When MLI speaks, our leaders listen This year evidence of our impact abounded. Just a few examples include:

 

When MLI speaks, our leaders listen

This year evidence of our impact abounded. Just a few examples include:

 

Dear paul, As 2024 winds down, Canada needs the Macdonald-Laurier Institute more than ever. Over the course of the year, MLI led the national conversation about how to make Canadians safer, happier and more prosperous. Please help us continue to lead in 2025! When MLI speaks, our leaders listen This year evidence of our impact abounded. Just a few examples include:  Just days after we partnered with Secure Canada, calling for Samidoun to be listed as a terrorist entity, the government answered that call; MLI’s long-held position that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) should be listed as a terrorist organization was finally adopted in June, just weeks after our Inside Policy piece restated the case; One day after our op-ed linked Russian media disinformation to an intricate web of infiltration operations, our Minister of Foreign Affairs made a statement condemning Russian state media (RT); 'We should all take a valium’ – Why Canadians should calm down about Trump: Brian Lee Crowley in the National Post Tim Sargent on Canada’s anemic growth and productivity: MLI in Parliament Our sober analysis of mismanaged immigration policy, which exposed the costs to Canadian workers and the flawed economic claims used to justify record-high levels, was followed by caps on various kinds of immigration; Time and again MLI argued that any federal indigenous loan program must not exclude oil and gas projects. Reluctantly, the government found itself compelled  to follow our recommendation in April; Just days after our report describing how China weaponizes TikTok for digital surveillance and influence, the head of Canada’s intelligence agency issued a statement warning Canadians to beware of the app; Our Justice Report Card, which revealed homicides and sexual assault are at three-decade highs, and our Urban Crime Report, exposing similar trends in every major city, were widely cited in the House of Commons, the Senate, in both of Canada’s national newspapers, and in local outlets across the country. Help us create lasting change in 2025 Our 2025 goals are the most ambitious in MLI’s history – the times demand nothing less. Canada is labouring under the burden of a housing crisis, a productivity crisis, a health care crisis, and a governance crisis. The horrifying scale of foreign interference in Canada is finally being dragged into the light. Hate crimes against Canada’s Jews are up 670% and our institutions are being twisted out of all recognition by the need to accommodate contentious and ill-conceived woke ideologies.  Will you make a year-end gift to help us put Canada on a better track? In 2025, MLI will champion: A new economic strategy for Canada;  Matching the size of government to our genuine needs and ability to pay;  A muscular approach to national defence and defending our democracy from foreign interference;  Unleashing the potential of our natural resource industries to unlock economic opportunity, Indigenous prosperity, energy security, and to strengthen Canada’s position in the world;  Discrediting and defeating  growing radicalism and antisemitism in the country;  Rescuing our universities and other institutions from ideological extremism and attacks on meritocracy;  Restoring Canada’s relations with the United States and making North America a beacon of prosperity, security and democracy for the world. Donations to MLI are tax-deductible. Your gift before December 31 makes all the difference. Please donate today! Sincerely, Brian Lee Crowley

 

TO Purge or NO purge TrudeauIdeology The Turn Over -------------""WOKE IS ALL IN" - "Non woke is OUT""" Trudeau's Massive Government Expansion and PURGE like slimming down

WOKE IS ALL IN  - Non woke is OUT 

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.Bloggers Note:  The Trudeau Hiring Spree and now the downgrade.

 J.Trudeau's attempt to purge the public service since 2016 until now has been a relentless endeavor. Of course more study and investigation is need to appreciate the ongoing revolution. 

Same in the Senate and judiciary nominations and appointments and choice consultant and especially the  choice of McKinsey & Company its a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organizations, and not for profits all over the world ie GLOBALLY a Global repository of laws and policies and co  ordination  They have over 125 offices in more than 65 countries.    and lobby firm not the mention polling companies ..

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Nov 12, 2024 With a 42% increase in federal bureaucrats since 2015, the cost and size of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is out of control. CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano breaks down how the prime minister has managed to balloon the bureaucracy in less than a decade.

