The Canadian government has issued a ministerial permit to Shafik al Hout, vice-chairman of the PLO delegation to the UN, to come to Canada for a series of lecture on the topic, “How Can Zionism be a Form of Racism?” The government policy is that PLO members are admitted to Canada if they have no terrorist record. Protests were raised in the Parliament by Liberal MP Herb Gray of Windsor West, and Progressive-Conservative MP Claude Wagner of St. Hyacinthe.
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