The call for Amira Elghawaby\u0027s dismissal references comments she made in a 2019 opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen about Bill 21, where she said Quebecers…
Elghawaby attended the memorial service on Sunday commemorating the deadly attack six years ago on a mosque in Quebec City.
“Put all Quebecers in the same basket, as Madame did, is not acceptable,” he said. “These are hurtful words for Quebecers. You have to fight Islamophobia in a unifying manner and that’s what I expect from the people named by various levels of government.”Parti Québécois MNA Joël Arseneau on Monday blamed Trudeau for causing the controversy by naming Elghawaby to the job.
Blanchet it would not have been possible for Trudeau to have checked Elghawaby’s background and missed her comments. “They knew what she had said. They decided with full knowledge of the facts to try it anyway.”
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