MPs React to Iran’s Alleged Assassination Attempt Against Former Minister Irwin Cotler

MPs React to Iran’s Alleged Assassination Attempt Against Former Minister Irwin Cotler
Former Minster of Justice Iriwin Cotler is seen in Montreal on April 14, 2017. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
Noé Chartier
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Members of Parliament have voted unanimously to salute former justice minister Irwin Cotler for his human rights advocacy work after it was reported Iran plotted to assassinate him.

“We will never stand by while people of whatever political stripe are threatened with death because of their opinions,” Bloc MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe said in the House of Commons on Nov. 18.