The elites in Canada are even more distant from the grass roots of Canadian life than the ones in the UK and US. They're a tight knit group of academic, union, media and political elites who engage in groupthink on every subject. The national media is absolutely chock full of them. They're smug smarmy, self-righteous progressives who honestly believe they represent the majority - because they never meet or hear from anyone not a member of their clique. As an example you can see how virtually every media personality and columnist has strongly denounced Kellie Lietch's fairly simple and inoffensive idea to test potential immigrants for their values as offensive. Virtually all politicians have denounced it too, including almost all Conservative candidates. Yet two separate polls, both by left leaning organizations, have shown that an overwhelming majority of Canadians want values testing.