 

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Federation says inflation adjusted cost

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of Staffing the prime minister's office

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has risen by 16% under Justin trau now

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that means the taxpayers are on the hook

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for an additional $3.2 million in salary

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at the pmo compared to 2014 and 2015 are

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when Steven Harper was prime minister to

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talk about this in more detail is Franco

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terzano Federal director of the Canadian

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taxpayers Federation joining us from

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Ottawa Franco how many staff are we

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talking about at the pmo and how much

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salaries here's the real problem

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everywhere you look whether it's the

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federal sea Suite the bureaucracy or the

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prime minister's own office the cost and

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size of government has gotten out of

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control because remember uh since

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Trudeau has become the Prime Minister

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less than a decade ago he has added

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108,000 federal government bureaucrats a

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42% increase in less than a decade the

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trudo government has rubber stamped more

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than a billion dollarss in bonuses for

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federal bureaucrats since 2015 uh

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Trudeau has handed out more than a

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million pay raises in the last four

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years alone and taxpayer spending on

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outside Consultants has also reached a

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record high of about $21 billion last

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year so here's the thing Trudeau has to

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take some air out of his ballooning

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bureaucracy and the place he should

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start is in his own prime minister's

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office so Franco not only has the number

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of federal bureaucrats increased but

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also the number of Executives that's

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that's correct right as I mentioned the

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number of federal government bureaucrats

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has increased by

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108,000 uh since Trudeau has become a

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the Prime Minister less than a decade

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ago but it's not just uh the bureaucracy

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per se it's also the number of federal

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government Executives that have

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increased by 42% under prime minister

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Justin Trudeau and remember folks uh

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that is the most expensive bureaucrats

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there are so here's the thing if there's

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a politician out there who wants to fix

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the budget and cut your taxes then

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they're going to have to shrink ottawa's

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ballooning bureaucracy thanks so much

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for your time today Franco that was

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Franco terzano Federal director of the

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Canadian taxpayers Federation joining us

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Senator Yuen Pau Woo Condemns Canada's Complicity In "Slaughter of Pales...

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honorable colleagues I arrived in Canada

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in

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1979 to attend an international school

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named after leester pearon one of my

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roommates was kareim from Egypt he

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taught me the only Arabic words I know

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Y which means my love he used it as an

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affectionate term for his roomies and

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his

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girlfriends I also met anise and NASA

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two of the First Palestinian Arab

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refugees who received scholar ships to

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study in Canada the families have been

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displaced by the knar or the catastrophe

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of

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1948 I vividly remember having

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passionate discussions with them and

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with fellow students from Israel on the

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question of Palestinian statehood it

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seemed to me at the time that the

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establishment of a Palestinian state was

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both just and inevitable and very likely

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something I would see in my

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lifetime 44 years on we not only do not

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not have a Palestinian state but we are

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witnessing before our very eyes the

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slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and

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the forced relocation of civilians from

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their places of residence presumably to

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make way for Israeli settlements in

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effect a continuation of nakba you may

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already know the official figures more

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than 43,000 killed including upwards of

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177,000

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children what you perhaps don't know is

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that at July 2024 paper in the lcet

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estimates that

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186,000 Palestinians have been killed in

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Gaza alone since October 7th either from

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direct military action or from

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starvation malnutrition disease exposure

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and lack of access to medical facilities

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this much larger number of casualties is

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on account of Israel's policy of

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restricting humanitarian Aid such that

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essential medicines and food are know

1:59

not getting the civilians in Gaza for

2:03

the record the government of Canada's

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position as articulated by its

2:08

representative in the Senate and cheered

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on by the conservatives is that civilian

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casualties in War are unfortunate

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humanitarian Aid to Gaza is not being

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impeded and it is all the fault of Hamas

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anyway the government launched in

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December 2023 a temporary residence visa

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program for gazans with Canadian Family

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Ties but it is unclear whether the

2:33

program has facilitated the exit of any

2:36

Palestinians from

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Gaza the Canadian government has the

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capacity and ability to expedite

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approvals for the immediate exits of

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Palestinians from Gaza as they did

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rightly with ukrainians fleeing the

2:50

Russian invasion but the government

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instead is choosing to abandon

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Palestinians in Gaza including Canadians

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who have Palestinian families here is

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what over 40 Civil Society groups have

