Recent Statements
Statement from Official Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Every year, we take a moment to remember and reflect on an inhuman genocide carried out by human beings. The systematic planning and carrying out of the destruction of six million human lives is an unequalled tragedy in a century …
Statement by Liberal Leader Bob Rae on Holocaust Remembrance Day
VAL-D’OR, QC— Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Yom HasHoah is a day of deep reflection for Canada’s Jewish communities, and Jewish communities around the world. The atrocities of the Holocaust saw six million …
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Yom HaShoah
April 18, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Yom HaShoah is a day to commemorate the nearly 6 million Jewish men, women and children who were slaughtered by …
Minister Kenney issues statement condemning anti-Semitic vandalism in Val Morin, Quebec
Ottawa – April 17, 2012 – The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, issued the following statement condemning the anti-Semitic vandalism at several summer cottages in the Laurentian municipality of Val Morin, Quebec over the past few …
Bob Rae: Statement on Passover
Bob Rae: Statement on Passover
Statement by NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair on Passover
As Passover celebrations begin, allow me to share my warmest wishes with the Jewish community far and wide. As families and friends gather together for Seders, they will once again tell the remarkable story of the exodus of Jews from …
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Passover
April 5, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement to mark the beginning of Passover: “I would like to send my best wishes to those in Canada and around the world who will be celebrating …
Statement by Hon. Thomas Mulcair (Leader of the Official Opposition, NDP) on Holocaust Remembrance Day
M. Thomas Mulcair (chef de l’opposition, NPD): (English following) Monsieur le Président, chaque année, nous marquons un temps d’arrêt pour nous recueillir et pour nous souvenir d’un génocide inhumain pourtant commis par des humains. The systematic planning and carrying out …
Statement by Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.) on National Holocaust Remembrance Day
Mr. Speaker, I rise to commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Day, a remembrance of horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, of the Holocaust as a war against the Jews in which not all victims …
