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Most immigrants to Canada are socially conservative. That does not mean they tend to vote Conservative, the so called 401 voting area which is heavily populated with immigrants has tended to vote Liberal, but the previous elections (when Harper was winning) they voted Conservative. The Jason Kenny's of the conservative party I expect drove them back to the liberal party. As many Indian's, Pakistani's and Chinese, have other family members they would like to see brought into Canada the xenophobic tone the Conservative had in the last election drove what could have been a long term voting block away.
Kellie Leitch with the "Canadian Values" is likely to do the same. Unless she changes the term to something that has the tone of respecting the Charter of Rights, I expect many will see Canadian values as meaning white christian Canadian values. A throwback to what Canada was doing to minorities before the 70's (including native Canadians). When I hear the term Canadian Values from Kellie Leitch it is what comes to my mind
"Canadian values"? Who do they think they're talking to? I've lived urban, I've lived rural, I've lived in the Yukon, I've never known anyone who would respond positively to that as an election platform. Well, maybe a couple old aunts who also think the Catholic Church started down that slope when they stopped saying mass in Latin. My ancestors were highland Scots- I'm so white I'm pasty but I'm also just 2nd generation. I don't have any Canadian grandparents so lots of these Muslims and Sikhs and maybe most of the Chinese here in the west are more Canadian than I am.
I wonder how much of this new-found populism is just the Conservative party trying to 'me-too' it's way back into power.