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Prospective Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, now desperate to distance herself from the moral nadir of the previous government, is really sorry that everyone seemed to misunderstand her good intentions.

During last fall’s election campaign, she announced a Conservative plan to launch a barbaric cultural practices tipline, which would give friends, neighbours, family and victims a special hotline to report instances of cultural barbarity inflicted on themselves or others.

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“If I could go back in time, which I can’t, I would change things. I would not have made that announcement that day,” Leitch, clearly distraught, told CBC’s Rosie Barton Thursday.

“My intention that day was to make sure that Canadian kids, Canadian women and children, knew that if they had the courage to pick up the phone and to call, that someone would answer.”

“Isn’t that what the police were for?” Barton asked.