Unionist, it wasn't only Lesley Hughes comments about Israel that got Hughes dumped, it was her specific reference to an Israeli business having advance warning of WTC attacks:
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"Israeli businesses, which had offices in the Towers, vacated the premises a week before the attacks, breaking their lease to do it."
Its unfortunate Hughes made this statement because its not supported by the evidence. One of the many things to avoid in this minefield of an issue.
Further though, there was more to her being dropped than that comment. It was about her entire take on 9/11. As an example of the thing the Dion and the Libs seek to avoid aligning themselves, take the National Post's caustic [url=http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/27/...
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Stйphane Dion was right to jettison Lesley Hughes, the Liberal candidate in the Winnipeg riding of Kildonan-St. Paul. Her poisonous views have no place in a major Canadian party.Ms. Hughes, a former CBC radio host who until recently edited the socialist magazine Canadian Dimension, is sympathetic to the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement.
Ms. Hughes then went on to repeat a variation of the Internet canard that legions of Jews avoided death in the Twin Towers because the Mossad knew the attacks were coming and warned them: “Israeli businesses, which had offices in the Towers, vacated the premises a week before the attacks, breaking their lease to do it.”
This hit piece from NP also brought Bev Collins into the matter:
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Even more damning was Collins’ participation in a creepy 2007 9/11 “truth” conference in Vancouver,..Yet unlike Stйphane Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton has so far refused to cleanse his candidate ranks of a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
If Mr. Layton wants to convince Canadians that the NDP is a truly mainstream party, he must strike Bev Collins from his candidate list.
I give Jack Layton full marks for his support of Bev Collins. In fact, I am aware of scores of people who may be changing their vote to NDP as a result.
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The Cons are asking for Collins dismissal:
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Ottawa NDP continue to flirt with fringe
September 30, 2008Jack Layton must renounce past links to 9/11 conspiracy movement and fire his candidate
Jack Layton and the Ottawa NDP must immediately renounce their links to the repugnant extremism of the so-called “9/11 Truth” conspiracy movement and fire candidate Bev Collins for her radical views, Conservative candidate James Moore said today.
Jack Layton is also a self-professed ‘friend’ of notorious 9/11 conspiracy theorist Barrie Zwicker, a self-styled documentary filmmaker who continues to advance the theory that the United States government was complicit in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
[url=http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1091/106644]Conservative site[/url]
[ 02 October 2008: Message edited by: blogbart ]
[ 02 October 2008: Message edited by: blogbart ]