Re:"...and a surgical textbook that lay open on the table": As fake - and staged - as every other aspect of her campaign.  A long campaign is exactly what is needed to demonstrate the reasons certain people should be kept away from leadership - and Leitch has done an excellent job of revealing her lack of basic democratic values.  That leaves her followers who - like O'Leary's followers - have demonstrated a keen inability to understand the basics of Canadian Conservative values; as well as Canadian history, economics, and culture.  One can only presume that their second choices will be as bad as their first - and breath a sigh of relief that O'Leary has removed himself from the ballot - though he still might win, with the crowd that he and Leitch have lured into the party with the raw-meat bait of witlessness and hatefulness.