Huff Post and Deepak Obhrai

: Since we lost power in 2015, I have become very concerned about the direction my party has taken, he told Huff Post over the phone on Thursday, according to Huffington Post Canada. These actions, in my view, have disenfranchised a vast majority of Canadians. Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai, the dean of the Tory caucus, told The Huffington Post Canada he is deeply frustrated by new rules the party imposed earlier this year that raised the annual Conservative membership fee to $25 — the highest of any party — and set the entrance fees for leadership contestants at $100,000. Deepak Obhrai and former prime minister Stephen Harper celebrate Diwali by lighting a candle on Parliament Hill on Oct. 8, 2009. Newcomers, immigrants, low-income Canadians, and those economically challenged will be turned off and walk away because they can’t afford these high fees... What is concerning me is that, unfortunately, the Conservatives will be seen as an elitist and white-only party, he said. Success in connecting with ethnic communities culminated in the Tories’ majority election win in 2011, Obhrai said. Ethnic communities' outreach Since his election in 1997, Obhrai said he been working his butt off to bring immigrants to the party, a job that was subsequently taken on with great fanfare by former cabinet minister Jason Kenney. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.