For some months now, it’s been clear that the Conservatives, led by Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney, are working diligently to increase their appeal to ethnic voters.

Take the 2006 apology for the Chinese head tax, for example. Or even last weekend’s attempt — however poorly received — to apologize to the Sikh community for the Komagata Maru incident in 1914, when a ship full of displaced migrants was turned away from Vancouver.

Kenney’s website is full of events and meetings with individuals and groups from a variety of different backgrounds and religions. But the Conservatives are not forgetting their more traditional Christian base either.

(CBC)

Political Bytes found this bookmark, left for congregants at the back of a church in the rural Ontario riding of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex that has been known to swing between supporting Liberals and Conservatives.

However one feels about the separation of church and state — and whether something bearing the logo of a political party belongs on a church’s handout table — it’s an interesting example of one local Conservative’s ongoing efforts to mobilize more traditional supporters.

It is also not the image of the party its national campaign strategists want to express.

More investigative-minded readers may find it interesting to read the entire biblical chapter quoted here. First Timothy 2 goes on to ask that the "woman learn in silence with all subjection," and not "to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."

One presumes these verses do not reflect the position of the Conservative Party on the role of women in Canadian society.