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[ Inaudible—Editor ]...as it happened, I was speaking with him this morning, and it appeared to me that this might be an appropriate forum for us to conduct a Canadian version of an inquiry into anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 282, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/39-2/1/irwin-cotler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 1, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "proposes a Canadian parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism as a problem to address", "trigger": "John Mann's parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism in the U.K. and his visit encouraging other parliaments to hold similar inquiries", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-03-04", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ng into it any further. As I think Jason mentioned, these long-term, one-year studies like we did on China, as valuable as they are, become problematic if we can't get them to the House and make them public. Maybe we should focus on smaller issues. This way we would be able to broaden our scope. I know Irwin mentioned anti-Semitism. I think that's a great idea if we can do it. We could also focus on Omar Khadr and other ad hoc issues. I think this would be useful for the committee, because we would get a chance to get it on the record. It would become public. This way we don't have to worry about long reports that may not ever be tabled in the H …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 396, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/39-2/1/mario-silva-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 1, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "relays a colleague's suggestion to study anti-Semitism as committee business", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-06-16", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["There were two pieces of documentation that the witness offered. One was a list of people who were arrested legally and detained. That document would need to be translated from Arabic, I think. The other one was a school text that was blatantly anti-Semitic. I'm wondering if the witness is considering having that permanently tabled with the committee, so that we can do the translation and have that as evidence. I would also like to ask the witness for more details on the locations of the brick factories in Pakistan, and if he could also table that with the committee as w …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/39-2/21/david-sweet-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 21, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural request to table a witness's document described as anti-Semitic", "trigger": "a 'school text that was blatantly anti-Semitic' tabled by the witness as evidence", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "a school text that was blatantly anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-06-16", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Rev. Majed El Shafie", "role": "Rev. Majed El Shafie", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… tions on lives, such as paying jizya , this is the beginning of genocide. This is not ethnic cleansing. This is the straightforward beginning of genocide. Turning to Egypt--I'm trying to hurry because of the time--I will speak about three groups: the persecuted Christians in Egypt, the Jewish community and the rise of anti-Semitism in Egypt, and the Baha'i community. I'll give you a historical fact about Egypt. It was a Christian country in the 7th century, until a man by the name of 'Amr ibn al-'As entered Egypt. He basically fought with the Christians and killed most of them. He forced the rest of them to convert to Islam. And today, Egypt as …", "… se to the Canadian government. The Honourable Jason Kenney helped us a lot on this case. We thank him very much for standing with Magdi Youssef, who today is here in Canada--but only after paying a very high price; he was tortured twice in his life. I'd now like to mention the Jewish community in Egypt and the rise of anti-Semitism. The Jewish community in Egypt is only around 100 to 200 people, and most of them are elders. Even with the peace agreement between the Egyptians and Israel for more than 25 years now, there is rising anti-Semitism in the schools, in the education system, in the media, raising new generations to hate, basically. There is hostile propaganda--in both official and unofficial fora--calling Jewish people Nazis and cold-blooded killers, and denying the Holocaust. One form of hostile propaganda is through the Al-Ahram newspaper, which …", "… ppointed by the Egyptian President. On October 10, 2000, Ibrahim Nafi issued an article saying that the Jewish people used Arab children's blood to make Passover matzos. This was an article that Ibrahim Nafi wrote in Al-Ahram , the official newspaper of Egypt. He was sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism in Paris. The French court called him, but he refused to appear in front of the court. His excuse was his medical condition. The guy had travelled to something like 35 different countries, yet he couldn't go to France. There have been cartoons in the Egyptian newspapers insulting Christians and Jews. In one cartoon, Bush is holding the cross as a crusader, speaking on behalf of the Christian faith. With regard to anti-Semitism, on 21 April, 2001, there were cartoons showing Israelis squeezing Palestinians and drinking their blood. This was in 2001, but from March 6 to 12, 2008, the Al-Ahram Weekly , which is an Egyptian government newspaper, published a cartoon of Barak and Olmert holding Palestinian children and cooking them in a pot. On t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 4005, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/39-2/21/rev-majed-el-shafie-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 21, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "witness testimony documenting persecution and the rise of anti-Semitism in Egypt", "trigger": "persecution of Christians and minorities in Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan, including church bombings and 'the rise of anti-Semitism in Egypt'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-02-23", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Col Jean-Michel Verney (Defence Attaché, Embassy of France)", "role": "Defence Attaché, Embassy of France", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Veterans Affairs", "passages": ["… in recent years, and has now been solved. These pensioners are now entitled to the same benefits, the same amounts, as those paid to their French counterparts. Our program is also working to improve the situation of retired combatants, group annuities and compensation for the orphans whose parents were the victims of antisemitic persecution or barbaric acts that occurred during the Second World War. So that is the current state of affairs as of late 2008. So as you can see, the veterans affairs ministry is mostly consolidating and improving entitlements, not opening up new areas for investigation. I am not quite sure how much time you had giv …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1963, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/veterans-affairs/40-2/4/col-jean-michel-verney-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Veterans Affairs", "committee_slug": "veterans-affairs", "meeting": 4, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "veterans-affairs testimony with no substantive use of the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-10", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "role": "Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["I just have a two-sentence elaboration, which is that I recall a couple of years ago—I think actually I was in opposition—there was an imam from Saudi Arabia with a long track record of anti-Semitic remarks, including Holocaust denial. And I recall putting the motion to the House of Commons asking the government not to allow him to come into Canada. Now, technically the government didn't have that power, but fortunately the person didn't come into Canada. So I think there are ways of dissuading individuals like t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 91, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/40-2/6/jason-kenney-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recalls an unnamed imam's anti-Semitic remarks and his motion to bar entry", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "a Saudi imam with a record of anti-Semitic remarks and Holocaust denial seeking entry to Canada", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "an imam from Saudi Arabia with a long track record of anti-Semitic remarks", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-10", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "role": "Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… finance organizations that promote extremism or hatred--in this case, hatred toward Jewish people in particular--or who publicly support a banned, illegal terrorist organization. Mr. Mouammar has a long record of public comments expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah, which are two banned, illegal, and essentially anti-Semitic terrorist organizations. He has referred to Israel as a racist state and he has called for the end of Israel as a Jewish state. In my judgment, these and other comments of his are beyond the pale. Do I suggest that we should have a test on political opinions for the office-holders of NGOs that receive grants and contr …", "… s to individuals who use their organizations as platforms to promote extremism or hatred or to apologize for terrorism. That's the view I articulated in January 2007 at Canadian Heritage. As a result, we provided no funding to these organizations. That's also the view I articulated recently at the London conference on anti-Semitism. I have also articulated this to my officials. I have asked my department to find ways in which we can include the promotion of hatred or apologizing for terrorism as some of the criteria used in considering applicants for grants or contributions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 441, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/40-2/6/jason-kenney-43/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "two banned, illegal, and essentially anti-Semitic terrorist organizations", "act_why": "names Elmasry, Mouammar, Hamas and Hezbollah in connection with hatred of Jews", "trigger": "Khaled Mouammar's 2006 flyer attacking Bob Rae over his wife's Jewish community ties, and Mohamed Elmasry's remarks on Israelis as targets, in the dispute over ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Mr. Khaled Mouammar and Mr. Mohamed Elmasry; the Canadian Arab Federation, the Canadian Islamic Congress, Hamas and Hezbollah", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-03-24", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. James Kafieh", "role": "Legal Counsel, Canadian Arab Federation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… me after Arab and Muslim Canadians, or Muslims in North America. They wouldn't do this for other ethnicities. It turned out McVeigh was the name of the person who was responsible for it. They didn't begin profiling Irish and Scottish Canadians with names similar to the bomber's. It was something unique. It's a form of anti-Semitism against Arab and Muslim Semites that's still socially acceptable in Canada. So there is a real problem. In terms of credibility, there is a problem with CSIS. For example, they often counsel people that they don't need a lawyer. They come to the door and basically surprise people at their doorstep with stories that ar …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 536, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/40-2/11/james-kafieh-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "objects to post-Oklahoma profiling, calling it anti-Semitism against Arab and Muslim Semites", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["media"], "target_detail": "commentators on television [who] were blaming Middle Eastern groups", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-03-31", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Prof. Gregory Gordon", "role": "Director, Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, University of North Dakota", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["To answer the second part, I see it worldwide, absolutely. I think unfortunately anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Israeli sentiment is on the rise. As we head into these perilous economic times that we're in, hatred finds a wonderful forum, unfortunately, for spreading itself. We've seen throughout history that anti-Semitism is such a prominent vehicle for spreading hate. That could be the subject of an entire hearing we could do, separate from this. While Ahmadinejad and Iran may be the most vocal and may be the most visible, I don't think they're the only ones. I think they're maybe the most dangerous in many respects, but certainly oth …", "… hat again, when we talk about deterrents, showing the international community that this will not and should not be allowed to take place, it's good to focus on them. I'm sorry, but as I was speaking to you about this I was thinking about the 1930s and Germany. Was Germany the only country in the world that espoused an anti-Semitic policy? No. But it was certainly the most prominent, and it ultimately became the most murderous. I don't know whether we can say that Iran of 2009 is the same thing as Germany relative to the 1930s, but with that leadership role it's taking, it's certainly having a terrible impact, so that's why I think it's importan …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 416, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/10/prof-gregory-gordon-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 10, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "international bodies"], "charge_quote": "Iran has become the leader of this brand of Islamic extremism that promotes hatred, violence, and the destruction of Israel", "act_why": "charges Ahmadinejad and Iran with promoting a Middle East cleared of Israeli Jews", "trigger": "Iranian incitement under Ahmadinejad to the destruction of Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "individual"], "target_detail": "Iran; Ahmadinejad", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-04-30", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. John Shavluk (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP))", "role": "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… m jail. Now the abuse and the threats that I've taken over the years—and it's been 18 years.... I've been in every provincial election since. I'm running against Mr. Wally Oppal right now in Delta South. I'm the Green Party candidate, by the way, who was let go three days before the last federal election for so-called anti-Semitic comments. I go to trial in the Supreme Court of B.C. starting January 4. I will prove that the blogger who sent this attack out to the Global media family has two friends attached to his website. One of them owns a Conservative blogging site and the other one is Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister. This goes to trial on January 4, 2010. You can't phone the police when you're attacked by the Prime Minister or somebody connected to him. The day I was described as an anti-Semite, my wife ran out screaming and crying because she has been through the shakedowns by the police, when they came with psych nurses, threatening to make me disappear. But her computer started to type in Polish and mine started to type backwards, and nobody touched a thing. They're both melted down, and technicians asked …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1029, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/18/john-shavluk-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects the 'so-called anti-Semitic comments' label that cost him his candidacy", "trigger": "the mandatory minimum drug sentencing bill before the justice committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-05-07", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Professor Alan Dershowitz (Professor of Law, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor of Law, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… n Cotler. I will not repeat what has been said previously or what is in the petition, though I certainly incorporate by reference much of the material that has previously been presented to you. I have devoted my entire professional life to defending free speech, even of those such as Nazis, Holocaust deniers, virulent anti-Semites, and other bigots whom I fundamentally despise. I stand for a maximalist view of freedom of expression, and this has brought me into conflict even with some of my closest friends and associates. For example, I've debated the Honourable Irwin Cotler on several occasions with regard to hate crimes, group defamation, fal …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1426, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/17/professor-alan-dershowitz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "charge_quote": "calling for the criminalization of incitement to genocide as practised by the Iranian regime in general, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in particular", "act_why": "charges Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime with incitement to genocide against Jews", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Ahmadinejad's incitement to genocide, including his Durban II speech in Geneva, and Iran's nuclear program", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Iranian regime; President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-06-16", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. A. 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When you talk about what you do about the Human Rights Commission, and that what I'm advocating may disable it somehow, I w …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 398, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/26/a-borovoy-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 26, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "cites Weimar prosecutions for anti-Semitic speech as evidence in a free-speech argument", "trigger": "the committee's study of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Moon report", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-06-16", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. A. 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I know that Daniel G …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1038, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/26/a-borovoy-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 26, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "quotes Goldhagen on the antisemitism of ordinary Germans to illustrate section 13's breadth", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the committee's study of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, and the Moon report's recommendation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-06-18", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ys. What we are seeing in Ahmadinejad's Iran of relevance to our hearing has been the emergence of it as the epicentre of the toxic convergence of the advocacy of the most horrific of crimes, namely genocide. This is a crime whose name we should even shudder to mention, embedded in the most virulent of hatreds, namely anti-Semitism, and underpinned by the illegal pursuit of atomic weapons in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions—again, we've heard witnesses' testimony on that—dramatized by the parading in the streets of Tehran and festooned on billboards and the like of a Shahab-3 missile draped in the emblem, “wipe Israel off the map”, wh …", "… g and support and arming of two terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, which, yes, are listed as terrorist entities in Canadian law, but what perhaps is not always appreciated is they are not only terrorist groups. They have an objective, which is genocidal, by their own acknowledgment. They have an ideology, which is anti-Semitic, a terrorism, which is instrumentalist, and a global reach, which speaks in terms of a global Islamic caliphate. Finally, there are the inciting tropes of classical anti-Semitism that are set forth in the petition where the Jews are spoken of as the killers of children, as I say, the poisoners of the international wells, anti-Semitic trope. So the question becomes, and with this I close: what do we do? The enduring lesson has been, throughout the last 60 years, that the Holocaust, and the genocides in Srebrenica, Rwanda, Darfur, occurred not only because of the machinery of death, but because of the state-sanctioned incitement to genocide. Now, tr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2789, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/27/irwin-cotler-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 27, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "legal"], "charge_quote": "embedded in the most virulent of hatreds, namely anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges Ahmadinejad's Iran with incitement to genocide embedded in virulent anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Iran's incitement to genocide and repression under Ahmadinejad, tabled with the Responsibility to Prevent petition and the Iran Accountability Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "individual"], "target_detail": "Ahmadinejad's Iran", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-06-18", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Robert Martin", "role": "Mr. Robert Martin", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… The Western Guard Party posted leaflets and handed out flyers that contained the invitation “If you want to hear a hate message, dial this number”. Persons who dialed the number could listen to a recorded hate message, which, given Taylor's background, was pretty traditional stuff. It was fairly standard, traditional anti-Semitism. This dial-a-hate-message service got the governments of Canada and Ontario very exercised. There ensued a flurry of correspondence between Toronto and Ottawa, with many politicians and officials trying to outdo each other in their determination to do something about the dial-a-hate-message service. Let me express wha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2231, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/27/robert-martin-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 27, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "historical account of Taylor's hate line as standard anti-Semitism in a section 13 narrative", "trigger": "the committee's study of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "John Ross Taylor and the Western Guard Party", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-06-18", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Prof. Robert Martin", "role": "Prof. Robert Martin", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Well, I'm glad that you do. Let me repeat the point I made in replying to the first questioner. We are in a very dangerous situation where anyone in this country today who argues in favour of free expression is thereby tarred as a racist, anti-Semite, homophobe, etc. Surely in this confine we should be able to understand arguments of principle. Free expression is a profound principle. It is the basis for our democracy. It is a very dangerous practice to tar persons who argue in favour of free expression with these sorts of labels."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/27/prof-robert-martin-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 27, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "objects that free-speech advocates are tarred with the anti-Semite label", "trigger": "the section 13 hearings and the charge that defenders of free expression are labelled racists or anti-Semites", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Ezra Levant", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… mmission documents obtained through access to information or sworn testimony before the tribunal itself by commission staff. I must tell you that when I first encountered these facts, I was so shocked by them that I simply refused to believe them: that the Human Rights Commission itself was the largest propagandist of anti-Semitic material in Canada. I didn't believe it. I thought I had encountered some conspiracy theory. I painstakingly reviewed thousands of pages of testimony, and I can't believe what I found. I think you'll go through that same awful revelation when you see the facts."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/36/ezra-levant-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "section 13 free-speech argument with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "the committee's study of the hate speech provision (section 13) of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Taylor/Dickson decision", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Ezra Levant", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["No. Is it okay to say? I'm a Jew who is absolutely opposed to anti-Semitism, but I fear, much more than some buffoon ranting, a state so powerful that it can tell me what I can feel or not."