Justin Trudeau won’t keep his word to protect a Canadian Muslim
Al JazeeraCanada’s leader once acknowledged people are cynical about politics. When pressed time and again as prime minister to keep his word to kids in desperate need, Trudeau chose pessimism over hope, hypocrisy over humanity and Stephen Harper’s cynical ways over “sunny ways”. The extradition judge, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, dismissed France’s case against Diab as “weak” and said a conviction was unlikely if he were given a fair trial. After Diab returned to his home and family in Ottawa, Trudeau said, “What happened to never should have happened, … and make sure that it never happens again.” But it is happening again, and Trudeau and his callous government have done nothing to stop the blatant persecution of a Muslim Canadian. Amnesty International and a host of human rights activists have called on Trudeau to “immediately make it clear that any future request for Hassan Diab’s extradition to France is unacceptable and will not be entertained”.