Perhaps Gerald Latulippe has a right to worry about Muslim or at least Arab immigration. It is well known that our immigration department has been dysfunctional and that we have accepted many immigrants who should not have been admitted to Canada. It is also well known that Muslim immigration to many of the European countries are causing great concerns and disruptions, including violence, unemployment, and non-assimilation by the Muslims communities. I want a leader who is willing to recognize the threat by radical Islam to Canada and to all western nations. Gerald Latulippe, with his excellent record of achievements, fills the bill.

Provocations that are accurate

In response to the letter by Philip Conklin, the words Israel apartheid week are provocative but anyone who has lived in South Africa during Apartheid knows that apartheid is not an accurate way to describe what is happening in Israel or the West Bank. The separation wall is of course provocative, but the 8000 kassam rockets fired against Israeli civilians is provocative, the current contining firing of those rockets is provocative, suicide bombers killing Israeli citizens is provocative, Palestinians kidnapping Israeli soldiers is provocative, inflated numbers and false pictures of the numbers of Palestinians killed is provocative, the exclusion of any Jews from Gaza is provocative, the Palestinian law making it illegally to sell land to Jews is provocative, the teaching of Palestinian children to hate Israel and Jews is provocative, and the claiming that the West bank is Palestinian territory when it was designated for Israel under the San Remo conference of 1921, illegally annexed by Jordan and then won back in the defensive war of 1967 is provocative. Lastly the statements in the Charters of both Fatah and Hamas that Israel should be destroyed are provocative.