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Grits, Tories battle for Jewish support in next election
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 28, 2009 09:04pm |
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| Author | The Canadian Press |
| News Date | Monday, June 29, 2009 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA -- The fact Liberal MP Anita Neville is Jewish just didn't seem to hold as much sway with her Winnipeg community last election.
Neville watched as some of her formerly faithful Jewish supporters left for the Conservative party, impressed by its unequivocal pro-Israel stance.
It was a phenomenon felt in other Liberal ridings with significant Jewish populations. One of those ridings actually went blue.
"I have some constituents who for them, (Israel) is the only issue, and they will vote based on that issue and we were not in a good place at that time and not clear in our responses," Neville said of the period before the 2008 campaign.
"That is not the case anymore."
The Liberal party is now struggling to regain its cachet with Canada's Jewish community before the next election.
Leader Michael Ignatieff gave one of his strongest pro-Israel speeches yet, to the Canadian Jewish Congress last month, pushing the party away from a moral neutrality on Middle East issues that made some in the Jewish community unhappy.
"We cannot be neutral between democracy and terror," Ignatieff said. |
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