Oh Canada, WTAF Pt 2

Carney  definition: a carnival worker, Carnies are junky ride jockeys that are here today and gone tomorrow. 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is certainly putting on a clown show.

In response to a massive rise in antisemitism and assaults on Jews in Canada he has announced a new committee to deal with the problem:

Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, which will be chaired by Culture Minister Marc Miller.  . . . its “first responsibility” will be to “address antisemitism.”

Sounds lovely, but as carnies are wont to do, it is a bait and switch.

This DEI committee replaces the special envoy to combat antisemitism  post- but that envoy post has been vacant under Carney for almost a year now.

Instead of a focus on stopping antisemitism as announced this committee is basically a DEI clown show.

In another sign that the Prime Minister is clearly not serious on actually combating antisemitism, this committee announced to combat antisemitism has more Muslims than the Jews on the committee (there's all of one Jew on it) and those Muslims have rather colorful backstories:

The makeup of the new advisory council includes some questionable choices. Miller, for example, served as immigration minister from July 2023 to March 2025. Given that Canada has welcomed unprecedented numbers of newcomers over the past decade, many from countries with high rates of antisemitism, it seems unlikely that he will be willing to admit that some of his own policies may have contributed to the problem.

It also includes Avnish Nanda, the lawyer who represented the anti-Israel students who launched a Charter challenge against the University of Alberta after they were evicted from their illegal encampment, and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.

Alghabra, in particular, has faced considerable scrutiny for his views on Israel and questions over his support for Islamism. He’s the former president of the Canadian Arab Federation, a group that, after this tenure, lost federal funding for its apparent support of Hamas and Hezbollah. In 2022, he defended his attendance at a Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group reception attended by Nazih Khatatba, the editor of an Arabic-language newspaper accused of spreading antisemitism.

This is not to say that either Nanda or Alghabra are antisemites, but given their history, they are certainly odd choices to lead a council tasked with, as Carney put it, “preventing radicalization and addressing institutional biases.”

But, at fear not, there's also a progressive LGBT actisvist,  a retired speedskater, and a Metis advocate for natives in society on the committee so there's that. I daresay the speedskater will be on thin ice with the group.

Yes, the committee announced with great fanfare and tasked to address antisemitism in Canada has people on it who are arguably on the side of the antisemites.

You really can't make this stuff up.