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Trump humper about to be Conservative leader in Canada?

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https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...f-leitch-dismayed-by-trump-support-email.html

Leitch’s email following the U.S. presidential election hit me hard. At 3 a.m., just hours after TV networks declared Donald Trump President-elect, Leitch doubled down on his racist and xenophobic campaign in an email to her supporters.

“It’s an exciting message and one that we need delivered in Canada as well,” she declared regarding Trump’s victory. “It’s the message I’m bringing with my campaign to be the next Prime Minister of Canada ... It’s why I’m the only candidate who will ensure that every visitor, immigrant, and refugee will be screened for Canadian values.”
 
Ok... but what in that quote is bad/wrong?

Irrespective of ideology, Trump is a loose cannon. Some might even agree with his antics, but to announce that agreement in public is just plain stupid.
 
Irrespective of ideology, Trump is a loose cannon. Some might even agree with his antics, but to announce that agreement in public is just plain stupid.

This sounds like an, "Trump is ALWAYS wrong so anybody agreeing with anything Trump says about anything is an idiot" argument. *shrugs*
 
Ok... but what in that quote is bad/wrong?

She is basically supporting the same hate, ignorance, and empty rhetoric that Trump stands for. It is an odd choice as Canada has a very different political climate.
 
WTF are Canadian values? Hockey, maple syrup and awful beer?

The first two yes. This should give you some idea:
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She is basically supporting the same hate, ignorance, and empty rhetoric that Trump stands for. It is an odd choice as Canada has a very different political climate.

Trump stands for more than that so perhaps she does as well...
 
I agree completely with the concept of screening for "Canadian values", although it would be difficult to do so. First you have to define those values, then you have to design a way to determine if an applicant qualifies. To me, Canadian values are simply Western democratic values such as basic freedoms and equality. Where many immigrants will fall short is in equality of women. One sure test is to examine the girls in a family, and if they have been subjected to FGM, then out they go.
 
Irrespective of ideology, Trump is a loose cannon. Some might even agree with his antics, but to announce that agreement in public is just plain stupid.

Some? How about 60 million voters?
 
Some? How about 60 million voters?

Many of those were reluctant voters that were just voting against Clinton. Or as Ted Cruz put it, made a binary choice.
 
Many of those were reluctant voters that were just voting against Clinton. Or as Ted Cruz put it, made a binary choice.

So what? It means they approved of Trump's "antics" more than Hillary's.
 
The first two yes. This should give you some idea:
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You can't define "Canadian".

I've lived all over the country as an immigrant, a Newfoundlander isn't like a Nova Scotian, a BC'er isn't like an Albertan, hell, a person from Halifax isn't even like a person from Sydney, so to try to define Canadians in any way, is idiotic.

But there's a worrying amount of nativism I'm seeing and from some younger people to, one person on my facebook who I never expected to do this, posted something about the Syrian Refugees saying "CANADA'S FULL!".

Ah... No, no it's not, yah know, clearly.
 
You can't define "Canadian".

I've lived all over the country as an immigrant, a Newfoundlander isn't like a Nova Scotian, a BC'er isn't like an Albertan, hell, a person from Halifax isn't even like a person from Sydney, so to try to define Canadians in any way, is idiotic.

But there's a worrying amount of nativism I'm seeing and from some younger people to, one person on my facebook who I never expected to do this, posted something about the Syrian Refugees saying "CANADA'S FULL!".

Ah... No, no it's not, yah know, clearly.

I agree that any country is the sum of its (radically different) individuals. (Even Sydney, after all, is made up of very different individuals.)

But I disagree that Canada does not, collectively, have a measurably different vibe from the US. In the US, the notion of sharing the wealth is always controversial. (It took a genuinely massive crisis for FDR to accomplish what he did.)

In Canada, by contrast, there's somehow more a sense of We're all in this together. Maybe it's the climate, I dunno. But the result is that while Trump will make sure that a lot of Americans once again have to mortgage their house to get a triple bypass, Saskatchewan introduced universal health care in the early 60s, and the rest of the country soon followed. And no, Canadians are not prepared to give that up.

For some reason there's a real difference.
 
WTF are Canadian values? Hockey, maple syrup and awful beer?

Sad your knowledge is limited to the US. Big world out there
 
WTF are Canadian values? Hockey, maple syrup and awful beer?

(snicker!)
Texas conservative. Values.
Ya gotta love it.
 
WTF are Canadian values? Hockey, maple syrup and awful beer?

Don't forget Letterkenny and there's nothing wrong with any of that. ;)
 
I agree completely with the concept of screening for "Canadian values", although it would be difficult to do so. First you have to define those values, then you have to design a way to determine if an applicant qualifies. To me, Canadian values are simply Western democratic values such as basic freedoms and equality. Where many immigrants will fall short is in equality of women. One sure test is to examine the girls in a family, and if they have been subjected to FGM, then out they go.

Grab em by the *****!



Instead of "papers please" it will be "******s please"? :roll:
 
Where many immigrants will fall short is in equality of women. One sure test is to examine the girls in a family, and if they have been subjected to FGM, then out they go.

I see you have Australia in your location. Read up on Khadija Gbla. She came to Australia 15 years ago with her family when she was approx 10 years old as a refugee due to a civil war in her homeland. She was a victim of FGM when she was 9 years old in Sierra Leone because apparently it's just done without much thought there due to a lack of education and thinking that it's the "right thing to do".

She is now an award-winning human rights campaigner who has set up her own charity called NO FGM Australia to help educate women and girls here. I for one am thrilled she was granted entry and is now an Australian citizen in my Country and applaud her for her courage and determination.

If you had your way she wouldn't be here to begin with. I could never support that.
 
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