Consevative Party leadership contest

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The Prince Arthur Herald has obtained an audio clip of Leitch berating a Conservative Party supporter and using her titles to show her intelligence. Partway into a discussion at an event with young Conservative Party members in Montreal on Thursday evening, Leitch responds to criticism by proclaiming:

“Please understand that I do have 22 letters at the end of my name, I’m not an idiot.”

Her parliamentary profile reads her official title as The Hon. Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, P.C., O.Ont., M.D., M.B.A., F.R.C.S.(C)
There are actually 16 letters after her name. Including “the Hon. Dr.” before her name brings the total to 24.

Leitch was being questioned about her plans to abolish the Indian Act without consulting aboriginal groups by a man who does not have 22 letters after his name.

“I have thought through all of the details with respect to what we should do in order to make sure people feel full at the end of the process,” Leitch continues. “But the short of it, the first step, we have to eliminate the Indian Act.”

By all accounts, Leitch is a very accomplished woman. She earned her MD at U of T, received an MBA from Dalhousie, has taught at the University of Western Ontario, worked in several distinguished medical organizations, and she’s a former Minister of the Crown and current Member of Parliament.

Those jobs come with important titles. And Dr. Leitch loves her titles.

As already reported by Maclean’s, Leitch went into a fit of rage when “Doctor” was excluded from her Party business cards during the 2015 general election. “This is unacceptable. Even the prime minister [Stephen Harper] introduced me as Dr. Kellie Leitch this morning. I’ve earned all these titles. Do you have these titles after your name? No.”

Listen to the exclusive audio yourself:

Leitch: I do have 22 letters at the end of my name, I'm not an idiot | The Prince Arthur Herald

 

[davesmom]

when I was in the dental office today waiting I read up on Kellie Leitch in McLean's magazine & apparently she isn't quite as I had her pegged. There's a few dimensions to the woman, one being intelligence. You can just never tell!

What Kellie Leitch lacks is a pleasing personality. It should be obvious to us all by now that voters don't care about intelligence. Look at the dumb-as s they elected last time with a majority!

 

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Fresh off the heels of leaked audio in which Hon. Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, P.C., O.Ont., M.D., M.B.A., F.R.C.S.(C) insisted that she’s “not an idiot” because of the volume of letters that follow her name, Leitch launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Trudeau as an out-of-touch, image-obsessed elite.

“The average Canadian is sick of the arrogant upper crust rubbing their status in their faces unnecessarily,” said Dr. Leitch, M.P., H.R.H., B.S.B., D.D.R., S.A.Q., standing in front of an enormous gold-and-red banner listing her various credentials. “What Justin Trudeau doesn’t get, holed up there in his ivory tower full of academics and jet-setting billionaires, is that we, the people, aren’t having it anymore.”

Chief Constable Leitch, LL.B., L.L.C., L.B.J., I.P.A. stressed that she was just a regular, everyday taxpayer that “put her pants on one leg at a time, like everyone else. My pants just happen to have a summary of every award I’ve ever won stencilled onto them, but so what?”

Leitch’s campaign manager, Nick Kouvalis, B.A., J.D., M.I.L.F., D.T.F., took aim at what he referred to as the “elite media’s double standards”: “No one is more humble, or more connected to the ordinary voter, than Frau Doktor Justice Baroness Leitch, G.R.E., Q.P., T.V.P, B.M.W. That’s what all you journalists with your fancy degrees are too disconnected to see.”

Leitch spent the day in her riding of Simcoe-Grey on constituent outreach, traveling from coffee shop to coffee shop meeting voters and berating baristas for failing to fully list her credentials on the side of her coffee cup.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/01/dr-prof-hon-couns-kellie-leitch-md-mba-pp-qc-rsc-bbq-gst-vows-protect-canada-elites/

 

[JLM]

What Kellie Leitch lacks is a pleasing personality. It should be obvious to us all by now that voters don't care about intelligence. Look at the dumb-as s they elected last time with a majority!

Right on DM- You've got her pegged! On another note You'd think they'd smarten up having previously elected "dumb as s's" father years ago. Wish I could aware two "greens" to offset the one "red" awarded by the forum idiot!

 

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[Curious Cdn]

Right on DM- You've got her pegged! On another note You'd think they'd smarten up having previously elected "dumb as s's" father years ago. Wish I could aware two "greens" to offset the one "red" awarded by the forum idiot!

