NDP Backtracks on Durban II
The National Post reports that NDP leader Jack Layton is backing down from endorsing Canada’s attendance at the Durban II conference.
According to the Post: “A delegation of eight angry MPs told Mr. Layton the NDP’s call for Canada to take part in an event critics fear will degenerate into an anti-Semitic hatefest risks alienating the party’s traditional blue-collar voting base.”
Apparently, the NDPÂ “is set to release a third position on Durban 2 in the next few days, in which it says Canada should not go unless it receives ironclad guarantees the conference will not become ‘hateful, anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.’”
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