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A-2 | Friday, October 4, 2019 www.WeeklyVoice.com Canada’s Leading South Asian Newspaper - Tel: 905-795-0639 Friday, OctoberJune 2, 20174, 2019 www.WeeklyVoice.com VolVol 25, 23, No. No. 40 22 PM: 40025701 ‘Malabar’ Ocean War Games Off Japan Coast, page 6 Mega ‘Durgotsav 2019’ Festival In Oakville, page 10 Air India Launches Direct Toronto-Delhi Flights, page 12 Scheer Pledges To Reduce Foreign Aid No Funds For Hostile, Rich Regimes; UN Seat Not A Priority Asserts Conservative Leader OTTAWA: Andrew Scheer development assistance. of Stephen Harper. the ex-president of Cuba; and the wants the world to know the Con- Liberal Leader Jus- That argument was put to the $10-million compensation pay- servatives would bring Canada tin Trudeau came to power four test by Scheer on Tuesday, as ment to Omar Khadr. back _ in a very different way. years ago saying Canada was he read out what sounded like a The Conservatives, Scheer said, “It’s time for Canada to put our ready to return to a position of greatest-hits list of the biggest would turn Canada in a different money where our mouth is and leadership on the world stage, a controversies the Trudeau gov- direction _ including inward. only use foreign aid to support the message aimed at those at home ernment has faced in the realm “(Canadians) deserve a prime Canadian values we hold dear,’’ and abroad _ including other lead- of global affairs: Trudeau’s trip minister who will do everything Scheer said Tuesday in Toronto ers at the United Nations _ who to India, which included invit- within their power to return Can- as he talked about how a Conser- believed the country had stepped ing a convicted attempted assas- ada to a place of honour and lead- vative government would handle away from that role under the pre- sin to dinner; the warm words to ership around the world, while international affairs, including vious Conservative government mark the death of Fidel Castro, Continued on page 5 Secularism, Women’s World Marks Rights At Big Face-Off Mahatma Gandhi’s Will Not Reopen Abortion Debate Says Scheer Sesquicentennial NEW DELHI: From school- children in Kazakhstan drawing pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, to Lebanon issuing a commemora- tive stamp on him, to walks for peace and tolerance held in many cities, the world paid tribute to Gandhi on his sesquicentennial in various ways. The Nobel Prize Founda- tion tweeted a quote of Gandhi: “There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.” “Remembering Mahatma Gan- views on environment transcends dhi on what would have been his boundaries. Remembering Ma- 150th birthday. Gandhi was nom- hatma Gandhi on his 150th Birth inated for the #NobelPeacePrize Anniversary. This Gandhi Jay- on 12 occasions,” it said. anti, take a stand for what is right Clarence House, the British and protect India’s environment,” royal residence, tweeted: “Today it said. Leader of the Bloc Quebecois Yves-Francois Blanchet, left to right, Conservative Leader Andrew marks 150 years since Mahatma Schoolchildren in Kazakhstan Scheer, TVA host Pierre Bruneau, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Gandhi’s birth,” and attached a Continued on page 4 at the TVA French debate in Montreal, Oct. 2, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Joel Lemay message from the Prince of Wales OTTAWA: The separation of treal newspaper Le Journal. eral government one day needing celebrating Gandhi’s life and con- church and state and questions Conservative Andrew Scheer, to defend the rights of Canadians. tribution to people all across the about personal character took New Democrat Jagmeet Singh “Because for me, the defence world. the stage during the first French- and Yves-Francois Blanchet of the of rights, be they for women, for “Gandhi’s message of peace language debate of the election Bloc Quebecois joined Trudeau francophones outside of Quebec _ and non-violence, tolerance and campaign, the first time Liberal on stage as they appealed to vot- the federal government has a role forgiveness, and love for the Leader Justin Trudeau faced off ers in a province that could hold to play.’’ whole of humanity, are every bit against his political rivals. the key to their electoral fortunes Singh, who wears a turban as as powerful and relevant in to- The controversial Quebec secu- in the Oct. 21 vote. an expression of his