A former Canadian aboriginal leader guilty of willfully promoting anti-Semitism was stripped of the Oder of Canada. The move to strip the nation’s highest civilian honor from David Ahenakew came Tuesday, days after he was fined $1,000 for anti-Semitic comments he made in 2002.
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