Rona Ambrose and Widespread Condemnation

Trump: Backlash against Muslims in the U.S. has been growing in recent months and Trump comments have been blamed for fanning those flames, according to Hamilton Spectator. While the comments have drawn widespread condemnation, polls suggest around half of Republicans support those positions. Trump position should not even be considered right-wing, but something far beyond that, said Rona Ambrose in a wide-ranging year-end interview with The Canadian Press. "I think he off the spectrum, frankly," Ambrose said. "That not a voice that we welcome in our party." Earlier this month, Trump, who is hoping to lead the Republican party in the 2016 United States presidential election, called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. He has also advocated for Syrian refugees to be registered in a national database and has suggested Muslims should carry ID cards. Ambrose said she thankful that kind of discourse isn't happening among Canada political leadership, but acknowledged Trump remarks come with consequences. "I think what happens is, it fuels the fire for people that have very bad intentions and then they act," she said. "There no excuse for that, Donald Trump is not an excuse ... I don't think his rhetoric helps the case." Canada has not been immune from anti-Muslim backlash either. Ambrose said that when she spoke out publicly against some of those incidents, she was also criticized. After the attacks in Paris linked to Islamic extremists, a mosque in Peterborough was set on fire and a Muslim woman was attacked in Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.