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In this NP Comment video, the Post’s Terry Newman speaks with Trent University Canadian studies professor Christopher Dummitt about his new video series, “Well, That Didn’t Suck!”

Dummitt set out to create a series of videos on Canadian history that would make sense to people who have grown up on social media — including

YouTube

,

Tiktok

and

Instagram

, which is where you can find his short history lessons. Essentially, the short Canadian history series finds audiences where they are.

The first lesson, “The Price of the Truth,” is about government corruption and the importance of the free press. It tells the story of Joseph Howe, who, in addition to being a politician and poet, was the sole editor and owner of the Novascotian.

Howe published an anonymous letter accusing local police and politicians of stealing public money, resulting in him being charged with seditious libel.

Unfortunately, the truth alone wasn’t a defence at the time. Unable to find anyone willing to defend him, Howe defended himself. In a six-hour speech, he urged the jurors to “leave an unshackled press as a legacy to your children.” Even though the judge

advised

jurors that it was their duty to return a guilty verdict, they ignored the judge and the law, finding Howe not guilty after a mere 10 minutes of deliberation.

Following his acquittal, Howe

claimed

in the Novascotian that, “The press of Nova Scotia is free.”

Watch the full interview with Christopher Dummitt above and check out his new Canadian history series, “Well, That Didn’t Suck!”

here

.

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Two Israeli Embassy staffers — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim — were

shot

in cold blood outside a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The killer reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” and declared, “I did this for Gaza” before

firing again and again

at close range.

This wasn’t random violence. It was the predictable result of a culture that has normalized antisemitism, cloaked Jew-hatred in the language of justice, and dismissed every warning as an overreaction.

And if you think this is just America’s problem, you haven’t been paying attention.

I was raised in Toronto to believe that Canada is a country where minorities are protected, where pluralism is a strength, and where everyone can walk through the world without fear. But for Jews in Canada today, that belief is collapsing.

Antisemitism is exploding on our streets, on our campuses, and in our institutions. In the past year alone, my parents’ synagogue has been

vandalized

half a dozen times. Jewish

day schools

have been shot at. A swastika has been

scrawled

on a Jewish home. Jewish-owned businesses are

routinely targeted

by protesters. At

Concordia

,

McGill

 and the

University of Toronto

, Jewish students are often harassed, silenced and surrounded by anti-Israel mobs.

And while Canadian leaders are quick to offer platitudes, they have failed to provide solutions. It’s only a matter of time before the calls for violence turn into actual violence.

This is not just a Jewish issue. It’s a Canadian one. Because when Jews are no longer safe, no one is. Hatred that festers unchecked eventually devours everything in its path. It corrodes the public square and breaks civic trust. And it gives licence to people who believe they are justified or obligated to act on their rage.

For more than 19 months, protesters across North America have marched under banners calling for “intifadas” — a term that is understood to mean violent uprising, not protests. These are not abstract ideas. Intifadas claimed the lives of

more than a thousand people

in Israel, most of them civilians. And now, two more names — Sarah and Yaron — join that list.

Let me be clear: this moment is the direct result of a culture that has allowed the demonization of Jews and Israel to masquerade as moral virtue.

In the face of this, silence is no longer neutral. Every leader, educator and public figure must ask themselves: what kind of country do we want to be?

Do we want to be a nation where violent rhetoric is dismissed as “activism,” where Jewish lives are treated as collateral damage in someone else’s political crusade?

Or do we have the courage to draw a line — before it’s too late?

If the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky doesn’t wake us up, what will? Because the next time, it could be in Montreal or Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver. And when it happens, no one should dare say they didn’t see it coming.

Now is not the time for words, but for action. Condemn antisemitism not only when it turns deadly, but when it begins with dehumanizing slurs and double standards. Hold the inciters accountable, no matter their politics. And make clear that Canada will not be a country where Jewish lives are dispensable.

Aviva Klompas is the former director of speechwriting at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations and co-founder of Boundless Israel, a nonprofit organization that partners with community leaders in the U.S. to support Israel education and combat hatred of Jews. She is co-host of the Boundless Insights podcast.

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Last week I was on retreat with brother priests at St. Augustine’s Seminary, perched atop the Scarborough Bluffs in Toronto.