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 39, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/36/ezra-levant-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "duplicate section 13 free-speech argument with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "the committee's study of the hate speech provision (section 13) of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Taylor/Dickson decision", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Steyn", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… t let them sit out there. But the problem with it is that the Weimar Republic--Germany for the 12 years before the Nazi Party came to power--had its own version of section 13 and equivalent laws. It was very much a kind of proto-Canada in its hate speech laws. The Nazi Party had 200 prosecutions brought against it for anti-Semitic speech. At one point the State of Bavaria issued an order banning Hitler from giving public speeches. But all it did, as Ezra said, was glamorize him and make him a hero: “What is he saying that is so dangerous the state won't permit him to say it?” If Hitler came back today--I don't know where he is; he's 128 years o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 230, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/36/mark-steyn-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls the quoted 'Jewish lobby' words offensive while defending the right to say them", "trigger": "the committee's study of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and its application to Maclean's", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Steyn (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… al approval given to section 13 by the Supreme Court in the Taylor decision and instead turned it into a personal inquisition for himself and his pals. Abolish section 13, and life in Canada would be affected not one jot, except that Mr. Warman, Dean Stacey, and the other rogue civil servants would have to write their anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist website ravings on their own dime. Let me take the most recent example of a section 13 conviction. The sole charge on which Marc Lemire was found guilty a month ago was for a post that appeared at his website, written by somebody else. That piece was read by a grand total of just eight people in th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1008, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/36/mark-steyn-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "would have to write their anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist website ravings on their own dime", "act_why": "charges Warman and named commission staff with anti-Semitic website postings", "trigger": "the committee's study of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, including the Lemire conviction of the previous month", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Mr. Warman, Dean Stacey [Steacy]; the Canadian Human Rights Commission", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-20", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey McLaren", "role": "Director, Gulf and Maghreb Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["The president, in his comments, is always very careful to characterize Israel. He doesn't talk about Jews or the Jewish people. And the Iranian government, in countering the accusations of anti-Semitism and being anti-Israel, points to the fact that its Jewish community is treated well. Now, the Jewish community of Iran faces the same kinds of human rights abuses that all Iranians face. And on that element, their human rights are being violated. They face some additional pressures from the community, more than from t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 173, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-2/31/jeffrey-mclaren-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "Iran briefing with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential election and the protests that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Brent Rathgeber", "role": "Edmonton—St. Albert, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton--St. Albert", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm going to talk about the allegation against one specific employee of yours. It is Mr. Steacy. The suggestion has been made that he posted on a neo-Nazi website, called Stormfront, and that not only did he post anti-Semitic data, he posted under a false name: jadewarr. Bell Canada, as you know, filed an affidavit indicating that the pseudonym was that of a private citizen. I know that the Privacy Commissioner has launched an inquiry. But I'm curious to know whether that type of conduct, in your view, Ms. Lynch, would fall under the stron …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/43/brent-rathgeber-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 43, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "relays the allegation that Steacy posted anti-Semitic material and asks about it", "trigger": "the allegation that a Human Rights Commission employee posted anti-Semitic material on the neo-Nazi site Stormfront under the pseudonym 'jadewarr'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Mr. Steacy, an employee who posted on the neo-Nazi website Stormfront; the Canadian Human Rights Commission", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Jewish Congress", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… of that. The thought that there are people out there who would continue to promote these kinds of hateful acts is incredible to me. Two or three days ago, only ten miles from this very chamber, at the Jewish Memorial Gardens in Ottawa, there was an invasion of our sacred burial space. Swastikas and horrible racist and anti-Semitic terms were scrawled on Jewish headstones. This was on the same weekend that I was coming to Ottawa to attend an unveiling of one of my family members. The impact that this had on our community, I can't even begin to tell you. Is this something that we want to allow to continue to happen? It is this balance that we hav …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 205, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/43/bernie-m-farber-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 43, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "describes swastikas and anti-Semitic scrawls on Jewish headstones with outrage", "trigger": "swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs scrawled on headstones at the Jewish Memorial Gardens in Ottawa two or three days earlier", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "people out there who would continue to promote these kinds of hateful acts [the desecration at the Jewish Memorial Gardens]", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Freiman", "role": "President, Canadian Jewish Congress", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ip that isn't profitable. What will inevitably happen is legal maxims like “a person is taken to intend the inevitable consequences of their acts”, which really leaves out intention from the requirement. And it's the same thing with violence. What Professor Moon is saying is not all that different from what experts on anti-Semitism and other forms of extreme genocidal hatred say. The precursor is the dehumanization and demonization of the target group to the point where the audience says, “If that's true, then these people have no right to be around here”. It doesn't have to be a direct incitement to violence. The demonization is an indirect inc …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 270, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/40-2/43/mark-freiman-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 43, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "legal"], "act_why": "rebuts Levant's claim that prejudice and discrimination are behind us", "trigger": "the section 13 hearings and Ezra Levant's testimony against the provision", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-11-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Michel Guimond", "role": "Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… quite rightly pointed out, right now, only one party has ten percenters that are being strongly contested, especially when it comes to points of privilege raised in the House. There is you, who we are hearing from. There is another. A decision is coming. It should be made this afternoon, and it concerns Mr. Cotler and anti-Semitic remarks. As you noted, we, the Bloc Québécois, got a taste of the same medicine this summer from Conservatives. Among other things, there is talk of a bill that seeks to impose minimum sentences. The members of the Bloc Québécois are against that bill because of the minimum sentences, not because of its intended purpo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 171, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/28/michel-guimond-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "relays the pending privilege ruling about Cotler and anti-Semitic remarks", "trigger": "the contested ten-percenters, including the one on anti-Semitic remarks that prompted Mr. Cotler's question of privilege", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-11-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Peter Stoffer", "role": "Sackville—Eastern Shore, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Sackville--Eastern Shore", "province": "NS", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Perhaps I'll expand that question. I thank you very much for it, by the way. I've seen ten percenters that went into Bloc ridings after they voted against a particular motion, when it came to some sort of crime bill. And I thought, wow, that's heavy. And then I just saw a recent one on anti-Semitism in some ridings in Quebec, and I said, whoa, where are we going with this? Generally, sir, what I would do if I had my way is to have us stop the practice of attacking one another and attacking our voting records. If you want to send information to my riding on the good things the Conservative Party has done, go for i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 382, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/28/peter-stoffer-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites an anti-Semitism ten-percenter while objecting to attack mailings generally", "trigger": "ten-percenters sent into ridings, including a recent one on anti-Semitism in Quebec ridings", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… e Jewish members of my constituency of Mount Royal and other Jewish residents in urban ridings across the country. I might add that the specific content in these ten percenters, to which the Speaker referred and to which I'm referring, accused the Liberals of having, and I quote, “willingly participated in the overtly anti-Semitic Durban I”, thereby effectively associating the Liberal Party and me, as a member, with identifying with and supporting anti-Semitism. These flyers, as the Speaker determined, damaged my standing and reputation amongst my constituents and impeded thereby my functioning as a member of Parliament, and accordingly was a breach of my privileges as a member of Parliament. May I in that regard quote the ruling of the Speaker on November 26 as follows. I q …", "… as the Speaker ruled, it infringed on my privileges by prejudicing my ability to function as a member. Mr. Chair, what was specifically damaging, and wherein the breach of privilege is most evident, is in the false and cruel characterizations of my party and me, and I quote, as “willingly participating in the overtly anti-Semitic Durban I”. This is a particularly outrageous accusation for Jewish constituents who are so targeted, because, as I wrote on the occasion of Durban I at the time, and as I have written and spoken about since--and I will table my articles in this regard for the committee as well--“Durban I has emerged for Jews as a metaphor for the most virulent and lethal anti-Semitism”; accordingly, “To identify any political party, let alone a Jewish MP, with willingly participating in such an anti-Semitic event, is the most loathsome and dangerous accusation that one can make against that party and that member.” It is particular odious, and, I might add, personally painful in my case, as one who has spoken and written consistently against it. Simply put, Mr. Chairman, I was at Durban not to willingly participate in an overtly anti-Semitic Durban I; I was at Durban to willingly combat the anti-Semitism that took place at Durban I, and I will table testimonies to that effect as well, one of which was set forth in a letter that was published fortuitously par hasard today in the National Post on that particular point, headlined, at the risk of sounding self-serving, “Cotler's great work at Durban”, written by Rabbi Michael Melchior, identified therein as the head of the Israeli delegation at Durban. But for the benefit of members, I will table as well two articles of mine setting forth the radical anti-Semitic evil that constituted Durban I, and why such an accusation associating me with Durban I is as false as it is absurd and as damaging as it is damning. Here are the two articles I'm going to table in that regard. Indeed, these accusations, as the Speaker found, have had damaging and prejudicial effects on my reputation …", "… ecedents reaffirmed by the Speaker to which reference was made in his ruling. I bring up the issue of the member's identity as put forward in the previous precedents and citations, in my case because there can perhaps be no greater betrayal for people of the Jewish faith than the portrayal of one of their own as being anti-Semitic. This accusation, as set forth in these mailings, is utterly abhorrent. Further, these mailings have even been posted by some in synagogues in my riding. Constituents have even reported receiving this mailing more than once. I have, frankly, been excoriated by constituents asking—and indeed some of the members in the House asked that question—how could I remain with a party that is anti-Semitic? How could I willingly remain with a party that is so identified as being anti-Semitic? How, as a Jew, could I be engaged in such self-hatred? I'm pleased to table representative e-mails that I have received in that regard as well. Accordingly, Mr. Chairman, it is precisely this sort of breach—and this is an understatement to simply call this a breach of privilege, but that is the formal parliamentary l …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2798, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "privilege testimony that flyer falsely tied him to anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Durban I, 'the radical anti-Semitic evil that constituted Durban I'", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… hese flyers should be held personally accountable. Finally, this false, misleading, and prejudicial ten percenter is not only a breach of the privileges of a member; it is also a breach of the privileges of Parliament as an institution. Such ugly allegations, accusing a party and its members of willingly supporting an anti-Semitic festival of hate, are beyond the pale. They demean Parliament as an institution and they demean the discourse of this Parliament. They must be unreservedly condemned by this committee so as to protect the privileges of Parliament as an institution as well as my own privilege as a member, which, as the Speaker determin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 237, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitism allegation beyond the pale and demands remedies", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Durban, 'an anti-Semitic festival of hate'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… . On the contrary, Rabbi Melchior writes that they commended the Canadian delegation for remaining. In his letter, he describes the work of the delegation, saying: ...after the Israeli delegation had left, I requested from the Canadian delegation that they lead and coordinate the work at Durban to combat the dangerous anti-Semitic language in the final resolution. The Canadian delegation, with its fine record on issues of human rights and combating anti-Semitism and xenophobia, made a remarkable contribution in rallying an unprecedented majority--in UN terms--to remove the hate language from the final official resolution."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 332, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "relays Melchior letter to rebut the Durban charge", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the 'dangerous anti-Semitic language in the final resolution' at Durban", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Well, I can tell you, and you can look at the talkbacks on the National Post after Mr. Ivison published his article, and as I told him, there are two kinds of responses. One says, “Ah, since Mr. Cotler lied about what took place in Durban and said that the Canadian delegation was there to combat anti-Semitism in Durban and was commended by the Israelis for it, since he lied, we can't believe him on anything else he said about Durban.” So my entire record wherein I combatted the anti-Semitism in Durban has been taken by some to say, “Well, we can't believe Cotler because now we're told that it was wrong what happened; his story was wrong.” Mr. Ivison said my memory might have played tricks on me as to who said what to whom. I don't think my memory played tricks on me. It might have played tricks on Mr. Baker, but certainly not on me, since every single interlocutor who has been involved has come out publicly and corroborated my remarks. The other part of what has happened is people who say, “Oh well, Mr. Cotler is just a self-hating Jew and therefore he participated in an anti-Semitic hatefest.” Either way, I got injured by it, and not only injured by the flyer but, as I said, the fallout since the flyer and the continuing prejudice in that regard. That's why this committee's meeting is so important, because it is this committee that can finally and unequivocally rectify the prejudice, the breach o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 286, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "recounts fallout of being called a self-hating Jew over the flyer", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the anti-Semitism in Durban", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… , it was Candice Hoeppner who got up and said in effect--I was holding up Ivison's article and the like--that the Liberal Party and the member for Mount Royal have been caught red-handed. In other words, we had been caught red-handed in a lie. In other words, not only did the member willingly participate in an overtly anti-Semitic Durban I, but he lied about the facts when he said Canadians remained to combat anti-Semitism and that the Israelis had commended them for it. There were statements that we have Alan Baker's words, and Alan Baker was the head of the Israeli delegation, and Alan Baker said that he asked the Canadian delegation to leave. That is all false."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 125, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "says the claim he lied about combatting Durban anti-Semitism is false", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… respond to your question. You can jump in and attack after I finish. All I wanted to say was that the Speaker determined that I was directly implicated in the false accusation in the flyer, in that it admitted of no doubt as to a flyer sent to the constituents of Mount Royal accusing the Liberal Party of supporting an anti-Semitic conference. I am the Liberal member of Parliament for Mount Royal. The natural deduction is that it's the Liberal member of Parliament in Mount Royal whose party supports anti-Semitism. No other conclusion can be drawn from that kind of false accusation."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 115, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the flyer's anti-Semitism accusation false and directed at him", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["I am a member, but frankly, after these events, I find it very hard to sit alongside those accusing me of spreading and supporting anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 25, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-42/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "objects to sitting with those accusing him of supporting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["When I received the flyer, I was stunned. I will start with the first point. You need to see the type of language used in the flyer you just quoted, because it is very important. It says that the Liberals “willingly participated in overly anti-Semitic Durban I”. That sort of statement is shameful. It is false, prejudicial and slanderous. Not only is it a clear breach of members' privileges, but it is also a breach of House of Commons' privileges. It claims that the Liberal Party supports anti-Semitism and associates myself and the other Liberal members with those who endorse anti-Semitism. As I said before, it is shameful."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 108, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-43/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the flyer's anti-Semitism claim false and slanderous", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["The reason is that the constituents in my riding received this flyer and know that their MP is a Liberal who is being accused of supporting anti-Semitism. People are condemning the member from the Liberal Party, which is being identified as a party that supports anti-Semitism, and they are even saying that the MP, himself, supports anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 57, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-53/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "constituents wrongly told their MP supports anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… they are the strongest supporters for Israel. That was not what was in the flyer. That is not what is at issue here. What was in the flyer was a false, misleading, prejudicial, scandalous accusation sent, and targeting the Jewish residents of my riding, to the effect that the Liberal Party willingly participated in an anti-Semitic--"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-49/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "distinguishes policy disagreement from the false anti-Semitism accusation", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… es of a member of this House. That's why we are before you. As I say, it also breached the privileges of Parliament as an institution with the character of its defamatory accusation targeting specifically the Jews. What is in issue is not only that the Liberal Party was falsely accused of willingly participating in an anti-Semitic conference—as I said, it was the exact opposite, and all the testimonials that I've said here were that the Liberals participated in combatting anti-Semitism at Durban I. That is the fundamental, normative, and factual distinction. With respect to the specifics of Mr. Poilievre, relying as he is on John Ivison's article, all relying on one person, Alan Baker, who claimed—and Mr. Ivison repeated Mr. Baker's words—that he was the head of the Israeli delegation at Durban, and …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 299, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/irwin-cotler-52/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "insists the anti-Semitism accusation is false and reversed the facts", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the anti-Semitism at Durban I", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joe Volpe", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… a heated political debate, there should be a limit to the grotesque methods and accusations one could use against political opponents. Even to indicate that Irwin Cotler --and according to the Speaker's decision, any member of the Liberal Party in whose ridings these pamphlets were distributed-- would lend his hand to anti-Semitism is a gross distortion of what happened in Durban. This comes from the man who directed the Israeli position. He even further requested the Canadian delegation to lead and coordinate the work in Durban to combat dangerous anti-Semitic language in the final resolution. To distort that and insist on that distortion, even in today's meeting, is a gross injustice to members of Parliament and their ability to do work. It is a deliberate effort to tarnish their reputation by slander, by calumny, and by taking events and putting them in a fashion that is …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 567, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/joe-volpe-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "quotes Melchior that tying Cotler to anti-Semitism is a gross distortion", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Michel Guimond", "role": "Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… t that the Speaker ruled a prima facie case of privilege, offensive. I still have a few quick questions. In your view, why were you, Irwin Cotler, targeted, in particular? Why was I not targeted, a French-speaking, practising Catholic from Quebec? Why did I not receive a ten percenter from the Conservatives calling me anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/michel-guimond-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks why he was never labelled anti-Semitic by a ten percenter", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Michel Guimond", "role": "Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["I will have a look at it in a moment. Are you still a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 23, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/michel-guimond-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "bare procedural question naming the anti-Semitism coalition", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-08", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yvon Godin", "role": "Acadie—Bathurst, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Acadie—Bathurst", "province": "NB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have the document in front of me. It reads: “On Fighting Anti-Semitism Abroad...” At the top, the Conservatives are on one side and the Liberals, on the other. It is as if they were saying, here is what we, the Conservatives, stand for and here is what you, the Liberals, stand for. That is what it describes. Led the world in refusing participation in Durban II hate-fest against Israel. Insisted on banning Hezbollah and led the world in defunding Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Strongly backed Israel's right to self-defence against Hezbollah during 2006 conflict. That is what it says on the Conservative side. On the Liberal side, it reads: Willingly participated in overly anti-Semitic Durban I. Opposed defunding Hamas and asked that Hezbollah be delisted as a terrorist organization. Michael Ignatieff accused Israel of committing war crimes during 2006 conflict. Below that, it asks the following question: Who is on the right track to represent and defend the values of Canada's Jewish community? Then …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/yvon-godin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "reads the flyer's wording verbatim and asks a neutral question", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joe Volpe", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["From a legal perspective, then, given that kind of a context, would a direct statement or an inference that someone would be—I don't know—anti-Semitic or anti a particular other group cause an individual to be cast in the light that you have just described as being unfavourable and therefore unsuitable for a particular activity?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 54, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/joe-volpe-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "probes legal harm of being cast as anti-Semitic by inference", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joe Volpe", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["If you don't mind, I'll speak before Mr. Walsh answers this. That's three times that Mr. Lukiwski has used the word “accurate”. What that householder said was “willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I”. Just because the ten percenter used those words does not make it accurate. So it's an accurate reflection of—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 56, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/joe-volpe-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "denies the flyer's anti-Semitic Durban wording is accurate", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joe Volpe", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… you, or you've seen it. When one uses the word “willingly”, we have crossed the line from fact to intent, so one has to establish that there has been intent in order for somebody else to suggest that “willingly” is an accurate term to use. Second, when one makes it an established fact that a conference is an “overtly anti-Semitic” conference, then surely it must have been advertised as that prior to participation in order for this to be accurate. When one reflects back on a conference and judges it to be anti-Semitic because of what developed once the conference began, that would be a different accuracy, would it not?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 167, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/joe-volpe-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "parses whether calling Durban overtly anti-Semitic was accurate", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joe Volpe", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Well, I like your play on words. No one has yet established that there was an “overt” indication that something was going to be anti-Semitic. This is a post-factum observation. So what is the accuracy in law in terms of what someone might have done prior to the comment post-factum?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/joe-volpe-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "argues the overt anti-Semitism claim is a post-factum judgement", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Michel Guimond", "role": "Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… finish. I think this witness list looks like a fantastic fishing expedition. Fishing lines have been cast out all around the boat and people are just waiting to see which little fish come and nibble. I am not interested in undertaking a word for word examination of the expression “willingly participated in the overtly anti-Semitic Durban I”. He can say he went, but not as an anti-Semitic. Not to mention that he is Jewish. I could personally be accused of being anti-Semitic if I behaved incorrectly, be he himself is Jewish. I have no interest in inviting 150 witnesses or even 15 witnesses who will come and say— We must examine the core of the issue and what was actually done. We need to bring it back to the basics."