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Source: http://www.cjnews.com/news/international/bds-waning-canada-mayors-say-israel-trip
BDS Waning in Canada, Mayors Say During Israel Trip
(Canadian Jewish News) Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod - The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is waning in Canada, the mayors of Toronto and Montreal said Sunday in Tel Aviv. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said, "We have zero tolerance of racism in any form." Toronto Mayor John Tory said that on campuses "they realized [BDS] was not an honest depiction of what is obviously a very complicated situation here...it doesn't square with the facts. Israel is really one of the only countries in the Middle East that respects human rights, that has an approach to a lot of these issues very similar to Canada's, that is a democracy." The mayors were joined by a delegation of 70 from Montreal and 50 from Toronto, including city councilors and members of the business and education sectors.