The largest class of priests that St. Augustine’s ever produced was in 1955. Most, if not all, of those men, are now dead, some buried at St. Augustine’s. Many served Jesus and the Church for decades. Others, in the turbulence which descended upon the Church and the world in the 1960s and 1970s, left the ministry.

Father Robert Joseph Bedard was part of the Class of 1955. A priest of Ottawa, he went to his eternal reward in 2011. He was known to all as “Father Bob” — incidentally, what most people called Pope Leo XIV most of his priestly life.

He lived a great Canadian life, and 2025 marks three significant anniversaries. It’s the seventieth of his ordination, the fiftieth of his darkest day, and the fortieth of his founding of a new Canadian religious order —

Companions of the Cross

.

Like many priests of his vintage, Fr. Bob spent the good part of his first twenty years of priesthood teaching in a Catholic high school, St. Pius X in Ottawa. On Monday afternoon, Oct. 27, 1975, he was teaching a religion class of nearly 80 students. He was telling them not to be discouraged by the manifold problems in the world; Jesus had long ago conquered sin and death. The gospel truths remained true; the gift of salvation was still being offered.

At about 2:20 p.m., the door to the classroom opened. The barrel of a sawed-off shotgun appeared first, then afterward Robert Poulin, 18, a student in the class. He

opened fire

on his classmates, killing Mark Hough and wounding five others. Poulin then retreated to the corridor, turning the gun on himself. When Fr. Bob made it to the corridor, he had to recognize what was left of the shooter’s face.

Earlier that morning, Poulin had lured neighbour Kim Rabot, 17, to his home. He raped her and then stabbed her to death. Before he left for the school, he set his house on fire. Sorting through Poulin’s effects, investigators found a massive storehouse of pornography and an inflatable female doll. In his basement room he would spend endless hours playing “wargames” with friends, living then as a great number of young men live digitally today.

The shooting was 24 years before Columbine, before mass shootings in the United States became a routine part of their culture. It was only the second school shooting in Canadian history.

Christopher Cobb and Bob Avery, two Ottawa journalists, wrote a little book about it all, carrying the disturbing title, “

Rape of a Normal Mind.

” The opening line tried to capture how incongruous all of this was in a sleepy “government town”: “Nothing much ever happens in the quiet affluent life of Ottawa, or so they say.”

What happened that day to his students would remain with Fr. Bob for decades to come; those closest to him would later detect the roots of what would produce, much later, a temporary breakdown, what we might now call PTSD.

“Evil will not prevail,” said that other Father Bob, Pope Leo XIV, at that first appearance on the balcony of St. Peter’s.

It does not. It did not in Fr. Bob’s life. Ten years after the shooting, noting that many of the priests of his generation had left, and newer vocations were finding it difficult, he started meeting with three men preparing for the priesthood on a weekly basis, simply to pray and to encourage each other. In May 1985, that little group became the Companions of the Cross and so, forty years ago, Fr. Bob found himself to be a founder of a new religious order.

The Companions of the Cross have their strongest presence in Ottawa, also serving in Toronto, Halifax, Houston, and Detroit, working in parishes, on campus and preaching at retreats and conferences. There are now nearly 50 priests in the Companions. It is a hopeful manifestation of the Holy Spirit in our time, a genuine matter of holy pride for Catholics in Canada.

Robert Poulin was a desperately lonely teenager who sought friends, or perhaps just companions, in the wrong places, desperately wrong places. It all came to a horrific end.

In 1955, when Fr. Bob was just beginning, at the conclusion of the ordination Mass the bishop would quote Jesus in John 15: “I call you not servants but friends.” Fr. Bob did not know then that he would be a great conductor of companions, a great facilitator of friends for the Lord Jesus.

On Saturday in Ottawa, another four men will be added to that number, new priests ordained to be Companions of the Cross, including Sebastian Muggeridge, the great-grandson of British journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

who reported the truth about Stalin’s terror famine in Ukraine when others, including Walter Duranty of The New York Times, were

covering it up

. Duranty got a Pulitzer Prize; Muggeridge got a clean conscience.

