Canadas Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for anti-Semitic crimes [Video]

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on the campaign trail Saturday vowed to deport foreigners from Canada for criminal hatemongering, accusing pro-Palestinian protestors’ “hate marches” for contributing to a spike in anti-Semitism.

Poilievre was campaigning in an Ottawa electoral district contested by Liberal leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney, who this week drew the ire of his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu over remarks on the war in Gaza.

“We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws (and) violent attacks based on ethnicity and religion,” Poilievre told reporters.

“Anyone who is here on a visitor visa who carries out law-breaking will be deported from this country,” he added, words echoing messaging from the administration of US President Donald Trump, which has deported pro-Palestinian student protesters.

Poilievre has in the past sought to distance himself from Trump, whose economic attacks and threats to annex the United States’ northern …