An accountability failure “This is the result of the failure of leaders at all levels to hold accountable those responsible for the hate and violence that is infesting Canadian society,” Topas, who is also the BBC’s regional director for Québec and Atlantic Canada, added.
Richard Marceau, the vice president of external affairs and general counsel at the CIJA said, “In a matter of months, Canada has become a country in which, masked thugs took over our streets, to 1. burn Canadian flags, 2. burn Israeli flags, 3. salute Hitler, 4. celebrate terrorists 5. call for violence
Prime Minister Justine Trudeau said he was “sickened by reports of shots fired at a Jewish elementary school in North York.” He called it “a hateful, antisemitic attack.”
Trudeau issued a similar statement last week after the Montreal attack, but many Jews in Canada say that his government’s desire not to provoke the country’s large Muslim population has muted any concrete response.
Additionally, they say that Canada’s lukewarm support of Israel post-October 7 (Trudeau is one of the few Western leaders who did not pay a solidarity visit to Israel) has emboldened the anti-Jewish sense of empowerment.
