Canada’s Ceasefire Motion Is Much Ado About Nothing

Published on March 23, 2024

Commentary Canada was thoroughly embarrassed last fall when a former Nazi was applauded in Parliament. So why are Liberals now shaking hands with a notorious Holocaust denier? Or openly praising a Hamas zealot who joked about baking a Jewish baby with baking powder, as NDP MP Heather McPherson did when she introduced the Gaza ceasefire motion? These are some of the questions we can ask after watching the heated House of Commons debate that took place on March 19. In what looked more like an amateur debating contest, many speakers appeared to be trying to outdo one another in how pro-Hamas they could be....