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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre have condemned the terrorist group Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, including civilians.

 MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Canadian authorities will delve into the archives of the commission headed by Jules Deschenes, which in the 1980s investigated the backgrounds of hundreds of people in the country accused of war crimes, the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

Canadian authorities will delve into the archives of the commission headed by Jules Deschenes, which in the 1980s investigated the backgrounds of hundreds of people in the country accused of war crimes, the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

Irwin Cotler rarely discusses his influence on the past. He is always looking forward, seeing whose life he may save next.

Canada is grappling with a complicated part of its past after a member of a Nazi unit was honoured in the House of Commons. The incident has Canadians revisiting history and the country's own record after the Second World War. Irwin Cotler is Canada's special envoy for preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism. He is also a former federal Liberal justice minister, attorney general and the international chair at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He joins Rebecca Zandbergen to discuss how Canada should reckon with its past and future actions.