Our Communities Should be Safe, Respectful, and Inclusive Places for Everyone.

Our communities should be safe, respectful, and inclusive places for everyone.

The acts of hate and vandalism against the Ummah Masjid Community Mosque and its members in Antigonish are entirely unacceptable and have no place in our community. I am glad to see that law enforcement has acted quickly to address the situation.

Members of the community locally work as health professionals in our hospitals, educators in our academic institutions, and employers who create jobs for people from this part of the world.

It’s important that everyone in this country has the right to the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of the colour of their skin, their country of origin, or the God they pray to.

Thank you to the community for the invitation to join you to express my support. You are welcome in Antigonish and help make the community a better place to call home.