The Doug Ford government has put forward a motion that would censure an Ontario NDP MPP over her comments on the Israel-Gaza war and ask they not be recognized in the legislature until a formal apology is made and a statement on social media is deleted.
It would be great if they would censure Steve Clark for overseeing the $8 billion greenbelt graft instead of this pearl clutching virtue signaling.
The motion calls comments made by Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama last week “antisemitic” and “discriminatory.” If passed, it would call on the Speaker not to recognize Jama in the House “until the Member retracts and deletes her statement on social media and makes an apology in her place in the House.”
Didn’t she already retract and apologize?
It also demands that the MPP “desist from further conduct that is inappropriate and unbecoming of a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.”
From what I saw, the issue with the statement in the first place was the timing and that it didn’t call out every group that needed to be called out. That’s what the issue was. They’re also saying the NDP is an “antisemitic party” and that ‘Jama is not fit to be premier’. The statements are all wild, it almost makes me think they’re trying to use this as a distraction.
They’re intentionally making wild controversial claims to direct attention away from the greenbelt controversy
They’re trying everything to distract from the Greenbelt. They’ve tried pronouns and now they’re trying this. The Ontario Conservatives are corrupt and nothing will hide that.
The motion comes less than a week after the rookie MPP posted a statement on social media calling for a ceasefire in the region while also demanding an end to “all occupation of Palestinian land.”
In the statement, Jama did not address the Hamas attack on Israel, which spurred the most recent violence in the region.
About 24 hours later, Jama issued a written apology for her comments after a lengthy discussion with NDP Leader Marit Stiles—who asked Jama to retract the post.
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“I heard many voices yesterday raising concerns about my post. I hear them - and above all, I understand the pain that many Jewish and Israeli Canadians, including my own constituents, must be feeling. I apologize,” she wrote.
You can’t drag someone down to follow the chain of responsibility endlessly, because that’s only going to end up falling to the British/American clusterfuck in the region post-WW2.
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Didn’t she already retract and apologize?
From what I saw, the issue with the statement in the first place was the timing and that it didn’t call out every group that needed to be called out. That’s what the issue was. They’re also saying the NDP is an “antisemitic party” and that ‘Jama is not fit to be premier’. The statements are all wild, it almost makes me think they’re trying to use this as a distraction.
They’re intentionally making wild controversial claims to direct attention away from the greenbelt controversy
They’re trying everything to distract from the Greenbelt. They’ve tried pronouns and now they’re trying this. The Ontario Conservatives are corrupt and nothing will hide that.
Statement and subsequent apology
So, nothing to apologize for. Unfortunate she did.
Agreed
Yes, but what spurred the Hamas attack on Israel?
crickets
You can’t drag someone down to follow the chain of responsibility endlessly, because that’s only going to end up falling to the British/American clusterfuck in the region post-WW2.