Grit MP’s anti-Islamophobia motion attracts hate, now has police guarding her riding office

And Liberal MP Joel Lightbound, who represents the Quebec City mosque where six men were killed by praying, wants fellow MPs 'to tone the rhetoric down and to start writing a new chapter in our collective history.'

Liberal MP Joël Lightbound stands at the back among a group of colleagues as they wait for Iqra Khalid and Mélanie Joly to lead a press conference about M-103.The Hill Times photograph by Maureen McEwan

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BY MAUREEN MCEWAN

February 20, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—It was a subtle gesture amid the commotion. Voices echoed throughout the Commons foyer on Feb. 15 as dozens of MPs arranged and re-arranged themselves. Members waited for Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville) and Liberal MP Iqra Khalid (Mississauga-Erin Mill, O...

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