Several asking who to vote for in Canada 2025 federal election?

Several asking who to vote for in Canada 2025 federal election?

As we are approaching the Canadian federal election, we are asking to who we cast our ballot?

It you are a person of principle and care about the future of our country and our children, you will join me in voting in this coming election, and if you believe in Human Rights and feel disgusted with the situations around the world, especially this madness taking place at the south boarder. Also, the double standard of the western societies in dealing with Russia/Ukraine war Vs the genocide taking place against Palestinians for more than 80 years, we are in the same boat.

Analyzing the federal parties is not easy, taking their promises in account is a delusion, we need to check all parties and candidates’ history and where they stand from the main issue.

What is the position of the federal parties?

Voting for any of the conservative parties as committing suicide by giving away our future to extreme right-wing pro-genocide, pro-apartheid, they don’t represent us nor our values, don’t be deceived by their slogans about families’ values, these are not their real value, these are empty slogans.

Blanc check for the Liberal Party is another type of suicide, as they rarely take a principle stand without a real pressure form people and from parties as the NDP or the Green.   

Bloc Quebecois (BQ), Quebec Only Party, was a choice back then when it had a people interest in their agenda, and helped push the governments into decisions could help people needs. But this not anymore, as BQ became a party that lost their “raison d'être”, and now they exist just to be there, mostly stand for right-wing agenda, falsely wearing progressive face.

Voting for the NDP or Green, could be a good solution, but must be well calculated, as it could lead to a disaster of Conservative government majority or minority.

I believe that the best outcome of this election is a minority Liberal that can survive by a strong NDP, this could lead to best possible balanced government.

But how to achieve this?

This could be achieved by understanding what each political party stand for, and understanding the position of each individual candidate as well

Strategic vote ridding by ridding is our best option, this come through several possible scenarios, and must be calculated ridding by ridding, examples

-          We should vote for the Liberal Party candidate who is very strong in his positions from Human Rights and all our core values and is pushing their party to right direction.

-          When Liberal or Conservative candidate is wining with very big majority, (ex the winner has 25, 000 and the second has less than 10, 000) so the vote might not make difference but voting for the NDP will show higher percentage and give them better bargaining power

-          Serious competition between Liberal and Conservative, and the third party is very far, in this case we should vote for the Liberal Candidate, more chance to stop the Conservative

-          Serious competition between Liberal and NDP or Conservative and NDP, and the third party is very far, we should vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament

-          Three-way race, Liberal, Conservative and NDP are very close, I would vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament  

-          We can use Green instead of NDP in all these scenarios, if we believe that Green has better chance.

-          There are a few ridding where we should vote for the candidate that usually stand for the values, without consideration to any calculation, principles come first          

 

How to know the status and the statistics in each ridding?

-          Check Election Canada site it has all ridings result since federal elections started

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=pas&document=index&lang=e

-          Check 338 pool and statics https://338canada.com/

-          Check CBC pool tracker https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

-          History of the Federal Electoral Ridings, 1867-2010 https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ea8f2c37-90b6-4fee-857e-984d3060184e      

 

How to know the candidates position?

-          Check these links

o   Muslim Vote.ca #VoteGaza  https://muslimsvote.ca/

o    The Canadian Muslim Vote: https://www.canadianmuslimvote.ca/

o   Fair Vote Canada https://www.fairvote.ca/

o   Anything But Conservative (ABC) I don’t see them active this election

o   NCCM https://www.nccm.ca/elections-2025/

o   Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) https://www.cjpme.org/

o   Green Peace Canada https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/

 

-          Check the candidate history, on their social media and Canadian Parliament Sessions, if they were an ex-MP

o   Liberal campaign https://liberal.ca/

o   NDP campaign https://www.ndp.ca/

o   Green Campaign https://www.greenparty.ca//

o   Conservative campaign https://www.conservative.ca/

o   Bloc Quebecois campaign (French only)  https://www.blocquebecois.org/

 

Wishing all best luck and good choice, hope we elect who help in shaping better future.

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

 

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel*

Monday, July 1^st, 2024

Canada that we have and Canada that we wish

While we celebrate Canada Day, we have to consider this day as a day of reflection to be sure that we understand the history of our country and to look forward for the future we wish to live and to leave to our children

We see Canada the land of freedom, prosperities, Human Rights and democracy, but we should look deeply, we should look back and to see how this country has been built to understand the reality and to make better future

Canada has been built on colonized land taken by force from the Native Canadians, who has been killed and tortured by the invaders, then hade been divided and named after the two then supper power “the French colonies” and “the British colonies” until confederation in 1867.

