Dog-Whistle Politics: Party Members and Anti-Muslim Sentiment

dog-whistle politics: So does rival leadership candidate and Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai, according to The Waterloo Record. Critics accuse the Collingwood physician of trying to whip up anti-Muslim sentiment. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose says it a bad idea. Ontario MP Michael Chong, who is also contesting the Conservative leadership, has called her proposal "the worst of dog-whistle politics." She has been reviled in the country editorial pages as an intolerant xenophobe. I suspect that because she figures a lot of Conservative Party members — and a fair number of Canadians generally — agree with her. But she is sticking to her guns, as she did Thursday on CBC Radio. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.