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said about the program quote anti-arab

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and specifically anti-palestinian

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racism saturates every aspect of the

3:14

special measures program

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unquote the world is looking with horror

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at the situation in Gaza and we have had

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multiple UN General Assembly resolutions

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in support of

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Palestine Canada has been under the

3:29

wrong side of most of these votes but I

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would note that on November 20th Canada

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supported a resolution to condemn

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Israeli illegal Israeli settlements in

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occupied Palestinian territories that we

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would vote to condemn illegal

3:45

settlements should be a no-brainer but

3:48

we have failed to do so on the same

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motion for 13

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years for all our rhetorical commitment

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to a two-state solution our actions

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suggest that we are offering just lip

4:01

service and often working at Cross

4:05

purposes last month the Canadian

4:08

government refused to meet Franchesca

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albanesi the UN special reporter in the

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situation of human rights in Palestine

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when she was in Ottawa the official

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excuse is that she is anti-Semitic a

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claim that has been rejected by many

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Jewish leaders and anti-Semitism experts

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I suspect the real reason is that our

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political leaders leaders cannot bear to

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listen to the fact of war crimes in Gaza

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that expose their hypocrisy and

4:36

duplicity and there I say the complicity

4:39

of Canadian foreign policy in violations

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of international humanitarian law it is

4:45

not just that Arabs in Palestine and

4:48

Lebanon are suffering at the hands of

4:50

the Israelis Arab Canadians especially

4:54

Palestinian Canadians are also being

4:56

shunned in silence for expressing their

4:59

views on Israel's occupation of

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Palestinian territory and the weapon of

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choice increasingly is the charge of

5:08

anti-Semitism I do not dispute that that

5:11

there has been a rise in anti-Semitism

5:13

acts across Canada and I reject all

5:16

forms of hatred towards Jews as

5:19

individuals groups or as a collective

5:22

but it is not

5:24

anti-semitic to argue that Germans and

5:27

Italians should be at the Forefront of

5:29

the opposition to the assault on Gaza or

5:32

that our Collective obliviousness to

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what led a 100 years ago to the third

5:37

re's genocide of people not in

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Conformity with a pure race is leading

5:42

to the commission of yet another

5:44

genocide I am paraphrasing special

5:47

reporter Alban's remarks but these are

5:50

the ideas that our government has

5:53

labeled as anti-semitic and used as a

5:56

reason for not meeting with with her

5:59

when she was in

6:00

Ottawa the so-called working definition

6:03

of anti-semitism that has been endorsed

6:06

by the government means that

6:08

Palestinians indeed all Canadians

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including Jewish Canadians who make deep

6:13

criticisms of Zionism in Israel can be

6:16

accused of anti-Semitism for example

6:20

calling for boycotts divestment and

6:22

sanctions directed at Israel or its

6:24

supporters of Israel's assault in Gaza

6:27

and the West Bank could be labeled and

6:30

anti-semitic this weaponization of

6:32

language represents an assault and Free

6:34

Speech legitimate political debate and

6:38

political activism it suppresses the

6:40

views and rights of a minority

6:43

especially Palestinian Arabs who have a

6:45

particular stake in that debate it is

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colleagues the antithesis of celebrating

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Arab

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Heritage take the recent uproar over the

6:57

singing of an Arabic song during A

6:59

Remembrance Day ceremony at an Ontario

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High

7:03

School provincial and federal

7:05

politicians including MPS who voted in

7:08

support of this bill Express outrage

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over the use of Arabic during the

7:13

ceremony imagine that the use of Arabic

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in a Canadian

7:18

school well honorable colleagues if we

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truly respect and celebrate Arab

7:23

Heritage we can surely welcome an Arabic

7:26

song at a ceremony to remember Canadian

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vet veterans whose ranks of course

