Ivison, NP: But with news the government will formally apologize for Canada’s 1939 decision to turn away the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 907 German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime, Trudeau has gone beyond merely apologizing for things that happened long before he was born.
This particular apology is being used to justify and exonerate current (failing) government policy on migrants crossing into Canada from the U.S.
Omar Alghabra, the parliamentary secretary to the trade minister, tweeted that Canada must reconcile its promotion of human rights globally with mistakes made at home. “We turned away asylum seekers without giving them due process and dignity. We must learn from our history.”
The tweet provoked a storm from people accusing him of making a direct historical comparison between the Holocaust and the fate facing today’s “irregular” migrants.
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