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Tory candidate Abdi skips Ottawa West-Nepean debate organized by Muslim Association of Canada
Don Butler, Ottawa CitizenMore from Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen
Published on: October 10, 2015 | Last Updated: October 10, 2015 7:19 AM EDT
Another obligation kept Conservative candidate Abdul Abdi from attending an all-candidates debate put on by the Muslim Association of Canada on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Jean Levac / Ottawa Citizen
Conservative candidate Abdul Abdi was a no-show at an all-candidates’ debate Friday in Ottawa West-Nepean organized by the Muslim Association of Canada.
His absence was surprising because Abdi, who had participated in an all-candidates’ debate the previous night, presumably should be eager to cultivate support among those who share his Muslim faith.
In an email Friday night, Abdi’s campaign manager, Austin Jean, wrote that he had informed debate organizers six days earlier that the Tory candidate would be unavailable to take part.
“He has made himself available to dialogue with voters from the Muslim community by attending and speaking at mosques throughout the city,” Jean wrote. “This happens almost every Friday including earlier today.”
Christian Heritage candidate Rod Taylor also skipped the event.
Abdi’s absence was certainly noted by the 50 or so people, predominantly Muslim, who showed up for the discussion between the four candidates who participated — Liberal Anita Vandenbeld, New Democrat Marlene Rivier, Green candidate Mark Brooks and Marxist-Leninist Sam Heaton.
One questioner asked organizers if Abdi had been invited, saying many in the room would like to vote for him but he was running for “the wrong party.”
Another lamented that he had wanted to ask Abdi about the Conservative position on the niqab, which has emerged as a hot-button issue, particularly in Quebec.
“The Conservative candidate didn’t even come, folks,” said Green candidate Brooks. “So we need to get rid of this government.”
Questions from organizers of Friday’s event focused on issues of interest to the Muslim community, including immigration, the government’s controversial anti-terrorism law and Bill C-24, the new law that allows the government to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens convicted of terrorism.
All candidates said they would make it easier to sponsor family members to Canada. Vandenbeld won applause when she declared: “We will not pick and choose who can come to this country based on political considerations.”
All also declared their party’s intent to repeal Bill C-24. “They’re bringing back banishment,” Heaton said, describing the process as “medieval.”
Rivier called Bill C-51, the anti-terrorism law, “a dangerous bill that reflects the worst of thinking on this matter” and said an NDP government would repeal it.
She reminded the audience that, unlike the Liberals, her party voted against the bill on principle “when it was quite popular in the polls.”
Brooks made the point that Green party Leader Elizabeth May was the first to oppose C-51 and proposed 60 amendments to it, while Vandenbeld said the Liberals would “amend and repeal the egregious elements of this bill.”
When asked where they stood on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq and Syria, several candidates seized the opportunity to lament the Conservative government’s approach to foreign policy.
“We can no longer be the honest brokers for peace that we have been in the past,” said Rivier.
Vandenbeld, who has worked extensively abroad for the United Nations, talked about a program she ran designed to bring Israeli and Palestinian women together. “I couldn’t get the Canadian government to fund it,” she said. “I had to get money from Norway and Spain.”
Organizers also asked what the candidates would do to create jobs, noting that the unemployment rate for Muslims in Canada is 13.9 per cent — double the national average.
That gave Vandenbeld an opening to tout the Liberal plan to run modest deficits for three years to help pay for $125 billion in new infrastructure projects over 10 years.
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老胡说的太对了，我刚来加拿大时，就是住在政府房附近，就是central park 后面。我们住的是间接转租来的，我们过了一两个月才弄明白，跟我一起学英语的，跟孩子在park玩的，是难民家庭。那地方的park，看见好几次警察转悠，还问我是不是ok。但是，平时，感觉没什么不好，人都很有礼貌。英语课上了几天，也听到一些索马里的苦难故事。
我工作的环境，也是各色人等见惯，天天的，习惯了，所以，亚非拉人民，都是人。。。，都是建设加拿大所需要的人口资源。
如果你在服务行业，和各色人种打交道，你就知道所谓很难说话的印度人是很Nice的了，印巴人很计较，但是有common sense,有底线。和那些非洲兄弟比，印巴人好说话多了。
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我是接胡叔说的接收难民的话题说的上面那段话。
我是最不喜欢听种族 stereotype那种话的。
我在我工作的地方工作13年了，见太多的人。我根本不去想我服务对象是哪里来的，想不过来。
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