Your nuanced post is bang on.  Leitch showed her  hand  in her survey which asked people to choose between multiculturalism and Canadian values.  But that is a phoney choice.  We can embrace multiculturalism, but it must be conditional on the acceptance of common political values that must unite us all as Canadians.  Those values are largely articulated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms -  freedom of expression, religion, equality, etc.- and respect for the rule of law.  Indeed, secular values are the only values that can  hold a multicultural and multi-religious society (including atheists) together. If f Leitch had articulated a policy that embraced multiculturalism while insisting on these common values, she could have been more warmly accepted.