Conservatives go after the Ethnic Vote

This afternoon I was in Toronto visiting my parents, when a member of the Mark Adler campaign team knocked on the door. Mark is running against Liberal Ken Dryden. I answered the door and the first thing out of the mouth of this person is how's Passover been. Being Jewish my parents have what's called a Mezuzah on the door frame of their home.



I said it's been fine, and he asked me who I was voting for, and I told him that's really none of his business. In his hand he had 2 flyers. The first one was doubled sided flyer of Harper with the Canadian Flag and the flag of Israel with the heading "Conservatives are the only party that supports Israel" and it talks about how Harper has stood beside the Jewish state when other world leaders have not. To give credit where credit is due that's a true statement.

In the other hand of this campaign worker was a flyer I've seen before with a picture of Harper and the local candidate talking about what Harper has done as PM. So I asked the campaign worker why the 2 different flyers and he told me that they were told to hand out the "Jewish Flyers" to Jewish voters and the other flyer to non-Jewish voters. I don't know about you, but to me that's ethnic profiling, and that pisses me off to no end, but I would not expect any less from either the Conservatives or the Liberals.

One thing I do know is that I've never seen a Liberal flyer that's targeted one religion over another. I also wonder if the Conservatives in ridings like Brampton send out flyers that target the Indian community?

Until next time!