OTTAWA—Late Monday night, after the New Democrats agreed to overhaul a controversial motion that could have seen Ottawa recognize Palestine as a state, two NDP MPs walked up to the House of Commons’ public gallery where a group of Palestinian Canadians had gathered.
The party’s foreign affairs critic, Heather McPherson, and her colleague, Matthew Green, briefly sat and spoke with the young activists, many of whom wore black and white kaffiyehs: scarves traditionally donned in parts of the Middle East that have become emblematic of the Palestinian cause.
“I’m not going to lie. I wish that I could have delivered to them statehood for Palestinian people,” said McPherson, who championed the NDP motion, in an interview with the Star.
