Kellie Leitch is quite pleased about her appearance on the front cover of the latest issue of Maclean’s, and the reaction it’s provoked among “elites”.

In a new fundraising email pitch to supporters, which landed in inboxes late Saturday evening, the Conservative leadership candidate lambastes “the media and glitterati” who’ve been blowing one gasket after another since she proposed screening immigrants for Canadian values.

“Now they’ve blown another gasket because I am on the front cover of Maclean’s,” she says in the email.

The front cover she’s referring to, if you haven’t seen it, features Leitch holding a Canadian flag with the provocative question: “Are you Canadian enough?”

What a plan to screen immigrants says about the country—and the leadership hopeful who suggested it https://t.co/Dy5RV8TyuR pic.twitter.com/msg1CmizlJ — Maclean’s Magazine (@MacleansMag) September 25, 2016

“Do you know what has them so upset? It is because I’m proudly holding a Canadian flag! That’s right, the self-hating Canadian elites can’t stand the idea of a proud conservative standing up for Canada and Canadian values,” she says.

“First of all, because they don’t believe there are such things as Canadian values, and secondly because they don’t think our values are best in the world. Well I think that’s nonsense.”

The email ends with her asking supporters to help her become prime minister so she can defend Canadian values, which include tolerance and pluralism.