Chris Selley: Are Conservatives finally comfortable criticizing Quebec's attacks on minority rights?

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Wednesday night\u0027s debate suggests leadership candidates are willing to break a few eggs — even in Quebec, even in French

“How do you forget where $375,000 comes from, Mr. Brown? Whoops!” Poilievre gleefully quipped. “It’s just like Justin Trudeau, who hid gifts and broke ethics laws.”Article content

In short, it’s not difficult to see why some Conservatives worry about the impression that this race — which has two-and-a-half months left in it! — is leaving with the electorate. If only “united” parties can win elections, as partisans reliably insist, then whoever wins this thing in September has a hell of a job ahead of him.

Less than three weeks ago at an event in Lévis, on Quebec City’s south shore, area MP and Poilievre supporter Pierre Paul-Husthat his guy was the only candidate in the race who would certainly not contest Bill 21 in court should he become prime minister. But in Wednesday’s debate, Poilievre essentially deferred to Liberal Justice Minister David Lametti, who earlier in the day had finally

As mayor of Brampton, Brown led a movement by big-city mayors to oppose the law and fund a legal challenge. Leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis has been clear that it constitutes “religious discrimination” — which it obviously does, but the D-word makes heads explode in Quebec-nationalist circles, as federal election debate moderator Shachi Kurl can attest. Charest has

 

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