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Pleased to be in Toronto again. Chance to meet colleagues to talk about #antisemitism and revisit my old haunts on Church and Wellesley. #LGBT
Artur Wilczynski
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Senior Fellow, GSPIA at the University of Ottawa
Senior Strategy Advisor, Samuel Associates
Board Member, Centre for Holocaust Remembrance and Scholarship
Retired senior intelligence official, Ambassador and Public Servant (He/Him)
I'm thinking back to this recent piece from @arturmaks about how top natsec officials need to testify in Parliament more often. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2023/must-increase-confidence-canadas/
I'd like to add: if MPs are going to drag Canada's top natsec officials before committee -- and they should! -- the least they could do is some homework and *ask them something*.
Great to visit the #Norwegian Embassy in #Ottawa with students form the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public & International Affairs. Thanks to Ambassador Frederiksen for an engaging conversation on #diplomacy the #arctic #NATO #multilateralism and a range of other #policy questions.
Today is the National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Mosque Shooting in Quebec City and Action against Islamophobia. Important for us to confront #Islamophobia and build inclusive communities for all persons.
This Friday is International #Holocaust Remembrance Day - the anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet forces. It’s important to remember the 6 million men, women and children who were murdered because they were #Jews. We must also remember other victims of Nazism - Roma, the disabled, Poles, Soviet POWs, gay men, political prisoners and others. Let’s build a more robust and resilient democracy for all. #IHRD
The acknowledgment that President #Biden had unauthorized classified documents at his home and at an office is problematic. The mishandling of #classified material is not a partisan question. #Trump case is worse for a number of reasons. The cavalier attitude that many politicians have toward secret and top secret material is a function of lax controls, belief that the consequences of disclosure are minor, and a general belief that most things are over classified (real problem)
This is how I ended up in Canada. #Poland launched an antisemitic campaign in 1968 that led to the expulsion of thousands of Jews. Polish #antisemitism survived the #Holocaust even if it’s Jews did not. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-725871
