Ontario’s provincial Conservative Party leader should have a clearly lettered sign on his chest saying ‘Help send this boy to the premier’s office.’ That way people would have a clue who he is and know that he will do or say anything to get there. If he thought discarding his long pants and painting his behind blue would get him the premier’s job, he would try it.
After nine years of doing nothing for his voters in Ottawa but voting as he was told and denigrating women, Patrick Brown will find that at Queen’s Park there are two very determined women who are out to get him. And Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath are not to be toyed with.
On Canada Day there was a very telling picture in the Toronto Star of Patrick Brown and Ontario Progressive Conservative Party President Rick Dykstra with a group of men at a backyard barbeque. Just ask yourself this question: Who has a backyard barbeque without any women or children in the picture? There are two men who appear to be Sikhs in the picture (while not identified, one of them is Jagdish Grewal and he has his arm around Mr. Brown’s shoulders). It is certainly not the Sikh custom to not include family in a social event such as a barbeque.
The picture of the group of men might as well have been a campaign committee meeting from when Brown was organizing immigrant Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims from the Indian Sub-Continent to swamp the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s very low membership last year. He told the Star reporter that the event was to thank his campaign volunteers.
Mind you this was not the only time Mr. Brown was in the Grewal backyard in Brampton. Both he and Conservative Cabinet Member Jason Kenney were there last year to support Punjabi Post publisher Jagdish Grewal as the Conservative candidate for Brampton. Grewal was removed as the Conservative candidate just before the election when his Punjabi Post (printed in the Punjabi language) published its support for so-called ‘conversion therapies’ to turn gay people straight and other homophobic statements.
Mr. Brown claims he did not know that Jagdish Grewal would be at the event—in his own backyard—until he got there.
But to make it clear that he does not share these attitudes about gays or the LGBT community, Brown and the provincial Conservative caucus are taking part this year in Toronto’s Pride Parade. There is obviously no limit how far this politician will go to show that he wants everybody’s votes.
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Copyright 2016 © Peter Lowry
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