International Speakers: Kellie Leitch

Kellie Leitch: Maltais wrote a letter to her federal counterpart, Kellie Leitch, calling the speakers "radical Islamists" who don't respect equality between men and women, according to CBC. The event is set to take place at Montreal's Palais des congrs Sept. 7-8 and Muslim organizations in Quebec are criticizing Agns Maltais, the provincial minister responsible for the Status of Women, for asking the Canadian government to bar some invited guests from entering the country as speakers at a Muslim youth conference. On its website, the conference organizers a group calling itself Collectif 1nd pendance says that it will invite international speakers to "share knowledge on religious affairs with young Quebec Muslims." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.