There must be journalism in heaven — The Book of Revelation! Thus, I expect Muggeridge may be writing a story about his great-grandson, about Fr. Bob, about the Companions of the Cross, about those killed that Monday in 1975, about lives seeking that celestial friendship which alone endures. He saw more wickedness than most, more suffering, and thus he knew more intensely the good news that the world needs still, that evil does not prevail. Great lives teach that lesson. Fr. Bob did.

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Earlier this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney, along with his counterparts in Britain and France, issued a joint statement that included a call for Hamas to release the hostages who are still being held in Gaza. That appeal was welcome, but it underscored a broader concern: Canada’s policy toward the Israel-Hamas war has often seemed incomplete and, at times, unbalanced.

To date, Canada has shown support for getting humanitarian aid to the population in Gaza, rightly expressed concern over civilian casualties and called for restraint on all sides.

Yet in doing so, the government has too often hesitated to acknowledge the full context of the conflict — including the rockets fired by Hamas, its refusal to accept the terms of a ceasefire and its deeply embedded terror infrastructure that intentionally puts civilians in harm’s way.

Oct. 7, 2023, marked one of the darkest days in recent history. On that morning, Hamas terrorists carried out a brutal assault on Israeli civilians — murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 251, including women, children and foreign nationals. Among the dead were Canadian citizens. This was not a military operation — it was an act of terrorism by a designated terrorist group.

Since then, Israel has been engaged in a military campaign aimed at dismantling Hamas’s capabilities, rescuing its citizens and restoring security. The campaign has unfolded in a densely populated region, with Hamas operating from within schools, hospitals and homes.

The human cost has been immense. But judging Israel’s actions without fully considering the tactics of Hamas — and the extraordinary complexity of this urban conflict — misses the broader picture.

Canada’s response has reflected genuine concern for civilians, but it has at times conveyed an uneven message. The joint statement, for example, rightly called for the hostages to be released, but did not include a broader condemnation of Hamas’s continued aggression.

Aid to Gaza has increased, but mechanisms to ensure it does not fall into the wrong hands remain limited. And while pressure on Israel continues to grow, including Canada’s recent threat to impose sanctions on Israel, little is being done to hold Hamas or its state sponsors accountable.

This imbalance has not gone unnoticed in Ottawa. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has

emphasized that

, “Threatening Israel with sanctions and ‘further concrete actions’ while a terrorist group on their borders holds their citizens hostage and refuses to stop attacking Israel is wrong.”

This is not a call for Canada to abandon its concern for human suffering, nor to offer blind support for any side. Rather, it is a call for moral clarity and consistency. If Canada is to be an honest broker on the world stage, it must be willing to apply these principles evenly.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Canada acted with conviction. Russian leaders were sanctioned, Canada armed Ukraine and supported its right to fight for its sovereignty. That same commitment to democratic values must apply elsewhere — especially when another democracy is targeted by a regime that openly calls for its destruction.

Israel is not perfect — no country is. But it is a pluralistic, democratic society facing existential threats from non-state actors that are committed to its elimination. It deserves a fair hearing, and it deserves Canada’s support in addressing the very real security challenges it faces.

At the same time, Palestinians deserve hope, dignity and a future free of militant rule. That vision will not be realized through terror, and it cannot be negotiated with those who reject the very idea of peaceful coexistence.

Canada’s strength in international affairs has always come from its ability to stand for both peace and justice. Canada has the right to call for restraint, humanitarian aid and long-term solutions, but it must also ensure that its policies reflect the full complexity of the conflict, including the role of Hamas and its enablers.

The families of the hostages, the civilians under fire and those working toward peace all deserve more than selective concern. They deserve a foreign policy that is principled, consistent and courageous.

Canada can — and must — do better.

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Nadav Steinman is a Canadian-Israeli lawyer and chair of the board of the International Legal Forum.

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• Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney Liberals give Hamas a pass

Canadian postal workers may once again go on strike. After a one-month strike over the winter that effectively stranded tens of thousands of Christmas parcels, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is set to do it all again. After a midnight deadline expired without an agreement, the union announced a ban on overtime Friday and said they may escalate.

Canada Post is hemorrhaging money, and managers are signalling that they see no way forward without a drastic streamlining of how the place is run. The CUPW, in turn, doesn’t want any of that — and is also pressing for more money and vacation days.

