The consequences of Islamophobic Conservative policies are coming home to roost

O’Toole had a seat at the table that spawned the Islamophobic rhetoric and campaign platform of the hate-filled 2015 federal election, but it is Harper whose Islamophobic policies got the ball rolling.

Current Conservative Party Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured left during an October 2020 press conference, and former leader Stephen Harper, pictured during a 2015 campaign stop in New Brunswick. If O'Toole doesn’t attempt to make amends for his part in Islamophobic Conservative policies, good luck with that election win he seeks, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and file photograph

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

June 16, 2021

OTTAWA—There is a direct line from the political and policy responses following 9/11 to the murder of the Afzaal-Salman family; there is a cause and effect when politicians spread state-sanctioned hate through policies and the rhetoric required to sell them to the public. It is at this point of re...

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