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A Canadian Lawmaker, and Friend of JD Vance, Channels Charlie Kirk

Jamil Jivani, a Canadian lawmaker who bonded with JD Vance at Yale Law School and delivered a Bible reading at his wedding, arrived at the University of Calgary on a recent winter evening — the latest stop on his tour of Canadian college campuses.

If the tour sounded familiar — Mr. Jivani celebrated masculinity and reached out especially to young men in the age of diversity, equity and inclusion — that’s because it was inspired by the movement started by Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. A month after Mr. Kirk’s killing in September, Mr. Jivani began his tour to “honor that same commitment to free speech and free debate” represented by the “great Charlie Kirk,” he told Breitbart News, the right-wing site.

With echoes of President Trump’s movement, Mr. Jivani called his own “Restore the North.”

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