OTTAWA — The federal party that once supported a niqab ban for public servants now promises to protect Canadians' freedom of choice, thought, and religious expression.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer delivered his first major speech to party supporters in Ottawa this weekend at the annual Manning Centre conference.
"It's now a question about being free or unfree," Scheer said during his keynote address Friday. "We stand against the Liberal political philosophy which supports neither freedom or responsibility ... nor for respect for diversity of beliefs."
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More focus was placed on pushing back against political correctness — the conference kicked off with the singing of the not gender-neutral version of "O Canada" — than on acknowledging how #MeToo has impacted the Conservative movement on federal and provincial levels of government.
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