Taylor Point and Broadbent Institute

: Taylor called the comments "a ridiculously disproportionate reaction" to the tiny number of women who wear the niqab in Canada, according to Rabble. He speculated that some politicians are cynically trolling for votes by trying to sow division. Taylor point was that the prime minister is fuelling anti-Muslim sentiment and that in turn makes alienated Muslims in Canada more likely targets for terrorist recruiters. The news stories quoting Taylor arose largely from a scrum that he had with reporters following a keynote speech that he made to a gathering organized by the left-leaning Broadbent Institute, a think-tank named after the former NDP leader. He was, for example, one of the main speakers early in March at an international conference in Rome convened by the Catholic Church Pontifical Council for Culture. A public intellectual Taylor, a professor emeritus of political philosophy at McGill University, is perhaps Canada most prominent public intellectual. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.