It is time for Amira Elghawaby to step down

In the last 18 months, she has shown limited credibility in promoting her mandate for ‘greater understanding and awareness between people.'

Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combatting Islamophobia, has ‘lost the room,’ writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 9, 2024

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I first met Amira Elghawaby in the fall of 2000 when we were both students in an international reporting class at Carleton University. Our professor, the late David Van Praagh, was well connected, and we met diplomats at several embassies. After each meeti...

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