Providing aid and ‘wiping out’ Hamas not mutually exclusive goals: Holland

A second Canadian cabinet member, Health Minister Mark Holland, is echoing comments from Defence Minister Bill Blair, who said on Tuesday that Hamas needs to be “eliminated.”

“I think bringing Hamas to justice and making sure that they are held to account for their actions and that we can work to wipe them out as a terrorist organization and the protection of innocent life are not incompatible concerns,” Holland told reporters on his way into Wednesday’s Liberal caucus…