Montreal Simon: Kellie Leitch and the Con Cinderella

I’m sure Kellie Leitch was desperately delighted when her campaign manager, the Prince of Darkness Nick Kouvalis, suggested a way to boost her profile.

And make her the Cinderella of the Con leadership campaign.

By slipping on the slipper of bigotry again, and proposing to screen immigrants for “anti-Canadian values.”

But although it has raised Leitch’s profile, it hasn’t quite made her the Cinderella she was hoping to become.
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Montreal Simon: Will the Con Leadership Race Help Destroy the Harper Party?

Yesterday I ran a Michael Harris column that looked at the Cons apparent death wish.

And how they seemed unable to escape the deathly legacy of Stephen Harper.

And I also wondered how Rona Ambrose’s decision to criticize Kellie Leitch for her demagogic proposal to screen immigrants for “anti-Canadian values,”would affect Ambrose’s leadership.

And her ability to hold her party together.
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Montreal Simon: Kellie Leitch and the Anti-Canadian Cons

In my last post I looked at how Kellie Leitch was discovered discreetly cooking up a new/nouveau batch of her foul cultural barbarism brew.

By stirring up the idea that immigrants and refugees should be screened for “anti-Canadian values.” 

Even though Leitch wouldn’t know a Canadian value if it flew up like a bat and bit her on the nose.

But if you thought she was sorry for having been caught in the act of trying to bubble up bigotry again, and might blubber like she did a few months ago.

You’d be wrong.
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