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 165, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/michel-guimond-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says he went to Durban but not as an anti-Semite, and he is Jewish", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Razmik Panossian (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ter 30 seconds the conversation moved on. Imagine my shock when I read about this episode, completely turned on its head and completely ignoring the 15-minute initial questioning, in Monsieur Beauregard's evaluation package sent to the Privy Council Office, with the insinuation that I--and perhaps even management--was anti-Semitic for asking Mr. Gauthier if he was Jewish. He added that he subsequently found out that there were no Jewish employees at Rights and Democracy in this evaluation package. What did the conversation have to do with Mr. Beauregard's evaluation, or anything else for that matter? The episode, however, does demonstrate the m …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1270, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/40-3/7/razmik-panossian-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects insinuation he was anti-Semitic for asking about a colleague's faith", "trigger": "the crisis at Rights and Democracy: the death of president Remy Beauregard, the fight over three Middle East grants, staff dismissals and the demand for the boa", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Yes, thanks. I think we've gone down a path that's kind of sterile here in that I don't think Professor Cotler 's defence of why he and the Liberals were at Durban has anything to do with whether or not they realized, post facto, that it had turned into an anti-Semitic hatefest. He's quite clear that he thinks it was an anti-Semitic hatefest. His defence is that he was asked to stay by the Israelis in order to help mediate that. So the line that Mr. Volpe is going down I don't think is the defence that Professor Cotler is going down at all. It's actually in complete contradistinction to it, and a contradiction of it. But this raises the question, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 286, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/scott-reid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "He's quite clear that he thinks it was an anti-Semitic hatefest.", "act_why": "defends the flyer as a good-faith claim about an anti-Semitic hatefest", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Durban I, 'an anti-Semitic hatefest'", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… ng his privileges. What he says in his testimony before us, when he attended—it would be around 11:30 to 11:35, just so that people can find it--was the “grievous and false accusations”—in the plural—in these targeted mailings. So he's presumably not referring simply to the statement “willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I”; I assume he's also referring to—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/scott-reid-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "quotes Cotler's testimony to identify the contested statements", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Tom Lukiwski", "role": "Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina--Lumsden--Lake Centre", "province": "SK", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["So there is no remedy yet. Two, on the question about the appropriateness of some of these witnesses, most of the witnesses whom I see listed would, I believe, be able to speak to the Durban 1 conference and whether or not its tone and content were anti-Semitic. I think that's relevant. Mr. Volpe is questioning the accuracy of that statement. I think this would be testimony that could help us determine whether those statements were accurate or not. As to the suggestion that we go immediately to a report, I would ask, based on what? We haven't heard testimony. It may be Joe's …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 133, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/6/tom-lukiwski-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "wants witnesses to test whether Durban I was in fact anti-Semitic", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Conservative 'ten percenter' flyer mailed into ridings with Jewish constituents saying the Liberals 'willingly participated in overtly anti-Semitic Durban I'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-04-01", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Bob Rae", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… at: it's our organization and we created the organization. The comments of the people who are saying we shouldn't be here or shouldn't be discussing this, of those who refer to it as a gong show or say the opposition can't tell the difference between democratic allies and terrorists, or of those who accuse us of being anti-Semitic because we had a meeting on Passover—and Parliament does meet on Passover, as we all have to be here, and the G8 meeting was held on Passover—and who then go on to attack all the other former people who were involved with the organization, do you see those as consistent with the working of a functional board, particul …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 309, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/40-3/8/bob-rae-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 8, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects board member's accusation that MPs were anti-Semitic over Passover", "trigger": "the crisis at Rights and Democracy: the death of president Remy Beauregard, the fight over three Middle East grants, staff dismissals and the demand for the boa", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-04-01", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Member of the Board of Directors, Rights and Democracy", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… in demonization and delegitimization in order to further their goal of the destruction of the State of Israel, including two of the three organizations--Al-Haq and Al Mezan. I appreciate your reading from the report of Amnesty International. I myself have written a book on this issue called Aftershock: Anti-Zionism & Antisemitism , which I've brought. I invite you to read it, and you will see in detail what the concerns are and why I have trouble with these organizations. On why the bureau was closed, I must confess that I like the answer of Jacques Gauthier, which I thought was very good and very thorough, but there's something substantive at …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 387, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/40-3/8/david-matas-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 8, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "engage in a very active campaign in demonization and delegitimization in order to further their goal of the destruction of the State of Israel, including two of the three organizations--Al-Haq and Al ", "act_why": "ties named NGOs to delegitimization and cites his anti-Semitism book", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "the crisis at Rights and Democracy: the death of president Remy Beauregard, the fight over three Middle East grants, staff dismissals and the demand for the boa", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Al-Haq and Al Mezan, for a 'campaign in demonization and delegitimization' aimed at 'the destruction of the State of Israel'", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2010-04-13", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Hon. Warren Allmand", "role": "Hon. Warren Allmand", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… hat's the difference. I have no personal differences with Mr. Matas, but the statement he made shows that his main concern is protecting the state of Israel from any criticism, whether deserved or not, and I just can't agree with that. Also, he's more or less supporting this concept that if you criticize Israel you're anti-Semitic, which I find ridiculous."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 312, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/40-3/9/warren-allmand-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls ridiculous the idea that criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the crisis at Rights and Democracy: the death of president Remy Beauregard, the fight over three Middle East grants, staff dismissals and the demand for the boa", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2010-04-22", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ation and repression and about the criminalization of dissent in Venezuela. Witnesses spoke about the prosecution and persecution of human rights defenders. They said that the security forces are complicit in these human rights violations, that they are attended by a culture of impunity, that there is state-sanctioned anti-Semitism that is not unrelated to the Iranian connection, and that there is a pattern of repression of the media as well as the legal, educational, and cultural sectors, and the like. I know you've made reference to the monitoring done by the Canadian government through its embassy and through other means. My question has to d …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 242, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/9/irwin-cotler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "reputation"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "Are we just monitoring and continuing to monitor, without actually taking initiatives or démarches to register our concern?", "act_why": "endorses witness testimony of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Venezuela and urges condemnation of that government", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "state-sanctioned anti-Semitism and repression in Chavez's Venezuela, reported by witnesses at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "there is state-sanctioned anti-Semitism [in Venezuela] that is not unrelated to the Iranian connection", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-04-22", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… e government. You mentioned that the shrinking of the democratic space in the country is a troubling factor. As you know, minority communities, particularly the Jewish community, have also decreased over a number of years. There has also been a ratcheting up of rhetoric by Chávez and his supporters in making some very anti-Semitic remarks. They're also collaborating with Iran, which is a hostile country that has made threats to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. This is a grave concern to us that I think needs to be addressed in a much more serious way. Chávez, through his moderators and spokespeople in television.... In fact, one of his key persons, who has his own very popular television program, has the same name as I do, unfortunately. That individual is blatantly anti-Semitic and blames the Jews for every cause there is in the world. Even if Chávez is not uttering the words, the people he surrounds himself with and the people who are his official voices have been extremely anti-Semitic. They have also been providing hostility towards the Jewish community, making them fearful for their lives. That's one of the reasons that many of them have left and are trying to leave Venezuela. I want to know what type of assistance we're providing from an immigration perspective in assisting those who come here. A …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 344, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/9/mario-silva-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "inspired"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "That individual is blatantly anti-Semitic and blames the Jews for every cause there is in the world.", "act_why": "charges Chavez's spokesmen and entourage with being blatantly anti-Semitic", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "\"a ratcheting up of rhetoric by Chavez and his supporters in making some very anti-Semitic remarks\" and the flight of Venezuela's Jewish community", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "individual"], "target_detail": "Chávez and his supporters in making some very anti-Semitic remarks; \"That individual is blatantly anti-Semitic and blames the Jews for every cause there is in the world\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2010-04-22", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Marder", "role": "Director, South America and Inter-American Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… the capacity to comment on the evolution of Canada's relations with Venezuela over 30 years or even on Hugo Chávez, who has been president for over 10 years. That is almost as long as I've been in the Canadian foreign service, so I'm not well placed to give such a broad historic overview. To come back to the matter of anti-Semitism and the treatment of the Jewish community, the Jewish community there is not large. I don't have the numbers at hand, but I'm guessing it's about 20,000. We can try to find the numbers for you. It's not one of the largest ones in Latin America, and it's about a 50-50 split between the Ashkenazi community and the Sephardic community. There have been a number of anti-Semitic attacks recently. The most prominent one was anti-Semitic vandalism at the Maripérez synagogue last year. The government did not react immediately, but a couple of days after the incident the Minister of Foreign Affairs came to the synagogue to meet with members of the Jewish community. There may have been some accusations that the government itself has orchestrated this, bu …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 263, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/9/jeffrey-marder-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official relays factual account of attacks and government response without taking a position", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"anti-Semitic vandalism at the Maripérez synagogue last year\" in Caracas", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-05-13", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Tim Uppal", "role": "Edmonton—Sherwood Park, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton--Sherwood Park", "province": "AB", "topic": "Transport, Infrastructure and Communities", "passages": ["… wcomers. In today's Canada, those who are honoured to call it home would have tremendous difficulty identifying with the deep horrors of the Holocaust. The dangers we as a country now face are complacency and fatigue, to allow things like the Holocaust to rest on the pages of history. And lest we think that hatred and anti-Semitism are relics of the past, we are reminded on an almost daily basis that there are individuals around the world who continue to deny the very existence of the Holocaust or seek to downplay the extent of the crimes that were committed against humanity. President Ahmadinejad of Iran continues to outrage people with his den …", "… have resulted in condemnation from virtually all corners of the world. But there are people, even in our own country, who agree with him. The denial of the Holocaust and those who voice such opinions must continue to be fought in the public square. This monument will be a testament to where Canada stands. The rise of anti-Semitism in some places in the world, whether overt or subtle, is another compelling reason why Canada must continue to ensure that the Holocaust is both acknowledged and condemned. In my opinion, members of Parliament are charged with two important roles: fighting for the interests of their constituents, and pursuing issues t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1427, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/transport/40-3/17/tim-uppal-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Transport, Infrastructure and Communities", "committee_slug": "transport", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "warns that hatred and anti-Semitism are not relics and must be fought", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Bill C-442, An Act to establish a National Holocaust Monument", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "President Ahmadinejad of Iran continues to outrage people with his denial of the Holocaust; \"there are people, even in our own country, who agree with him\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jean Dorion", "role": "Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Longueuil--Pierre-Boucher", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["First off, thank you for being here, Mr. Scheier. Of course, we have a duty to fight anti-Semitism, and being part of the fight against anti-Semitism across Canada is certainly an important role for this subcommittee. Still, there are a few things I would ask you to clarify. You said that anti-Semitism was the official policy. anti-Semitism is the official policy of the Chavez government in Venezuela. Do you acknowledge that someone can be very opposed to Israeli government policy without necessarily being anti-Semitic? That is my first question. Second, it would seem that not everyone in the Chavez regime is anti-Semitic. On the site of the station Radio Mundial, there is a statement by the president of the Venezuelan-Israelite association, Elias Farache—you may know him—in which he thanks the president of the republic and the Venezuelan government for taking the investigation into the synagogue attack you mentioned seriously. Elias F …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 310, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/jean-dorion-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "challenges the claim that anti-Semitism is Venezuelan official policy and asks whether opposing Israel makes one anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the desecration of the Tiferet (Maripérez) synagogue in Caracas and the witness's claim that anti-Semitism is Venezuelan official policy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… gard des questions liées aux droits de la personne à une échelle plus grande. Je veux savoir si ce qui est arrivé à la communauté juive et la façon dont elle a été harcelée constitue une situation qui est unique à la communauté juive. Le gouvernement s'en prend-il à d'autres communautés ou est-ce vraiment une campagne antijuive qui est entreprise par le gouvernement?"], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/mario-silva-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "question about harassment of the Jewish community, disapproval implied, no charge asserted", "trigger": "the harassment of Venezuela's Jewish community by the Chavez government", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "est-ce vraiment une campagne antijuive qui est entreprise par le gouvernement? [Venezuelan government]", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… es et ensuite, je vais laisser la parole à mon collègue, M. Cotler. Premièrement, savez-vous quelle était la taille de la communauté juive il y a, disons, 10 à 15 ans, comparativement à sa taille actuelle? Deuxièmement, vous avez parlé du président Chávez, mais une partie de la rhétorique la plus dangereuse et la plus antijuive vient non pas de Chávez lui-même, mais de son entourage immédiat, les conseillers et hauts dirigeants. J'ai entendu des témoignages et la langue utilisée est extrêmement consternante. Son silence et le fait qu'il ne condamne pas ces gens en dit long. Chávez s'est montré extrêmement critique à l'égard d'Israël, mais il a fait très attention de ne pas trop attaquer la communauté juive. Ses conseillers supérieurs ont attaqué la communauté juive et ont fait certaines déclarations très antijuives et il les a tout de même gardés dans les postes importants qu'ils occupent dans son gouvernement. Il joue ce petit jeu et je me demande si vous pouvez étoffer certaines de ces déclarations qui ont été faites par certains de ses conseillers."], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 169, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/mario-silva-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Son silence et le fait qu'il ne condamne pas ces gens en dit long.", "act_why": "charges Chavez's senior advisers with anti-Jewish statements and Chavez with keeping them", "trigger": "\"la rhétorique la plus dangereuse et la plus antijuive\" from Chavez's senior advisers and the shrinking of the Venezuelan Jewish community", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "la rhétorique la plus dangereuse et la plus antijuive vient... de son entourage immédiat, les conseillers et hauts dirigeants", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier", "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Merci pour ces propos réfléchis. J'aimerais en parler brièvement. Il y a une chose qu'il importe de souligner: la presse vénézuélienne est très différente de la presse canadienne. Concernant la baisse de 60 p. 100 des articles antisémites, les médias sont contrôlés par le gouvernement, ce qui veut dire qu'il y a encore un certain nombre de messages qui sont véhiculés par le gouvernement. Voici la page de garde d'un journal qui a été publié le jour de ma visite, l'an dernier. Il s'agit d'un journal qui est publié par la PDVSA, une société pétrolière d'É …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 413, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/rabbi-adam-scheier-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "using Holocaust imagery, sponsored by the government", "act_why": "witness points to the Government of Venezuela as the source of terrorizing acts and Holocaust imagery", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"vandalizing the synagogue on a Sabbath morning\" in Caracas and the government raids of 2004 and 2007", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "why someone other than the Government of Venezuela would be interested in sending this message to the Jewish community", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier", "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ng said, the Jewish community lives in fear. I ask you to listen to some of the words of the students, some of the young Jewish people who are growing up in Chávez's Venezuela. Orly Margulis, who is now graduating from grade 8, wrote--and I haven't changed one word from her e-mail to me--the following: I feel that the anti-Semitism is a huge problem in Venezuela. I'm afraid to go out because of the insecurity and all the trouble that the Venezuelan government did. The president hates the Jewish people, and recently he cursed Israel and blamed us for the dead people in Gaza which makes me very angry. I'm sad that this country--a country that welcomed the Jews after the World War II--is now one of the most dangerous places in the world, and one that is a very anti-Semitic country. She's in grade 8. Eduardo Herdan, grade 11, said this: Since the war in Gaza broke out a year and a half ago, the president of Venezuela has been progressively attacking the Jewish community. Whether it is verbally, by insulting us on national television, or by expelling the Israeli ambassador, we have felt his anti-Semitism. The president's remarks have been transmitted to the Venezuelan population, which has been increasingly turning more hostile towards the Jewish community. Mr. Chairman, the children are afraid. They shudder when they see images or hear recordings of their president; they're fearful when they hear him speak about Isra …", "… the means, the coordination, and the distorted political desire to carry out such attacks. The international community, led by Canada, must demand an impartial, independent, and internationally sanctioned investigation of the attacks of January and February 2009. As well, the members of the Jewish community know that anti-Semitism is the official policy of the Chávez government. Whether it's because of his aspirations to be admired by Ahmadinejad or Iran--or for other political or personal reasons, I won't guess as to what--Chávez has created an environment of terror and fear for the Venezuelan Jewish community. We shouldn't be oblivious to the …", "… government or are following the government's not-too-subtle leadership. Either possibility should be unacceptable to Canada and unacceptable to the international community. Maurisio Rubenstein, a tenth grader, said—this was translated from Spanish by one of her classmates—the following: The Venezuelan government shows anti-Semitism in many different ways, but everything falls into place with the certainty of the lack of trust we have with our government. Our own president both curses and verbally attacks Israel....Whenever synagogues and religious buildings are attacked, everybody stays silent....I feel as if we are repeating the past. I feel as …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1369, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/rabbi-adam-scheier-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "charge_quote": "using Holocaust imagery, sponsored by the government", "act_why": "same testimony: names the Venezuelan government as behind the attacks on the Jewish community", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"vandalizing the synagogue on a Sabbath morning\" in Caracas and the government raids of 2004 and 2007", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "why someone other than the Government of Venezuela would be interested in sending this message to the Jewish community", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier", "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you for those wonderful questions. I certainly am open to the suggestion that anti-Israel sentiments are not by definition anti-Semitic, or that they could potentially not be anti-Semitic. However, the proof is in the pudding. The Jewish community in Venezuela was attacked and has not received reassurance from the government that these attacks were isolated attacks by groups that the government has publicly denounced. The government has not reached out a friendly hand to the community in a way that wou …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 397, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/rabbi-adam-scheier-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "using Holocaust imagery, sponsored by the government", "act_why": "same testimony: names the Venezuelan government as behind the attacks on the Jewish community", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"vandalizing the synagogue on a Sabbath morning\" in Caracas and the government raids of 2004 and 2007", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "why someone other than the Government of Venezuela would be interested in sending this message to the Jewish community", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… nterproductive, because at the time—this is 2009, following the incidents--the Venezuelan government was reaching out to the Jewish community in Caracas; last year, Mr. Bittan, the vice-president, said that the Venezuelan government has been addressing the Jewish community’s complaints, while noting that the number of anti-Semitic articles in the Venezuelan media had “dropped by 60%”. Well, one is too many. There's no dispute there. We've had witnesses before this committee, for instance, talking about the problems with the police in the country, that when Chávez first came in, one of the things he undertook was retraining of police, and that t …", "… threat. It wasn't stated, but it was alluded to as possibly the reason that he has shifted his view to Iran and an alliance of whatever nature, and to Cuba, because of that fear of being overthrown. We have a very complex situation where it is understandable that the outcome of people's feelings may well be that it's anti-Semitism. You could find people in this country who, when Gaza was invaded—and I believe the numbers were in the area of 1,500 civilians who lost their lives during that—or the more recent events where Israel decided to board ships in international waters, which I think is improper—I can understand their motivation but not what took place—you can see in places where people would take a position in opposition to that, but that doesn't make them anti-Semitic. I would be the first to question some of that. I see myself as a friend of the Jewish community; sometimes your friends have to ask you the tough questions. How do we separate from anti-Semitism the genuine concern about the actions of Israel in the last number of years? I'll leave some of those thoughts with you. Maybe you'd like to respond."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 672, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/wayne-marston-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns the desecrations but the point is separating criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism and questioning the label applied to Chavez", "trigger": "\"the desecration and the bombings\" at the Caracas synagogue in 2009", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2010-06-10", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… still terror and if you were the government that wanted to instill terror, that's not beyond what some people might do. In terms of the fact that those things aren't happening, I'm leaning towards an out-of-control police force or thuggery, in my own view of what I think is occurring there. The underlying reasons, the anti-Semitic reasons, are still there, and I'm not doubting that, but that's why I was asking that line of questioning. I'm not trying to whitewash Mr. Chávez. He's a character who seems to be adrift compared to what we thought we had when he first was elected, and testimony here leads us that way. The people, though, who have spo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 217, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/22/wayne-marston-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "resists attributing the anti-Semitic acts to Chavez's government, favouring police thuggery", "trigger": "the synagogue desecration and terrorizing of the Venezuelan Jewish community", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "I'm leaning towards an out-of-control police force or thuggery [in Venezuela]", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-06-15", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Dr. James Rochlin", "role": "Professor, Political Sciences, University of British Columbia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["There is no evidence linking the use of drugs to the crime, although it's probably true that there's a growing drug problem in much of the world, as even there is in my small city of Kelowna. This may be related, but there is no evidence to support that. With regard to the Jewish community or anti-Semitism, there have been cases in the last couple of years where synagogues have been raided and so forth. The government claims it has had no role in this and that it has investigated. The government has been very harsh on aspects of Israeli foreign policy, which is distinct from anti-Semitism but some have drawn a connection between the two. There is, I'm telling you, no evidence linking the government to anti-Semitism but some have drawn the link based on the violence happening at synagogues and a policy on the part of the government that is highly critical of Israel."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 156, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/23/dr-james-rochlin-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "balanced expert testimony on Venezuela; relevant passage beyond truncated text", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-06-15", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["I want to go back to the anti-Semitism for a moment. You seemed to be careful in how you talked about Mr. Chavez and how he is aggressive towards Israel. There's no doubt about that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 35, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/23/wayne-marston-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notes how the witness spoke about Chavez, no position of his own", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2011-02-17", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Rob Oliphant", "role": "Don Valley West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["Thank you. Mr. Minister, you have a passionate defence for a non-political system of listening to your officials on the targeting numbers. We appreciate that maybe this is not political. Can you explain the difference between this decision and your comments at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, at which you said “We have de-funded organizations, most recently like KAIROS, who are taking a leadership role in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign regarding Israel”? Can you confirm how you knew this?