Throne Speech Guest List Includes Ottawa Rabbi
File Photo: Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during Chanukah Celebrations at the Premier’s residence.
With Ottawa Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn in attendance, Prime Minister Stephen Harper opened the 41st Canadian Parliament by pledging to bring down the deficit, protect Aboriginal communities and creating a federal Office of Religious Freedom to “help protect religious minorities and to promote the pluralism that is essential to the development of free and democratic societies.”
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