Conservative leader Pierre Polievre calling on Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly to apologize after demanding the same from her following a tense exchange on anti-Semitism. Neither seems ready to make a mea culpa.
“It is unbelievable that Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs does not have the courage to reject racist and hateful comments directed at our Jewish community,” he said Tuesday at a press scrum in the lobby of the House of Commons. of the Commons.
The day before, Mr Poilievre had accused the minister of “including the sympathies of Hamas and the Liberal Party as part of her leadership campaign rather than doing her job .”
The Tory leader criticized Mme Joly, during question time, for not taking two opportunities that he had previously given him “to criticize the frightening and increasingly common anti-Semitic chants that we hear in the streets”. He had just read slogans like “Israel will soon disappear” and asked her to reject them.
mme Joly, who appears to have no intention of apologizing, said Tuesday that she denies those comments “every day.”
“When it comes to the question of anti-Semitism, I condemn it. Hamas is a controlled terrorist organization. I said yesterday that we definitely condemned Hamas,” she replied.
On Monday, she replied to Mr. Poilievre that she had day 7 Octoberindicating the 1Yes The anniversary of the surprise attack by Hamas against Israel that launched the war in the Middle East was a bad choice to “play politics”.
“We are all, I hope, in this House, against any form of anti-Semitism and discrimination and I really hope that my colleague will accept my apology,” she said. His liberal colleagues then stood and applauded wildly.
Mr. Poilievre then returned to the charge by saying that October 7 is the best day for “government to stand up for what is right. “
At the end of question period on Monday, the Speaker of the House, Greg Fergus, asked Mr. Poilievre to retract his comments at the first opportunity, which he had not yet done on Tuesday.
Mr. Ferghas announced that he would remove the Tory leader’s right to speak in the House all day on Tuesday if he did not apologize.
“I want Minister Joly to apologize,” Mr Poilievre told reporters. He believes that the rise in anti-Semitism cannot be attributed to what happened after the attack on 7 October 2023. In his view, the Liberals’ approach to Justin Trudeau he is the reason.
“This is a result of the very ideologically divisive approach this government has put in place,” he said.
The leader of the House government, Karina Gould, was disappointed on Monday that Mr. Poilievre is questioning the opposition of the Liberals against Semitism and the criticism of the violence committed by Hamas.
“It is not unbelievable to find out that there is a connection with a terrorist group,” said the woman who is a descendant of those who survived the Holocaust.
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