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 82, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/40-3/44/rob-oliphant-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 44, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "quotes the minister's remarks at the anti-Semitism forum and asks him to confirm them", "trigger": "Kenney's remarks at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism: \"We have de-funded organizations, most recently like KAIROS\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2011-03-01", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Rob Oliphant", "role": "Don Valley West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley West", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. You may not know about this, or you may have some information, but I have heard of an increasing number of either verbal or other attacks on Jewish Venezuelan citizens. I'm wondering if the incidence of anti-Semitism is being recorded, if it's being followed or monitored, or if you have any information or knowledge at all about that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 62, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/40-3/47/rob-oliphant-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "relays reports of attacks on Jewish Venezuelans with concern and asks if they are monitored", "trigger": "\"an increasing number of either verbal or other attacks on Jewish Venezuelan citizens\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "David McGuinty", "role": "Ottawa South, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ottawa South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… your group and, through your group, the 18 million Canadians who are represented by the churches. I'm going to ask you this straight up. I know how divisive this kind of sectarian talk can be, so I don't ask this question flippantly, Mrs. Corkery. I want you to answer it as honestly and as deeply as you wish. Are you anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 164, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/david-mcguinty-28/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "puts the minister's charge to the witness to show the sectarian accusation is baseless", "trigger": "Kenney's speech accusing KAIROS of anti-Semitism and the resulting charge against the churches", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "David McGuinty", "role": "Ottawa South, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ottawa South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Are your members anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 4, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/david-mcguinty-29/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "refers to the minister's speech accusing KAIROS of anti-Semitism to fix a timeline", "trigger": "\"When did you learn about Jason Kenney's speech accusing Kairos of being anti-Semitic?\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "David McGuinty", "role": "Ottawa South, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ottawa South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Is your board of directors anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 6, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/david-mcguinty-30/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rhetorical question inviting denial that the board is anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the charge of anti-Semitism levelled at KAIROS and its board", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John McKay", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Well, this is offensive, the way this thing works. Madam Biggs, in your assessment, is there anything that would have led you to believe that Kairos is an anti-Semitic organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 30, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/john-mckay-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks the CIDA president for any basis to believe KAIROS is anti-Semitic, expecting none", "trigger": "the accusation that KAIROS is an anti-Semitic organization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John McKay", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["The question is, is there anything in your assessment that leads you to believe that it's an anti-Semitic organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/john-mckay-24/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "repeats the question seeking any evidence for the anti-Semitism label", "trigger": "the accusation that KAIROS is an anti-Semitic organization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John McKay", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Thank you. Madam Minister, you said that Minister Kenney didn't check his speech with you first. Who speaks for the government? You or Minister Kenney? He said specifically that Kairos was “de-funded” because they're an anti-Semitic organization. So who speaks here for the government? You or Minister Kenney?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 48, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/john-mckay-26/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "contrasts the minister's account with Kenney's anti-Semitism rationale to show the charge is unsupported", "trigger": "Kenney's statement that KAIROS was \"de-funded\" because it is an anti-Semitic organization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John McKay", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Did anything in The Globe and Mail article give you any indication that you were going to be accused of being an anti-Semitic organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 24, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/john-mckay-39/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "presses the witness on being accused of running an anti-Semitic organization", "trigger": "a Globe and Mail article and the accusation that KAIROS is anti-Semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Ms. Mary Corkery", "role": "Executive Director, Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives (KAIROS)", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Well, I would like to say it's been very harmful to Kairos for him to come out and say on December 16, in Jerusalem, at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, that there were three ways in which the Government of Canada was proud of fighting anti-Semitism, and the second one was de-funding Kairos. We did feel that must have been a mistake at the time and waited for some kind of apology, and asked for that. But it has never been apologized for or retracted. Since then Mr. Kenney has on several occasions said in public that we are de-legitimizing Israel. Those things are …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/mary-corkery-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "witness says the minister's anti-Semitism claim is untrue and misrepresents the group", "trigger": "Kenney's Dec. 16 speech in Jerusalem at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism naming the de-funding of KAIROS as a way Canada fights anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Ms. Mary Corkery", "role": "Executive Director, Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives (KAIROS)", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["People know that Kairos is not anti-Semitic. It has been very affirming to us how much the public has supported us and has said that's not true. And those who didn't know are looking up our work, examining it, and saying “No, it must be something intended to silence you when you're speaking out about human rights issues”."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/mary-corkery-34/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "same testimony: calls the anti-Semitism claim untrue and never retracted", "trigger": "Kenney's Dec. 16 speech in Jerusalem at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism naming the de-funding of KAIROS as a way Canada fights anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… airos, that it was she who inserted the word “not”? Why didn't you say, “I'm not sure who actually wrote 'not', but I directed my chief of staff to cancel or to turn off the funding to Kairos”? That's not even a question. My next question is this. When did you learn about Jason Kenney's speech accusing Kairos of being anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 107, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-52/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "refers to the minister's speech accusing KAIROS of anti-Semitism to fix a timeline", "trigger": "the inserted \"not\" on the CIDA recommendation and Kenney's speech accusing KAIROS of anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Mr. Chairman, when did she learn about Jason Kenney's speech accusing Kairos of being anti-Semitic? If you have a date—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 20, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-55/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "repeats the timeline question about the speech accusing KAIROS of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"when did she learn about Jason Kenney's speech accusing Kairos of being anti-Semitic?\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["I have a question for Ms. Biggs, through the chair. Do you believe that Kairos is an anti-Semitic organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-62/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks the CIDA president whether she believes KAIROS is anti-Semitic, expecting a denial", "trigger": "the accusation that KAIROS is an anti-Semitic organization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… inister. Reasonable people would conclude that Kairos lost its funding because Margaret Biggs and others said they didn't believe Kairos should be funded any longer, whereas we believe Kairos lost its funding because of some ideological prejudice on behalf of Jason Kenney, who somehow got it in his mind that Kairos is anti-Semitic, which is insane. Now, listen, you've said that it's common practice to insert “not” or “do not” because there is no option on your forms for “minister disagrees”. By the way, I learned this because I managed to get a copy of your presentation. You gave it to the clerk in one official language, which is not very helpf …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 321, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-67/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls Kenney's belief that KAIROS is anti-Semitic insane and an ideological prejudice", "trigger": "the KAIROS de-funding, the inserted \"not\", and Kenney's belief that KAIROS is anti-Semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["I'm sorry to interrupt. I don't disagree with you, but again, we have to try to focus on what we think was misrepresenting why they scrapped your funding. I'm a member of a group called the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism. I know that Kairos made a presentation to this committee--"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-101/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites his membership in the parliamentary coalition to combat antisemitism while pursuing the funding question", "trigger": "the KAIROS de-funding and the misrepresentation of its reasons", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "role": "Winnipeg Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Fair enough, and thank you for that correction. Having dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism for the last two years with this committee, though, it strikes me that one of the most damaging and even slanderous things you can say about someone or some organization is accuse them of anti-Semitism. It's like being accused of being a child molester or something. It's in that category of hurtful things that put you in the uncomfortable situation of having to go around to those same people who heard something and deny that you're anti-Semitic. Can you expand a bit on what impact this has had on your organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 107, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pat-martin-102/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls an accusation of anti-Semitism slanderous and asks about the harm it did", "trigger": "the public accusation of anti-Semitism against KAIROS and its effect on the organization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-18", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Pierre Paquette", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… hank you, Mr. Chair. Let me go over the chronology again. On November 27, you decided, against the advice of your senior officials, not to fund KAIROS. That made waves. What made more waves is that, in Jerusalem on December 16, 2009, your colleague Jason Kenney said that the grant had been cancelled because KAIROS was anti-Semitic. In your statements, precisely to distance yourself from this charge of having made a purely ideological decision on the Conservatives' antiquated values, you state and you write that CIDA made the decision. Let me remind you that, on April 23, 2010, you said this in the House: The criteria for the funding for KAIROS …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 245, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/51/pierre-paquette-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "recounts Kenney's anti-Semitism charge to argue the defunding rested on ideological, not CIDA, criteria", "trigger": "\"in Jerusalem on December 16, 2009, your colleague Jason Kenney said that the grant had been cancelled because KAIROS was anti-Semitic\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2011-03-22", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John McKay", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… cision. 7. That when the facts were exposed on December 9, 2010, the minister changed her position from it being a CIDA decision to it being a government priorities decision. 8. That to date there's been no satisfactory explanation as to what constitutes government priorities. 9. That Minister Kenney accused Kairos of anti-Semitism in a speech in Israel at the Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism on December 16, 2009, and that this was the reason for its defunding, and that we now know that this too was untrue. 10. That the Minister of CIDA and the President of CIDA have never said that anti-Semitism was the reason for defunding, and further that they had no evidence of anti-Semitism. 11. That the allegation of anti-Semitism is false, that it slandered Kairos' reputation as an organization and the 11 Christian churches and organizations that constitute Kairos, and further that thousands of Kairos supporters have been hurt by this slander. 12. That the defunding decision has affected the lives of thousands of poor people by causing Kairos …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 595, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/40-3/53/john-mckay-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 53, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "motion states the allegation of anti-Semitism is false and slandered KAIROS", "trigger": "the KAIROS de-funding record: Kenney's Dec. 16, 2009 anti-Semitism accusation in Israel and the altered CIDA recommendation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2011-10-25", "year": "2011", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Antoine A. 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At the highest levels of society, in the most prestigious university in the Muslim world, Al-Azhar University, in Cairo, Jihad against the Jews and Christians is depicted as a collective duty of Muslims for the defence a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/8/antoine-a-malek-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 8, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["projective", "reputation"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "likens anti-Coptic hatred to the anti-Semitic hatred that drove Jews from Egypt, deploring both", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the killings of Coptic Christians in Egypt, including the October 9-10 attack, and Canada's Oct. 10 statement in response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community", "university"], "target_detail": "extremist Egyptian Muslims actuated by a Christianophobia similar to the anti-Semitic hatred that made Egyptian Jews flee Egypt in the 1950s; Al-Azhar University, in Cairo, Jihad against the Jews and Christians is depicted as a collective duty", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-02-28", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["When we were previously engaged in this investigation a while ago, we heard evidence about a growing anti-Semitism in Venezuela. I think today the relationship between Mr. Chavez and Ahmadinejad from Iran is even closer. What's the situation today with the Jewish minorities in Venezuela?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 45, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/24/david-sweet-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites earlier committee evidence of growing anti-Semitism and asks for an update", "trigger": "growing anti-Semitism in Venezuela and the closer relationship between Chavez and Ahmadinejad", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-02-28", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I wanted to take another approach to the issue of anti-Semitism. I think Mr. Cotler made my feelings very clear regarding the kinds of relationships we would have with a regime that sponsors terrorism, that treats its own people with impunity, and that has called for the wiping off of the map of a state that is a good friend of Canada's. The situation is extremely problematic, and it is not one, we should make very clear to the Venezuelan government, that we want to continue or one that will go, in any way, shape, or form, without any kind of diplomatic repercussions from us. I want to go one step further on the issue of anti-Semitism. You mentioned that our embassy had been providing some support for the minorities there. Could you expand on that and give us an idea of how they provide support to the Jewish minority there?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 157, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/24/david-sweet-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "reputation"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "a regime that sponsors terrorism, that treats its own people with impunity, and that has called for the wiping off of the map of a state that is a good friend of Canada's", "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitism situation extremely problematic and warns the Venezuelan government of repercussions", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the Venezuelan regime's hostility to the Jewish minority and its sponsorship of terrorism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "a regime that sponsors terrorism, that treats its own people with impunity, and that has called for the wiping off of the map of a state that is a good friend of Canada's [Iran]; the Venezuelan government", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2012-02-28", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Neil Reeder", "role": "Director General, Latin America and Caribbean, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… pecial attention to the situation of the Jewish community in Venezuela, which numbers about 12,000 people. As I mentioned, we do assist that community from a consular perspective in facilitating departure in some instances. We've also encouraged the Government of Venezuela to follow through on the commitment to reject anti-Semitism in all forms and to ensure that the Jewish community is protected, including its religious and cultural centres. We would note that President Chavez met with leaders of the Jewish community in late 2010 and reaffirmed his support for their community. There have been concerns in the past in relation to comments made on state television, for example, that were of an anti-Semitic nature, and when I was in Venezuela I actually raised this particular case with the authorities and they assured me they took the matter seriously. There have also been a couple of instances where we've been able to intervene after comments of an anti-Semitic nature were made in public media. So we're very apprised of the situation. We've asked our ambassador to give it special attention and to intervene where appropriate—and this is not only Canada but is common to other countries in Venezuela who continue to monitor this."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 206, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/24/neil-reeder-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official answers about impunity and crime without taking a position on the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-02-28", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Neil Reeder", "role": "Director General, Latin America and Caribbean, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… asked Canada to represent their interests in Venezuela, which are chiefly consular. In that instance, this was agreed to by the Government of Venezuela. We monitor the human rights situation domestically, but we also provide services to the resident community. We've encouraged the government there to reject and combat anti-Semitism when it manifests itself. My examples, to be fair, refer to instances where, in the state broadcaster or public media, we've seen references of a derogatory, anti-Semitic nature vis-à-vis Israel. We have a couple of examples of that instance. We also hold President Chavez to his word when he met the Jewish community leaders a little over a year ago and said that he had the greatest respect for them and for their contribution. He told his party members publicly that anti-Semitism was unacceptable. We have followed up, as I mentioned, on instances where, on state television, one of the reporters broadcast anti-Semitic remarks. I raised that, and secondly, there were comments made in relation to an opposition leader named Henrique Capriles, where, again, anti-Semitic comments were made towards him. As a result of that, we intervened through our ambassador in Caracas with the foreign ministry. In this instance, it was an article on the website that was removed at Canada's insistence. We follow this very closely, and we will continue to express our views when we see issues like this …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 290, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/24/neil-reeder-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "same answer: describes impunity and crime rates, no position taken", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-03-07", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Warren Sheffer", "role": "Lawyer, Hebb & Sheffer, Recording Artists' Collecting Society", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Bill C 11 41 1", "passages": ["… get a significant following of fans on the local scene, and have a website where they make half a dozen of their recordings available to the public for free digital download. They want to get their sound out there, and they would never think to attach a digital lock to their recordings. On the other hand, you have an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi organization that's headed up by one individual. This individual loves thrash metal and thinks it would be clever to mash up the band's six songs and mix in some of his own lyrics. The lyrics don't qualify as hate speech, per se, but they are objectionable to the band. He uses the mash-up as the soundtrack o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 567, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/bill-c-11-41-1/41-1/9/warren-sheffer-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Bill C 11 41 1", "committee_slug": "bill-c-11-41-1", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "uses an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi group as the self-evidently objectionable actor in a copyright hypothetical", "trigger": "Bill C-11, the copyright bill — the user-generated content and statutory damages provisions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-03-13", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Dr. Jennifer McCoy", "role": "Director, Americas Program, The Carter Center, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ezbollah presence in Venezuela as opposed to further south. It is in Argentina and the triangle between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, I believe, that there is more evidence of that. Certainly the role in synagogue bombings in Argentina is much more clearly tied to Iran. In Venezuela we have heard some statements on anti-Semitism and have had some of these concerns about a couple of the synagogues. I've heard different presentations about this suggesting that it should be seen in political terms more as a global strategy than as particularly anti-Semitic in an ethnic or racial or religious sense. It's a little hard for me to characterize this, but I'm not sure that it should be seen as an anti-Semitic thing for religious reasons and I'm not sure how much of it comes from Iran; I think it is more that there is political confrontation focusing on Israel's relationship with the United States and that Chávez has championed the Palestinian cause. Looking at it in more political terms such as these might explain some of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 207, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/28/dr-jennifer-mccoy-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "expert answers on Venezuelan polarization, no position on the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-03-13", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["To go back to his association with Iran, we've had desecration of synagogues and some other things there that some people think were an outcome from the relationship with Iran. Is that your view, or is it just that there is anti-Semitism, such as happens in many countries? Would you say there was a relationship with Iran that caused this, or does it exist on its own?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/28/wayne-marston-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "member asks whether synagogue desecrations stem from Iran or plain antisemitism", "trigger": "desecration of synagogues in Venezuela", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the relationship with Iran (desecration of synagogues in Venezuela)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-03-27", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "role": "Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… ttlement area with newcomers have raised with me this concern. They have said that our settlement programs are designed to integrate people, not to inflame ancient enmities from their countries of origin. This concerns me a great deal, which is why, beginning with my speech at the global parliamentarians conference on anti-Semitism in January 2009 in London, I outlined certain principles that should govern our funding of settlement organizations. I think the groups that apologize for acts of terrorism and terrorist organizations or extremism or groups whose leadership is involved in the promotion of hatred have no business receiving subsidies fr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 148, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-1/29/jason-kenney-39/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "minister objects to funding groups promoting hatred, no target named", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "organizations that we believe have been involved in promoting extreme and hateful views (settlement organizations)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-03-27", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. John Eggenberger (Vice-President, Research, Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association)", "role": "Vice-President, Research, Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ned it up within an hour of the discovery, but the shock and outrage was widespread. In 2010, in Trail, British Columbia, a group of youths were caught on video defacing the town's recently restored cenotaph. While some of the offenders were identified, they faced no monetary sanction for their acts. In November 2009, anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on a war memorial in southwest Calgary during a binge of hateful behaviour that also included mailboxes and several synagogues. In April 2009, a large red X was painted over the names of World War II veterans inscribed on the war memorial next to the town hall in Lennoxville, Quebec. A beer bottle …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 695, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/41-1/28/john-eggenberger-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "veterans' witness recounts antisemitic graffiti on a war memorial with outrage", "trigger": "Bill C-217, war memorial vandalism legislation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "whoever sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a war memorial in southwest Calgary and on several synagogues", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-04-24", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Toews (Member, Canadian Bar Association)", "role": "Member, Canadian Bar Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… atrocities have occurred where a culture of prejudice and discrimination was permitted to grow—for example, the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Falun Gong in China. Such a culture is created where the dissemination of hateful and intolerant views is allowed unchecked. In our submission we have provided an example of the type of anti-Semitic hate messages that are spread today via the Internet but that were successfully dealt with by the tribunal. By voting to remove section 13 from the act, parliamentarians are in effect voting to allow the proliferation of this type of egregious speech in Canada and beyond via the Internet. This seems rather ironic, giv …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 857, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/41-1/31/mark-toews-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "CBA counsel cites antisemitic hate messages as harm justifying section 13", "trigger": "Bill C-304 (repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Ahenakew (comments about the Jews, including that they were a disease); parliamentarians voting to repeal section 13", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-04-26", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas (Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thanks. I'll be equally brief, if not briefer. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is the need for an effective effort to combat hate speech. The Weimar Republic had laws against hate speech. They did not work. If eliminationist anti-Semitism had been effectively combatted in the years before 1933, the Holocaust would never have happened. Canada, both federally and provincially, has engaged in a plethora of efforts to combat hate speech. The laws, though, suffer from two extremes. Some laws, the criminal laws, are almost dead letters, rarely invoked. Other …", "… ent of aggravated offences rather than just an aggravated factor in sentencing; and setting out guidelines for courts and for attorneys general, so that attorneys general, when they're exercising their discretion to consent, have these guidelines. Also, legislating a specific offence of Holocaust denial.... Combatting anti-Semitism means dealing with anti-Semitism as it is today in its modern forms. Ultimately, the subject matter of this committee and our concern is combatting hatred effectively, whether through the criminal law or the civil law. We do have a problem and we do need a legal remedy for it. Marvin, why don't you add to that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 463, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/41-1/32/david-matas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 32, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "act_why": "B'nai Brith counsel on combatting eliminationist antisemitism and hate speech", "trigger": "Bill C-304 (repeal of section 13)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-04-26", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Frank Dimant (Executive Vice-President, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Executive Vice-President, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s been a tool for B'nai Brith Canada throughout its years in fighting hate speech. We have appreciated that arrow in our quiver. We've needed that arrow. It's served an important role in fighting the hate-mongers in this country. I just want to tell you that next week, B'nai Brith Canada will be releasing its audit of anti-Semitic incidents. Just to foreshadow it, I will tell you that the climate is not a good climate in the field. It is not. Therefore, we need all the kind of weaponry we can have in order to battle the hate-mongers. However—however—as a progressive human rights organization, we recognize the misuse of this section and the hard …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 685, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/41-1/32/frank-dimant-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 32, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "warns the climate is bad and previews the audit of antisemitic incidents", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Bill C-304 (repeal of section 13)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-04-30", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Ms. Julie Taub", "role": "Immigration and Refugee Lawyer, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… u me, Jewish refugees who were trying to flee Europe would not have shopped around. They would have gladly taken any country, any first country they could have stepped foot in, and made their asylum claim there. They wouldn't have traipsed around the world to find a country with more generous benefits. As I speak now, anti-semitism is on the rise in Hungary. And since I was an infant born on the Hungarian side of the Czech-Hungarian border at that time, I have friends in Hungary, one of them being Peter Feldmajer, the head of the Jewish community in Hungary. Anti-semitism is what the new right wing government has almost state sanctioned. He said to me that the young Jewish people, his children included, are leaving. But they're not making refugee claims; they're going to one of 26 other European Union countries, and they're not coming to Canada. They're going to one of the other countr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1229, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-1/33/julie-taub-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 33, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "Anti-semitism is what the new right wing government has almost state sanctioned", "act_why": "says Hungary's new right-wing government has almost state-sanctioned antisemitism", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-31", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the new right wing government [of Hungary]: \"Anti-semitism is what the new right wing government has almost state sanctioned\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2012-05-03", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Ms. Maureen Silcoff", "role": "Representative, Roma Community Centre", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… don't need Canada's protection because they are bogus. People who work with Roma refugees are at a loss to figure out why this group is called bogus. Why has the minister not expressed concern about growing fascism and racism, instead of condemning Roma refugees? The Prime Minister recently expressed support to fight anti-Semitism and racism on Holocaust Remembrance Day. We support this. The extremist party in Hungary with 20% of the vote is anti-Roma and also blatantly anti-Semitic and has even forged an alliance with Iran. Anti-Semitism in Hungary is rampant. We should condemn the human rights abuses in Hungary of both the Jews and the Roma. The situation is Hungary is worsening. A new constitution took effect in January. The changes in the constitution reflect a move away from democratic principles, and the EU has begun legal action against Hungary …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 707, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-1/39/maureen-silcoff-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 39, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "calls for condemning rampant antisemitism and abuses in Hungary", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-31 and the designated country of origin list", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "The extremist party in Hungary with 20% of the vote is anti-Roma and also blatantly anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-05-31", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Neil Yeates (Deputy Minister, Department of Citizenship and Immigration)", "role": "Deputy Minister, Department of Citizenship and Immigration", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… ve already taken place and will continue to take place throughout 2012, to mark Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's 60th anniversary as Canada's monarch. Mr. Chair, through our Multiculturalism Program, we will continue to work with our many partners to celebrate Canada' s diversity and to address racism, discrimination and anti-Semitism. Through our Inter-Action program, we will help fund initiatives that promote inter-cultural and inter-faith understanding, encourage civic engagement in young people, and work to remove barriers for Canadians of all origins. Canada will also assume the Chair of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaus …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1265, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-1/46/neil-yeates-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding", "education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "deputy minister commits the department to addressing racism and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-10-23", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Harold Albrecht", "role": "Kitchener—Conestoga, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kitchener—Conestoga", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["One point that came through in some of the reports as well is some of the anti-Semitic activity that has occurred in the past. Are you aware of any more recent examples of anti-Semitic activity or criminal actions against Jewish people, their synagogues, and that sort of thing?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 48, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/52/harold-albrecht-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "member asks the witness for recent examples of antisemitic activity", "trigger": "past anti-Semitic activity and attacks on synagogues in Venezuela", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-10-23", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Neil Reeder", "role": "Director General, Latin America and Caribbean Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… e j'étais à Caracas à ce moment, j'ai soulevé la question au ministère des Affaires étrangères. Par la suite, les propos en question ont été retirés. Nous avons tendance à suivre les déclarations officielles et à répondre en conséquence, mais je ne peux pas dire qu'il y a eu des agressions ou des activités ouvertement antisémites. Je n'ai pas entendu grand-chose ces derniers temps et, pour être juste, je dois dire que le président Chavez a fait des efforts, sans doute par suite des réactions du Canada et d'autres, pour rassurer la communauté juive du Venezuela après certaines de ces activités. Nous avons également un rôle important parce que n …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/52/neil-reeder-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official recounts offensive anti-Jewish website language Canada objected to", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "posting on a Venezuelan government website of language offensive to Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "a posting on a government website [of Venezuela] of language we felt was offensive to those of the Jewish faith", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2012-10-23", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Nina Grewal", "role": "Fleetwood—Port Kells, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fleetwood—Port Kells", "province": "BC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Has Canada received any further reports of anti-Semitic attacks in Venezuela, and if so, how has the Government of Canada responded?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 21, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/52/nina-grewal-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "member asks whether further antisemitic attacks in Venezuela were reported", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "anti-Semitic attacks in Venezuela", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-11-27", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Ms. Irshad Manji", "role": "Director, Moral Courage Project", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… stereotypes of Muslims, to remember that positive stereotypes can be equally dangerous. By that, I mean what I hear so often in this country: “You know, Muslims are a peace-loving people.” Well, for the most part we are law-abiding, but where are the moderates who are willing to stand up to their own imams to say that anti-Semitism can no longer be tolerated in our mosques, or who will ask why, in the 21st century, do we need to be dividing men and women in our mosques when racial segregation, we all know, is wrong? How does gender segregation differ? Where are both Muslims and non-Muslims who are willing to ask these questions? Too often, we're …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 594, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/58/irshad-manji-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "witness says antisemitism can no longer be tolerated in mosques", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "moderates who are willing to stand up to their own imams to say that anti-Semitism can no longer be tolerated in our mosques", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… e right now, certainly we miss his input and his hard work. I had the honour to share the platform with Mr. Silva a couple of weeks ago. We were honoured to receive the humanitarian award from the Hamilton Jewish federation. I think he earned it well—much more than I did—for his many, many years of great work to fight anti-Semitism and to support the remembrance of the Holocaust. I can't say enough about how thrilled I am that not only are we getting the chair in 2013, but that it is former MP Mario Silva who's going to be in that chair. In his opening remarks, he mentioned some past Canadian acts. Unfortunately, there's the St. Louis incident, and the internment of Jews during the Second World War. These are stains on our past. We need to make sure that we do everything we can to do quite the opposite now, and to make sure that people don't forget the Holocaust. Of course, just as important is that we stop the spread of anti-Semitism, which we saw through testimony when we worked together on the Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism. I know that was a long interlude, but I just wanted to express in advance my great appreciation for Mr. Silva's chairmanship. I know he'll do good work. That's not to put an extra burden upon him; I'm just very confident in that regard and I'm very happy. Mr. Silva, there are 31 countries now that are part of the ITF …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 301, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/david-sweet-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "praises years of work to fight antisemitism and stop its spread", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "past Canadian acts — the St. Louis incident, and the internment of Jews during the Second World War", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… spect to maybe helping to establish Raoul Wallenberg commemorative days in other ITF member countries. That is my first question. You mentioned that a third area of focus for the ITF is research to shed further light on the Holocaust and its driving forces, with a view to preventing genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. On that very important theme of prevention, I wonder if part of your research might be into the dangerous phenomenon of genocidal anti-Semitism, or even state-sanctioned genocidal anti-Semitism where you have the convergence of the incitement of the most horrific of crimes, namely genocide, embedded in the most enduring of hatreds, anti-Semitism. You know this well; I need not elaborate. Those are my two questions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 348, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/irwin-cotler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "international bodies"], "act_why": "urges research into genocidal antisemitism as prevention", "canada_role": "commemorating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Colin Boyd", "role": "Director, Multiculturalism Policy, Department of Citizenship and Immigration", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Certainly through our multiculturalism program we have supported some initiatives to get tools into schools. One of the notable initiatives of Mr. Tony Comper, co-founder of Fighting Antisemitism Together, was the development of a tool kit for teachers which I think has been distributed to schools and 800,000 students. That's a significant effort. We've also supported other types of initiatives undertaken by the international organization, Facing History and Ourselves, based in London, Boston, and Toronto, whi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 85, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/colin-boyd-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["education", "funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "community organisations"], "act_why": "official describes a Fighting Antisemitism Together teacher toolkit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Colin Boyd", "role": "Director, Multiculturalism Policy, Department of Citizenship and Immigration", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… used in the classroom. The question came up earlier about what some of the obstacles are. I think the obstacle remains getting the individual teachers engaged in a way that they feel comfortable teaching an extremely complex and difficult issue. Not only is the Holocaust itself a complex and difficult issue to teach, anti-Semitism is a difficult and sometimes separate topic that requires teaching. The United Kingdom, for example—one of our ITF good partners—recently undertook probably the largest educational research project in this area in the world, through the Institute of Education at the University of London. They spoke with thousands of t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 347, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/colin-boyd-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "academics"], "act_why": "identical description of the Fighting Antisemitism Together toolkit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Gary Schellenberger", "role": "Perth—Wellington, CPC", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["They were very good questions, sir, so I have no problem with that. Welcome, Mr. Silva. We spent quite a few years together on the heritage committee, so it's great to see you again. I understand you're doing a very good job. I have a number of questions. First, do you believe anti-Semitism continues to exist in Canada? If so, to what extent is anti-Semitism a problem in Canada? In your opinion, has anti-Semitism decreased or increased in Canada over the past decades? In your view, has Canada implemented sufficient measures to address anti-Semitism thus far?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/gary-schellenberger-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "member puts questions about whether antisemitism persists in Canada", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… help teachers. Also being developed within the ITF framework and through the different committees of experts are different tools on how to best teach some of these issues and deal with some of these issues you've just raised. In Canada, Mr. Chair, you remember we also had challenges when we co-chaired the committee on anti-Semitism regarding how to bring Canadians from all sides together. I think that's very important. It's a challenge, but it's not an insurmountable challenge, because all of us who believe in human rights need to also fight against anti-Semitism, xenophobia, hate propaganda, and so forth. We need to work collaboratively, and it is in that spirit I come before you. As I mentioned, I invite all of you to engage in some of the activities during our chairmanship year. I don't know if Mr. Cotler has anything to add."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 208, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["education", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "international bodies"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… eave the organization stronger than when we started. From the different members whom I've spoken with, there's a lot of expectation that Canada will do well. This is a country to which the world looks for leadership on issues, not just in combatting Holocaust denial in countries such as Iran, and not just on issues of anti-Semitism that are creeping up all over the world, even in some member countries in Europe, which is of grave concern. I think there is a role for Canada to play. There's also a role for us to network with other countries to make sure that we do a good job for the organization and to leave the organization stronger than when we …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 500, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… loquently many times, about Ahmadinejad's or Iran's genocidal intent towards the State of Israel and the Jewish people. This is something on which I believe during my chairmanship year I will have the support of members of Parliament, and certainly the government, to be vocal, to make sure that we are speaking against anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and that we are in fact dealing also with countries that have genocidal intent as well, and be vocal in that regard. I think that's a very important component for the organization. If we are going to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to say “never again”, although Professor Yehuda Bauer hates that phrase, and if we are going to lead down that road, then we have to be more vocal and speak out when we see either regimes or individuals committing acts of anti-Semitism, incitement to hate, or incitement to genocide."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 442, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you for the questions, Mr. Schellenberger. Anti-Semitism is a problem, unfortunately. It's a global phenomenon. It's prevalent in all societies. It's an incredible problem of hate. I want to give you some statistics so you can see how things are moving, at least in Canada. In 2010, B'nai Brith Canada reported the number of anti-Semitic incidents increased by 11% in Canada, including 479 cases in greater Toronto. Statistics Canada data show that in 2010 the most common type of religiously motivated hate crimes targeted the Jewish faith, a finding that is consistent with previous years. In 2010, the 204 incidents of hate crimes against the Jewish faith represent nearly six in 10, or 55% of religiously motivated incidents. We know hate crimes are also one of the most under-reported of all crimes. To answer your question, both from the report from B'nai Brith and from Statistics Canada, unfortunately the pernicious evil of hatred toward the Jews, anti-Semitism as we call it, is still very prevalent in our society. A series of things have been initiated. In the previous Parliament, under the leadership of me, Scott Reid and Professor Irwin Cotler, parliamentarians from all over the world came to conferences here in Ottawa. This was an important act from this Parliament to show its commitment in the fight against anti-Semitism both nationally and internationally, as was our domestic inquiry panel we had with the report. A very important document came out of that, the Ottawa Protocol, which has recommendations for the government. It was signed for the Government of Canada by ministers Jason Kenney and John Baird in 2011, making it an officia …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 445, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… g future generations about the lessons learned from the Holocaust and helping prevent acts of genocide in the future. In our work, we must always remember how important prevention is. The Holocaust is a very important subject, but it is also useful for educating generations and preventing acts of genocide, xenophobia, anti-Semitism across the world and in our country. This is our organization's goal. We do everything we can to work with ONGs and various governmental partners, both provincial and national, in order to advance these three very important themes. Our intergovernmental organization's main document also demonstrates our commitment tow …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 289, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["There certainly are other obstacles. There is always more to do in raising awareness, which is why education plays such an important role for our organization. Unfortunately, it is a constant struggle. As I told the subcommittee, anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia still exist, so we have the obligation to continue to fight them. The mandate of the organization will give me, during my 10 years as president, a greater opportunity to do this work not only at the national level, but also internationally."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… NGO communities and our partners on this very important work. There's the important national monument on the Holocaust in the national capital which is under way. This was the subject of a private member's bill by my former colleague, and your colleague, Minister Tim Uppal . In addition, speaking out on issues of both anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial is very important. There was a statement made by the Prime Minister some time back in which he said: ...to honour the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, it is not enough simply to remember. Truly remembering the Holocaust must also be an understanding and an undertaking. It is an understandin …", "… address this year during Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Canadian War Museum. There is ongoing activity taking place. It is extremely important that we be vocal, that we speak out, that we work with partners in different sectors, both nationally and internationally, to fight against racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust denial. Colin may have some additional projects to speak about."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 312, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["commemoration", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Very briefly, there is a working definition as well which the organization has on Holocaust denial. Holocaust denial is a form of anti-Semitism and attempts to deny the genocide of the Jewish people, or attempts to blame the Jews for causing their own genocide. It goes on to deal with issues of Holocaust denial, and they include, public denial, or putting in doubt the use of principal mechanisms, justification or trivialization of the Holocaust, and diminishi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 396, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "says all who believe in human rights must fight antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva (Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research)", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… anada's pursuit of membership began in 2007, at the direction of the Prime Minister and Minister Jason Kenney . As Minister Kenney noted in Oslo, in 2009, during the meeting at which Canada became a full ITF member: ...this important body provides Canada with an opportunity to work internationally to combat racism and anti-Semitism. This Government believes it is critically important to be engaged in efforts to teach future generations the lessons of the Holocaust and help prevent future acts of genocide. The ITF is unique in that it consists of a mix of government diplomatic representatives and non-governmental Holocaust experts, academics, mus …", "… United Nations declared January 27th—the date in 1945 when Russian forces liberated Auschwitz—as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. As ITF Chair, Canada will have an opportunity to lead international efforts to teach future generations the lessons of the Holocaust, combat anti-semitism, help prevent future acts of genocide, and showcase domestic initiatives. Canada is already stepping up to its commitment as a member of the ITF. A strong Canadian delegation participates in all ITF meetings and contributes to discussions in all working groups. Over the past 10 years, the ITF has undertaken significan …", "… p new and existing international partnerships, for example working closely with the OSCE, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. I will also continue discussions with countries such as Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey and Portugal, all of which have expressed interest in the ITF. In addition, through the ITF Standing Committee on Anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, I will encourage support for the Ottawa Protocol, which, as you know, was developed in 2010 when Canada hosted the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. During 2013 I will host several meetings, including the handover ceremony at the Canadian embassy in Berlin in March, the ITF working group meetings in Berlin in June, and the ITF plenary meeting in Toronto from October 6 to 10. To assist me in developing and implementing domestic initiatives, the government has esta …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1678, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/mario-silva-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "academics"], "act_why": "incoming ITF chair on combatting antisemitism and Holocaust denial", "canada_role": "commemorating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2012-12-06", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Nina Grewal", "role": "Fleetwood—Port Kells, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fleetwood—Port Kells", "province": "BC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Combatting racism and anti-Semitism is very important to ensuring that all people are able to freely exercise their human rights. Could you please elaborate on how the activities of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research contribute to the promotion of human rights in Canada and around the world?