In Dear Diary, the National Post satirically re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. This week, Tristin Hopper takes a journey inside the thoughts of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

Monday

We are not deaf to the problems facing this country: a trade war, rising crime, the ever-present threat that residents may go tragically uninformed about the deals contained within their grocer’s weekly flyer.

But there is one thing we do know. The image and reputation of the Canadian postal worker has never been higher. When the average Canadian looks upon a cheerful mail carrier bombarded by the elements and weighed down with the burdens of their calling, they see an image of the country exceeded only by Terry Fox, the warriors of Vimy Ridge or a particularly majestic raven.

Do I wish for labour disruption? Of course not, but I know that in any conflict, the people will be with us.

Tuesday

The die is cast: Today we issued our 72-hour strike notice. In these instances, the slaving plutocrats at Canada Post always hide behind flimsy rationales such as “finances” or “imminent bankruptcy.” This is why our demands also include a number of measures to increase revenue at the corporation and restore it to solvency.

These include licensing a line of limited edition postal worker action figures, and using our vehicle fleet to spearhead the creation of a backyard furnace program to dramatically increase Canadian steel production as a check against American imperialism.

As to why these measures haven’t already been pursued, I can only assume rightist treachery.

Wednesday

I regret to report that some of our more traitorous locals are expressing counter-revolutionary doubts as to the justice of our cause. Apparently, “the public” believes this is not a good time. It’s times like these I wish the ignorant Canadian masses could truly see the sacrifices made for them by their postal service. As informational first responders, we are forced to see a dark side of this country denied to the average civilian. Spider webs. Uneven paving stones. Gate latches dripping with tetanus. We may never know the true number of postal workers permanently disabled by complications from West Nile Virus, but we suspect it’s in the high six figures.

Thursday

Today, it is with great sadness we announce that we were forced to escalate via the imposition of an overtime ban. While our members are typically hyper-industrious supermen unbowed by the physical demands of their duties, we are now asking them to refuse all work exceeding eight hours per day.

As a further escalation, we are also ordering our members to be unreasonably indolent and childish in their delivery of parcels. Carriers will henceforth be asked to lightly brush their hands against the front door to simulate knocking, followed by the attachment of a Delivery Notice Card — and if the homeowner notices any of this we lie and say it never happened. When Canadians notice this massive deviation from our usual record of alert, professional parcel-delivery, we suspect they shall swiftly press for an agreement in our favour.

Friday

I do not know how these times will end, but as in all social justice endeavours we must never concern ourselves with petty bourgeois frivolities such as public opinion or the number of small businesses that may need to be steamrolled in the service of our just aims.

At least, that’s what my AI assistant spit out when I asked it to describe my thoughts ahead of a potential strike. Automating my writing has turned out to be a real timesaver. So has home food delivery, for that matter; kids these days will never believe you used to have to leave your house to grab a latte.

Anyways, keep mail delivery exactly the same as it’s always been, regardless of the underlying economic fundamentals, or else.

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I’m sure some of you saw Wednesday’s

NP

headline for an Associated Press wire story: “

Japan’s agriculture minister resigns after saying he ‘never had to buy rice.’

” AP’s Mari Yamaguchi explained this international-news nugget. A cabinet minister in

a shaky minority government

made a flippant comment indicating that he was light-years out of touch with ordinary people facing high grocery costs in a developed country.

Taku Eto’s political survival thus became impossible within a matter of hours, and his prime minister hastily swapped a congenial young star into the agriculture portfolio. Japan is a constitutional monarchy with a system of parliamentary government more or less like ours, so there’s nothing incomprehensible about any of this to a Canadian …

… but, of course, one almost couldn’t help flashing back to our recent election campaign, wherein the prime minister had half-boasted to a Radio-Canada reporter that

he doesn’t buy his own groceries and has no earthly idea how the stuff in his fridge gets there

. It struck me at the time that this was a classic mistake for an electoral neophyte like Mark Carney. Fans of the legendary American columnist Michael Kinsley will surely think of it as a “Kinsley gaffe,” i.e., an obviously true statement that is nevertheless bound to get a politician in trouble.

