On Point With Alex Pierson

On this episode of The Alex Pierson Podcast, our host first speaks with the Deputy Leader of the Federal Conservative Party, Melissa Lantsman. Melissa and Alex talk about the disturbing rise in holocaust deniers in younger generations, and why the Liberal party is defending the decision to appoint Birju Dattani as the new commissioner of the Human Rights Commission...even though he has a known history of public anti-semitism. Next, a B.C. woman who previously moved to Syria and was involved with ISIS has returned to Canada...and charged with acts of terrorism by the RCMP. But what took so long, and what exactly could this woman have done? Phil Gurski is a former CSIS St. Strategic analyst on terrorism and joined Alex to help explain why the RCMP took over 2 years to lay these charges, and if this is serious problem within our borders. And finally, Alex speaks with the Opinions Editor of The Toronto Star Deborah Dundas on an extremely sensitive and important investigative piece. The legacy of one of Canada's