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Trudeau surrounded by protesters at Vancouver restaurant

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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is also flaring tensions here at home in Canada. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounded a Vancouver Chinatown restaurant last night, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dining.

Scores of police had to be sent to control the crowd that was chanting for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

For more on the international reaction to what is happening in Gaza, we bring in Jane Boulden from the Department of Political Science at the Royal Military College in Kingston.