Some Folks Really Want to Deport Maryam Monsef

There are lots of dangerous games.

Hockey. Football. Man.

But I have to say that the most dangerous game is the one that the Toronto Sun is currently playing.

In column after column, Sun writer Candice Malcolm has built an elaborate conspiracy theory whereby Democratic Reform Minister Maryam Monsef has concocted a false personal history to further her career: One where she was born in Afghanistan but moved to Iran, instead of being an Afghan citizen born in Iran.

Since the end of September, Malcolm has written 14 articles going after the minister for her supposed birthplace duplicity. Along the way, Malcolm has picked up a troll army of furious alt-right Twitter denizens who have spun their own version of Donald Trump's unhinged "lock her up" chants: #DeportMonsef.

In her most recent column, "Why the Maryam Monsef case matters," the columnist has gone after myself (a "popular blogger") and CTV correspondent Glen McGregor for keeping our readers in the dark about this superduper important story. She paints herself as a hardened journalist who just wants to report the truth.