McLaughlin compared the landfill ads to a plan by former federal Conservative leader Stephen Harper in 2015 to set up a telephone hotline for people to report “barbaric cultural practices.” The idea met with widespread public backlash.

Fear, hate, and intolerance won’t win elections in Canada. We are mostly socially progressive. We need a non-corrupt financially responsible government that doesn’t cut taxes on the rich while cutting services to the rest of us to pay for it and neglect education, healthcare, and infrastructure spending while claiming that they’re saving money but that understands that the large majority of Canadians don’t want to relitigate settled social issues or to entertain threats to our hard earned rights.

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