Media Pundits: Ethnic Politics

Immigrant Groups Dept: Just ask the opposition politicians and media pundits who are railing against those calculating Conservatives, according to The Star. We re now told that multicultural Canadians are just plain Canadians. They don t want to be targeted by predatory Tory operatives who tailor their political pitches in a supposedly sinister form of ethnic profiling and ethnic politics has suddenly become un-Canadian. And somehow unprecedented. The Tories cynical sin? Treating immigrant groups like vote banks by patronizing and/or stereotyping, exploiting, victimizing Canada s minorities. As reported in the news.
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