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Here are the banned words Conservative MP Michael Cooper quoted from accused Christchurch, New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto that blew up the Commons justice committee last week: “Conservatism is corporatism in disguise. I want no part of it … The nation with the closest political and social values to my own, is the People’s Republic of China.”

Cooper cited those three short sentences from Tarrant’s rambling, 74-page manifesto for a reason.

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He was responding to a claim by Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council.

In his testimony, Suri linked “conservative commentator,” without any qualifications or limitations, to the alt-right, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups, mass murderers, and U.S. President Donald Trump.

He suggested these factors contributed to terrorist Alexandre Bissonette’s attack on a Quebec City mosque in 2017, in which six Muslims at prayer were shot dead, and to the Christchurch terrorist attack earlier this year, where 51 Muslims in two mosques were murdered.