But the Conservative opposition tried to make something of it and got nowhere. The circumstances were different. Carney was running for office, and did it successfully, as a globalist plutocrat who understands the world, has helped run it in various roles, and has never had the time to go scuttling about with coupons, flyers and loyalty cards like some wage-earning schmuck.

This was just what the voters wanted, and Carney didn’t get Kinsleyed. (It should be added that the SRC gotcha question wasn’t actually about grocery prices or inflation, but about trade with the U.S.; Carney was being asked, for Quebec-specific reasons, if he still buys American strawberries.)

Mindful of Carney’s impressive layer of Teflon, I spent some time looking into the Taku Eto story. The quote that landed Eto in trouble was

an offhand remark made in the midst of a talk at a Liberal Democratic Party seminar

: “I have never bought rice myself. My supporters give me quite a lot of rice. I have so much rice that I could sell it.”

Eto, who comes from the island of Kyushu, tried to play this off as a mis-timed joke with a regional/idiomatic angle: in the Japanese context he is literally a southerner (with a charming accent and conservative politics to match). What I wondered is why the reaction to the remark was so powerful and immediate. Was it because “my supporters give me rice” savours slightly of corruption, or just because the Japanese are that angry about grocery prices?

As far as I can make out, it’s the latter. Eto was talking about rice because the prices for it in Japan have gone through the roof, the clouds and the stratosphere. And rice plays a role in the Japanese culture and diet for which there is no analogue in omnivorous Canada. For precisely that reason,

rice is supply-managed

there in much the same way our dairy, eggs and poultry are — i.e., through confiscatory tariffs on foreign products, along with a mafia of politically powerful producer cooperatives who operate under supply quotas.

If you read Canadian news, you can recite the effects of this, whether or not you’re capable of finding Japan on a map of Japan. Their supply-management system is, like ours, a major headache for counterparties in trade negotiations. Their farmers, like Canada’s, are dwindling in number and aging out of the business. They are sometimes paid to destroy crops. Farm costs for machinery and supplies are subject to inflation. And sometimes the system for domestic demand forecasting blows a tire.

It’s a constant high-wire act for Japanese governments, who still have official responsibility for the national rice supply under wartime statute. If store-shelf prices get too high, and consumers start to make trouble, the cabinet must consider loosening tariff barriers and releasing rice from the national strategic reserve. The LDP ministry has done both these things in the face of hallucinatory prices,

and so the farmers

are now

just as ticked off

as the buying public.

The government depends on the cooperatives to get the additional Japanese rice to the market,

and they’re taking their sweet time

. The emergency imports are coming from South Korea, and, as you might expect, there’s some culinary prejudice against the nasty foreign stuff.

The obvious answer to these perpetual headaches is market liberalization and free trade — but the “strategic” argument for rice supply management in Japan really does have force. News flash: the Japanese live on an archipelago, in Asia, next door to China and a stone’s throw from North Korea. Blockades and bombardments justifiably loom large in their imagination. Japan is a highly homogenous national collective. It will probably take a real long time for them to shake the thought that they can survive anything, outlast any enemy and endure any tribulation, as long as they’re able to keep growing their own rice.

No doubt they regard all this as common sense. But absolutely none of it is true of us, and that makes me wonder what excuse we have for tolerating analogous food policies that have the same dismal effects.

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On May 19, a joint statement was issued by the governments of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada whose principal points were: ”We call on the Israeli government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles.” “Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate.” “If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.” “It is a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages and a long-term political solution that offer the best hope of ending the agony of the hostages and their families, alleviating the suffering of civilians in Gaza, ending Hamas’s control of Gaza and achieving a pathway to a two-state solution.”

Every citizen of all three countries should be profoundly ashamed at this disgraceful travesty of the facts. Almost every word cited above is false and all three governments know that they are false. The tripartite declaration is part of what American commentator David Harsanyi accurately described (Commentary, June, 2025) as

“an arms race in moral idiocy.”

The tripartite declaration’s desire to get humanitarian aid to noncombatants is unexceptionable, but the United Nations would be one of the last agents to engage in any such endeavour. It is under the United Nations’s watch over that Hamas steals much of the ample assistance which Israel allows into Gaza. The deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar referred to the Palestinian dead as “necessary sacrifices.” This is the mentality that has produced a death-cult in the Middle East and justifies not only the massacre of Israeli civilians, including women and children, but uses its own population as human shields in schools and mosques and hospitals to maximize civilian casualties and inflame the sensibilities of the gullible West.

