This is an interesting one, also from the Toronto Star. Two Jewish ladies (supporters of the ethnic lobby group B'Nai Brith) were caught on video saying some rather non-PC things:
“We’re traumatized by the kind of sewage, garbage, whatever, coming into our country,” say the women, who seem middle-class, and declare themselves supporters of Doug Ford.
“I just think we should bring in the death penalty … start with some of our politicians … Justin Trudeau, he’d be the first one to go. And [Maryam] Monsef. And Iqra Khalid. And Ahmed Hussen. And Omar Alghabra … And Singh, Singh, let’s make him sing, you know, as he walks toward the guillotine!”
The video was brought to public attention by a pro-Palestinian activist. After contacting Members of Parliament and urging them to condemn the video, he stated that the MPs seem “more devoted to apartheid Israel than to their own prime minister and colleagues in the Liberal caucus.”
Canada's cowardly prime minister then smacked down the Palestinian activist for an 'anti-Semitic' tweet.
Not that I disagree with the two ladies about the kind of people being let into a formerly quiet and peaceful country, but their statements about executing public figures based on their political beliefs are a little unusual in the context of normal Canadian political discourse.
I don't expect that we will see good old Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress and head of the "Canadian Anti-Hate Network", denounce his co-ethnics/co-religionists.
One might wonder if the whole 'hate speech' business is just a means of punishing members of selected groups, rather than trying to clamp down on certain forms of speech acts in general.
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