CPC leadership candidate and Conservative caucus so-con Brad Trost says he wants to see the questions rival Kellie Leitch would put to prospective immigrants to screen them for possible ‘anti-Canadian’ values.

“I’d like to see the questions of the quiz,” Trost told reporters Wednesday morning. “I know Deepak (Obhrai) kind of thinks he would fail the quiz.” Obhrai, another candidate for the party leadership, has been very vocal about his opposition to Leitch’s proposal.

“A Canadian values quiz in the hands of the Liberal party is a liberal values quiz. I want to know what are the questions. She’s had enough time to think about it. I want to know if I would pass the questions … Perhaps I would fail. Perhaps a lot of Conservatives would fail.

“She should have had enough time now to get the question list ready. Let’s see what the questions would be. Lets see who passes and lets see who fails.”

While Leitch has not released the specific questions that would be part of her test, she has dropped a few very vague hints. On her website, the candidate lists examples of ‘Canadian values’ that could be the subject of screening: equal opportunity, hard work, helping others, generosity, freedom and tolerance.

Trost said the people he’s talked to who are interested in Leitch’s proposal are more concerned about “Islamic extremism coming into Canada.”

“That’s a serious issue we need to deal with. Whether or not a Canadian values quiz is serious, we don’t know because we don’t have the questions. I want to deal with something that is serious and substantive,” he said.

Leitch has lost more than one prominent endorsement over her ‘anti-Canadian’ values test, viewed by many as an attempt to import Donald Trump style racial and identity politics into the Conservative race. Retired senator Hugh Segal and former chief of staff to Joe Clark Graham Fox have told Leitch that they will not support her leadership bid, and prominent Newfoundland and Labrador politician Steve Kent recently announced on Facebook that he is also pulling his support for Leitch.