Even 1867 confederation didn’t correct this injustice, until now we didn’t give the Native Canadians their rights back, even after they willingly accepted that we share this land with them, some might say that we are better than the other two big colonies in USA and Australia, but this not enough and still not Just.

Yes, we are far better than South Africa before the collapse of the apartheid regime, and far better than the apartheid regime in the Palestinian land, but we did supported the apartheid in SA and we still supporting the apartheid in Palestine, and we still deal with the Native Canadians, the owner of this land through our superiority eyeglasses,

Our colonizing mentality drawn down from the white supremacy that is growing back in Europe and here at home, this mentality of the white supremacy didn’t go away as we wish and think, and we still dealing with the Natives at home and abroad through superiority perspective.

We pretend to believe in values but don’t apply it, we pretend to believe in democracy while supporting overthrowing democratically elected governments in the third world because they don’t serve our interest, we close our eyes to torture committed in many counties and put our economical and political interests before Human Rights, more to be said…. We even export our residential and industrial garbage to be stored or burned up on their land.

In home and abroad, we still tolerate discrimination as long as it is to our liking and fight others as it serve our interest


The Canada we want to live in and leave to our children is the one that “walk the talk”, and “practise what it preach”, not that the hypocritic one. One day we will have it, but it is not here today

 

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

 

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder and ex-Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder and a board member of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD). He is a co-founder of the Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), the Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, and the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”. He is the ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), a member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM).

 

He could be reached at 1-514-863-9202, e-mail: public@mohamedkamel.com, twitter: @mskamel, blog: http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/APresidentForEgypt/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3y4Hxgf05Xr0iDU68r8GQ

 

 

Collectif Échec à la guerre et Voix juives indépendantes: À Gaza, un génocide est en cours.. 12-02-2023

 

Depuis une trentaine d'heures, Israël a repris sa guerre génocidaire contre la bande de Gaza.    Nous employons le mot génocidaire à dessein et c'est pour alerter plus largement l'opinion publique québécoise à cet égard que le Collectif a publié ce matin, conjointement avec Voix juives indépendantes–Montréal, une demi-page dans l'édition papier du quotidien Le Devoir sous le titre À l'approche du 75è anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'Homme : À GAZA, UN GÉNOCIDE EST EN COURS ET LE CANADA EN EST COMPLICE. Nous avons également publié un plein écran de trois paragraphes dans l'édition tablette du Devoir, avec un lien vers la déclaration complète sur notre site.   Cliquez ici pour visionner la demi-page complète du Devoir en format PDF   La quasi-totalité des médias corporatifs, au Québec, au Canada et dans tous les pays occidentaux regardent ailleurs pendant que le crime ultime se déroule présentement à Gaza. Faisant fi de la véritable communauté internationale, ils ne rendent pas compte de l'extrême gravité de la situation et des alertes lancées par de nombreux experts à travers le monde et par les rapporteurs spéciaux des Nations Unies. Faisant fi de ce qui se passe dans leurs propres pays, ils ne rendent pas compte non plus du mouvement de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien, d'une ampleur sans précédent, engagé dans des actions quasi-quotidiennes de protestation, dont d'énormes manifestations chaque fin de semaine à Montréal et plusieurs autres villes. Des journalistes du réseau Bell Média ont même révélé que « des producteurs et des rédacteurs en chef de toutes les plateformes de Bell Media, la société mère de CTV, ont dénigré les invités palestiniens [et] ont dit aux employés que les manifestations appelant à un cessez-le-feu ne devaient pas faire l'objet d'un reportage ».   Face à cet aveuglement volontaire des médias grand public, alignés sur les positions du Gouvernement du Canada qui, lui aussi, regarde ailleurs, c'est à nous tous et toutes qu'il incombe de faire connaître la gravité de ce qui se passe présentement à Gaza et la complicité du Canada.   C'est pour cela que le Collectif a décidé qu'il était urgent de faire paraître cette demi-page dans Le Devoir (sans attendre les 2-3 semaines de plus qu'il aurait fallu pour recueillir des signatures et des contributions pour sa publication) et de le faire conjointement avec Voix juives indépendantes–Montréal.   Dans les prochaines semaines, nous allons aussi créer sur notre site Internet un espace où nous documenterons davantage la nature génocidaire de ce qui est présentement en cours à Gaza et les avis de nombreux experts à ce sujet.   Les multiples crimes contre l'humanité et l'entreprise génocidaire actuelle de l'État d'Israël doivent cesser. Exigeons la fin de la complicité canadienne!   Merci de faire circuler dans vos réseaux.   Solidairement, contre la guerre et le militarisme! Martine Eloy et Raymond Legault, pour le Collectif Échec à la guerre

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Dear Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs Minister, by: Khaled Mouammar

Dear Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs Minister

 

A message from: Khaled Mouammar

Jun 28, 2023

 

The Israeli military has an entire territorial division with six brigades on the ground in the occupied West Bank to protect illegal settlers whose mere presence is a war crime according to Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the ICC.

