Doorstep Postings: Will the next PM be good for the Jews? Don’t hold your breath for an answer from Mark Carney
What did the most likely next Liberal leader do to deserve being portrayed as anti-Israel? There’s somebody to either credit or blame.
Doorstep Postings: After months of resignation speculation, there will be no more stallin’ for Justin Trudeau
The mask is off towards the end of a tense third term after the pandemic election.
Doorstep Postings: The unbearable lightness of Justin Trudeau’s final Hanukkah as prime minister
The more things change in politics the more they’re guaranteed to remain the same.
Justin Trudeau non-committal about plans to visit Israel in April or beyond; says police must both obey and enforce the laws when dealing with protests
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is one of the few political leaders of Western governments who has not visited Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, declined to say if he has definite plans to visit the country. “I’ve been to Israel a number of times and I look forward to going again,” he said […]
Why Justin Trudeau’s chief policy advisor has stepped down: an exit interview with Marci Surkes, the Jewish gatekeeper of the Liberal government’s agenda
Marci Surkes remembers her Grade 6 class trip to Ottawa as being the first time the Montreal-raised lawyer got the bug to work in Canadian politics. Last week, she pulled the plug on fifteen years working on Parliament Hill as an advisor to former Liberal cabinet ministers and leaders including Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff, and […]
Doorstep Postings: Justin Trudeau’s bridge too far for Canada’s ‘far-left’
L’chaim! This is the 18th in a series of opinion columns on the 2021 Canadian federal election (and its aftermath) written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Before we get to Justin Trudeau’s speech at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, and the online backlash that followed, here’s a pop quiz: Where […]
Role of Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to be made permanent, Trudeau tells conference
Video and transcript of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks to the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Oct. 13, 2021: Thank you Prime Minister Löfven for bringing us together for this important—and necessary—forum. Today’s discussions will allow us to continue developing a common international approach to fighting antisemitism. Canada is deeply concerned by the surge of antisemitism both at home […]
Trudeau to lead Canadian delegation at conference on antisemitism, Holocaust remembrance
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lead Canada’s delegation to an international conference being held in Sweden on Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism. The day-long Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism takes place in Malmö, Sweden on Oct. 13. Trudeau will attend virtually, and will be joined by former Canadian foreign minister Stephane […]
First national summit on antisemitism seen as the beginning of a long process
“The most important thing is the commitment by the government, the respective ministers, to act. I’m very much encouraged by this.”
Transcript: Read Trudeau’s opening remarks from the National Summit on Antisemitism
“Antisemitism isn’t a problem for the Jewish community to solve alone.”
