1. Re: Editorial
I will feel more sympathetic to Canadians' support of Palestinian Canadians visiting Israel when they are also
concerned about the rights of Canadian Jews visiting Gaza and many of the Arab states.
2. Re: Multiculturalism
The interesting article by Daniel Stoffman fails to distinguish between Canadian values and customs. Canada should view and absorb a variety of foreign customs with immigration, but our values and laws should be adopted by new immigrants. Unlike most dress codes and eating habits, cockfighting, polygamy, and female circumcision are all contrary to important Canadian laws and values. They are customs that we neither want nor admire.
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ReplyDeleteYes I agree. Canadian public is somehow not informed and hence unintentionally biased, and that is costing us (Canadians) billions of dollars.
For example: there is a Canadian Israeli inter-parliamentary group, but there is no Canadian Arabic Or Canadian Palestinian inter-parliamentary group (at least not yet).
Furthermore: the frequency (Count) of news published for example in the local Toronto Star or the Globe and Mail is far more from Israel and not from Palestine or the Middle East (Arabia, Iran, and Turkey).
The media is more focused in reporting cheap news from israel only and down dumping great news from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and so on. Even Iran has great news despite all the odds.
Lots of work is required in Canada to straighten up public bias and neutralize pro-Israeli only news to become also pro-Palestinian news. Hence then the scale is balanced