Government leader, last week, we learned that a Canadian citizen was told by Service Canada that she could not list Israel as her country of birth on her passport but that she could list Palestine. The government now dismisses this as a front-line error, yet this is hardly an isolated incident. This follows Global Affairs Canada recently listing the Israeli embassy as being in Palestine on its website, which was reversed only days later after public outcry.

Meanwhile, municipalities across our country are raising the flag of a non-existent Palestinian state, a blatant overreach of shameless diaspora politics that enables those who target Jewish communities.

All of this points to the same pattern. The Liberal government, now led by Mark Carney, has created ambiguity with its reckless recognition of a Palestinian state, feeding confusion into the bureaucracy, across municipalities and throughout Canadian society.

Leader, will you admit that these dangerous outcomes flow directly from this government’s politically motivated recognition of the state Palestine, which has no borders and no government?

Government leader, I’m not talking about a two-state solution. I’m talking about the recognition of a Palestinian state. One doesn’t equate with the other. An historic number of governments — the Harper government, the Chrétien government — have a tradition of recognizing a two-state solution; we still recognize that. Your government went a lot further than that and recognized a Palestinian state without defining a border or a government. The only thing we know about this state is that it is currently being run by Hamas and that Gaza has been taken over by Hamas. Is that the state that your government is recognizing?