On this day—October 3, 1980 A bomb outside a Paris synagogue killed two Jews leaving services and two passers-by. The French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre, went on live TV and said the attacker “wanted to strike Jews going to the synagogue and struck innocent French people.” Barre called it a “slip.” His slip separated the murdered in two categories: Jews and “innocent French people.” France spent years looking for a neo-Nazi bomber. Instead, the trail ran to a Palestinian terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – Special Operations, and to Hassan Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian academic. In 2023, a Paris court sentenced Diab to life in his absence. Canada has not sent him to serve his sentence. Forty-three years later, the man a French court convicted of bombing a synagogue and murdering four people is still living free in Canada. In fact, as of fall 2024, he was teaching a course on “Social Justice in Action” at Carleton University in Ottawa. Barre sorted the dead into Jews and innocent Frenchmen. Canada sorted the convict into a protected resident who can shape young minds.