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We have come to tolerate the intolerable. Please consider the words of the Honourable Rosie Abella printed in the June 1st. Globe & Mail. “We have to recognize that the human-rights abuses we’ve been tolerating in some parts of the world are putting the rest of us in danger because intolerance, the world’s fastest growing industry, seeks … to impose its intolerant truth on others. Yet over the years, we’ve been incredibly reluctant … to hold the intolerant countries who abuse their citizens to account, and instead, seemed to go out of our way to justify their abuse with an exculpatory lexicon that included terms like …root causes, or, the most recent one, settler colonialism. But in what universe can you ever justify rape, or torture, or hostage-taking? To paraphrase Martin Luther King, the arc of the moral universe may be long, but it does not always bend towards justice…in this unrelenting climate of hate, I feel the hopeful arc turning into a menacing circle. We need to stop yelling at each other and start listening, so that we can reclaim ownership of the compassionate liberal democratic values we fought the Second World War to protect, and to put humanity back in charge by replacing global hate with global hope.”