The federal government's new anti-Islamophobia representative Amira Elghawaby apologized Wednesday for her past remarks about the prevalence of anti-Islam sentiment in Quebec.
In the column, Elghawaby and Farber said that they came to that conclusion after a Léger Marketing poll found that the 88 per cent of Quebecers who held negative views of Islam overwhelmingly supported the ban on religious symbols for public servants.
Earlier Wednesday, as he went into a caucus meeting, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on his call for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to remove Elghawaby from her new position. "Quebecers are not racists," Trudeau said. "Quebecers are among the people who are the strongest defenders of individual rights and freedoms, along with a lot of other Canadians."
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