Justin Trudeau

Honour Killings Dept: I'm referring to those who timorously pretend that honour killings are not a global phenomenon, peculiar to certain regressive patriarchal cultures. These folks, afraid of appearing racist if they point out the truth - that people from other cultures are capable of doing evil - prefer to label these types of killings domestic violence.'', according to Montreal Gazette. There's nothing that the word barbaric' achieves that the words absolutely unacceptable' would not have achieved,'' Trudeau said, calling for responsible neutrality.'' Now in all fairness, Trudeau was not referring to the Shafia murders. But he was referring, in a more theoretical way, to the use of words to describe the acts that took the lives of the three girls and one woman. And when applied to the ugly reality of their slayings, soft-pedalled substitutes just don't cut it and cALGARY - Now that three members of the Shafia family are off to begin serving their prison sentences on four counts each of first-degree murder, it's time to stop skating on the thin ice of political correctness. It was barely a year ago that Justin Trudeau, MP for the Montreal riding of Papineau and the Liberals' immigration critic, didn't like the use of the pithy adjective barbaric'' in Ottawa's new citizenship guide in the section that described Canada's position on honour killings, among other things. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.