Cotler, MacKay and Kara-Murza: Canada must honour Russian dissident

In February 2012, at the height of the protests that swept Russia following a rigged parliamentary election, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov came to Toronto and Ottawa to make an appeal to Canada’s political leaders.
Contrary to customary slurs by Kremlin propaganda, he did not ask Canada (or anyone else in the West) for help in fighting for democracy in Russia.
What he and other Russian democracy activists wanted Canada to do was to stop, in effect, enabling corruption and human r