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In unusual move, Canada raps Trump for proposal to ban Muslims

Published 2015-12-08, 04:39 p/m
© Reuters. In unusual move, Canada raps Trump for proposal to ban Muslims

OTTAWA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Canadian government, which
usually refrains from commenting on foreign election campaigns,
on Tuesday took the unusual step of criticizing U.S. Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump for his comments about
banning Muslims.
"It's something that we can't accept in Canada. ... We have
never been as far removed from what we've just heard in the
United States," Foreign Minister Stephane Dion said when asked
what he thought of Trump's comments.
Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from
entering the United States on security grounds and compared his
plan to the World War Two internment of Japanese-Americans.

Muslims make up around 3 percent of the population in
Canada, which prides itself on being multicultural.
"No political party here could get anywhere near what's been
said in the United States, not even with an Olympic-style pole
vault," Dion told reporters.
After Trump made his proposal on Monday, Canadian foreign
ministry officials had declined to comment on the grounds that
Ottawa did not become involved in election campaigns abroad.

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