Tory racism comes to the surface

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The scum also rises. Recent Tory pronouncements are revealing the racist core of Harper’s Tory/Reform project.

Tory MP John Williamson was an invited speaker at the Manning Networking Conference, the annual get together  for thousands of “conservative minded” activists. He is also a  former Communications Director in Harper’s PMO, so he should know how to choose his words carefully. Not.

He used his address to criticize the controversial temporary foreign worker program enacted by his own party. He said that it didn’t make sense to pay “whities” to stay home on welfare while importing “brown people” to work at low pay jobs.

Reports mention his “conservative minded” audience reacted with laughter.

Jean Tremblay is not a Tory MP, but the Saguenay mayor was poised to be one of Harper’s “star” Quebec candidates in the coming election. He had been courted by both the Liberals and the Tories, but said he was “closer to Conservatives values, the moral values of Conservatives.” In a recent radio interview he proved that, when he said “there are people working like Negroes” in his home town.

Immediately realizing he had stepped in it, he proceeded to dig deeper into the grave: “Excuse the expression. Because we know a black person works hard. They don't have big salaries, but they work hard, those people. It is in that sense that I mean it.  And those people, I pity them.”

 A couple of days later Tremblay (who recently posted a youtube video of himself calling on citizens to “mobilize against Greenpeace and the intellectuals of this world”) announced his decision to sit out the next election.