Maintaining Canada’s sovereignty and its ability to be self-sustaining is the biggest issue facing the country, especially since international treaties could override the nation’s laws, a Conservative Party (CPC) leadership hopeful says.
Leslyn Lewis, an Ontario MP running to be the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, was in Regina on July 27, where she at the Sandman Inn to a standing room-only crowd of over 100 enthusiastic people.
Yorkton-Melville MP Cathay Wagantall spoke before Lewis, while Regina city councillor Terina Shaw spoke during the Q&A portion.
The main topics Lewis discussed included debt, societal divisions, the Liberal-NDP coalition, the trucker convoy, distrust of national institutions such as the government and legacy media, defunding the media, the Charter, public safety and human trafficking, climate change, food supply concerns, parental rights, cancel culture and wokeism, international law and treaties, globalist organizations, and digital IDs.
Questions that attendees asked focused on drinking water on reserves, resource extraction, identity politics, abortion, euthanasia, the right to self-defence, strategies to ensure the CPC wins the next federal election, the country’s international reputation, media attacks, and health care.
Sovereignty is “a very, very big issue” that affects many areas, such as health care and food security, she told the Moose Jaw Express afterward. The federal government’s goal of net-zero emissions will negatively affect farmers’ ability to produce food, which is “very, very concerning to our food supply chain.”
Since many federal politicians — such as Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland — have allegiances to and sit on the boards of globalist organizations, such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), boundaries and rules need to be established about their membership with those groups, Lewis continued.
“We have to have some conflict-of-interest rules,” she remarked, because it’s dangerous for democracy when these shadowy organizations penetrate the federal government cabinet and can influence it.
“I’m not prepared to see Canada go into the post-national state that Justin Trudeau envisions,” Lewis added. “I love my country. I love this sovereign nation and I intend to fight for it.”
It was pointed out that former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper signed Canada onto international treaties that impede Canada’s sovereignty.
In response, Lewis said she would use her experience with international law to review those policies and remove the country from them, considering the intentions of globalist organizations are known.
Lewis believes she can compete with leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre. She pointed out that if Conservative Party members look at the substance and promises of candidates and not just slogans, they will see she is a “substantiative candidate” with thoughtful policies that offer solutions to the problems.
“So I know the establishment is for Pierre. He has a large number of MPs behind him. He just got a recent high-level endorsement (from Harper) also,” she said.
However, Lewis believes the party membership is for her, so she continues to meet everyday grassroots people since they are the ones who vote. If they do their research, “I’m confident I will come out on top.”
The Conservative Party of Canada leadership election is Saturday, Sept. 10.