It doesn’t make any sense that an army that can pinpoint suspected Palestinian activists in Nablus, a city of 170,000 people, cannot keep tabs on gangs of settlers operating in an area where the army has full control.

From June 20 to June 24, armed gangs of settlers committed 35 pogroms in the Palestinian villages of Turmus Ayya, Luban al-Gharbiyeh, Burqa, Kufr al-Dik, Birin, Kisan, Husan, Yasuf, Urif, Susya and Umm Safa as well as on the road between Nahalin and Jaba in the occupied West Bank. In many cases, Israeli soldiers accompanied settlers in their rampage and did little to restrain them and in some instances assisted the settlers.

 

Israeli officials pay lip service against settler pogroms in the occupied West Bank while in reality the settlers have always been able to commit these crimes because they have always been backed and protected by Israel’s occupation forces.

Four months after settlers committed a pogrom in the town of Hawara on February 26 torching homes, cars and shops and killing one Palestinian, Israel still has not prosecuted anyone suspected of taking part in the rampage although 17 settlers were suspected of involvement in the pogrom.

 

Military Intelligence can promptly track suspected Palestinian activists in the occupied West Bank and arrest or kill them but they will not arrest or prosecute gangs of settlers going on rampage.

Moreover, settlers are backed and protected by three top government officials who live in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich  who is also Minister responsible for Civil Administration in the West Bank lives in the settlement of Kedumim, Minister of National Missions Orit Strock  and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir live in a settlement in Hebron. All three have expressed support for settlers going on rampage.  So the only difference between this government and past ones is that it is out in the open.

Israel did not hesitate to commit a war crime by moving settlers into the occupied West Bank, to enable it to ultimately annex the West Bank, and its occupation forces are stationed there to protect those settlers. These occupation forces will not raise a hand when settlers attack Palestinians but they are quick to fire at Palestinians who defend themselves from settler attacks.

The temporary status of “occupation” of the Palestinian territories is now a permanent condition in which one state ruled by one group of people rules over another group of people

All the territory west of the Jordan River has constituted since 1967 a single state under Israeli rule, where the land and the people are subject to radically different legal regimes, and Palestinians are permanently treated as a lower caste.

As a result, it is no longer possible to avoid confronting a one-state apartheid reality. Canadian policymakers and analysts who ignore this one-state apartheid reality will be condemned to failure and irrelevance, doing little beyond providing a smokescreen for the entrenchment of the status quo that inflicts racism and pogroms on indigenous Palestinian Semites.

 

Canadian Jews call on Canada to condemn Israeli minister's comments and take action

 

La version française suit For immediate release 2 March 2023–Independent Jewish Voices Canada is calling for immediate action by the Canadian government in response to yesterday’s comments by a senior Israeli minister that the Palestinian town of Huwara should be “wiped out”.  Speaking at a conference hosted by news publication The Marker, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the minister in the Defense Ministry in charge of civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, said he thinks “the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out” and that “the State of Israel should do it” rather than private citizens. Huwara is a Palestinian town on the outskirts of Nablus surrounded by settlements, long subject to violence from Israeli settlers and orchestrated infrastructure shut-downs from the Israeli government. The Minister’s comments come a few days after Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage in Huwara and neighbouring villages, which has been widely labelled a pogrom, including by the Israeli military general in charge of troops in the West Bank and the former Director of the Anti-Defamation League. 400+ Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Huwara, Zaatara, Burin, and Asira al-Qibliya, burning dozens of homes and killing a 37 year old Palestinian man while wounding hundreds as Israeli forces stood by. The man who was killed, Samih al-Aqtash, had just returned from volunteering in Turkey to help earthquake victims. He was the 67th Palestinian killed by either the Israeli army or vigilante settlers this year alone.   A pogrom is a violent riot with the specific intent to massacre or expel a specific group of people. It emerged as a Yiddish word in the late nineteenth century to describe the attacks on Jews across the Russian empire. We use the word “pogrom” to recognize that Israeli settlers are recreating the kind of targeted, racialized terrorism that targeted Jews in Europe. We use this word to recognize the hypocrisy of claims that Jewish settler riots are protecting Jewish safety.  Many Canadian and Israeli Jews, including many of our members, have ancestors who lived through these horrific, targeted antisemitic riots in Europe. Many of our members are also descended from, or are themselves, survivors of ethnic cleansing and genocide. These atrocities often started with pogroms that were officially ignored or officially enabled.  Yesterday’s comments by Smotrich are a clear validation of Sunday’s pogrom and constitute an explicit call for ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide. To this we say loudly and unequivocally: “not in our name.” What we are witnessing in Israel is shocking, but it is by no means an aberration. Emboldened by the impunity afforded to them by the likes of Canada and other Western governments, the Israeli government and settler groups are simply more explicit about their settler-colonial aims to displace, replace, and keep Palestinians out from the lands they claim. Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians, known as the Nakba, or "catastrophe", which continues to this day, 75 years later. IJV calls on Canada to clearly articulate what the Israeli government is calling for as ethnic cleansing and condemn Minister Smotrich's comments in the strongest possible terms. Canada cannot claim to be vigilant against ethnic cleansing and genocide while refusing to name Israeli action and incitement to these heinous acts.  IJV also joins calls on the Canadian government to boycott the new far-right Israeli government and to advocate for international protection for the undefended Palestinian people living under Israeli rule. Finally, IJV calls on organizations representing Canadian Jewish communities to loudly condemn the settler pogrom and government officials’ incitements to violence. Our communities need clear moral leadership to hold Israel to account. Israel isn’t shying away from saying it as it is. Neither should Canadians.

