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The Liberals and their allies like to sound the alarm over such polls, claiming that they demonstrate a rise in anti-immigrant or xenophobic views. But in their eagerness to slander the majority of their fellow countrymen, they always seem to ignore that integration is usually the key ingredient at play in such polls.

It’s not about race or ethnicity or skin colour. It’s about our values and ensuring we all get along. This is why – as I wrote in detail back when Leitch first proposed the idea – a number of European countries typically celebrated by progressives have such values tests on the books.

What the Leger poll proves is that all Leitch’s leadership campaign was guilty of was siding with majority opinion. But then again polls from during the leadership showed this as well and that didn’t stop the press and social media from working overtime to viciously drag Leitch’s name through the mud.

It was all too much. Leitch, like King Lear raging against the storm, was more sinned against than sinning.

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The fashionable types talk a good game about empowering women in politics but they only mean the right kind of women, the women who serve their purposes. Just ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They’re also usually the ones who also talk a good game about ending bullying. Funny that.

Are all politicians who become whipping boys (or girls) total victims? No. They often deserve to carry some of the blame for their damaged reputations. Maybe Leitch didn’t play well with others (Bono accuses her of “arrogance and coldness”). Maybe there was friction in caucus. Maybe she just didn’t let herself get boxed in by the progressive narrative.