She's not electable to anyone but a handful of party members. You can select her as your leader for ideological reasons and watch the Liberal government and the NDP official opposition from the sidelines for the next decade or choose someone who will be acceptible to middle-of-the-pack, swing voters and maybe form a givernment, again.

That is your choice. What sort of future do you want? Maybe, Leitch and O'Leary are your fellow travellers but most Canadians will not agree with you.

 

[Vbeacher]

Ambrose is currently not eligible.

Lisa Raitt is from the riding next to ours and she is pretty well known in our community as a practical type. Most of the candidates seem pretty impractical types who have small, fringe followings that would lead the Conservatives into oblivion while they pursue their petty ideologies.

You mean they have conservative beliefs?

Can't find a federal conservative leader I find of interest or value,I do have a provincial favourite

I kind of like O'Toole. He was an officer in the air force, and I always think well of military service. He got out, went to law school and became a lawyer, which is kind of helpful for a lawmaker. He has a personable TV presence, and did well as minister of Veteran's Affairs.

I know who I am and what I represent. I'm somebody that minds his own ****ing business and makes fun of people that don't do the same. That's why SJWs and social conservatives get salty when I'm around.

As far as I know Leitch doesn't have any policies which appeal all that much to social conservatives. Certainly no more than most of the rest. Her 'values" policy isn't really one of their trigger points. A lot of Canadians are concerned about immigration, however, and the quality of the immigrants coming to Canada. According to the poll taken after her remarks came out the majority of supporters of all three parties agreed with her, including the NDP. So suggesting her notoriety over values testing makes her the social conservative candidate makes little sense.

 

[taxslave]

She's not electable to anyone but a handful of party members. You can select her as your leader for ideological reasons and watch the Liberal government and the NDP official opposition from the sidelines for the next decade or choose someone who will be acceptible to middle-of-the-pack, swing voters and maybe form a givernment, again.

That is your choice. What sort of future do you want? Maybe, Leitch and O'Leary are your fellow travellers but most Canadians will not agree with you.

Pretty much everyone west of Ontario will. Probably a sizable number on the East Coast as well.

 

[JLM]

I really question whether Kevin O'Leary would be a good political leader. When it comes to personal finances vs. the finances of the country, we should be damn sure we understand his risk assessment comparison of both situations. Some of us old f**kers want to know if the pension funds are safe!

 

[Curious Cdn]

You mean they have conservative beliefs?

If they have too conservative beliefs, the Conservative party sits on the side lines looking in as Justin breaks his father's 16 years as Prime Minister mark.

If your candidate isn't electable, you are screwing yourselves.The Conservatives did that very thing during the last Ontario election. A spent, sell-by Liberal government that the voters were ready to fire got a new lease on life because the Conservative leader did not pass their smell test. The same thing is about to happen federally if the really right wing Tories don't remove their heads from their backsides very soon.

 

[Murphy]

I would like to see a debate like this. I'm not a Leitch supporter, but this would get her more votes.

Clips - Season 24: Kellie Leitch has no time for

 

[JLM]

I would like to see a debate like this. I'm not a Leitch supporter, but this would get her more votes.

Clips - Season 24: Kellie Leitch has no time for

I think she's probably very clever but I don't think she's a people person. Personally I don't think I'd have a problem voting for her. But generally the electorate don't vote for stuff they don't want to hear. In this country we have to be ready to swallow some tough pills- we've had it soft for 60 years, the day will come when the piper has to be paid. When I say "we" I mean the most fortunate 90%.

If they have too conservative beliefs, the Conservative party sits on the side lines looking in as Justin breaks his father's 16 years as Prime Minister mark.

If your candidate isn't electable, you are screwing yourselves.The Conservatives did that very thing during the last Ontario election. A spent, sell-by Liberal government that the voters were ready to fire got a new lease on life because the Conservative leader did not pass their smell test. The same thing is about to happen federally if the really right wing Tories don't remove their heads from their backsides very soon.[/QUO


What's electable mean? Like Justin saying yes to every hare brained whim that crosses his desk? I don't think he's noticed yet that money doesn't grow on trees! He might get a lesson next month. This country needs jobs and the ones in Fort Mac are just fine!

