A one-time Grit, influential organizer Harvinder Singh Dhaliwal will campign for the Tories against Liberal MP and fellow Sikh Ruby Dhalla. Peter Power / The Globe and MailFrom The Globe And Mail:
Sikhs from Ruby Dhalla's riding are defecting in droves to the Conservatives, marking a huge shift in immigrant politics and giving Stephen Harper his first foothold in the traditionally Liberal GTA.
In a Brampton living room last weekend, Sunny Gill helped seal the conversion of a young Sikh truck driver who claims he can move 300 votes from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
The truck driver was just the latest domino to fall favourably for Mr. Gill, the local Conservative South Asian outreach co-ordinator. It was a satisfying moment.
My Comment: This is a Liberal Party vulnerability. Ethnic communities come from traditionally conservative societies, they share little if any of the social liberal policies of the Liberals. Gay rights, abortion, government's role in education and the family .... Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus .... these religious and ethnic communities are on record of being strongly opposed to these social and government policies.
Can the Conservative Party exploit this advantage .... at the moment I do not see this happening, but once the ball starts rolling .... the days of a Liberal lock on this vote will be gone.
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