Talk:Omar Alghabra

Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2021

Amend this wiki to reflect Omar Alghabra's new position as Canada's Minister of Transportation CanadianLegend01 (talk) 00:26, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EN-Jungwon 14:41, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Adding a reference to Jihad Watch

May I suggest references be included to his past anti-Israel and pro-Hamas activities, 142.116.75.81 (talk) 13:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

@142.116.75.81: according to Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources, Jihad Watch "was deprecated in the 2021 RfC; of the editors who commented on the substance of the proposal, they were unanimous that the source is unreliable. It is a blog generally regarded as propagating anti-Muslim conspiracy theories." --Ahmed M Farrag (talk) 20:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

References

Nationality

Could the following please be added to the nationality parameter of the infobox?

{{hlist | Syrian | Canadian<ref>{{cite news |date=December 8, 2006 |title=Dion Among a Dozen MPs with Dual Citizenships |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/dion-among-a-dozen-mps-with-dual-citizenships-1.574134 |work=CBC News |access-date=April 10, 2021}}}}

Thanks, 24.77.42.223 (talk) 22:00, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

 Done. Although I have put this for citizenship parameter instead of nationality, since that's what the source said. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 03:29, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2022

change by Iranian military to the Iranian military 45.49.246.117 (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

 Done —WildComet ^talk 00:01, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2022

"Alghabra became Minister of Transport on January 12, 2021, following the resignation of industry minister Navdeep Bains, resulting in a Cabinet shuffle.[17] - Despite having no experience related to transportation. 209.89.76.156 (talk) 18:28, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: Wikipedia states what secondary reliable sources say about a given topic. The reference to the sentence in question does make mention regarding his lack of experience, but it is reporting on what 2 economic educators had to say on the issue. Because the organization reporting on it made no claim one way or the other that would be a primary source regarding what those 2 specific educators believed. You would need to provide a separate source from a reliable organization that reports on this concern. —Sirdog (talk) 21:43, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

There is no requirement under law that a person has to have prior professional experience in a field before they're allowed to be government minister for that area. If that were the way it worked, then every government would invariably have gaps where a cabinet position couldn't be filled because nobody in the caucus had the "correct" type of work experience to be appointed head of that ministry. So the core requirement to be minister of transportation isn't having worked in transportation; it's understanding concepts of law and policy development, which is precisely why so many politicians are lawyers. Appointment to government ministries always has less to do with direct professional experience in that field, and more to do with transferrable skills, and it would be entirely inappropriate to single Omar Alghabra out for special criticism on the basis of something that's completely normal. Bearcat (talk) 22:19, 21 October 2022 (UTC)