The Quebec government is calling for the resignation of the federal government's special representative to combat Islamophobia over a 2019 opinion piece in an Ottawa newspaper in which she suggested Quebecers are influenced by anti-Muslim attitudes.
Ottawa must fire Amira Elghawaby immediately if she chooses not to resign, Jean-François Roberge, Quebec's minister responsible for relations with Canada and for state secularism, said in a statement Monday. Roberge said the province had initially demanded an apology from her, which he said did not happen. Now, he said, she has to go.
She and co-writer Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said the "the majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed not by the rule of law, but by anti-Muslim sentiment. A poll conducted by Léger Marketing earlier this year found that 88 per cent of Quebecers who held negative views of Islam supported ."
While that tweet wasn't good enough for the Quebec government, it was for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Earlier on Monday, Quebec deputy premier Geneviève Guilbault said that Elghawaby's comments were "inappropriate" and won't help bring people together. Suggesting that Quebecers are "systemically racist" or closed off to religious people or those from elsewhere is unacceptable, Guilbault added.
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