Canada's answer to Donald Trump is a pediatric surgeon and former cabinet minister who, like the U.S. president-elect, is railing against immigration and political elites.
Kellie Leitch, 46, has vaulted to the front of the race to lead the opposition Conservative Party by pushing a hard-right "Canadian values" platform that taps into discontent over the sluggish economy and Canada's acceptance of 37,000 Syrian refugees.
Leitch is ahead of about a dozen candidates in the most recent opinion polls on the Conservative leadership election, scheduled to be held on May 27, 2017. The candidate chosen by party members will be their flag bearer for the October 2019 general election, against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals.
"Elites pretend this isn't an issue, but Canadians want to talk about it (immigration)," Leitch said in an interview last week from her farmhouse in rural Ontario.
She has professed admiration for Trump's embrace of the ordinary voter, and acknowledged similarities in their agendas.
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and to think our little Snowflakes are migrating to Canada. the jokes on them, to get there and find the Canadians will vote out the Progressive/Liberal Trudeau...for more conservative, populist, believing in sovereignty for Canada (a Trump clone)...lollollollol..
Awesome. Now both countries will be temporarily run by idiots.
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