A national icon takes his leave

A national icon takes his leave

September 24, 2015 Perspectives

One of the questions I posed in this space a few weeks ago was: who will be the next big-name Jewish MP?

With apologies to Joe Oliver, Canada’s first Jewish federal finance minister, what I may subconsciously have been asking is who will be the next Irwin Cotler, now that the 75-year-old Mount Royal Liberal MP is retiring from politics after a 16-year run.

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