This was tweeted by the Conservative MP representing the South Surrey-White Rock, @KerryLynneFindl The MP later apologized for retweeting a video on this tweet that was harvested from a hate site. Hardly a fulsome unambiguous apology for composing & disseminating #AntiSemitism

. @PierrePoilievre the Conservative finance critic re-tweeted this hateful message and has not apologized or explained. The new leader of the Conservative Party is without public comment. A spokesperson for the leader told CP that his office will not be commenting on this.

Apparently @ErinOTooleMP feels the morally empty apology from the #CPC MP for South Surrey-White Rock is good enough for him.That's his choice. It clearly is not even close to good enough for many Cdns who care deeply about racial bias in in our country.

#Islamophobia that was trafficked in by the #CPC stopped me from voting for them in 2015. In 2019 homophobia in Alberta's provincial conservative party, the #UCP , severed my friendship with party leader Jason Kenney. Erin O'Toole was once a frequent guest on my show.

I also considered him a valued acquaintance. We had friendly conversations off the air. And he knew that I was supportive of his candidacy for the leadership contest that took place 3 yrs ago where he ran as a moderate conservative and finished third.

This year he ran successfully for the leadership as a so called "True Blue" conservative with messaging that was significantly to the right of the moderate version I had personally identified with 3 yrs earlier. During his acceptance speech a wk ago, reached out beyond his base.

It seemed he pivoted back to the guy I used to know. But only one week later, the evidence shows I was wrong. The Erin O'Toole I used to know would have unhesitatingly condemned the old #antisemitic libel about wealthy Jewish financiers controlling governments around the world.

But the new Erin O'Toole is apparently not compelled to condemn it and not compelled to sanction a member of his caucus for indulging in it, or a member of the #CPC shadow cabinet for re-tweeting it.

It's now blindingly obvious to me that calling myself a Canadian conservative is nothing more than an exercise in self delusion. I was a reliable conservative vote for decades. Five yrs ago, I stopped voting for them. But the deeper truth is this is not just any day in my life.

My beloved late father, Mike Adler was born 98 yrs ago today. The sad truth is that my conservative politics caused him a lot of anguish for too many years. It wasn't until #Alzheimers captured his mind that the two of us were liberated from our painful political conflict.

My father was a loyal liberal. A Liberal gov't gave him and my mom and me permission to live in this country in 1957. The Liberals won his heart and my dad who was the most honest and generous and loyal person I have ever known, never stopped being a loyal Liberal supporter.

Mike Adler felt his son couldn't possibly be a genuine conservative because he knew my heart on Human rights, workers rights, women's rights & LGBTQ rights. He knew my heart on issues of racism, #antisemitism and Islamophobia and homophobia.

My dad felt that my conservatism was transactional, done for business reasons, not human reasons. He felt that I had become a vocal conservative in the United States because it was the only available seat at the table for me to have to achieve success in American talk radio.

The accusation, coming from the man I admired as much any son can possibly admire his father was deeply wounding and I know it contributed to very long periods where we didn't talk. He never wanted me to go into radio in the first place.

Mike Adler had a dream for his son. The dream was supported by some of his customers who were lawyers and judges. He dreamed that some day I would be a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, prosecuting the kinds of men who put his mother and father in a Nazi oven.

So my choice to become a professional broadcaster instead of a prosecutor, was well beyond disappointing for my father. My choice in the 90s to become an outspoken conservative broadcaster, twisted the knife in Mike Adler's aging heart.

I don't know if there is a heaven. My dad was raised, a religious Jew. His rebellious son has always been religiously agnostic. But if there is a heaven I know the soul of my dad lives there and he hears my heart on his birthday. I want Mike Adler to hear this message.

Poppa, your son is coming home. I am sorry for all the pain I have caused you. I believed passionately in what I did and what I stood for. As for conservatism today, whether it's the American or the Canadian knock off, I am standing in quicksand. And I can't stand here anymore.

And so on this day, August 30th 2020, let's make it official. I am no longer a conservative. I am ferociously proud to be Mike Adler's son. In the name of my father,I wish to be viewed as a supporter of Canadian liberalism-a proud tradition, my family's tradition. #RipMikeAdler