The R Rated Blogger

The Conservatives party's new agenda is to lure the ethnic votes which has typically went to the Liberals. The defection Liberal MP Wajid Khan to the Conservatives was hailed by PM Stephen Harper:

as a sign of the new acceptance of the Tories by Canada's cultural communities, but it was Thursday's elevation to minister rank of MP Jason Kenney, the Prime Minister's bridge-builder with ethnic groups, that is more significant in practice.

Mr. Kenney acknowledged Friday that the Conservatives are making a concerted effort to win over what has long been a Liberal-dominated constituency.

"We have a good story to tell and I now have an additional platform from which to tell that story," Mr. Kenney said in an interview Friday.

"We have a story to tell about a party that is open to newcomers, and we haven't told it as well. And quite frankly, a lot of it is about being on the ground."

But the strategy employed by the Conservatives is as sick as you can get, use the the fears and insecurities that ethnic voters might have towards same-sex marriages as a tactic to lure the voters away.

According to a senior party organizer, Conservatives believe they have potentially tapped into a well-spring of insecurity among ethnic groups, some of whose members feel the Liberal bill will force their clergy to perform same-sex marriage. Even if the same-sex issue is forgotten by the time the next election rolls around, the strategist says, the Conservatives figure that at least some members of the multicultural communities will remember Mr. Harper reached out to them.

Mr. Harper has always argued that his long-term plan is to build a conservative majority in Canada, and tapping into ethnic support is crucial.