Before Canadian politics gets into the summer doldrums and everyone moves on from discussing the Conservative leadership race, there’s a bit of unfinished business to cover off.

We’ve now learned from the liberal media that Andrew Scheer is an evil man who harbours secret, extreme socially conservative ideas to harm Canada.

You know, like a "hidden agenda”. Don’t let the smile and dimples fool you.

While just prior to winning the race, he was considered something of a middle-of-the-road consensus candidate, they’ve now suddenly discovered he plans to do the same unspecified evil things Stephen Harper plotted to do for a decade but somehow never got around to doing.

Now, those of you who have been actually following the details instead of the headlines may have heard Scheer himself say he is in fact not going to do these super evil, so-con things.

That he will not, for example, propose legislation on such issues as restricting abortion and rolling back the clock on gay rights.

You may have even been a fly on the wall when he made that commitment to me and my colleagues at a recent Postmedia sit-down.

I initially took him at his word because I’m gullible that way.

But Scheer's assurances have now been debunked as false, because pundits at venerable media institutions such as the CBC and Toronto Star have said so.

And they, bless their progressive insights, know what a person really means, even if that person has clearly said the exact opposite.

So keep an eye on Scheer's secret agenda. Those are the pearls they've instructed us to clutch as we head out to the summer BBQ circuit. Good to know.

However, I can’t help but feel that one poor soul has been badly served by this shift in the liberal media narrative.

I mean, here’s Scheer getting front-page headlines as public enemy number one and, all of a sudden, former leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is persona non grata.

All during the leadership race, the Ontario MP and revered surgeon was getting constant attention from the media elites as a big threat to Canada, and now she’s not even worth a mention.

Last year, Leitch advocated screening prospective immigrants for “Canadian values”. She made clear from day one what she meant by this was that Canadian pluralism means respect for women’s rights, gay rights, ethnic and religious diversity and other such progressive notions.

Not a bad idea, I thought. A sizable majority of Canadians across the political spectrum liked it too, polls showed.

We welcome thousands of people to Canada every year that come from cultures that have very different social norms, such as the criminalizing of homosexuality.

It’s just common sense to tell them how things work here. Northern European countries already do this and Australia is expanding its own values test.

Yet somehow my colleagues in the liberal consensus media could see into Leitch’s soul and knew her true intentions were the exact opposite of her words.

Even though Leitch said, for example, that diversity was important, she actually meant, they assured us, the opposite.

Now I get that Leitch lost, but it’s still odd that she’s completely disappeared from the liberal media hit list and now the previously harmless Scheer has taken her spot as top ogre.

Maybe the liberal-friendly media never truly believed the, er, psychic insights they discerned about Leitch and spoon fed to their audience.

Maybe it was just because they always need to find a conservative to cast as an evil villain, regardless of the facts.

And if that’s true, a whole hell of a lot of people in the liberal media owe Kellie Leitch a very big apology for playing this dirty game on her.