Again this year, Israel Apartheid Week activities took place on university campuses and in the community at large, including York University and the University of Toronto. On Monday March 1st, 2010, Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff issued the following statement: “On university campuses across the country this week, Israeli Apartheid Week will once again attempt [...]
Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you can take a moment to look around and learn more about my work as the Member of Parliament for York Centre. I look forward to hearing your suggestions and comments on how we can build a better Canada – to become what is in us to be; to become what the world needs us to be.
Waiting for Obama; Waiting for Canada
Two years ago the climate change conference in Nairobi seemed a disaster for Canada until the conference in Bali last year made Nairobi seem almost an achievement. In Bali, former Environment Minister John Baird made the mistake of using his blast-away, politics-all-the-time style on people who actually know their stuff and have heard every non-answer [...]
It takes a country…
It’s time to do something about poverty. It’s not right, just not right, that 12%, or 15, or 10 – whatever the number – of Canadians, of us, are living the way we do. And that lots and lots more live not much better than them. It’s not right. And we know it – as [...]
Understanding a dark past: The race is on
Three years ago, I went to the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and later that year to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Last March, after I had been elected Member of Parliament from York Centre, a riding with a large Jewish population, I went to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem the day [...]