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Pour diffusion immédiate Le 2 mars 2023 - Voix juives indépendantes Canada (VJI) demande au gouvernement du Canada de prendre des mesures immédiates en réponse aux récents commentaires d’un ministre israélien pour qui le village palestinien de Huwara devrait être « anéanti ». À l’occasion d’une conférence organisée par le journal The Marker, le ministre des Finances, Bezalel Smotrich, qui est également le ministre de la Défense responsable des affaires civiles en Cisjordanie occupée, a déclaré que selon lui, « le village de Huwara doit être anéanti » et que c’est « l’État d’Israël qui devrait le faire », plutôt que de simples citoyens. Petite ville palestinienne située en périphérie de Naplouse et entourée de colonies, Huwara est depuis longtemps soumise à la violence des colons israéliens et aux caprices d’Israël, qui paralyse régulièrement ses infrastructures. Les commentaires du ministre surviennent quelques jours seulement après le violent saccage mené par des colons israéliens à Huwara et dans les villages voisins, un événement qui a été qualifié de pogrom par de nombreux observateurs, dont le général de l’armée israélienne responsable des troupes en Cisjordanie et l’ancien directeur de l’Anti-Defamation League. Une foule de plus de 400 colons israéliens a attaqué les villages palestiniens de Huwara, Zaatara, Burin et Asira al-Qibliya, brûlant des dizaines de maisons, tuant un Palestinien de 37 ans et blessant des centaines de personnes sous le nez des forces israéliennes. L’homme qui a été tué, Samih al-Aqtash, revenait tout juste de Turquie, où il s’était porté volontaire pour venir en aide aux victimes du tremblement de terre. Il est le 67e Palestinien tué par l’armée israélienne ou par des colons cette année. Un pogrom est défini comme une violente attaque menée dans l’intention de massacrer ou d’expulser un groupe de personnes en particulier. Ce terme yiddish est apparu à la fin du XIXe siècle pour désigner les attaques dirigées contre les populations juives sous l’Empire russe. Nous employons le mot « pogrom » pour souligner que les colons israéliens recréent actuellement le même type de terrorisme ciblé et racisé qui a longtemps visé les Juif·ves en Europe. Nous employons aussi ce mot pour souligner l’hypocrisie des affirmations selon lesquelles les attaques menées par des colons juifs servent à préserver la sécurité de la population juive. Un très grand nombre de Juif·ves au Canada et en Israël, dont plusieurs de nos membres, ont des ancêtres qui ont subi d’horribles attaques antisémites ciblées en Europe. Beaucoup de nos membres descendent de survivant·es de l’épuration ethnique et du génocide ou y ont eux-mêmes survécu. Ces atrocités historiques ont souvent commencé par des pogroms que les autorités de l’époque ont ignorés ou officiellement autorisés. Les commentaires formulés hier par Smotrich signalent un appui clair au pogrom de dimanche et constituent un appel explicite au nettoyage ethnique, voire au génocide pur et simple. À cela nous répondons, haut et fort, sans équivoque : « pas en notre nom! » Ce à quoi nous assistons actuellement en Israël a certainement de quoi choquer, mais ce n’est en aucun cas une aberration. Encouragés par l’impunité que leur assurent des pays comme le Canada et d’autres gouvernements occidentaux, le gouvernement israélien et les groupes de colons sont seulement plus directs quant à leurs objectifs de colonisation et leur volonté de déplacer, de remplacer et d’éloigner la population palestinienne des territoires qu’ils revendiquent. Israël est d’ailleurs fondé sur le nettoyage ethnique de 750 000 Palestinien·nes, un événement connu sous le nom de Nakba, la « catastrophe », qui se poursuit jusqu’à ce jour, 75 ans plus tard. IJV demande au Canada de désigner clairement comme du nettoyage ethnique ce que le gouvernement israélien appelle de ses vœux, et de condamner les commentaires du ministre Smotrich dans les termes les plus sévères possible. Le Canada ne peut pas sérieusement se dire vigilant à l’égard du nettoyage ethnique et du génocide, et en même temps refuser de dénoncer les actions d’Israël et son incitation à ces actes odieux. IJV relaie également les appels adressés au gouvernement canadien à boycotter le nouveau gouvernement israélien d’extrême droite et à plaider en faveur d’une protection internationale du peuple palestinien sans défense vivant actuellement sous la domination israélienne. Enfin, IJV appelle les organismes représentant les communautés juives canadiennes à condamner fermement le pogrom mené par les colons et les incitations à la violence lancées par des représentants du gouvernement. Nos communautés doivent incarner un leadership moral clair et demander des comptes à Israël. Israël n’hésite pas à dire les choses telles qu’elles sont. Les Canadien·nes ne devraient pas hésiter non plus.

