A candidate’s baffling request

In a country as diverse as this one, there is a limited market for the notion that immigration poses a bigger threat to the ever-evolving inclusive values of Canadians than some of the negative forces at play within some of its main parties.

To this day, many of the supporters Kellie Leitch might hope to attract with her proposal to vet immigrants for purported anti-Canadian values would be hard-pressed to agree on what those could be. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

September 12, 2016

MONTREAL—Growing up in the late 1960s in Toronto, one commonly ran into otherwise well-meaning people who claimed that francophone parents who sought to have their children schooled in French were determined to keep their families out of the Canadian mainstream. École secondary Étienne-Brûlé�...

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