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 54, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-1/61/nina-grewal-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "states that combatting racism and antisemitism is very important", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2013-05-02", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Bob Rae", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… , there are some examples in which I see you trying to make a parallel situation, saying, “They got this, and we didn't get that.” The experience after 1948 was so completely different in terms of what happened. Yes, there was terrible discrimination in every one of the Arab capitals mentioned. Yes, there was horrific anti-Semitism. Yes, people left without anything, and people were deprived of their property and their way of life. That's a situation that has continued right up until the present day in some countries. But it's still not possible to say that the treatment of those people upon their arrival in Israel was the same as the treatment …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 324, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/77/bob-rae-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "acknowledges horrific antisemitism in Arab capitals while faulting a different claim", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "every one of the Arab capitals mentioned — \"Yes, there was horrific anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2013-05-02", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Dr. David Bensoussan (Past President, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec)", "role": "Past President, Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… tradition of prosecuting Jews during difficult domestic times, as well as the resentment against colonial power and the emancipation of Jews, were all key factors in triggering anti-Jewish actions, as happened in Fez in 1912, in Cairo in 1945, and so on. In order to avoid antagonizing the Muslim majority and even the anti-Semitic European colonists, the colonial authorities often turned a blind eye to the abuse of Jews, for example in Baghdad in 1942. No doubt Jews were considering leaving their country if they could not achieve equal rights. During the Second World War, a pro-Nazi regime came to power in Iraq and the sweeping pogrom, the Farh …", "… opaganda and he encouraged Bosnia Muslims to join the Waffen SS. As well, Jews in Libya were sent to death camps in Europe and a number in Jews in Tunisia were made to do forced labour. After the war, there was growing insecurity in eastern Jewish communities. There had been a pogrom in Libya in 1945, anti-British and anti-Semitic riots within the same year in Egypt, in Syria, Yemen and Aden in 1947, and Jews were excluded from the Syrian and Lebanese administrations in 1947. The political committee of the Arab League, made up of seven countries, proposed in 1947, well before Israel's independence, that the assets of Jews be frozen. Israel's in …", "… llowing Egyptian business only in Egypt in 1961. Jewish heritage was destroyed in Oran in 1961 and in Libya in 1969 and 1978, there was police abuse and abductions of young girls with forced conversions in Morocco from 1961 to 1962, Jews were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1967, there were public hangings in Baghdad in 1969, anti-Semitic clichés were used in the Arab press, and campaigns were used to increase anti-Jewish sentiment and incite hatred, using Zionism as an excuse. After the Six-Day War, this rhetoric increased considerably. 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There is a lot of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. It can be seen in our universities. It can be seen in the way that the State of Israel is demonized. The overarching principle of all these actions against Israel and that support anti-Semitism is based on the way refugees from Arab countries are treated."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 65, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/77/sylvain-abitbol-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "one-word answer, no use of the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2013-05-07", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Bob Rae", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… to comment on it. Mr. Chairman, the last couple of sessions we've had an extraordinary opportunity to hear the real experience of not only communities, but of individuals whose lives have been terribly affected by the politics of the whole of the Middle East, by this rising nationalism, this xenophobia which includes anti-Semitism and excludes all others. The dangers and risks of extremism, not only in the Middle East but everywhere, are in front of us all the time. We've also heard about the importance of this group, these MPs, this House, understanding the nature of the historical experience, what has actually happened, because I think Canadi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 668, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/78/bob-rae-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "deplores rising xenophobia that includes antisemitism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "this rising nationalism, this xenophobia which includes anti-Semitism [in the Middle East]", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2013-05-07", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Lois Brown", "role": "Newmarket—Aurora, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Newmarket—Aurora", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["May I simply finish? We did have a committee that made an investigation into the new anti-Semitism we've seen. There is a report that was tabled in the House of Commons. Perhaps you'd like to have a copy of that to take a look at what our investigation brought forward and some of the suggestions. I'm sorry."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/78/lois-brown-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "points to the committee report on the new antisemitism", "trigger": "the committee report on the new anti-Semitism tabled in the House of Commons", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2013-05-07", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mrs. Regina Bublil Waldman", "role": "President, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["I would say that Canada, having such a wonderful record on human rights.... I would put Hungary as maybe the top anti-Semitic country. Personally, I was humiliated to be so surrounded by police. The whole city has been blocked by police cars. It took me quite a long time to get here today, simply because I couldn't get in or out of any area that had anything Jewish, whether it's a Jewish neighbourhood or a synagogue. 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J'ai grandi dans une communauté juive de la classe moyenne. Mon père, Rahmin Bublil, importait de l'équipement pétrolier pour des entreprises. Il parlait souvent du Mora'ot de 1945, un pogrom qui a eu lieu à Tripoli et durant lequel une foule antisémite est descendue dans les rues et a assassiné plus de 145 juifs libyens. Mon père a enterré les corps mutilés de ses amis. Durant le pogrom, ma mère a échappé à la foule en courant d'un toit à l'autre jusqu'à ce qu'une chrétienne lui sauve la vie. À ma naissance, la communauté juive de Tripoli représentait près de 30 % d …", "… rès difficile durant mon enfance: un avant-goût de la haine contre les juifs. Les membres de ma communauté ne pouvaient pas quitter le pays. On nous refusait la citoyenneté, et nous ne pouvions pas avoir de passeport. On nous refusait le droit de nous déplacer, mais nous devions vivre dans un environnement extrêmement antisémite. Nous nous adaptions comme nous pouvions, en vivant dans le déni et en nous faisant croire que tout allait s'arranger. Le 6 juin 1967, la Guerre des Six Jours a éclaté entre Israël et ses cinq pays voisins arabes. J'avais 19 ans. À Tripoli et Benghazi, les gens sont descendus dans les rues et scandaient: « Edbah el Ye …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1903, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/78/regina-bublil-waldman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "survivor testimony recounting anti-Jewish hatred and expulsion", "canada_role": "commemorating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Libyan government (ordered the expulsion of all the Jews) and nine Arab countries; the United Nations / international community, which \"inoculated itself with apathy and indifference\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2013-05-07", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Ms. Lisette Shashoua", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["I think hatred should be stopped now. I think nobody is allowed to start inciting hatred. I'm seeing it seeping through, and it's terrifying. When I was in Iraq, I was safe in their country, but we came here and we thought we would never see hatred or anti-Semitism again, and it's seeping through. That's the reality. I didn't want to say this publicly, but I'm happy I'm saying it."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 70, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/78/lisette-shashoua-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "factual answer about Iraqi Jews in Montreal, no use of the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2013-05-07", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Paul Dewar", "role": "Ottawa Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Ottawa Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ou were subjected to. I think these stories are important because they give people a reference point. I've been following the news with regard to what's happening right now in the city you're in, and astonishingly for those who have been following politics in Hungary as of late, we see that the threat of extremism and anti-Semitism, to be very blunt about it, is not gone. The rallies there on the weekend of the extremist party are not only denying the Holocaust, they are saying extreme things about Jews, about Israel, and about Roma. I was very shocked to see the weekend events and learn from what I have read. I ask you to give us some context a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 250, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-1/78/paul-dewar-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "alarm at Hungarian extremist rallies and persisting antisemitism", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "the weekend rallies of the extremist party in Hungary denying the Holocaust", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the rallies ... of the extremist party [in Hungary]; our government's decision to take Hungary off the list of countries of concern", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2014-02-10", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett", "role": "Ambassador, Office of Religious Freedom, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ngs there with government officials on the specific issue that the member is raising. I also had a chance to meet with the members of the Jewish community in Budapest. The Jewish community itself is obviously very concerned about the Jobbik Party, which is the party you referred to that has a very disgusting record of anti-Semitic statements. They're very concerned about its activities, but they also realize that, generally speaking, there's not a lot of direct violence against the Jewish community in Hungary. But you do have this vicious rhetoric coming out of this one political party. In my meetings with the Jewish community, they said to really please be vigilant and continue to press the Hungarian government to ensure they are consistent in their condemnation of the anti-Semitic vitriol and rhetoric coming from that party. That was the message I conveyed to my interlocutors both in the foreign ministry and in the opportunity I had to meet with some advisers to the Prime Minister . I advanced that. One concern we have is that there are elections in Hungary this year. The Hungarian political system, as I'm sure you're aware, is a difficult mix of forces, so we want to be sure that, again, the messages that are coming out from the governing party are consistent around condemning anti-Semitism. I think it's also important for members of the committee to know that the Hungarian government is taking steps to properly—and I think in a very significant way—mark the 70th anniversary of the 1944 deportation of Hungarian Jews. That is happening this year through a lot of different events, including the establishme …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 334, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/11/dr-andrew-pw-bennett-26/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "answer about program spending timelines, no use of the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-02-10", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett (Ambassador, Office of Religious Freedom, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada)", "role": "Ambassador, Office of Religious Freedom, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… he 1982 Constitution Act. Since my appointment on February 19, 2013, I have undertaken broad outreach and spoken publicly, both domestically and abroad, with literally hundreds of groups to raise awareness of the importance of religious freedom and to call attention to its violation internationally. At a conference on anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe in Budapest in October of last year, I drew attention to the legislation in certain countries that limits the rights of some people to fully practise their faith. We will continue to use every opportunity to raise Canada's concerns on violations of religious freedom. The office has a dynamic com …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2086, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/11/dr-andrew-pw-bennett-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "ambassador mentions speaking at an antisemitism conference in Budapest", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-02-10", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Paul Dewar", "role": "Ottawa Centre, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Ottawa Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to come back to and just touch on a couple of countries. You mentioned Hungary in your comments. One of the concerns we've had, which was raised with government, is some pretty vicious rhetoric. We've seen the rise of the right and the old, nasty anti-Semitism. We have a third party there now that has a deputy leader talking about “tallying up” the Jews. There's that kind of rhetoric. This is shocking for people to be hearing in 2014. In light of that fact, of Hungary kind of going back into that cesspool of anti-Semitism, what would you be informing our government to do in that case?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 113, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/11/paul-dewar-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "alarm at Hungary sliding back into a cesspool of antisemitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "a Hungarian party deputy leader talking about 'tallying up' the Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "a third party there now [in Hungary] that has a deputy leader talking about “tallying up” the Jews", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-03-24", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Carl Gershman (President, National Endowment for Democracy)", "role": "President, National Endowment for Democracy", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… up against a thieving kleptocracy and demanded accountability and the rule of law. Are we to ignore the aspirations of the people of Ukraine or subordinate them to the demands of geopolitics? In his March 18 address, Putin charged that the Euromaidan movement was controlled by nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes, and anti-Semites, who resorted to terror, murder, and riots to seize power. Here he shows himself to be a worthy successor to the Soviet rulers and a true product of the KGB, for he has elevated the big lie to the pinnacle of its political discourse. He has revived the Orwellian inversion of the truth as a tool to justify actions that …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1703, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/17/carl-gershman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls Putin's charge that Euromaidan is antisemitic a big lie", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea and Putin's March 18 speech", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Putin and the Russian security services — \"the Russian neo-Nazis, who are encouraged by your security services\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-03-26", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Marc Garneau", "role": "Westmount—Ville-Marie, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Westmount--Ville-Marie", "province": "QC", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… a government that eventually will be elected, going beyond just seeing the president elected. One hears occasionally—and I'm not sure where it comes from, but since you both have extensive experience of Ukraine, I'd like your opinions—about there being some radical... I think you used the term “fascist” or “neo-Nazi” anti-Semitic elements that may be in the current interim government. To what extent is this Russian propaganda to try to stir things up? To what extent is there any truth to it? I'd be interested in your opinions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/18/marc-garneau-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "asks whether antisemitic elements in Kyiv's government are Russian propaganda", "trigger": "claims of fascist, neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic elements in Ukraine's interim government amid the Russian campaign", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-03-26", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Daniel Bilak", "role": "Managing Partner, Kyiv Office, CMS Cameron McKenna LLC", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ych, and that resonated with Russian-speaking people in the country. They were horrible at running Lviv, they were horrible at running Ternopil, and they're now running at 2%, so it's unlikely that they're going to be in the next parliament. Everybody is talking about this shadowy Right Sector. They have never made an anti-Semitic statement. The only issue people have with them is that they don't want NATO or the EU. The head of Right Sector has met with the Israeli ambassador to Ukraine. They have said not only that they are opposed to anti-Semitism but that they will actively seek to root it out. They've done a great job on PR. If there is a people that the government—which has done an abysmal job on communications, by the way.... In fact, if there's one area in which I would heavily criticize them, it's that they have not been very robust in countering this mac …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 321, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/18/daniel-bilak-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects the antisemitism charge against Right Sector as Soviet-style propaganda", "trigger": "Russian propaganda about Ukraine; open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Putin in today's National Post", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2014-05-05", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel (Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… ng physical presence to qualify for citizenship, is particularly well-received. That, coupled with basic language and knowledge requirements, will go a long way toward facilitating integration and decreasing the marginalization of new immigrants. In addition, it will go a long way towards preventing the importation of anti-Semitic views that, though marginalized in Canada, are unfortunately still prevalent in some parts of the world. We also support the introduction of measures to ensure that those who apply for Canadian citizenship actually intend to maintain a meaningful connection to Canada after taking the oath. The “intent to reside” provi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1520, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/24/shimon-fogel-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats importation of anti-Semitic views as a harm to be prevented", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-24, amendments to the Citizenship Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"anti-Semitic views that... are unfortunately still prevalent in some parts of the world\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2014-05-12", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. 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Citizenship must be something refugees aspire to as a reason for hope, many having overcome unimaginable trauma, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 601, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/26/bernie-m-farber-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 26, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "recounts parents fleeing anti-Semitism with evident disapproval", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-24, amendments to the Citizenship Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Canada, for \"the shameful refusal by Canada to receive 900 Jewish refugees\" (the St. Louis)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Chair, and welcome to all our witnesses. I just want to express our deep concern about what happened recently in Montreal. I think you're probably well aware that we had a take-note debate in the House two nights ago with regard to anti-Semitism and those concerns were expressed by many colleagues in the House. I just wanted to express them once more. Also I hope that the message of Purim and the biblical story that your testimony here today is akin to Mordecai's words at such a time as this. I'd like to begin by asking if you think that the situation in Iran …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 130, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-sweet-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "expresses deep concern about the recent antisemitic incident in Montreal", "trigger": "\"what happened recently in Montreal\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["I appreciate that because of the urgency of the situation of Mr. Badawi. Now I'll go to my questions. I apologize if I have to run before the answers, because I must speak in the House. My colleague David Sweet, I might begin, just referred to the four-hour debate we held in the House on anti-Semitism. I want to commend my colleagues from all parties who participated in that debate and will just mention that the House yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the alarming rise in anti-Semitism and calling on the government to continue to make the combatting of anti-Semitism a domestic and international priority. I think that resolution is the first that I know of, in any parliament anywhere, that has been so expressive and specific in that regard. The fact that it was unanimous is something that I think bears appreciation. To my question now, Mr. Matas, you spoke about the language in th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 392, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/irwin-cotler-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "sanction the Iranian leadership for this state-sanctioned incitement to hate and to genocide", "act_why": "charges the Iranian leadership with state-sanctioned incitement to hate and genocide against Jews", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Iranian state-sanctioned incitement - the Supreme Leader on \"annihilation of the Jewish state\" and Israel as a \"cancerous tumour\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Iranian leadership", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jim Hillyer", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Sure. The official policy of the Iranian regime is not anti-Semitic but is anti-Zionist. Is that correct?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 17, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/jim-hillyer-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "puts the regime's own anti-Zionist-not-antisemitic self-description to a witness for confirmation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jim Hillyer", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you. Also, I wonder if you could help distinguish some terminology. First of all, to anti-Zionists, “Zionism” or being a “Zionist” is used as an insult or as a derogatory term. How is Zionism distinct from just being Jewish, or how is anti-Zionist distinct from being anti-Semitic, and is there a difference between being a Zionist and being pro-Israel?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 61, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/jim-hillyer-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks the witness to define Zionism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism, takes no position", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… rte qu'il y a un désaccord entre eux sur ce point. Ce genre de désaccord est loin de me donner un sentiment de satisfaction à l'égard de l'Iran, c'est tout le contraire. Cela en dit long au sujet de l'Iran. Si vous lisez la Charte du Hamas, vous verrez qu'il n'est pas possible d'imaginer un document qui soit davantage antijuif et anti-Israël, mais cela ne suffit pas à l'Iran. Il veut davantage. Je crois que cela vous donne une idée de l'ampleur du problème auquel nous faisons face avec l'Iran."], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 161, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Rouhani cancelled Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference, and then had another one, his own, a year later", "act_why": "charges the Rouhani regime with continued Holocaust-denial conferences and calls to remove Israel", "trigger": "Rouhani's conduct in office - cancelling Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference then holding his own, continued executions, Israel as \"an old wound that has ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the regime under Rouhani", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… 00, which is the figure you mention. There was a census in 2011 and I think it was 8,956, a very specific number. That may be under-reporting because some people may not want to identify as Jewish, but it's probably the best figure we've got right now and that's four years ago, so it's probably even less now. There is anti-Semitism but it melds with anti-Zionism. If you are prepared to denounce Israel and Zionism maybe you are going to be left alone or you'll be under a cloud of suspicion, but that's all. The anti-Zionism has gotten worse because of the advent of the state of Israel. There were some anti-Semitic problems in Iran before the advent of the state of Israel just because of the pervasive influence of the Nazi ideology, which spread everywhere, including the Middle East. It just assumed particular vehemence once the advent of the state of Israel occurred. It went through stages. There was a problem in 1948, and there was the Mossadegh government, which was anti-Semitic. He was replaced by the Shah of Iran whose regime was not anti-Semitic. The exodus more or less stopped. Between 1948 and the time when the Shah came to power about 70,000 people had left before he came to power and then the exodus stopped because he was not anti-Zionist, he was not anti-Israel, he was treating the Jewish population properly and people stayed, which I think in itself was also an indication of what was going on there. Then in 1979 he was gone. During his period about 80,000 people were there. After 1979 it went from 80,000 to about 9,000 now because this regime—even the regime of Mossadegh was bad but certainly not as bad as the current regime. The anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism aren't just a facet of the regime, I view them as central to its core ideology. This is why the regime is there. That's what it's about. It's obviously got other facets—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 388, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Rouhani cancelled Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference, and then had another one, his own, a year later", "act_why": "charges the Rouhani regime with continued Holocaust-denial conferences and calls to remove Israel", "trigger": "Rouhani's conduct in office - cancelling Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference then holding his own, continued executions, Israel as \"an old wound that has ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the regime under Rouhani", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… the Iranian regime because of the AMIA bombing. I think we should be urging that these people be turned over for prosecution, not to Canada, but to Argentina. I think that would be helpful in seeing international legal remedies work. In terms of your second question about the Baha'i, you have to ask why the regime is anti-Semitic, why it is anti-Zionist. To a certain extent the answer is the same as why it's anti-Baha'i. It's using this hatred as a vehicle for putting itself in power, and keeping itself in power. Whipping up hatred against others is a way of whipping up support for itself. I would say that this is a standard totalitarian tacti …", "… guardians of the faith of Islam or Shiism. I see that ideological connection here. I think it's always worthwhile, when you're looking at these violators, to look at the ideological foundations of their hatred. What we see with Iran is an ideological foundation that ties together their anti-Baha'i attitudes and their anti-Semitic attitudes."