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‘Deep disappointment’ with Trudeau, Canadian Jewish leaders say
Dave Gordon
January 6, 2025

Canadian Jewish leaders reacted almost immediately—many with sighs of relief—to Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he will resign as prime minister after his party replaces him in a March 24 vote…Guidy Mamann, president of the Toronto Zionist Council…told JNS that the Canadian Jewish community was “appalled” when Trudeau said that he would arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to face prosecution for what Mamann said are “specious war-crimes allegations.”…Joe Oliver, a Canadian finance minister under then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told JNS that Trudeau, whom he has criticized in newspaper columns, has a “lack of moral clarity about Israel’s defensive war against genocidal terrorism.” READ MORE

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