Who said what this week
“I don’t know if I can ever — we can ever — move on.”
UMAR ZAMEER, ON HIS FAMILY’S BURDENS WHILE HE WAS FACING MURDER CHARGES
“They put this guy through Hell on no evidence. It was tactically, ethically, legally and judgmentally ridiculous.”
JOHN STRUTHERS, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CRIMINAL LAWYERS’ ASSOCIATION, ON ZAMEER
“I don’t take any lessons from the Leader of the Opposition when it comes to how marginalized people feel. I’m an Italian Canadian who, in the 1970s, was spit on for being a ‘wop.’ ”
PROVINCIAL PC CABINET MEMBER PAUL CALANDRA, ON THE QUEEN’S PARK KAFFIYEH BAN
“We saw a tent experience within a home in Europe and we thought, well, why don’t we see if there’s any traction here.”
HAMILTON RESIDENT LOLA ALVES, ON HER AIRBNB LISTING OF THREE SMALL TENTS IN A LIVING ROOM FOR $720 A MONTH
“October 7 is proof that we are almost free. Long live October 7. Long live the resistance.”
PROTEST LEADER ON SATURDAY IN OTTAWA
“There is a difference between peaceful protest and hateful intimidation. It is unconscionable to glorify the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. This rhetoric has no place in Canada. None.”
PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU, RESPONDING ONLINE TO THE PROTESTS
“I wasn’t in Ottawa over the weekend, and I’m not aware of those specific reports, so it would be just wrong of me to comment.”
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND, ASKED IF THE REPORTED PROTEST QUOTES WERE HATE SPEECH
“People are dying. My daughter is gone … but the province, Doug Ford, has the power to give us justice.”
VINCE OSTBERG, URGING FORD ACT TO DISBAND THE TROUBLED THUNDER BAY POLICE IN THE WAKE OF DEATHS OF FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE
“Since 2019, Canadian gross domestic product per capita has declined 2.8 per cent, versus a 7-per-cent increase in the U.S. That marks the largest underperformance of the Canadian economy versus the U.S. over a comparable period since at least 1965.”
ECONOMISTS NATHAN JANZEN AND CLAIRE FAN, IN A REPORT PUBLISHED BY ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
“Disorientation replaced the movie business … When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a firehose of water, just trying to see.”
JERRY SEINFELD, PROMOTING HIS NEW FILM “UNFROSTED”