7:31

include Arab

7:33

Canadians after all we have welcomed

7:36

expressions of Ukrainian culture at

7:39

recent Remembrance Day ceremonies and in

7:41

my hometown of Vancouver there is always

7:45

a special Remembrance Day ceremony in

7:47

Chinatown for Chinese Canadian

7:50

Veterans for the record the song haah

7:54

Salam is a lament for peace if there was

7:57

any potential harm to student stents

8:00

from this incident it is in the graffiti

8:03

that appeared outside the school

8:05

labeling it as quote Hamas High unquote

8:09

where is the outrage against the threat

8:12

to Canadian students of Palestinian and

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Arab

8:17

ancestry and here we are colleagues on

8:20

the cusp of passing a bill to Mark April

8:23

as the month to celebrate Arab Heritage

8:26

Month seemingly oblivious to the fact

8:29

that the single biggest threat to Arab

8:31

Heritage is the callousness with which

8:33

we regard Arab lives in the Israeli war

8:36

in Palestine and Lebanon as well as the

8:39

suppression of Palestinian views on Gaza

8:42

right here in Canada are we seriously

8:45

thinking of passing a bill to celebrate

8:47

Arab Heritage without any reflection of

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how Canadian policy is aiding an

8:53

abetting the slaughter of Arabs in the

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Middle

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East doing so would make it April in the

9:00

words of TS Elliot the cruelest month in

9:04

the aftermath of World War I Elliot cast

9:06

April not in its usual role as a

9:08

harbinger of better times but as a

9:11

moment of bitterness and painful

9:13

Memories the title of his poem is the

9:16

Wasteland which pretty much sums up the

9:19

way Israel has rendered Gaza since its

9:21

response to the reprehensible Hamas

9:24

attack of October 7th to be clear I take

9:28

no issue with the ex examples of Arab

9:30

Canadian accomplishment in Canada that

9:32

have been highlighted by colleagues in

9:34

this chamber and in the other place

9:37

there is much to celebrate about the

9:38

Arab presence in Canada which dates to

9:41

the late 19th

9:43

century the first Lebanese migrants to

9:45

British Columbia Brothers Abraham and

9:47

Farris Ray arrived in

9:50

1888 they worked as itinerant pedlers in

9:53

Victoria many early Lebanese immigrants

9:56

also worked in Vancouver Islands

9:57

forestry industry

9:59

in

10:01

2023 the Lebanon immigrant Plaza was

10:04

inaugurated at Centennial Park on the

10:06

southern Shore Victoria Harbor I had a

10:09

chance to visit the plaza earlier this

10:12

year and to view the Lebanon immigrant

10:14

statue which is a replica of statues in

10:17

Halifax and several other cities that

10:19

have prominent historical connections to

10:22

the Lebanese

10:23

dipor we should indeed celebrate Arab

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Canadian Heritage and the contributions

10:28

of Arab Canadians to this country in

10:30

April and every other month but let's

10:34

not do Arabs the dishonor of passing a

10:36

bill in Hast that willfully ignores the

10:39

suffering of Arabs in Palestine and

10:41

Lebanon and the silencing of Arab

10:44

Canadians because of their views on the

10:47

situation in

10:49

Palestine I hope other honorable

10:51

colleagues will join the debate and that

10:52

we will take the time to reflect on what

10:55

it means to celebrate Arab Heritage in

10:57

the face of Canada's stand towards

10:59

Palestinian Arabs and the blatant

11:02

anti-palestinian racism that pervades

11:05

Society we can start by observing

11:08

International Day of solidarity with the

11:11

Palestinian people this Friday an

11:14

observance that was passed by the UN

11:16

General Assembly in

11:19

1977 Canada by the way voted against

11:23

that

11:24

resolution it was of course 29th

11:26

November

11:27

1947 that UN General Assembly adopted

11:31

resolution 181 on the partition of

11:38

Palestine when the time comes for us to

11:40

call the question I will vote in favor

11:43

of the bill not just to celebrate and

11:46

honor Arab Heritage but to protest our

11:49

Collective complacency about genocide

11:52

and crimes against humanity in Palestine

11:54

and to express the lament for peace that

11:56

is captured in haah Salam

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that yah is what it should mean to

12:04

declare April as Arab heritage month not

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as in the Wasteland of TS Elliot but the

12:11

Canterbury Tales of Jeffrey Cher who

12:14

wrote when April the sweet showers fall

12:17

and Pierce the drought of March to the

12:19

root and all the veins are bathed in

12:22

liquor of such power as brings about the

12:26

engendering of the flower thank you for

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your attention should