Amid death threats and hate over her anti-Islamophobia motion, Liberal MP Khalid takes the high road

A month after M-103 was first debated in the House setting off a storm of reaction across the country, police are still patrolling her Mississauga-Erin Mills riding office, but Liberal MP Iqra Khalid is trying to focus on the positive responses she's received too. The motion is scheduled for a second hour of debate on March 21 and will likely pass shortly after.

Rookie Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, pictured with some of her caucus colleagues on the Hill last month, said when she first received angry and negative responses to her motion in December she felt confused. The Hill Times photograph by Maureen McEwan

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

March 13, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—When rookie Liberal MP Iqra Khalid tabled her private member's motion, M-103, last December, she said she was looking to start a conversation about systemic racism and religious discrimination in Canada. But before it even came up for debate in Parliament, she got a first-hand look...

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