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Episode: We asked Pierre Poilievre about federal funding for UNRWA. Here’s what he said
Description: Just 24 hours into Canada’s federal election campaign, The CJN has put Jewish issues on the agenda.
On Monday morning of Mar. 24, in a hotel near the Toronto airport, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre met with about 40 journalists from significant diaspora communities as part of a media roundtable reserved for “ethnic” news outlets—one of the first media opportunities since the federal election was called over the weekend. Poilievre fielded questions from outlets publishing in Mandarin, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic and Vietnamese—and The Canadian Jewish News was there, too.
While the focus was on Poilievre’s general platform—including why he would be be...