Andrew Scheer has been a huge coward when it comes to saying what needs to be said. I get the strategy of staying quiet and letting Trudeau continue to embarrass himself, but it is also clear that Scheer will be an ineffective leader because he will kowtow to the liberals and their diversity nonsense. His reaction to Bernier that any questioning or criticism of open borders, illegal immigration and relaxed immigration is reinforcing the ridiculous racism hysteria that the liberals are using to silence people.
If Scheer wins, it'll be because the majority voted against Trudeau, not because they voted for the Conservatives. Scheer wasn't even in the top 3 of leadership candidates - that was occupied by Peterson, Bernier and Raitt imo - and I wouldn't put him at 4 or 5 either. Bernier was driving at something with his recent tweets that the educated voter base can understand: 'Diversity is a strength' is a completely meaningless statement, because there isn't a metric that can actually prove it's true.
How do you measure the veracity of 'diversity is a strength'? Diversity is our strength, and apparently it's our (Canada's) greatest strength. If something is your best asset, that means it has been producing the best possible outcomes for you. Anyone who is really going to suggest that the things that make Canada great - top 10 GDP in the world (despite having a comparatively tiny population), incredibly safe, free health care, etc. - are primarily due to diversity, can easily be disproven. Canada, up until the recent decades, was almost entirely WASP. Except for Quebec of course, who bitched about so much that they finally managed to get their province that's a nation within a nation, but still, using the strictest definition, a province. Shit hasn't just started to get better here in the last 30 years, Canada's been killing it since 1867. That doesn't necessarily mean that diversity isn't a strength (to some sort of degree), but it's definitely proving that correlation doesn't infer causality. If Canada was doing fucking fantastic when it was just a bunch of white people mostly from the UK, then clearly, diversity cannot be the root cause of the positive outcomes the country has produced for its citizens.
Scheer could have taken what Bernier wrote, and expressed roughly what I said above in simpler terms, and there would have been a strong response. Anger on the left, for sure, but I think a significant amount of people, perhaps even a majority would have responded positively, because it's true: you can't just make outrageous claims, like 'Diversity is our greatest strength', and provide zero fucking arguments to back up your claim. Trudeau acts like it's a self evident claim like somewhere on a similar level as 'the sky is blue'. The sad part is it's so easy to destroy with a painfully Canadian example: if you asked Cree or a Micmac elder in 1850 whether he thought diversity was a strength, he would look at you like you're retarded. "Yea, this diversity is awesome, it's been so much better since you guys came here and immediately started treating the place like you owned it."