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 442, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "international bodies"], "charge_quote": "Rouhani cancelled Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference, and then had another one, his own, a year later", "act_why": "charges the Rouhani regime with continued Holocaust-denial conferences and calls to remove Israel", "trigger": "Rouhani's conduct in office - cancelling Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference then holding his own, continued executions, Israel as \"an old wound that has ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the regime under Rouhani", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Maybe I could give a legal distinction. Anti-Semitism is a set of human rights violations, a wide variety of forms of discrimination against the Jewish community. Anti-Zionism is the rejection of one particular Jewish right, the right to self-determination of peoples. There is a difference between anti-Zionism and being anti-Israel. Let's say you hate the way the roads a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "charge_quote": "Rouhani cancelled Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference, and then had another one, his own, a year later", "act_why": "charges the Rouhani regime with continued Holocaust-denial conferences and calls to remove Israel", "trigger": "Rouhani's conduct in office - cancelling Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference then holding his own, continued executions, Israel as \"an old wound that has ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the regime under Rouhani", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["I would say anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. It's a very particular one. I would say—but of course what Michael says is true—once you're Jewish you're suspected of being Zionist and so the anti-Zionists impose a wide range of violations on Jews as suspected anti-Zionists, perceived anti-Zionists complicit in the crimes of Zionism, whether that's real or not."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 59, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Rouhani cancelled Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference, and then had another one, his own, a year later", "act_why": "charges the Rouhani regime with continued Holocaust-denial conferences and calls to remove Israel", "trigger": "Rouhani's conduct in office - cancelling Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference then holding his own, continued executions, Israel as \"an old wound that has ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the regime under Rouhani", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas (Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you. When the subject matter is international human rights violations and Iran, we regrettably have a wide range of subjects that we can discuss. Today we are focusing on Iranian anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism not just because we represent B'nai Brith; we do so because anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are central to the regime of the mullahs of Iran. Though the regime bills itself as Islamic and Shiite, it is more accurate to describe it as anti-Zionistic and anti-Semitic. There are many different ideological strands to the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism of the regime, and here I will mention only five. First of all is Holocaust denial. Under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there was vociferous Holocaust denial. There was one Holocaust denial conference in December 2006, and another one scheduled for December 2013. The new President Hassan Rouhani initially canc …", "… r 200. The Argentinian prosecutor in these murders, Alberto Nisman, was murdered in Buenos Aires just last month. In July 2012, Hezbollah operatives killed five Israeli tourists and wounded 32 others. One of the two attackers was a Canadian citizen, Hassan El Hajj Hassan. In response to those five points and a general anti-Semitic drift to the essence of the regime, I want to mention six possible recommendations. One is to expand exceptions to the state immunity legislation to allow for Iran to be sued for international human rights violations. It's now designated under the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, so it can be sued for acts of ter …", "… ibility. I would ask Canada to ask the EU to list all of Hezbollah as terrorist. Fifth, every year at the United Nations General Assembly there is a resolution on Iran of which Canada is the lead sponsor, and it has some language condemning harassment against Jews and persecution of Jews, but it doesn't mention either anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism. I suggest the language should be strengthened. Sixth and finally, I'm pleased to see that the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has recommended that the government encourage the negotiating parties to take into account all refugee populations as part of any just and comprehensive resolution to the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 961, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/david-matas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["foreign policy", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "charge_quote": "Though the regime bills itself as Islamic and Shiite, it is more accurate to describe it as anti-Zionistic and anti-Semitic", "act_why": "says anti-Zionism and antisemitism are central to the regime of the mullahs of Iran", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the Iranian regime's anti-Semitism - the October 2014 Holocaust denial conference, the 1992 and 1994 Buenos Aires bombings, and the murder of prosecutor Alberto", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "the regime of the mullahs of Iran; Hezbollah", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["It's an interesting phenomenon. Anti-Semitism in the classical sense has shifted over the years. When you're talking about the time of Nazi Germany, people could go through the streets and say, “we hate Jews”. In the modern sense, we simply don't see this anymore. Across this country, on Canadian university campuses, many of which have become very uncomfortable for Jewish students, you don't typically hear the rhetoric, “I hate Jews”; you hear, “I hate Israel”. All of the classical attributes of anti-Semitism rather than being applied to the individual, as was done in the past—and at the time of Holocaust, there was no state of Israel—are being placed onto the state of Israel today. So they'll say, “I hate Zionists”. The feeling is that even if it is only a political expression, it is still obviously discrimination. The va …", "… s policy”, but the lie to that is essentially that when they say, “well you're a Jew, so clearly you must be a supporter of Israel, so clearly I'm going to be discriminating against you because I'm inferring those views upon you”, that essentially speaks for itself and that's why it is essentially the same thing. It's anti-Semitism and it's Jew hatred. It's just a more polite expression of it in civil society today."], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 282, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/michael-mostyn-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "describes anti-Israel campus rhetoric as antisemitism and Jew hatred without naming a target", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "Canadian university campuses, many of which have become very uncomfortable for Jewish students", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn (Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… tollah, Iran's ultimate decision-maker and modern-day equivalent of Haman, is at the helm of the world's premier state sponsor of terror and a regime that has continuously violated even the most basic of human rights. My colleagues David Matas and Yehuda Azoulay will now elaborate further on the historical and current anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism central to the regime of the mullahs of Iran."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 245, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/michael-mostyn-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the historical and current anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism central to the regime of the mullahs of Iran", "act_why": "names the ayatollah and Iran as calling for annihilation of the Jewish state and murdering Jews", "trigger": "the Iranian ayatollah's repeated calls \"for the annihilation of the Jewish state\" and use of terrorist proxies to murder Jews abroad", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the ayatollah, Iran's ultimate decision-maker", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Yehuda Azoulay (Chair, Sephardic Affairs Council, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Chair, Sephardic Affairs Council, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ers l'État juif contre les communautés juives qui vivaient en leur sein. Dans certains endroits, les exécutions publiques se sont multipliées. À mesure que le conflit israélo-arabe a évolué, les gouvernements arabes s'en sont également pris à leur population juive. Ces gouvernements ont bien souvent adopté des mesures anti-juives très sévères comme la confiscation des passeports, le gel des comptes bancaires, les arrestations arbitraires et les exécutions sommaires, ce qui a rendu la vie intolérable pour les juifs locaux. Leurs maisons et leurs biens ont été très souvent confisqués. Lorsque ce n'était pas le cas, ils ont quand même été obligés …"], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1087, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/yehuda-azoulay-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "historical testimony recounting persecution and expulsion of Jews with evident disapproval", "trigger": "the flight and expulsion of Iranian and Arab-land Jewry after 1948 - roughly 95% of Iran's 100,000-120,000 Jews gone", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "Arab governments; Muslims around the world who directed their hostility to the Jewish state against Jewish communities", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Nina Grewal", "role": "Fleetwood—Port Kells, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fleetwood—Port Kells", "province": "BC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the witnesses for their testimony before the subcommittee this afternoon, and for their commitment in the struggle against injustice, human rights abuses, and anti-Semitism. In a region of the world with a troubling record on civil liberties and human rights—especially for women, girls, and minorities—Iran stands as particularly egregious. A recent report by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur, stated that there are at least 895 prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 227, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/nina-grewal-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "thanks witnesses for the struggle against antisemitism and decries Iranian abuses generally", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"A recent report by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur\" counting at least 895 prisoners of conscience in Iran", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iran", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Nina Grewal", "role": "Fleetwood—Port Kells, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fleetwood—Port Kells", "province": "BC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… Jews has been pervasive and fostered a threatening atmosphere for the approximately 20,000 to 25,000 members of the Jewish community there. Over the years top political and religious leaders made public remarks denying the Holocaust and calling for the elimination of the state of Israel. Has there been any increase in anti-Semitism, and why are Jews being targeted?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 64, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/nina-grewal-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "In Iran, official government discrimination against Jews has been pervasive and fostered a threatening atmosphere", "act_why": "charges Iran's government and leaders with pervasive discrimination against Jews and Holocaust denial", "trigger": "Iranian political and religious leaders' public remarks denying the Holocaust and calling for the elimination of Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "official government discrimination against Jews in Iran; top political and religious leaders", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-02-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Tyrone Benskin", "role": "Jeanne-Le Ber, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Jeanne-Le Ber", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… . Welcome, and thank you for your testimony. This is a huge and ongoing issue. Mr. Azoulay, you briefly touched on a few thousand years of history in a matter of moments, on an issue that still is very, very poignant today. As my colleague Mr. Sweet pointed out, two nights ago we had a take-note debate on the issue of anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, in my hometown there was an incident in the Côte-Saint-Luc area, NDG area, of anti-Semitic acts. It's an issue that's steeped in history, and issues that are steeped in history, as we've seen throughout history, are very, very hard issues to tackle. In Iran there's a population, you said, of 8,000 Jews still in Iran. First off, just for my own edification, have they chosen to stay in Iran because of the fac …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/41-2/58/tyrone-benskin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "reports antisemitic acts in his Montreal riding as unfortunate", "trigger": "\"in my hometown there was an incident in the Cote-Saint-Luc area, NDG area, of anti-Semitic acts\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-03-24", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Avi Benlolo (President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… esenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. It's an organization that was created to advance humanity in the name of Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who lost some 80 members of his own family. Wiesenthal dedicated the rest of his life not to vengeance but to bringing war criminals to justice and to educating against anti-Semitism, hate, and intolerance. Indeed, social advocacy and education is the mandate of my organization. In a special session on anti-Semitism in the House of Commons on February 23, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center was appropriately recognized for its dynamic programs countering anti-Semitism through education and promoting tolerance for everyone. Today, 50% of the global population lives in unfree conditions as a result of oppressive ideologies. Freedom House has calculated that only 12% of the 957 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are free, as are only 5% of the 410 million people in North Africa and …", "… e passed a table of Palestinian supporters, he was asked if he wanted to “go to paradise”, a known code for jihad recruitment. Additionally, student organizations that allegedly advocate for human rights hang flags of known terrorist organizations at their events without consequence. I fear that the growing climate of anti-Semitism and hate on campuses is leading to the next logical step and inspiring students to recruit for and join terrorist organizations. While my organization encourages freedom of expression and open debate, permitting the spread of hostile ideology that targets one specific group and creates an atmosphere of fear and intimi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1437, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/58/avi-benlolo-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "educators"], "act_why": "catalogues terror attacks on Jews and campus antisemitism with alarm, in support of C-51", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "York University and its student union president-elect; the Al-Quds Day Rally and BDS campaigns", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-03-24", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Tahir Gora (Director General, Canadian Thinkers' Forum)", "role": "Director General, Canadian Thinkers' Forum", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… adian Muslim Organizations. I am accompanied by my colleague Ms. Arooj Shahida, director of the Canadian Thinkers' Forum. The Canadian Thinkers' Forum is a small not-for-profit organization and think tank focused on the delicacies and complexities of human diversity and globalization. We run awareness programs against anti-Semitism, Muslim women abuse, honour killing, and radicalization. We also design deradicalization programs. We have also been conducting study reports titled “Growing Islamic Radicalization in Canada” for the past three years. Our findings so far in regard to those study reports are quite alarming and troublesome. In the shado …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 863, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/58/tahir-gora-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 58, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "mentions running awareness programs against antisemitism, term otherwise incidental", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "most Islamic centres and their imams in Canada", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-03-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Cape", "role": "Chair, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I think the bill addresses many of the concerns that our community faces with anti-Semitism, and our community all around the world has just been the subject of these terrorist attacks. Again, I was with someone who, like me, is the president of his community. In Denmark, he took on leadership in a community to help build it and now he's got armed guards guarding children's schools, because one lone gunman t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 116, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/60/david-cape-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 60, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "one-line answer about oversight, no engagement with the term", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 (oversight provisions)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-03-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. David Cape (Chair, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Chair, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… of the Jewish Federations of Canada. Jews are consistently targeted by hate and bias-related crimes in Canada at a rate higher than any other identifiable group. While this ancient toxic hatred is not unique to our country, it is rightly constrained to the margins of liberal democratic societies such as ours. However, anti-Semitism is increasingly manifesting in brutal acts of terrorism inspired by warped Islamist ideology, as we've all seen in the recent tragic events in Belgium, France, and Denmark. When terrorists strike, it is often against the Jewish community. There is a significant justified fear among many Canadian Jews that what has tak …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1502, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/60/david-cape-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 60, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "describes antisemitism manifesting in terrorism against Jews as a hatred to be countered", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "al Shabaab; terrorism inspired by warped Islamist ideology", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-03-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Kurz (National Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "National Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… s the fact that the most powerful terrorist groups are now the foremost hate groups as well, with ISIS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and Hamas supplanting the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and the Heritage Front as leaders of the hate movement. These are organizations whose raison d'être focuses in large measure on zealous anti-Semitism. We know of the terror activities aimed at Jews in France, the Hyper Cacher supermarket slaughter tied to the Charlie Hebdo attacks; the 2012 murders at a Jewish school in Marseilles; the recent murder in Copenhagen of a young Jewish guard at a synagogue, who was protecting 100 people there for a bat mitzvah; the atta …", "… on Mall, as opposed to say the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, was centred out was that it is Jewish owned. The Ghermezians own the mall as well as some of the other malls that were mentioned. The only malls that have been threatened are Jewish-owned malls. These terror threats come in the context of a worldwide increase in anti-Semitism. Our B’nai Brith audit of anti-Semitic incidents shows that in 2013 vandalism against Jewish targets was up 21.6% and violence, 7.7%. We're awaiting the 2014 numbers, which we expect to be far higher as they have been in Europe, for example, where there has been a 100%, a doubling, of anti-Semitic incidents in France; 60% in Belgium; 50% in Britain; and 33% in Australia. These figures are all in our paper. Canadian law in the form of a series of Supreme Court of Canada decisions has frequently confirmed the propriety of legal limitations on hate speech, recognizing the tie between hate speech and hate crimes. W …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 700, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/61/marvin-kurz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "charge_quote": "These are organizations whose raison d'être focuses in large measure on zealous anti-Semitism", "act_why": "says ISIS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda and Hamas have zealous antisemitism as their raison d'etre", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 (promotion of terrorism and terrorist propaganda provisions)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "ISIS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and Hamas", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-03-26", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Ziyaad Mia", "role": "Member, Legal Advocacy Committee, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… going to fail, I think, on the same grounds. With regard to criminalizing expression, I'm 110% in support of what the Prime Minister said about Charlie Hebdo and support for free speech, but we can't criminalize speech that's not close to criminality at home. I agree, and am also offended by speech that's hateful and anti-Semitic, but it needs to be close to criminality. We live in a liberal democracy. We allow vulgar and offensive and unpatriotic speech to prevail if it's not criminal. I will wrap up by telling you that we're recommending not moving forward with this bill. We recommend that we first fix the national security operations and pu …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1849, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/41-2/60/ziyaad-mia-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 60, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "testimony on Bill C-51 with no engagement with the term", "trigger": "Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-04-02", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Rob Nicholson", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Niagara Falls", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… for advocating for religious freedom, and is establishing a global contact group to strengthen religious freedom. Freedom of religion and conscience is under attack all over the world. The recent and tragic attacks against Jewish communities in France and Denmark only highlight the importance of continuing to denounce anti-Semitism and other forms of religious intolerance while promoting Canada's values of pluralism and tolerance. The 2015-16 estimates before you will place the department on sound footing to deepen and widen Canada's horizons. Our department is committed to being fully integrated and aligned in order to advance Canada's interest …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/54/rob-nicholson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 54, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "cites attacks on Jewish communities and the importance of denouncing antisemitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"the recent and tragic attacks against Jewish communities in France and Denmark\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-04-21", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Marc Garneau", "role": "Westmount—Ville-Marie, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Westmount--Ville-Marie", "province": "QC", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["All right. I have a more general question. Sometimes one hears anecdotally about certain elements in Ukraine being either anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi. I really have no idea how big they are, but I suspect they're small. I'd like to have a sense of the scope. Is this something that's hyped by those who are enemies of Ukraine? Is this a significant problem or a minor issue?