Tories who support traditional marriage feeling discriminated against: Trost
OTTAWA — Brad Trost is a proud social conservative who has no desire to moderate his views as he prepares to enter the Tory leadership campaign, but he will stop short of promising to officially reopen the debate on the definition of marriage.
“I’m a political realist,” said the Saskatchewan MP, who vocally opposed a Conservative party decision at its last convention to abandon its policy opposing same-sex marriage.
That does not mean he will stop talking about it.
These are still early days, but so far the big wedge issue in the Conservative leadership campaign is the idea from Ontario MP Kellie Leitch to screen potential immigrants and refugees for so-called anti-Canadian values, not something like debates over abortion or same-sex marriage.