EDITORIAL: Canada reaps what politicians sowed
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The Montreal riot by thugs within both the anti-NATO and “pro-Palestinian” protests on Friday made clear what is happening in Canada.
It demonstrated that the pro-Hamas crowd are but one part of a larger movement that hates not only Jews, Israel and NATO, but the West, capitalism and our way of life.
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It showed that after more than a year of increasingly threatening and violent behaviour, which has caused hate crimes against Jews to skyrocket since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Canadian authorities are at a loss on how to respond.
When Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly implied to former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair that her advice to the government on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was influenced by the large number of Arab speakers in her riding, the jig was up.
Many politicians, not just Joly, have apparently been counting votes — the large number of Muslims in Canada compared to Jews — when expressing their views about the Mideast conflict and its repercussions in Canada.
As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre observed in the wake of the Montreal riot, in response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeting that he was appalled by the acts of antisemitism, intimidation and violence and that the rioters must be held accountable, it was too little, too late.
“This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic, woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, age, wealth, etc,” he said on X.
“On top of driving people apart, you systematically break what used to bring us together, saying Canada is a ‘post-national state’ with ‘no core identity.'”
That has led to bizarre situations where, for example, a rabbi in Montreal said police asked him to leave the site of a “pro-Palestinian” protest because his presence alone was a provocation to the demonstrators.
Or police in Toronto arresting Rebel News founder Ezra Levant (later released without charges) because his presence would provoke pro-Hamas demonstrators who set up a display in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood praising dead Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar, the organizer of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, the equivalent of praising a dead KKK leader for lynching Black people in a Black neighbourhood.
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