Leitch’s stunt was just that: a stunt

That’s why Rob Ford won, and why Donald Trump is gaining on Hillary Clinton, and why Kellie Leitch is going on and on about 'values.' Because the values war is the war that conservatives will always win. And that’s the phoney war that Kellie Leitch is fighting right now. And we’re all falling for it.

Conservative MP Kellie Leitch pictured in 2013 after she was sworn in as the minister of labour and the minister responsible for the status of women.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

September 12, 2016

TORONTO—What’s a value? Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been talking a lot about “values.” She sent out a questionnaire to Conservative partisans about it. Here’s what it said: "Should the Canadian government screen potential immigrants for anti-Canadian values as part...

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