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Leslyn Lewis criticizes identity politics, says minorities shouldn’t be used as political backdrops

Updated: July 22, 2022 at 6:57 pm EST  See Comments

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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis blasted the so-called identity politics being used by politicians, saying hard-working, visible minorities do not need a “political savior” or should they be used as political props.

“The media pundits and the Liberals cannot handle the idea of ethnic minorities who don’t fit their narrative,” Lewis wrote this week in a platform update titled “Critical Race: Visible minorities are not a commodity.”

“I’m a female black immigrant lawyer, who raised her kids in and around Toronto,” she said. “I represent the exact kind of voter and politician they say matters to them, and yet they constantly ignore me.”

Lewis wrote that she has heard from many new Canadians from visible minorities that they are “offended” by identity politics.

“The media attention that Patrick Brown received was all about how he was going to ‘deliver’ the ethnic vote to the Conservative Party, as if he

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