Year: 2009

Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney stands tall:

National Post

                                    

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney addressed the international conference aimed at addressing rising anti-Semitism yesterday at London’s Lancaster House, on behalf of the government of Canada. In the full text of his speech below, he explains why he his government will cut funding to groups, who, he says, express “hateful sentiments” against Jews—he mentions the Canadian Arab Federation and the Canadian Islamic Congress—and calls on other countries to also take a “zero tolerance approach to expressions of anti-Semitism in the public square.” 

* Real bad crazyness: U.S. Senator John Kerry sux up to Hamas, visits Gaza

* Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, was in Gaza early Thursday

* Christopher Hitchens  has been mugged by the Syrians while on a visit in Beirut

I doubt too many other countries will follow suit: Canada remains the only nation outside Israel to so far announce its boycott of the  Durban 2 conference, which, last time around, proved to be a veritable carnival of “anti-Semitism in the public square.” Most European states, rather, have demonstrated in recent years that their worry over offending allegedly restive Muslim populations typically outweighs long-held liberal principles. Certainly Mr. Kenney’s speech demonstrates that Canadians are either plucky enough and/or demographically fortunate enough, to not have to compromise on standing against hate. Whichever it is, that Canadian politicians can make such unapologetic speeches as the one below, without trepidation, is a rare, and, I suspect, generally under-appreciated, thing.

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