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Canada Skipping UN Racism "Hatefest" Again
(Canadian Press-Toronto Star) Canada will not attend the UN's "Durban III" conference on racism next year, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday. "Our government has lost faith in the Durban process," Kenney said. "Canada will not participate in this charade. We will not lend our good name to this Durban hatefest....The Durban process commemorates an agenda that actually promotes racism rather than combats it." Canada and other countries walked out of the 2001 meeting in South Africa after Iran and several countries began ganging up on Israel, and it led a boycott of Durban II in Geneva last year, where Iranian President Ahmadinejad railed against the Jewish state.