Stephen Harper: Brexit Campaign and Donald Trump

stephen harper: Amid this social and political turmoil, some political groups and social movements are emerging to exploit this climate of tension and fear and make political and financial gains out of it, according to Huffington Post Canada. Canada has not been immune of this. We have witnessed the success of the Brexit campaign in the UK, and the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. There is a growing and frightening divide between the rich and the poor, the urban and the rural, the educated and the less educated, journalists and the media. During the 2015 federal election, Stephen Harper used the niqab ban issue to make political gains. As despicable and opportunistic his campaign was, his party came second, 5.6 million Canadians voted for the Conservative party. Moreover, he used the Syrian refugees file to create a fear mongering rhetoric insinuating that behind every refugee hides a terrorist and vocabulary as old-stock Canadians and barbaric cultural practices were employed by Harper to appeal to some voters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.