If the future of the Conservative Party of Canada is either Kevin O’Leary, Kellie Leitch or Brad Trost, the future of that party will be akin to the tea party movement in the USA.
All of these candidates have bigoted platforms.
Kellie Leitch wants to screen every visitor, immigrant and refugee to Canada for ‘Canadian Values’ (and have immigrants pay for it); she has celebrated Donald Trump’s win. She’s also anti-abortion. Previously in government she was behind the xenophobic barbaric cultural practices hotline, and wanted to strip healthcare from refugees.
Brad Trost is anti-abortion, is a huge transphobe (he’s posted warning about transgender people using bathrooms) and wants to ban same sex marriage. He’s a climate changer denier. Brad Trost has supported sexist chants of ‘lock her up’ towards Alberta’s premier, Rachel Notley.
Kevin O’Leary has a slew of terrible, almost Donald Trump like ideas such as: Banning unions, and jailing anyone who remains in a union, selling seats in the Canadian Senate and massively cutting spending in the Canadian government (goodbye social security). Kevin O’Leary wants to run the Canadian government as a business, which is terrible for so many reasons.
All 3 of these candidates are running to lead one of Canada’s major political parties. To date only a member from the Liberal Party or a Conservative party has been elected as PM in this country.
I encourage everyone who is concerned about these three to buy a year-long membership in the Conservative Party of Canada before March 28th so that they can vote for Michael Chong; he is, of course, a conservative, but a sensible and by all accounts honourable one, who favours Parliamentary reform to reduce the power of party leaders over backbenchers (something that everyone who supports representative democracy should be able to get behind) and who at least acknowledges the fact that climate change is real.
If you are not comfortable giving money to the Tories, you can offset it by also making a one-time donation to the one of the other parties, but just please: if O’Leary, Leitch, or Trost win, their ideas will be promoted to the mainstream of Canadian politics, even if they ultimately end up losing the election. We’ve seen Brexit; we’ve seen Trump; we don’t need to see anything of that sort happening here.
In addition to Michael Chong, Lisa Raitt and Deepak Obhrai also seem quite moderate compared to the bigots listed above.
Here’s the link to the page where you can buy a membership. It’s $15 for the year and you can be as young as 14 years old. You will need a credit card.
I just bought four memberships for me and the eligible folks in my family. Michael Chong, I’m rooting for you. 🙂
I’m sorry, I’m not super familiar with Canadian politics – you mean Kevin O’Leary the Shark Tank guy? That Kevin O’Leary? He’s getting into politics now?
Yes, him. He plans to run for Canada’s major right wing political party (sort of like a milder version of the Republican Party in the USA)
He’s supposed to announce that he will enter the leadership race tomorrow.
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