Our friends in the Jewish community
There is a custom amongst lawyers to refer to each other in court as "my friend", or even "my learned friend". I like it, even moreso when it is obviously not true. It's like calling an MP an Honourable Member.
Throughout the morning, Faisal Joseph referred to his "friends", the lawyers of Maclean's.
I suppose that phrase was stuck in his mind, because, as per my previous post, when Joseph made reference to how the Jews have used the hate speech laws to silence their foes, he said, "our friends in the Jewish community".
Good one. I wonder just who Mohammed Elmasry's "friends in the Jewish community" are?

