Make no mistake, the Liberals are not at all serious about alienating a current voters block to defend a waning one.
Votes and staying in power are all that matter to the Liberals:
Pierre Poilievre "I remember Mr. Alghabra lobbying me before he was in politics to keep Hezbollah legal, so I'm not sure that he's the right guy to combat anti Semitism." @PierrePoilievre https://t.co/5TTVcNhXiq pic.twitter.com/RG4graSOkR
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) June 2, 2026
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One of the nation’s largest Jewish groups yesterday dismissed as ineffectual the appointment of a Department of Heritage committee to investigate anti-Semitism. Heritage Minister Marc Miller acknowledged the committee was merely “a first step.”
Rather, window-dressing.
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Who the hell do you think you are? The Southhampton police?:
On Saturday in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., a 52-year-old resident who objected to Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)-linked protesters in his neighbourhood was tackled from behind by Sûreté du Québec (SQ) officers, punched repeatedly and left with broken glasses. The disturbing video suggests serious imbalances between the rights afforded to residents and those granted to protesters.
In a viral video posted to social media by the X account Leviathan, André Therrien can be seen exchanging words with police officers and protesters, before turning around and walking away. The officers then decide to follow him. They tackle him from behind, knocking him to the ground, punch him several times in the liver and break his glasses before they cuff him.
For me, the most chilling thing in the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments of life is the cops’ cruel presumption that he is lying. As he writhes in terror and agony and cries out ‘I’ve been stabbed!’, a voice in the background – presumably that of the lowlife who murdered him, Vickrum Digwa – says: ‘He hasn’t been stabbed.’ A female officer responds. ‘I know’, she says. ‘But we have to check, don’t we?’
I know. It is delivered with dry, bureaucratic indifference. Henry is heard moaning, begging, ‘I can’t breathe’, yet here is a representative of the state seeming to agree with his knife-wielding tormentor that he is making it up. That cold, cavalier utterance – I know – will have cemented dying Henry’s great dread: that the police were taking the side of his killer rather than him. As his young, precious life came to an end, he heard himself being disbelieved, distrusted, icily written off as a fabulist. His murderer, meanwhile, was afforded respect. The state blindly bowed to his filthy lies.
The bodycam footage of the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was stabbed in Southampton in December last year is horrifying beyond belief. It is one of the most harrowing two minutes of video I have ever watched. Henry can be seen sprawled in agony in a stranger’s driveway, the place he sought sanctuary after being knifed four times by Digwa. His failing voice is thick with pain and fear. What he wanted in that moment – what he needed – was to be believed. The belief of others was the only thing that might have delivered him from his terror-stricken state. But it never came. He said ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He said ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. ‘I don’t think you have, mate’, said an officer with chirpy, inhumane derision.
It is appalling. A boy’s final moments were filled with the defamatory taunts of his murderer – who falsely accused Henry of racism and assault – and the sterile contempt of the state. With the gloating of the scumbag who stole his life and the clinical disdain of police officers who should have fought for his life. What comes next in the footage is almost unwatchable. The cops drag fatally wounded Henry across the gravel of the driveway. They force his hands behind his back to cuff him. ‘I can’t breathe’, he cries one more time. ‘Put the hand in the cuff, mate’, says an officer as if he were talking to a dog. Seldom has the monstrous indifference of the state apparatus been on such stark display.
Henry was not believed until his life had faded away. As his father, Mark, said in his stirring statement outside court yesterday following the sentencing of Digwa, ‘He lost consciousness before anyone believed him’. The last words Henry heard were the police reading him his rights as they arrested him for assault on the basis of the evil fabrications of his killer.
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