The United Nations is profoundly complicit in the continuation of the terrorist campaign in Gaza. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is enmeshed with Hamas itself and has been thoroughly suborned and corrupted by Hamas, as is well known to the relevant officials of all three governments which have uttered this declaration. If the United Kingdom, France, and Canada were not absolutely morally bankrupt on the issue of Israel’s contest with neighbouring terrorist organizations, they would accompany their demand for humanitarian assistance by the complete exclusion of any role for the United Nations in the distribution of that assistance. The U.N. Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said on May 20 that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza within two days because of a lack of aid, a claim the U.N. promptly walked back. This was an unspeakable blood libel but no surprise from a senior U.N. official.

It is also false that these governments effectively supported at any time since October 7, 2023 the right of Israel to defend itself. This was like the Biden administration’s pious fraud that Israel “has the right to defend itself,” which in practice meant that it had the right to expel Hamas invaders from Israeli territory but not to take any action that might reduce the possibilities of a repetition of such an attack. There was a fleeting consensus in the outside world that the massacre of Israeli civilians was a bad thing in itself but almost from the start it was generally seen in the context of supposedly illegal and even criminal conduct by Israel in having the effrontery to exist and defend its existence as a Jewish state. What these three countries did, and what many others have done as well, is to make a formulaic statement of Israel’s right to self-defence followed by an open-ended condemnation of their exercise of that right. It is like assertion of the liberty of self-expression accompanied by the severe punishment of any exercise of that liberty.

The use of the word “disproportionate” is also scandalous. The Israeli Defense Forces have done absolutely nothing in Gaza that could be considered proportionate, let alone disproportionate, to the slaughter of babies and brutal rape of women prior to murdering them committed by Hamas. And the concept of proportion in a war is also utter nonsense. Hamas committed an act of war against Israel to forestall a durable peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Israel accepted it at the outset as an act of war creating a state of war. By any definition and throughout human experience, war is a hellish and destructive activity full of mortal peril and of soul-testing violence. But once war is unleashed, in this case in violation of a ceasefire and with no pretense of a just cause and with maximum treachery and surprise, there is no alternative than to bring that war to the swiftest possible satisfactory conclusion at the minimum possible cost in lives of the responding country and its allies and non-combatants. Israel has behaved scrupulously within those guidelines and when the rank propaganda is extracted from figures published by the so-called Gaza Health Ministry, as eminent military historian

Andrew Roberts has stated,

the proportion of civilian to military casualties in the Gaza war has been one of the most humane ever recorded in urban counter-guerrilla warfare.

This wasn’t another skirmish or border incident; it was a premeditated savage and barbarous invasion. The proportionate loss of life in Canada would have been 5,500 civilians murdered by terrorists in one day, and in the United States 44,000 civilians murdered in one day, 14 times the number of dead in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and 18 times the number killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, where the casualties were almost entirely military personnel, and which started the Pacific War in which the Americans ultimately killed approximately 3,000,000 Japanese, including by the only military use of atomic bombs in history. No one said to the American presidents of those times after 18 months that they had killed more of their enemy than the number of deaths that their country had suffered and therefore retribution must stop. Not even the authors of those crimes, Al-Qaeda and the government of Imperialist Japan, claimed that.

The most scurrilous of all the falsehoods in this joint declaration was that simply ending the Israeli action in Gaza would end “Hamas’ control of Gaza and (would achieve) a pathway to a two state solution.” What a piercing insight that is: Israel should just declare a unilateral ceasefire and ask Hamas to leave Gaza. No one could possibly believe such bunk. We are chiefly concerned with Canada here but the conscient citizens of all three countries should demand to know why their governments are propagating such fatuous and monstrous lies. If the leaders of the new government of this country believe this, Parliament should throw them out next week, bag and baggage. They are dishonouring Canada and joining an international conspiracy to make three leading western democracies useful idiots of the most odious, murderous, and psychotic terrorists in the world. They have covered all three countries in shame.

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