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Justin Trudeau and Harold Troper

Irving Abella: It was like a scene out of the Planet of the Apes, me surrounded by the Prime Minister babbling gorillas taunting the Liberal leader with every word he spoke, according to NOW Magazine. I awoke in a cold sweat. Or maybe it the Harper police.I had a dream last night after Liberal leader Justin Trudeau livestream to the nation on the subject of liberty. It was probably the Twitter backlash to Trudeau speech that caused it. Trudeau invoked the "none is too many" line used as the title of Irving Abella and Harold Troper book on Canada policy to turn back Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany during the 1930s in a comparison of the current government policies toward Muslims. The predictable onslaught follows on social media among Conservatives every time anyone takes off the gloves with their beloved PM. There were a few moments like that last night, with the Grit leader saying the PM anti-terror rhetoric is fomenting hatred against Muslims of the kind more familiar in history when brown shirts were laying waste in Europe, and Canada was battling its own demons of intolerance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.