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Re: Immigration minister on the attack as lawyer threatens challenge, June 11.

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s attack on lawyer Rocco Galati for Galati‘s plans to legally challenge the Conservative government’s citizenship bill is disgraceful.

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It is beneath the dignity Canadians expect from all politicians but it is particularly sophomoric from a minister who held out the promise of being cut from a different, more dignified, cloth.Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s attack on lawyer Rocco Galati for Galati‘s plans to legally challenge the Conservative government’s citizenship bill is disgraceful.

Further, Alexander’s polemics are intellectually illogical.

Alexander called Galati a “disgraced” lawyer. It is hardly a disgrace to have been the lawyer responsible, as Galati was, for successfully mounting the legal challenge that removed the constitutionally ineligible government appointment of Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In this regard, Galati possesses something of which Alexander appears to be completely bereft: courage.

Joanna Gualtieri, Ottawa

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