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| LurkerJ said: Because how "pro-Isreal is my political candidate" is now my ultimate purity test as a voter.....
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It's the same here. Sarah Jama was ousted here for not specifically denouncing Oct 7 while calling for a ceasefire and later daring to question the stories of organized mass rape.
Still not getting anywhere:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/sarah-jama-court-1.7217097
Ontario court throws out request by Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama to overturn Ford government's censorship of her
Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama will continue to be censured at Queen's Park after an Ontario court dismissed her application for a Progressive Conservative motion to be overturned.
A panel of three justices ruled last week that the dispute is a matter of "parliamentary privilege," which allows elected officials to have free speech within the Legislative Assembly. That's what the members of parliament did when they denounced a statement Jama posted to social media platform X and decided to censure her, the decision says.
Therefore, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice determined, it doesn't have the authority to intervene.
"With this disappointing decision, the court is essentially stating that the Ontario Legislature can, with impunity, censor an elected opposition member with whom it disagrees," Jama said in a statement emailed to CBC Hamilton.
"The courts are requesting I resolve this issue through political means. However, that would require me to fulfill the request of the Speaker of the legislature, who has advised that before I can again be recognized I must disavow the statements that got me censured."
In an Oct. 10 post, Jama, then an NDP MPP, called for a ceasefire as well as an "end to all occupation of Palestinian land."
She did not specifically mention that Hamas had attacked Israel days before, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. The post drew condemnation from Premier Doug Ford who claimed it was anti-Semitic and condoning Hamas' violence.
She is (was) in provincial parliament for the NDP here (National Democratic Party)
Doug Ford is a real piece of work. He first made an absolute mess on handling the pandemic and not any better now
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-immigrants-jewish-girls-school-shooting-1.7219365
Ford suggests immigrants to blame for shooting at Jewish school
Ontario Premier Doug Ford suggested Thursday immigrants to the province were responsible for shooting at a Jewish girls' elementary school in North York last weekend, despite police saying they have little information on the suspects.
Asked by a reporter about how their governments are defending Jewish communities amid a reported rise in antisemitic hate crimes, Ford implied immigrants were behind the shooting.
"It does not matter what race, what creed, what religion you are from, I would say the exact same thing if it was another community as well. Enough is enough. You are bringing problems from everywhere else in the world, bringing it to Ontario and going after other Canadians," he said.
Toronto police's guns and gangs task force and hate crime unit are investigating the shooting. Investigators, however, have not publicly identified any suspects.
CBC Toronto reached out to Ford's office to ask if the premier had any further information about the shooting or whether he would like to clarify his comments, and received a brief email response.
"The premier was clear, if you are in Ontario, we have zero tolerance for this kind of behaviour. These actions do not reflect Canadian values," said Caitlin Clark, Ford's director of communications.
Earlier this week, police said security video showed that around 4:50 a.m. on Saturday, a dark-coloured vehicle pulled up in front of the school and two suspects opened fire.
Investigators have released some of that footage:
A bullet hole was found in a window at the school, and other "evidence of gunfire" was also located, police said. No one was inside the school at the time.
This is Canada after all lol, not like school shootings in the USA.
