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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Is it the same excuse in Canada? A woman has never won a general election.
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I'd say in ways, it is worse in Canada. We have never had a PM that doesn't come from the Anglo or French colonial stock and rarely have even had party leaders that didn't. There was Ignatieff a few years ago and some people did try to make a big deal of his Russian heritage and not being 100% pure old stock Canadian. And then now there is Singh of course. I don't know if his heritage would be an issue because no one really thinks the NDP has a chance anyway. I don't know his personal family history, but one could argue that Indo-Canadians are part of the old stock at least in BC where they provided many colonists to the British empire pre-confederation (not unlike Irish settlers in the Maritimes and Quebec). I recall during the Harper/Layton debates, it became a bit of a dick waving competition between them by dropping anecdotes about the length and extent of their family lineage in Canada leaving Ignatieff in the dust in that regard.
There is no question in my mind that many Canadians hold their colonial history in high regard and cling on to it as opposed to the U.S. which would rather downplay their old world connections (mostly).