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Grit MP’s anti-Islamophobia motion attracts hate, now has police guarding her riding office

And Liberal MP Joel Lightbound, who represents the Quebec City mosque where six men were killed by praying, wants fellow MPs 'to tone the rhetoric down and to start writing a new chapter in our collective history.'

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BY MAUREEN MCEWAN
February 20, 2017

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