 

[Murphy]

She is a very intelligent person. When I first met her, she left me with the impression that Harper wanted more women in high visibility positions. She wasn't politically astute then. She is my MP, but we don't see her around all that often. I really don't think she's learned much, despite having been in politics for about 6 years. I cannot say exactly how many people support her, but talk around here is she should drop by and say hello once in a while instead of campaigning.

Assuming she survives the next vote - her support dropped last election - she will be given more responsibility, unless she angers whoever is steering the Conservatives. Or ends up 'dropping a turd' politically.

When she was running for office 6 years ago, she listened more to the people she met. Now, she does a lot more talking. I'm not sure that she really says much though.

My opinion of her is wishy washy. I think she needs to gain experience. And she has to learn to watch her mouth.

 

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How the CPC candidates are responding to Trump's Muslim ban


Kevin O'Leary Not a direct statement, but this was from a direct line of questioning regarding Trump.

Nothing from Leitch, though her campaign manager, Nick Kouvalis, had a bit of a twitter meltdown.

Maxime Bernier

Michael Chong

Erin O'Toole

Lisa Raitt No statement of opinion, just asking how it would impact her constituents.

Chris Alexander

Nothing from Steven Blaney.
Nothing from Pierre Lemieux.

Deepak Obhrai

Nothing from Rick Peterson.
Nothing from Andrew Scheer.
Nothing from Andrew Saxton.
Nothing from Brad Trost.

And lastly a statement from Rona Ambrose

 

[Curious Cdn]

Good thing that the Drumpfgruppe didn't put Lebanon on their list (even though one of the 9/11 murderers was Lebanese) as Kevin may have been detained at the airport on his way to the Shark Tank for his questionable racial purity.



BTW, read the ugly trollfest after Rona Ambrose's tweet! It's even worse that on this place! What a steaming pile of ugly, trolling her!

 

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Good thing that the Drumpfgruppe didn't put Lebanon on their list (even though one of the 9/11 murderers was Lebanese) as Kevin may have been detained at the airport on his way to the Shark Tank for his questionable racial purity.

BTW, read the ugly trollfest after Rona Ambrose's tweet! It's even worse that on this place! What a steaming pile of ugly, trolling her!

Yes.

Check them all out, especially the Greek guy who working on Leitch's campaign. I can't believe Trump's team didn't hire him for Breitbart or such.......

 

[Curious Cdn]

Yes.

Check them all out, especially the Greek guy who working on Leitch's campaign. I can't believe Trump's team didn't hire him for Breitbart or such.......

Oh, he's scary! Is that guy for real? 2/3 of Canadians agree with Kelley and if you don't you are a traitor? Where does he live? Wetaskewin?

 

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Nick Kouvalis, the campaign manager for Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, has resigned, saying he had "become a distraction to the campaign." ​

"This afternoon, with great regret, I communicated to Kellie Leitch my decision to resign as her campaign manager. I did so because it has become clear that I have become a distraction to the campaign," Kouvalis said in a statement posted to his Facebook page.

Kouvalis, the former senior political strategist for the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford and for the current Toronto Mayor John Tory, is no stranger to controversy.

Kouvalis apologized last week after he called a constitutional expert critical of Leitch's policies a "cuck" — short for cuckold — on Twitter.

The term is used online by white nationalists.

Nick Kouvalis, controversial campaign manager for Kellie Leitch, resigns - Politics - CBC News

Where 14 Conservative leadership candidates stand on social issues


Where 14 Conservative leadership candidates stand on social issues | CTV News

 

[Colpy]

 

[Remington1]

A few of Leitch political views :

Leitch wants officials to ask face-to-face potential immigrants, refugees and visitors whether they agree that:

Men and women are equal
Violence has no place in political disagreements
All should be left to worship how they see fit
There is one law that applies to all Canadians equally.
Her plan will reduce the number of newcomers allowed into Canada each year. “This is an undeniable conclusion,” she states.

By forgoing quotas — a yearly range of applications the government plans to accept in different categories, such as privately sponsored refugees, economic immigrants and family-class immigrants — and imposing time-consuming interviews, Leitch notes that: “Certainly, there will be the effect of reducing immigration rates as we establish these procedures.”

Her policy, she writes, shouldn’t be viewed as “racist.”

“It is not. It will apply to all people equally regardless of where they are born. As a nation we are as interested in keeping out white supremacists, as we are in keeping out those who believe women are property.”

Values of hard work, generosity, freedom, tolerance, equality of individuals and equality of opportunities are civic values,not ethnic ones, Leitch writes.