Ignore white nationalists at your own peril, Mr. Scheer

Going to bat for the free speech of groups like the Front Patriotique du Quebec and Storm Alliance isn't going to win the Tories many votes, writes Warren Kinsella.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer sat down for an interview with Faith Goldy in February, 2017, while she was working for The Rebel and he was running for the party leadership post. Ms. Goldy was fired by The Rebel in August, 2017, for doing an interview on a white supremacist podcast. Mr. Scheer said that same month that he would no longer grant interviews to The Rebel. Screenshot of The Rebel's Youtube channel

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

August 27, 2018

TORONTO—The short, stout woman bobs through the crowd like ‎a hungry dog, jockeying for position at a dish of meat. She screams and yells, waving a plump finger in the air. ‎ Every so often, she looks back behind her, in the direction of the cameraman recording her every move. The cameraman en...

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