Ethnic Costumes: New Democrats

Questionable Tactics Dept: Yet Stephen Harper was far stronger than Michael Ignatieff or Jack Layton in the televised leaders debate this week in defending multiculturalism and high immigration. He was more effective in challenging Gilles Duceppe s, and Quebec s, rejection of multiculturalism, according to The Star. The issue was raised in one those pre-taped questions addressed by selected voters to the four leaders and in this election campaign and in the months leading up to it, Conservatives have been under attack by the Liberals and New Democrats for using questionable tactics to woo voters in multicultural communities by segmenting the country into ethnic and very ethnic ridings, and parading people in ethnic costumes as props in election rallies. It was a telling moment for a politician who s forever courting his right-of-centre constituency, a base that routinely maligns multiculturalism and grumbles about high levels of immigration. As reported in the news.
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