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"He and Kelli Leitch cost Harper his majority with this divisive and shameful rhetoric."

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Not to defend Mr. Alexander, or Ms Leitch, but they didn't initiate the "Barbaric Cultural Practices Snitchline" smear.

That was approved and made part of the campaign by one Stephen Harper, purported to have been Prime Minister.

There is no chance that Alexander and Leitch dreamed this up and presented it in front of  national media without the explicit instruction originating from Harper.

They were just talking heads, parroting what they'd been instructed to parrot.