Article content

Star Conservative candidate Dianne Watts is raising eyebrows among some voters in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland with a scary campaign flyer about the threat of ISIS terrorism.

The leaflet, sent to an unknown number of households, features a mock-up newspaper headline that reads “ISIS URGES JIHADISTS TO ATTACK CANADA: YOU WILL NOT FEEL SECURE IN YOUR BEDROOMS” (all-caps, hers).

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or The Gargoyle - Surrey Conservative candidate warns: no safety from ISIS, even in bedrooms Back to video

It also includes pictures of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Tom Mulcair, highlighting their respective yellow-bellied terror lovin’ ways, and a Conservative Party logo with the promise, “WE WILL FIGHT JIHADIST TERRORISTS AT HOME AND ABROAD.”

The verso side of the flyer features a photograph of Watts, who is the former mayor of Surrey, and contact details for her campaign.

While this piece of scareware has all the hallmarks of a made-on-Albert-Street Conservative HQ effort, it will be difficult for Watts to distance herself from such ISIS fear mongering.

She recently retweeted a message through her official Twitter account implying that ISIS had “orchestrated” the migration of Syrian refugees. The re-tweet has since been deleted but it was captured by a sharp-eyed Twitterer: