ontario’s history after winning in a special election earlier that month.
The young conservative lawmaker is already under attack by the Left in his home country.
As the Globe and Mail reportsA homeschooled teenager was sworn in Wednesday as the youngest-ever member of the Ontario legislature, but his socially conservative views threaten to make him the Progressive Conservatives’ problem child. Sam Oosterhoff was elected Nov. 17 in a byelection in Niagara West-Glanbrook, previously held by former party leader Tim Hudak, after securing the nomination by beating out the party president. Party Leader Patrick Brown has been battling factions of party supporters, other members of his caucus and even his own previously stated positions on social issues to brand the Tories as modern, inclusive and socially progressive. Brown publicly split with social conservative elements of the party after he flip-flopped on a pledge to repeal the Liberal government’s updated sex-education curriculum. He expressed displeasure that caucus member Monte McNaughton continues to court sex-ed opponents, has a caucus member who doesn’t believe in evolution, and had to send another member for sensitivity training after he made mysogynistic “jokes.”
Oosterhoff throws another wrench into Brown’s progressive push, as he has declared he is “100 per cent pro life,” campaigned against the sex-ed curriculum, and opposes a new law that gives more rights to same-sex parents. […]Homeschooled? Socially conservative? Anti-sex ed for tots? No wonder the Left is already trying to hurt him. He’s their worst nightmare.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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