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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Hear the highlights of this historic debate over Holocaust denial in Canada’s House of Commons
Description: A historic debate took place in the House of Commons on Wednesday. With two nearly identical proposals tabled to ban Holocaust denial, members of Parliament tackled the one put forth first, by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh. They spent an hour debating it, though most of them agreed to support it, at least in principle.
It may all be moot—the bill may be thrown out if and when the federal budget gets passed, as the Liberals' version of the bill is nestled into that massive document. But until then, and on the eve of Yom ha-Shoah, Waugh's bi...