🇨🇦 Moderate new Muslim group aims to broaden dialogue beyond certain 'politically charged issues'

The funniest part is that even a new Muslim institute is admitting Ottawa prefers symbolism over substance. While politicians chase performative headlines like nearly 1,000 prayer or quiet rooms in federal buildings for a workforce where only two per cent self-identified as Muslim, actual concerns named here are the same ones crushing everyone else: housing, cost of living, opportunity. As reported, the complaint is basically that the state keeps staging identity theatre instead of dealing with reality.

That is the Trudeau-era formula in one neat package: carve the country into demographic blocs, appoint approved activists to speak in their name, then feed the bureaucracy another diversity prop and call it inclusion. Now a new group says many existing advocacy outfits come with predetermined views and that foreign influence and radicalization also need honest discussion. Of course they do. In a sovereign country, policy should serve citizens, not media-friendly grievance scripts or bureaucratic DEI pageants. Canada does not need more performative multicultural management. It needs a government that stops treating communities like branding exercises.

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