The shockwaves from Donald Trump’s election, and the Brexit that preceded it might have spread to the Great White North: Canada has a popular nationalist conservative candidate. Her name is Kellie Lietch, and she wants to make America’s hat great again. As Yahoo reports:
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.
“I am talking about screening immigrants, I am talking about building pipelines, I am talking about making sure Canadians have jobs, so yeah, some of the ideas and language are the same,” said Leitch, an energetic and plain-spoken former labor and women’s affairs minister.