(CTV) An activist invited to speak in Winnipeg said she was shocked by recent comments from Mayor Brian Bowman, who earlier this week called for her to be removed from a panel discussion Friday night.
“I thought I was being invited to a democratic country where the Canadian people enjoy freedom of speech and want to afford it to everyone and I was quite shocked that a mayor would be denouncing a person he does not know,” said Linda Sarsour at a media conference Friday, flanked by supporters from a number of social justice organizations.
On Tuesday Bowman said it was not appropriate to give Sarsour, a Palestinian-American who helped organize the Women’s March movement, as his office put it, a platform “to further propagate anti-Semitic views and hate.”
