Last summer, I had an interesting debate with a young, well-travelled Qatari friend in Doha. Not unlike millions of others around the world, he was curious to know what I thought of Donald Trump’s chances…
View More Attitudes of Immigrants: From Helwi Hamdoun to Nabil WardaThe Trump campaign’s symphony of bigotry has vibrated through the Conservative Party leadership race as two of the candidates choose markedly different paths to victory. While Simcoe-Grey MP Kellie Leitch applauded Trump’s victory and pushes…
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Conservative MP Kellie Leitch proclaimed her “common interests” with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the party’s first leadership debate Wednesday night, as several of her opponents pushed back against her immigration policy. “I have common interests…
View More Obhrai Challenges Leitch at Conservative DebateThough I have family’s roots in B.C. going back a century, I stumble when cataloging the “unique” values underlying Canadian culture. The default list reads like a dating ad: Canadians are compassionate, polite, enjoy nature.…
View More Conflating Cultural Values with Secular IdealsThe conversation that Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been trying to open — about immigrants, integration and “anti-Canadian values” — was well underway in Montreal on Thursday at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. While potential Leitch…
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