Geoff Russ
National Post, Nov. 25, 2024
“One hundred and fifty-seven years on from Confederation, Canada is at risk of permanently becoming a husk of a nation where religious and ethnic minorities are terrorized and all the government can do is try and manage the situation, because, in their eyes, those threatened are the wrong kind of minority in 2024.”
Cowardice is the only word to describe Justin Trudeau’s failure to truly confront the crisis of antisemitism and violence in our streets. There have been bomb threats against synagogues, bullets fired at Jewish schools, and brazen Nazi salutes. If none of those can drive this Liberal government to rise to the occasion and behave like leaders, it is terrifying to think what will.
Social media posts dribbling the same lines about how antisemitic terror is “unacceptable,” “not who we are,” and “has no place in Canada” are the best we can expect at this point.
When Trudeau was filmed attending the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto on Friday, he obviously did not plan for it to coincide with the anti-NATO and anti-Israel riots that same night.
That is still beside the point. He and his government are petrified by the necessity of growing a backbone and properly calling out these antisemitic radicals as they bend and break the law to terrorize the Jewish community. … [To read the full article, click here]