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Justin Trudeau s convention speech: Attacking the disconnected Conservatives [Full Transcript]
The Liberal leader delivered some familiar lines for party members, while going after the Conservatives over climate change and pandemic relief
April 10, 2021 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a closing press conference on the third and final day of the Liberal cabinet retreat in Ottawa on Sept. 16, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the Liberal national convention on Saturday afternoon. His message to party members struck familiar notes about building back better and supporting the middle class and those ‘working hard to join it’. He also had some pointed remarks about opposition leader Erin O’Toole and the Conservatives, who he accused of flirting with “disinformation on public health and vaccines.” Here is a transcript of his remarks:
Gunn and Neve: Canada mustn t wait any longer to implement the UN declaration on Indigenous rights By adopting legislative commitments to uphold and put in place a binding framework for implementation, this country would not only do the right thing at home, it would set a vital example to the world.
Author of the article: Brenda Gunn, Alex Neve
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 3 minute read • Four wasted years of politics thwarted passage of Bill C-262, NDP MP Romeo Saganash’s private member s legislation to implement the declaration. Now another chance is upon us, but passage of the new bill, C-15, is not assured. Photo by Justin Tang /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Bring them home
The rescue of the orphan ‘Amira’ has raised pressure on Ottawa to take back other children of Canadians who fought in Syria for ISIS and to prosecute the fighters here
February 17, 2021 The al-Hawl camp, where ‘Amira’ was found, was built during the Gulf War to house 20,000 displaced persons; it currently holds more than 70,000 (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)
It’s been two years since the final territorial redoubt of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) fell to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Euphrates River Valley, in the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani. Aided by the air power of a 30-nation U.S.-led coalition, the SDF siege began on Feb. 9, 2019.