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Raymond J. de Souza: Canada's long, sad history of non-policing police

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The Toronto police have announced that henceforth, and forthwith, to better serve and protect, they will commence … policing!

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Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters will no longer be permitted to parade through Jewish neighbourhoods hurling antisemitic invective at the residents. As this deliberately aggressive harassment has been going on for more than two years, the minimal comfort offered by the Toronto police comes rather late in the day, but it is something. Protesters will retain the right to air their grievances — against Israel, against Jews — on the main streets and intersections. No longer can they disturb the peace on residential streets.

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For 30 months now my Jewish friends have professed shock at the eruption of antisemitism in Canadian cities — Toronto and Montreal principally — which has included not only incitement to violence but actual violence. It may be that the shots fired at two Toronto synagogues recently led to the new police-doing-policing strategy.

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