(CBC) A few weeks after apologizing for comments in a 2019 opinion piece, Canada’s anti-Islamophobia representative began an official tour of communities with a stop in London, Ont., where a Muslim family was killed in June 2021 in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack.
“The call for the creation of a special office to combat Islamophobia came from Muslim communities across Canada, but most strongly from London Muslim communities,” Amira Elghawaby said in an interview with London Morning‘s Rebecca Zandbergen on Monday after her weekend stop.
“I knew that I had to come to London.”
Elghawaby started her post as the country’s first representative to combat Islamophobia amid controversy in late January.
