Federal Conservative leadership candidate endorses 'Lock her up' chant

[TomCADem]

Source: CBC

A federal Conservative leadership candidate is throwing his support behind the "Lock her up" chants directed at Rachel Notley, saying the chant was not meant to be literal.

Brad Trost tweeted support for Chris Alexander, a fellow leadership candidate, after Alexander was criticized for his reaction to the chants during his speech at an anti-carbon tax rally in Edmonton on Saturday.

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Trost said the chant is not meant to be literal, but politicians — specifically Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — need to take their constituents' concerns seriously.

"No one was paying attention to what they were feeling," Trost told CBC News. "They weren't meaning literally throw her in jail. What they were saying is that they were frustrated and no one was listening to them.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/conservative-brad-trost-lock-her-up-tweet-1.3884499

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See? Even in Canada, the right can apologize for and defend the misogyny of their supporters. And, rather than call it out as sexism and outrageous, the media plays along with the idea that it is just working class voters expressing their frustration with the economic status quo. Then, before you know it, the candidate who is anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and pro-corporation gets portrayed as the anti-establishment progressive, because racism and sexism have been re-branded as speaking up for the working class.

[Judi Lynn]

1. That's a low blow. Stealing hate-filled slogans from hate campaigns from other countries.

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[MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy]

2. I have access to CBC radio

and I can assure you that the media did not play along with any idea.

Political panels were unanimous in condemning this kind of language and the idea that anyone should call for a democratically elected representative to be put in prison.

Many, including another leadership candidate, expressly deplored the behavior and the bleeding north of this kind of ideology and behavior from south of their border.

I found this: the interim Conservative Party leader reacting to the incident:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rona-ambrose-on-lock-her-up-chants-1.3882557

(short video of impromptu questioning by the media where she called it "inappropriate" and the people involved "idiots&quot

[Judi Lynn]

3. Great seeing your informaton. Thank you, welcome to D.U., MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy.

[MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy]

6. thank you :)

[Hortensis]

9. Yes, thanks for the perspective.

Hope the backfire burns him up. We know what he was doing.

[riversedge]

4. Seems some in Canada want to look stupid to the world just like here in the US. It is an

ugly vile chant and should not be defended nor encourage!

[rockfordfile]

5. So what is Canada gonna do about that right wing pos?

[roamer65]

8. Hopefully jail him for hate crime.

[roamer65]

7. Alberta is the "Texas of Canada".

There is a lot of knuckle dragging conservatard stupidity in that province.