Mohammed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, has attacked the Conservative minority government for refusing to meet representatives of his group.  He said that they wanted to communicate with the government of Stephen Harper "on Afghanistan, on the Middle East, on U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the threat of the U.S. on Iran," but there was no willingness to meet, he said.
At this point, Elmasry is looking forward to by-elections and a general election, with the hope that the government will be replaced.

On January 8, at a hearing into Canadian government involvement in torture abroad of three Canadian Muslims, Justice Department lawyer Michael Peirce, speaking for Foreign Affairs, the RCMP, and Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), left everyone with raised eyebrows when he said that Canada can share information on people detained abroad, with governments that are accused of torture, in spite of the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

Muslims are less likely to vote than other Canadian religious minorities.  That is a finding of a study sponsored by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW).

The British Bar Council, Law Society, Criminal Bar Association, Bar Human Rights Committee, and Commonwealth Lawyers Association have joined in criticizing Canada for failing to act on the case of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, imprisoned at Guantanamo now for six years since his capture in Afghanistan when he was a 15-year-old child soldier.

Writing in Academic Matters, a Canadian journal, Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Islamic scholar, attacks Western universities for the way in which they teach about Islam and the use they make of Muslim scholars.

Some people's noses are out of joint because of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's brand of season's greetings.  His card wishes recipients a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah but does not mention Eid-ul-Adha, in spite of the fact that there are half again as many Muslims as Jews in the country.  His website greetings make the same omission.