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She donned a Habs sweater. Check.

She spoke French passably well. Check.

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And kicking off a 15-day tour of Quebec in the midst of a snow squall in downtown Montreal Wednesday night, Tory leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch met with more than 30 Quebec Conservatives at a La Cage restaurant on Ste-Catherine St.

The Habs were playing in Dallas, and Leitch was spreading her message of protecting “Canadian values” by ensuring that every immigrant, refugee and visitor to Canada receives a face-to-face interview with a trained immigration official.

“I will be spending my time visiting various ridings and party members in Quebec, and I want to talk to them about what my key messages are and the key policy ideas I’m putting forward,” Leitch said in a brief interview.

“As I mentioned to some folks yesterday, we have a certain number of elites, insiders, people that are part of the left-wing media that have a viewpoint that isn’t in touch with the average Canadian, isn’t in touch with the average Quebecer. And I want to make sure that the ideas that they have are brought forward. I don’t agree with the sort of open border, globalist agenda that some of these elites have.”