Could all the parties just cool the rhetoric on racism and immigration?

Both sides have a choice: politicize and drive wedges, or lower the temperature and bring people together. Weaponize the debate or bring more people on to the side of combating division, supremacy, and phobias. It’s that simple.

Far right anti-immigration groups, pictured on Dec. 8, 2018, on Parliament Hill, protested against Canada signing the UN Global Compact For Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, along with 167 countries. Demonstrators were met by counter protesters who were advanced upon by Parliamentary Protective Services and RCMP officers. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CARDOZO

April 22, 2019

OTTAWA—White supremacists. Islamophobia. Systemic racism. Racialized people. Irregular entrants. These are hot words on Parliament Hill these days. These are all terms that identify problems facing Canadian social cohesion and are often discussed without a common understanding. Discussion around...

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