Who Canada honours is a direct reflection on our country and our values, and nothing conveys that more profoundly than our nation’s highest civilian honour: the Order of Canada.

Its recipients are supposed to represent our very best by recognizing those who, through their life and conduct, embody the aspiration contained in the Order’s motto: “They desire a better country”.

But what happens when a recipient of this distinction, entrusted to represent the very best of Canadian values, instead undermines them? This is the question before us today, and why we believe Mohamad Fakih’s appointment to the Order of Canada must be revoked.

On Aug. 25, Fakih took to social media to declare: “On behalf of literally every Canadian of conscience: if you are a Canadian and a supporter of Israel, you

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