No doubt many Canadians were pleased to hear that prime minister Trudeau had criticized prime minister Netanyahu of Israel for the attack on the holiest of Muslim mosques. It was particularly heinous in that it was during Ramadan, a major time of worship for the world’s Muslims.
The right-wing Israeli prime minister has already been under siege by Canada’s foreign affairs minister and the prime minister for his attempting to take away the independence of the Israeli courts.
Yet little has been said about the similar attempt by the Ontario government to politicize the Ontario superior court of justice.
Maybe nobody has told the feds that the Ontario attorney general has told the Ontario superior court of justice that he wants a larger number of applicants from which to choose. He is actually understood to have said, he wants to choose someone who is like himself.
And that is a very sad thought. The attorney general is my member of the provincial parliament (MPP) and in that position alone, I consider him useless. I don’t even know if he is ever in the riding other than when his limousine drives through Barrie on Hwy 400 on his way home to Severn.
He was the go-to guy in Severn, Ontario for the conservatives and a small-town councillor in Orillia. He is, at best, a ward healer. He was Mr. Ford’s second choice for attorney general after he found out that Caroline Mulroney was not allowed to practice law in Ontario.
But back to Israel. Mr. Trudeau said that Canadians were deeply concerned by the direction the Netanyahu government was taking. Sending Israelis into the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan was the height of disrespect. Our prime minister also expressed solidarity with the huge number of Israelis demonstrating against the attempt by their prime minister to politicize their senior judges.
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