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And Trudeau says…

Thank you sir, thank you. Thank you for being here today to share your justifiable passion and frustration and anger with me…On a couple elements you brought up. First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because they are asking for more than we are able to give right now.

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Context: Omar Khadr, notorious terrorist, receives $10-million compensation settlement from Canadian government; dozens of Canadian citizens who joined, or supported ISIL in some capacity, are reported to have returned to Canada.

Location: Trudeau town hall, Edmonton, AB

Question: I need to know how you’re going to protect future Canadians, like my young daughter, 10, 15, 20 years from now, when you’re letting people in with an ideology that just doesn’t conform to what we are doing here.

And Trudeau says…

Well, I can tell you when Italian families settled in Montreal in the postwar years, they faced terrible discrimination, and people who pushed back at them and said, “No, no, no, you don’t belong here, you don’t speak English or French. Every wave of immigration has faced push-back, because of how they dressed or how they sounded or what their belief or religion was….

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Context: Justin Trudeau is the bi-lingual prime minister of a bilingual country. He is asked a question in English.