Chris Selley: Canada multiculturalism may be on full display at Scheer’s closing rally, but we’re no closer to unification

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — It’s a cliché, but it’s also true, that first-time visitors to Toronto are often astonished at the diversity they see. But even when you live in Toronto most of your life, its diversities — of ethnicity, of religion, of … taste — can amaze you. On Saturday night in Richmond Hill, just north of the city, reporters covering the Conservative campaign were ushered into the Premiere Ballroom through a massive kitchen.

Andrew Scheer’s rally, hosted by Senator Linda Frum, was the Conservative leader’s campaign farewell to Central Canada, and it’s fair to call it a major success. The party pegged the crowd at 2,000, and that didn’t sound silly. And the assembled partisans quite splendidly represented one of the great successes of the newly reformed conservative alliance, which is its diversity.

Liberal Majid Jowhari is Canada’s first MP of Iranian descent. In Richmond Hill, he’s up against Costas Menegakis, who won the riding for the Conservatives in 2011. The NDP’s candidate is Adam DeVita, the Greens’ is Iccha Kohli, the People’s Party’s is Igor Tvorogov. All that diversity was on display both visually and aurally on Saturday night at Scheer’s largest and most enthusiastic crowd by far.

It becomes somewhat less heartening when you consider the extent to which some of these constituencies are being pandered to, of course. If Scheer doesn’t wake up Tuesday morning in Regina in a position to become prime minister, his party may view his “whatever you want short of independence” pitch to Quebecers as something of a liability. Scheer sounded downright silly in Vancouver on Sunday warning that “a vote for the Bloc is a vote for a referendum.

Post🇺🇸Media like Kinsella are propaganda factories for 🇺🇸 interests.

BULL SHIT!

A PM who says there is no national identity A party leader who openly declares he has no respect for approx 30% of the population Politicians of all stripes who care more about what comes before the hyphen because it makes people easier to manipulate We have a long way to go

Give it a rest.

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