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Chris Selley: At a synagogue, Carney tells the wrong people to abandon their ethnic rivalries

If everyone was leaving behind their wars and animosities in the old world, as Carney suggests, there wouldn’t be a problem

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The most extraordinarily limp, ineffectual line in Mark Carney’s comprehensively limp, ineffectual address on the growing scourge of antisemitism in Canada, delivered Monday afternoon at a synagogue in Toronto, might have been this: “When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story. You leave behind your wars and your animosities.”

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