Sikh faith, day’s world as they were in his larism law, known as Bill 21, that Quebec Premier Francois Le- has said he would not intervene lifetime. India was blessed to bans some public-sector employ- gault has urged all federal party to challenge the law, despite op- have such a man as one of their ees from wearing religious sym- leaders to promise to stay out of posing it. Singh sought to counter own, and his example has in- bols in the workplace, featured the court challenges against the any suggestion that his personal spired countless millions. Gan- prominently in the first section of secularism law and none of the religion would get in the way of dhi’s remarkable life was a gift the debate, along with abortion party leaders has called for im- his strong support for secularism to all humankind, which is truly BROKER rights and same-sex marriage. mediate intervention in existing as a public value. worthy of global celebration BROKER Bill 21 is overwhelmingly cases. “I am for the separation be- on his 150th anniversary of his popular among francophones in Only Trudeau has said a gov- tween church and state,’’ said birth,” the message read. REMAX REAL ESTATE CENTRE INC., BROKERAGE Quebec, where four federal lead- ernment he leads might seek to Singh, adding that he supports Greenpeace tweeted: “150 ers tried to make their marks with intervene and he defended that the rights of women to abortion, years and the peace and teach- voters on Wednesday night, in a position Wednesday night. same-sex marriage and medical ings of #MahatmaGandhi still debate hosted by the private TVA “I do not want to close the assistance in dying. ring true. #MahatmaGandhi’s television network and the Mon- door,’’ Trudeau said, to the fed- Continued on page 4 message of non-violence & his After UNGA Setback, Imran Sacks Envoy UNITED NatIONS: Paki- tense diplomatic activity, only hoax was exposed. She tweeted stan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan three countries, China, Malaysia after Monday’s announcement of has abruptly removed his coun- and Turkey, joined Pakistan in her removal, “I had planned to try’s Permanent Representative raising the Kashmir issue - which move on after UNGA following a Maleeha Lodhi after failing to meant they did not have any in- successful visit by the PM.” make headway in his Kashmir fluence on the other 189 countries Lodhi has previously served campaign at the General Assem- in the 193-member UN. Khan twice as ambassador to the US, bly’s high-level meeting. acknowledged the failure, saying the second time covering the cru- Pakistani media reported on when he returned home, “Wheth- cial period of the 9/11 al-Qaeda Monday that she will be replaced er the world stands with Kash- attacks on the US and the US-led by Munir Akram, who had done miris or not, Pakistan is standing action in Afghanistan in which a stint as the permanent represen- by them.” Pakistan became involved as a lo- tative. Akram was involved in an Maleeha Lodhi: (AP Photo/ Lodhi survived a major snafu gistics provider. alleged domestic violence inci- Richard Drew in 2017 when she held up a pic- A former journalist, she has dent in 2002 just as Pakistan was managed to stay on till 2008. ture of an injured Palestinian girl also been Pakistan’s High Com- taking its place on Security Coun- Despite Maleeha Lodhi’s cam- in the General Assembly claiming missioner in Britain. cil as an elected member. But he paign at the UN and Khan’s in- that she was a Kashmiri and the Continued on page 4 A-4 | Friday, October 4, 2019 FroNT/NatioNAL www.WeeklyVoice.com THE WEEKLY VOICE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Trudeau Called A ‘Fake Environmentalist’ Bala Menon Continued form page 3 ASSOCIATE EDITOR “I will defend these rights with Shazia Malik all my strength,’’ he said. Scheer said he would not im- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS pose a secularism law federally, Amb. Praveen Verma (Retd.) but that he would also not in- Dr. Nivedita Das Kundu tervene in the court challenges Preeti Thandi Harj Chaggar against it. Amitabh Saxena The debate became heated dur- ing a discussion about the fight Graphic Design against climate change, where Tamarind Tree Pierre Bruneau, the news anchor moderating the debate, noted ACCOUNT MANAGERS Trudeau had portrayed himself as Manu Ramachandran a champion of the environment G Prasaad but then bought a pipeline.