Bernie’s version
By Alison@Creekside
In February, Bernie Farber, CEO of the CJC, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, and 10 other Lib and Con MPs attended the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism.
From Farber’s Feb 25 column at Canadian Jewish Congress:
“Of all the strategies and tactics reviewed, one stood out for broader emulation. It was the development of all-party enquiries [...]
Abdelrazik: Let the questions begin
By Alison@Creekside
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced in Question Period Friday that the government will comply with, rather than appeal, the Federal Court decision ordering it to repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik, stranded in Sudan since 2003.
Good.
As Chris Selley writes: “It’s all over but the thousands of unanswered questions”Here’s one.
How much did this July 2006 US Embassy memo [...]
Kenney: Leftists = Nazis
By Alison@Creekside
Haaretz, May 25, 2009 :
A “new anti-Semitism” that emanates from an alliance of Western leftists and Islamic extremists is more dangerous than the “old European” form of Jew-hatred, Canada’s minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism said as he wound up a four-day trip to Israel Sunday.
“The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily [...]
Don’t ask, don’t know
By Alison@Creekside
Big hullaballoo following CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O’Brian’s testimony before the public safety committee, in which he said that Canadian intelligence agencies would make use of information obtained by torture from foreign agencies in the “one-in-a-million” eventuality that “lives were at stake.” In fact, said O’Brian, who has been with CSIS since its inception in [...]
Dingbat of darkness
Nobody wants to hear defence critic Denis Coderre holler for the referee when the Liberal record is criticized. Especially when the criticism is more than fair.
It is General Rick Hillier’s duty to report the state of Canada’s armed forces, even if he uses inflammatory language like “decade of darkness” to describe the cuts that [...]
Peace, 10 minutes at a time
There is a way through the mess in Iraq. But it will require patience and impulse control, something that — like my kids — Americans currently seem to lack. It will require talking to people who dislike each other intensely. Americans have been able to do this in the past: Nixon opened China and Reagan [...]
