Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the University of Regina Students' Union for ending its involvement in the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the State of Israel.
The U of R Students' Union is now out of the anti-Semitism business, and most promising, the movement to end anti-Semitism funding in Canadian universities is growing.
One day after the U of R decision, the University of Manitoba Students' Union also voted to prohibit Students Against Israeli Apartheid from receiving funds or using its facilities.
The State of Israel, like any western democracy, is not perfect, but to label it an apartheid state is just wrong.
I therefore congratulate both student unions for recognizing what the State of Israel is, a multi-party liberal democracy.