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Defending Palestinian rights is against McGill's standards, The university threatens Students over a democratic decision, again! By: Ehab Lotayef*

 Defending Palestinian rights is against McGill's standards

The university threatens Students over a democratic decision, again!

By: Ehab Lotayef*

March 24, 2022

At a time when we are encouraging individuals, groups and bodies to speak up against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and witness bodies, such as sports associations, who have historically distanced themselves from politics, speak up, McGill University is denying it's undergraduate student union (SSMU) the right to democratically take a position in support of a nation that has been occupied for 74 years.

The administration, which has historically bowed to Zionist pressure has done it again (https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/dont-conflate-mcgill-student-politics-with-anti-semitism_a_23273708) now. 

"I have communicated these concerns to the SSMU leadership and advised them to take prompt and appropriate remedial action, consistent with SSMU’s obligations under its Memorandum of Agreement with the University, failing which the University will terminate this Memorandum of Agreement." writes the
Deputy Provost in a message to the whole McGill Community.

This is not the first time the administration threatens the students and forces a change in a position that was voted freely by the student body.  It will not be the last as long as the administration gets away with it. 

At a time when the two most credible independent international human rights groups, Amnesty International (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/) and Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution) both acknowledged that Israel is committing Apartheid against Palestinians, McGill decides to put its head in the sand so that it would not disappoint the Zionist lobby or "members of our community feel unwelcome or rejected".  Why would someone feel that way by a resolution that calls for actions against "corporations and institutions complicit in settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians"?  Defenders of apartheid?

McGill acknowledges the land rights of Indigenous peoples (https://www.mcgill.ca/equity/initiatives-education/indigenous-initiatives/land-acknowledgement).  What a hollow, meaningless and hypocritical that becomes if the university does not allow expressions of support of the land rights of indigenous peoples all around the world, including Palestinians.

I hope that the SSMU would stand strong and not bow down to the administration and its pressure, whether it is about the University history, about its environmental policies, about international politics, or university governance.

A McGill community in which "all members feel that they can express their identity and their opinion without a fear of being ostracized" WITHOUT EXCEPTION is the real goal.

* Ehab Lotayef is a Canadian IT Manager, poet, writer, and community activist, of Egyptian origin. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Ehab moved to Canada in 1989, is a father of two and has three grandchildren. Ehab has been working at McGill University, as an IT manager, since 1999.  Before joining McGill, Ehab worked for internationally renowned companies, in Canada and abroad, including Schlumberger, Linotype and Pratt & Whitney.

Ehab is deeply involved in social and community work, including, campaigns against the sanctions and war on Iraq, opposing the blockade of Gaza (organizing and being on board the Freedom Flotilla) and advocating for Native Rights.  Over the years he served on the boards of Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (Pres.), Muslim Council of Montreal, Muslim Schools of Montreal, the Canadian Arab Federation (V.P.), Fair Vote Canada and the Board of Governors of McGill University; and is currently serving on the Board of Montreal City Mission. Ehab is also a founder and former chairperson of both "Muslim Awareness Week" (MAW) and the "Non a la loi 21" (#NL21) campaign.