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Patrick Brown and Progressive Conservative

ethnic groups: From Modi to Bibi in the blink of a photo op, our subsovereign premier global vision is matched only by her parochial ambitions as she burnishes her credentials with ethnic groups back home, according to Toronto Star. Not to be outdone, Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown took his 16th trip to India last January so that he, too, could boast of face time with Modi.NDP Leader Andrea Horwath stays closer to home, but wades deeper into world affairs, courting controversy while cultivating local voters. Order this photo By Martin Regg Cohn Provincial Politics Columnist Sun., May 29, 2016 Listening to the leaders of Ontario three major parties, you would think the world awaited their pronouncements on both provincial and planetary affairs.A checklist of global hot spots targeted recently by our local leaders ranges across the Middle East, South Asia and the Far East: Premier Kathleen Wynne has visited China twice ; then India to hobnob with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February; and a tête-à-tête in Jerusalem with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu this month. This month she rendered her historical verdict on Sri Lanka three decades of civil strife : Article Continued Below Standing together with Tamil Canadians today remembering loved ones killed during the genocide in Sri Lanka, she tweeted. On the same week that Wynne was visiting the Holy Land with a delegation of business entrepreneurs, Hudak issued a challenge in the legislature: Would MPPs from all parties support his private member bill, the Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in Ontario Act His target was the controversial BDS movement that has attempted for more than a decade to organize a boycott, divestment and sanctions strategy against Israel for its partial occupation of Palestinian territory. Who knew that Horwath felt so confident about determining the difference between alleged war crimes overseas versus a systematic campaign of genocide to eradicate the Tamil people from that island nation While Horwath styles herself an authority on Sri Lanka tortured history, former PC leader Tim Hudak lays claim to Israeli affairs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.