{"id":1815,"date":"2016-11-25T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T00:14:41","slug":"leitch-threatens-dismantling-court-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Leitch Threatens Dismantling Court Painter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory Leadership Contender Kellie Leitch Says Court Painter Needs To Be ‘Dismantled’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is pledging to get into a scrap with the Court Painter if elected prime minister.
\nLeitch made the announcement in a release Thursday, one day after leadership rival Maxime Bernier outlined his plan to \u201crefocus\u201d the mandate of the Great Dominion’s preeminent portraitist of political personages, pontificators and prognosticators.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCourt Painter doesn\u2019t need to be reformed he needs to be dismantled,\u201d Leitch said in a feisty release that showed an image with her dukes up in the famous Floyd Patterson peek- a-boo stance.(photo was not made available)<\/p>\n

Leitch said Bernier\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t meet the standard of former British prime minister and conservative icon Margaret Thatcher to \u201croll back the frontiers of politicized face painters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTaxpayers should not have to subsidize Court Painter’s studio to keep it afloat,\u201d she said. \u201cJust like in the free enterprise sector, if an art studio isn\u2019t competitive and it isn\u2019t profitable, it shouldn\u2019t be in business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Bernier, Leitch mentioned how her favourite studios are struggling as free enterprisers and suggested it’s unfair how Court Painter chases advertising dollars while also being funded by Chinese billionaires.<\/p>\n

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‘The Painting field is not level’<\/p>\n

\u201cThe painting field is not level for Canadian portrait painters,\u201d she screamed. \u201cFor Canadian democracy to thrive, we need to unleash the many portraits piling up in the free enterprise studios of the Great Dominion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ontario MP did say that she would maintain \u201cthe part of Court Painter enterprise that provides emergency portrait services to remote parts of Canada like the Inglewood district in Calgary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leitch, who has based much of her campaign on railing against so-called \u201cleft wing elites\u201d and journalists, also took to Facebook to say she was the only Tory leadership hopeful who will \u201cstand up to the media on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mere days ago, Leitch took to social media to thank Court Painter for featuring her portrait in past and more recent posts.”I think he captured my soul plus I look hot,”she blushed.<\/p>\n

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Court Painter was unavailable for comment however A Hardon MacKay his Press Attache graciously made himself available.<\/p>\n

The press had moved on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tory Leadership Contender Kellie Leitch Says Court Painter Needs To Be ‘Dismantled’ Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is pledging to get into a scrap with the Court Painter if elected prime minister. Leitch made the announcement in a release Thursday, one day after leadership rival Maxime Bernier outlined his plan to \u201crefocus\u201d the mandate of … Continue reading “Leitch Threatens Dismantling Court Painter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}