‘We simply cannot ignore these conditions’
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I write in despair for the Jewish community in Canada and around the world.
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I → write → world
In the attack on the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Belleville Police Constable Jeff Smith was critically injured while stopping the attacker.
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Smith → injure → attacker
I thank the Belleville police and Const. Smith deeply and wish him a full and speedy recovery.
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I → thank → recovery
In the immediate aftermath, many assumed the perpetrator must be a Muslim extremist or an Islamist.
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perpetrator → assume → aftermath
It turns out the alleged attacker was a local non-Muslim.
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attacker → turn → ?
Some will seize on this to claim that concerns about Islamist-inspired hate rallies are overblown.
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It is precisely because Islamist rallies that promote hate toward Jews are permitted on our streets and within Jewish neighbourhoods that they must be taken seriously.
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they → promote → neighbourhoods
We simply cannot ignore these conditions that foster a nationwide atmosphere of antisemitism.
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that → ignore → antisemitism
In addition to allowing demonstrations of overt antisemitism to continue unabated, hatred toward Canadian Jews has exploded because of the actions of our national government, which for the past decade has repeatedly acted with malice against the Jewish state.
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which → allow → state
The result is a sustained atmosphere of Jew-hatred in which people like the Belleville shooter, or others, feel justified in becoming violent antisemites.
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people → feel → shooter
We knew this was coming.
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this → know → ?
Unless the Carney government stops demonizing Israel for defending itself in an existential war, and unless provincial and municipal authorities end the hate fests on our streets, more attacks will follow.
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Once again we are confronted by an antisemitic incident that could have turned more deadly.
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Once again politicians of all stripes, from local to national, are mouthing their outrage.
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politicians → mouth → outrage
Kudos to the police who are doing their job.
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This will continue until judges start handing out meaningful sentences.
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judges → continue → sentences
And how about a bill that would require mandatory financial restitution for any deliberate damage caused by groups or single actors.
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that → require → groups
Why should insurance companies — and ultimately the victims paying higher rates — foot the bill?
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Anyone wilfully damaging property should have to pay the damages, no matter how long it takes.
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it → damage → damages
And maybe those who are funding “demonstrations” will get tired of having to shell out to fix synagogue windows and doors, Jewish schools, community centres and businesses.
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who → fund → windows
Warren Kinsella’s book, The Hidden Hand, which exposes who is behind the outbreak of antisemitism we are experiencing, should be required reading for all politicians of all levels.
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Penina Honig, Toronto
Planes, trains and Carney
There’s a funny scene in the 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles in which John Candy and Steve Martin are driving at night in the wrong direction on a freeway.
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Candy → ’ → freeway
The driver of a passing car frantically screams at them, “You’re going the wrong way.”
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But Candy and Martin pay no heed until they are almost obliterated by two huge transports going in the right direction.
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they → pay → direction
By his “Back to Europe” pivot, Prime Minister Mark Carney is driving eastward in a world where the largest and fastest growing regional economy is westward — the Asia Pacific region.
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economy → drive → world
Western Canada — which looks west not east for the future — shouts, “You’re going the wrong way.”
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But will Mr. Carney listen?
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Preston Manning, Calgary
Some tips for the Tories
If Conservatives really want to form a government there is only one change that will lead them there, and that’s a change in leadership.
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Losing one’s own long-held safe riding seat, losing a federal election, losing MPs to another party, losing byelections, trailing miserably in preferred leadership polls etc, yet still believing that everything is somehow going to work out in the end, is rabbit-hole thinking.
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everything → lose → end
Blaming Donald Trump or the EU won’t change anything.
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Blaming → blame → anything
If the party doesn’t think a leadership change is important, just look across the aisle to what happened when a new leader arrived on the scene.
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Douglas Cornish, Ottawa
I am fed up with the ridiculous criticism of Pierre Poilievre from within his own party.
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How about, for once, you show a united front for your leader?
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Or are all of you actually enjoying shooting yourselves in your collective foot?
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Poilievre’s critics should be concentrating on the real problem: How can we free Canada from the grip of the federal Liberals and their leader Mark Carney, who incidentally, by his non-stop foreign travelling and disdain of Parliament, shows that he truly does not have a clue about, or perhaps does not care about, trying to solve the problems that plague Canada?
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that → concentrate → Canada
My bet is that long before the deadline date of his current contract, Carney will quit this job.
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Carney → quit → job
But it would be far more rewarding if he could be defeated in an election.
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And that will only happen if the Opposition makes a united effort to pursue that aim.
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Our Official Opposition, the Conservatives, need to stop hoping to find weaknesses in prime minister Mark Carney.
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