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/55/marc-garneau-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 55, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks whether the antisemitic/neo-Nazi charge against Ukrainian elements is hyped by Ukraine's enemies", "trigger": "claims that anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi elements are present in post-Maidan Ukraine", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-04-21", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Matthew Levin", "role": "Director General, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ainian government—people they were supporting, who were protecting their interests—were losing their hold, they began to develop a sort of leitmotif or thread of disinformation that characterized the entire Maidan resistance movement as being influenced and even dominated by individuals who they claimed were neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, or affiliated with movements that went back to Ukraine's experience in the Second World War and collaborationism. Since then, this has remained a theme of the coverage of events by Russian media in Russia, but also of Russia's engagement on the issue in multilateral fora. Whether it's the OSCE, the United Nations, or …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 203, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/41-2/55/matthew-levin-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 55, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls Russia's labelling of Maidan as antisemitic a fundamental mischaracterisation and disinformation", "trigger": "Russia's disinformation campaign characterizing the Maidan movement as neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-04-23", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Tahir Gora (Director General, Canadian Thinkers' Forum)", "role": "Director General, Canadian Thinkers' Forum", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… Immigration, honourable members of Parliament, good morning. My name is Tahir Gora. I am the director general of Canadian Thinkers' Forum, which is a not-for-profit organization and a think tank that deals with study reports on complexities of multiculturalism; growing Islamic radicalization in Canada; the new rise of anti-Semitism; and polygamy, forced marriages, and women abuse issues in South Asian and Middle Eastern diaspora. Minister Chris Alexander’s proposed Bill S-7 , the zero tolerance for barbaric cultural practices act, is very relevant to our studies in regard to polygamy, forced marriages, and women abuse issues in South Asian and M …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1049, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/44/tahir-gora-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 44, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "lists the new rise of antisemitism among his group's study areas, term otherwise incidental", "trigger": "Bill S-7, the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-04-30", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "John McCallum", "role": "Markham—Unionville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Markham—Unionville", "province": "ON", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… honour killing even more illegal than it is, they're failing because it's already as illegal as it's possible to be. With respect to the provocation defence, I think you're saying that they are taking away the provocation defence for things that maybe ought to be there, like if a Jewish person is submitted to extreme anti-Semitic language, or putting it there where it maybe needn't be there, like theft or mischief. But I guess my question to you—other than to correct me if I'm interpreting you wrongly—is whether you see any role for any desirable change on the provocation issue, because I think it's true for that defence, that where it's been …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 182, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/45/john-mccallum-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 45, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "restates the witness's position, using antisemitic language only as a legal example", "trigger": "Bill S-7 and its narrowing of the provocation defence", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2015-04-30", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mr. Edwin Black", "role": "Author and Historian, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… at these organizations have in common with Iran and charitable organizations? When I did my original investigation for “Funding Hate”, on the Ford Foundation, which resulted in them dismantling their entire funding operation for racist NGOs, I found that they were giving millions and millions of dollars to support the anti-Semitic and terrorist-supporting organizations at the Durban conference in South Africa, and ultimately they had to establish rules that none of the grantees could allow their money to be commingled or to support the terrorists. So once again, it's an impossible task for bankers to track the money going from organization A to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 388, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/41-2/78/edwin-black-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "they were giving millions and millions of dollars to support the anti-Semitic and terrorist-supporting organizations at the Durban conference", "act_why": "charges named NGOs and the Ford Foundation with funding antisemitic and terror-supporting organizations", "canada_role": "funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Ford Foundation; the New Israel Fund, Adalah and B'Tselem; the Palestinian Authority", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2015-05-12", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "John McCallum", "role": "Markham—Unionville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Markham—Unionville", "province": "ON", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… to be a criminal offence or some other form of discrimination, that it would deprive a normal person of control. This is an important change as it would serve to ensure that those who face extreme and continuing discrimination may avail themselves of the defence, for example, a Jewish person who encounters incredible anti-Semitism or a gay person who is subjected to very homophobic remarks. That is the rationale for our proposed amendment."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 191, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/48/john-mccallum-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "treats extreme antisemitism as serious discrimination when arguing for an amendment", "trigger": "the proposed amendment to the provocation provision of Bill S-7", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-04-19", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber (Executive Director, Mosaic Institute)", "role": "Executive Director, Mosaic Institute", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… d for the last 30 years. I have a visceral understanding of the refugee and immigration experience simply because I was brought up in its shadow. I understand in the heart of my hearts the value and power of Canadian citizenship. Both my parents left their ancestral homes not because they wanted to, but as a result of anti-Semitism and persecution. My late mother, Gertrude, was brought to Canada as a child, driven from her village of Zaslav in Ukraine by violent pogroms. Canada then was a welcoming home. Arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax must have been a daunting experience for a six-year old child fleeing violence, who spoke no English and knew no …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1098, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/42-1/8/bernie-m-farber-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 8, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "recounts family driven from home by anti-Semitism and pogroms", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-6 (Canadian citizenship) before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-04-21", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel (Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… Minister McCallum has mentioned, can also help counteract the problem of citizens of convenience. Bill C-6 will also maintain basic language and knowledge testing requirements for citizenship applications. Coupled with physical presence, this can make a significant contribution towards counteracting the importation of anti-Semitic and other extremist views, which, though marginalized here in Canada, are unfortunately still prevalent in many parts of the world. We are very pleased that Bill C-6 does not seek to repeal Bill C-24 's streamlined provisions for revoking citizenship from those who obtained it through fraud or misrepresentation. These …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 974, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/42-1/9/shimon-fogel-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "supports measures counteracting importation of anti-Semitic and extremist views", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-6 (Canadian citizenship), and the Bill C-24 provisions it would repeal", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "Helmut Oberlander, “a decorated member of the savage Nazi mobile killing unit”; imported anti-Semitic and other extremist views", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-05-10", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Freddy Guevara", "role": "President, Standing Committee on Oversight of Government Operations and Public Accounts, National Assembly of Venezuela, Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Assembly of Venezuela", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… this. First of all, the diaspora of the Jewish population in Venezuela is getting bigger each year. When you talk to the confederation of Israelite associations of Venezuela, they estimate that almost 60% of the Jewish people who were living in Venezuela before Chávez are now outside of the country. There is a lot of anti-Semitism by the government. I will give you two examples. There are violations against some synagogues. They entered one synagogue and they drew graffiti inside. Another thing is that a mayor of one municipality in Caracas is from our political party. He is a descendant of a Jew; his mother is a Jew. They entered his apartment …", "… of his property. The former President of the National Assembly, a member of the current government and second in command in the actual political party that rules Venezuela, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, often refers to the position of Zionists and the genocide of the Israeli government. He always speaks in anti-Semitic rhetoric, referring to being pro-empire, in reference to the United States; or Zionist, in reference to Israel. I would like to add one more thing. The persecution of minorities is not only against Jewish people. There is also persecution against gay people and other minorities, not only politically. One deputy from o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 294, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/7/freddy-guevara-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "There is a lot of anti-Semitism by the government.", "act_why": "charges the Venezuelan government and ruling party with anti-Semitism", "trigger": "anti-Semitism by the Venezuelan government - synagogue graffiti, \"Zionist pig\" daubed in a mayor's apartment, and officials' anti-Semitic rhetoric", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Venezuelan government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela; the former President of the National Assembly", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2016-05-18", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Iqra Khalid", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… nation against religious minorities and ethnic minorities by the Iranian regime have an impact on people of Canada and across the world? I'm speaking specifically in terms of exporting things like Islamophobia, contributing to the growing impacts of Islamophobia in the western world—and not just Islamophobia, but also anti-Semitism, as the chair pointed out as well. I would really like you to comment on that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 131, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/10/iqra-khalid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 10, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "and not just Islamophobia, but also anti-Semitism, as the chair pointed out as well", "act_why": "asks about the Iranian regime exporting Islamophobia and anti-Semitism", "trigger": "human rights violations and discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities by the Iranian regime", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Iranian regime", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-05-18", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "role": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… e beginning of your remarks, you talked a little about the Holocaust denial cartoon contest. I'm not sure if you are aware.... I know that contest was launched again in the last number of weeks, on Monday, before Minister Dion said the following: “I am appalled by the annual #Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Iran. This is anti-Semitism, not humour. The murder of over 6 million Jewish people is a historical fact. #Holocaust denial is #Antisemitism”. I wasn't sure if you had seen those remarks. In the case of Atena Farghadani, you also talked about a posting on her Facebook page that had come into play in the instigation of some of the repression against her. What has been the impact of social media on cartoonists, and in general against people in the media prof …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 137, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/10/the-chair-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 10, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2016-05-19", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Iqra Khalid", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Okay. And the incitement of anti-Semitism was brought up by multiple witnesses?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 12, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/11/iqra-khalid-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "act_why": "asks whether witnesses raised incitement of anti-Semitism, no position taken", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-05-19", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Karine Azoulay", "role": "Committee Researcher", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Anti-Semitism came up in the context of minorities more generally, and specifically with the Holocaust cartoon contest. That was the big exclamation point upon which the anti-Semitism comment was made."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 30, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/11/karine-azoulay-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays the context in which witnesses raised anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-06-07", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["Reverend El Shafie, it's good to see you again. I was there when you received that citation from the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation for fighting anti-Semitism. Congratulations again on that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 29, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/42-1/18/arif-virani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "congratulates witness on award for fighting anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2016-09-28", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Gordon Shank (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Electoral Reform (special)", "passages": ["… te it, or alternatively, a clear and detailed plan to be presented by each party for the next federal election. My last and ending conclusion contains a warning. I would caution you to be very leery of any unintended consequences. Very poignant examples of this may be the U.K. Labour Party, with an increased voice for anti-Semitism, or even in the Green Party of Canada, with an increased voice in BDS advocacy. These haven't had a positive effect on either party. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 277, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/electoral-reform/42-1/32/gordon-shank-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Electoral Reform (special)", "committee_slug": "electoral-reform", "meeting": 32, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the U.K. Labour Party, with an increased voice for anti-Semitism", "act_why": "warns of an increased voice for anti-Semitism in the named UK Labour Party", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the U.K. Labour Party and the Green Party of Canada", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2016-09-28", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Electoral Reform (special)", "passages": ["… man model. You probably already knew that, but I just think it's important to set parameters. When I look at countries that have pure proportionality, I think we have to be careful not to make generalizations. For example, Weimar Germany had pure proportionality, and one looks at them and sees the rise of a profoundly anti-Semitic party. However, when you look at Israel, which also has pure proportionality, there is no similar rise of anti-Semitism, suggesting that there may be something underlying in the culture that would be the basis for all of this. We should be a little bit careful about saying the rise of anti-immigrant and xenophobic parties in Europe is connected to the electoral systems. I suspect that the electoral systems were the same for a long peri …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 289, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/electoral-reform/42-1/32/scott-reid-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Electoral Reform (special)", "committee_slug": "electoral-reform", "meeting": 32, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "uses Weimar's anti-Semitic party analytically in an electoral-systems argument", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2016-11-21", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Awar Obob (Member, Babely Shades)", "role": "Member, Babely Shades", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["… urred within the country. Though racism in Canada is not a very new thing—it's not new at all, it's kind of what the country was built upon—it has recently seen a new wave of targeted and very vocal violence against any person of colour, mainly people from middle eastern backgrounds and south-Asian countries. A lot of anti-Semitic violence has been brought forth, a lot of anti-indigenous and anti-black violence has been seen throughout Canada, spurring from this thing that happened in the U.S., which we like to think we're not really that attached to, but it has a huge effect, and factors in on the proceedings that go on within this country. Th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 573, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/42-1/33/awar-obob-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 33, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "describes a wave of anti-Semitic and other violence needing to be addressed", "trigger": "\"the violence going on in the U.S. and the current election, and what it has spurred within the country\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Matthew Dubé", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… o visit the centre in Montreal. One of the points that the folks working there raised was about the rise in all forms of radicalization, including for young people becoming neo-Nazis. In the tragic circumstances in Quebec, we saw an attack that was fed by Islamophobia, but it could very well have been an attack fed by anti-Semitism as well, obviously. The numbers don't lie, unfortunately, about what the community faces. I'm wondering what your thoughts are on this. It hasn't been perfect, but it's certainly one of a kind in North America, and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on what has gone on in Montreal and what lessons can be learned f …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 211, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/matthew-dube-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "notes the attack could as easily have been fed by anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the Quebec City mosque attack, \"an attack that was fed by Islamophobia, but it could very well have been an attack fed by anti-Semitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michel Picard", "role": "Montarville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Montarville", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… nable limits on freedom of expression—if we are talking about freedom of expression. One witness even told us that this offence could hinder the setting up of an anti-radicalisation community program. The people who said that are people who devote their time to defending civil liberties. Last November, someone painted antisemitic graffiti on the walls of a synagogue in the south of Ottawa. Mr. Shack, I want to give you an opportunity to comment on the importance of fighting hate propaganda. In connection with this incident, do you have an opinion on the constitutionality of such a measure?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 164, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/michel-picard-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "cites anti-Semitic synagogue graffiti in asking about fighting hate propaganda", "trigger": "\"Last November, someone painted antisemitic graffiti on the walls of a synagogue in the south of Ottawa\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack", "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… ate. I believe that's a core ingredient in transitioning somebody from a normal citizen to somebody willing to commit such atrocious acts of violence, and research in Europe has indicated that to be the case. From the perspective of the Jewish community, if national efforts included a focus on detecting and combatting anti-Semitic attitudes, I think that would go a long way. Certainly it's not limited to that. We're not the only group that has been targeted or that is implicated here."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/noah-shack-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "expresses grief over attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship, seeks security funding", "trigger": "\"the horrific attack in Quebec City\" (and the earlier attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack", "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Preliminarily speaking, it seems to be successful. They seem to be moving forward. The reports of anti-Semitism appear to be diminishing. I don't think the radicalization process happens overnight, so I think it's something they need to look at over a period of time. Preparing teachers to deal with this is certainly an important element. I'm sure that individual teachers are well equipped just naturally to handle a situation li …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/noah-shack-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "expresses grief over attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship, seeks security funding", "trigger": "\"the horrific attack in Quebec City\" (and the earlier attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack", "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… rt of subsumed its mandate isn't going to solve the problem alone, but these are all important pieces of the puzzle. I can tell you that we opposed the dismantling of the Office of Religious Freedom at the time. We've been very pleased with the activities of what's come after, specifically in terms of its treatment of anti-Semitism. It recently formalized Canada's adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism as a matter of Canadian policy, which I know was an initiative of the previous government that continued under this government. I think the more we can do on the those types of things, the better."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/noah-shack-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "act_why": "expresses grief over attacks on Jewish and Muslim places of worship, seeks security funding", "trigger": "\"the horrific attack in Quebec City\" (and the earlier attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-02-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack (Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… agent of the Jewish Federations of Canada, which represents about 150,000 Jewish Canadians affiliated coast to coast through their local federations. According to Statistics Canada, Jewish Canadians are targeted by hate- and bias-motivated crime at a rate higher than for any other identifiable group. The ancient toxic hatred of Jews is not unique to our country and is rightly constrained to the margins of liberal democratic societies like ours. Alarmingly, though, anti-Semitism continues to manifest in brutal acts of terrorism, often inspired by warped Islamist ideology. Jewish communities represent a primary target for terrorist violence all over the world. Attacks against Jews have taken place in Israel, Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, and the United States, with innocent men, …", "… been foreshadowed by similar acts of terror against Jewish targets, including a Jewish museum in Belgium, a synagogue in Denmark, and a Jewish school and kosher supermarket in France—all in the past few years. Here in Canada the security establishment must continue working closely with the Jewish community to monitor anti-Semitic extremism as an early warning sign in identifying those prone to radicalization. The city of Berlin is implementing a pilot program now along these lines. It's funded by the German federal government and it focuses on the role of teachers in identifying anti-Semitism specifically as one of the precursors to radicalization, and training these teachers to intervene and steer vulnerable youth away from this dangerous path. Whether we are considering the attacks on a synagogue in Jerusalem, a gay nightclub in Orlando, an African-American church in Charleston, or a mosque in Quebec Cit …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1627, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/52/noah-shack-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 52, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["security", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "educators"], "act_why": "alarm at anti-Semitism manifesting in terrorism, urges monitoring and prevention", "trigger": "the committee's review of Canada's national security framework - the terrorist propaganda and advocacy-of-terrorism provisions, and Bill C-305 at second reading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "al Shabaab, Hezbollah and Islamist terrorist groups", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-02-13", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. B'nai Brith is Canada's oldest membership-based Jewish organization. Through its League for Human Rights, which maintains an anti-hate hotline and prepares an annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, it is the premier advocate of human rights for Canada's Jewish community. B'nai Brith testified before this committee in 2015, focusing on our support for one particular aspect of Bill C-51 relating to the creation of an offence for the promotion of terrorism, seizure of terrorist propaganda, and deletion o …", "… date our position in that regard in his statement. We know the Jewish community is particularly vulnerable to hate propaganda throughout the world, and many of the most powerful terrorist organizations in existence today, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Daesh, rely upon the promotion of hatred with a particular focus on anti-Semitism to inspire acts of terror. There are many examples of this internationally, such as the Hyper Cacher supermarket attack aimed at French Jewry, which was tied to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and the horrendous attack on a Jewish religious centre in Mumbai that was specifically targeted as part of a larger Islamist-inspir …", "… ave a history of international terror operations, including the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina. This is one of the reasons that B'nai Brith was supportive of the closing of the Iranian embassy in 2012 and believes it should not be reopened until the Iranian regime ends it support for terror and anti-Semitism. B'nai Brith's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents shows that anti-Semitism in Canada has remained relatively constant since 2011. With no active conflict occurring in Israel in 2015, 1,277 incidents were reported in that year. Harassment, including online harassment, has shown a general increase over five years. Vandalism declined to a 15-year low that year, while violence decreased slightly …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 787, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/53/michael-mostyn-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 53, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "rely upon the promotion of hatred with a particular focus on anti-Semitism to inspire acts of terror", "act_why": "charges Hamas, Hezbollah, Daesh and the Iranian regime with promoting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the committee's review of the national security framework and the Bill C-51 provisions on promotion of terrorism and terrorist propaganda", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "Hamas, Hezbollah and Daesh; the Iranian regime; the AskMirna show on Rogers Television", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-15", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Larry Miller", "role": "Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… autant? Veuillez éclairer ma lanterne et m'expliquer exactement en quoi consiste l'islamophobie. Le mot semble être une création des médias ou de qui que ce soit d'autre. Personne ne parle des deux religions les plus persécutées au monde, le christianisme et le judaïsme. Personne ne parle ni de christianophobie ni de judéophobie. Je vais vous laisser la parole."], "terms": ["judeophobia"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 316, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/54/larry-miller-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 54, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asserts Judaism is among the most persecuted faiths and judeophobia goes unnamed", "trigger": "the dispute over the term \"Islamophobia\" in Motion No. 103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Chris Bittle", "role": "St. Catharines, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Catharines", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank you both for coming today. It's quite poignant that you're here testifying to this bill, especially in light of the incidents that you mentioned, including the anti-Semitism on display in North York. Mr. Mostyn, you mentioned that you had recommendations. 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I just found it odd that I end with the committee today, and you're dealing with this issue. It makes me sad that in our country we're still having to deal with that kind of anti-Semitism. North York is my city, and we're still dealing with it. It takes each and every one of us to push back. Bill C-305 is another little step in closing any opportunities and sending that message that this kind of stuff is not acceptable. We'll put all the support we can behind the police department, because it's a very …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 421, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/judy-sgro-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "expresses sadness that this kind of anti-Semitism persists in her city", "trigger": "Bill C-305, an act to amend the Criminal Code (mischief)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ou're here today, especially given some of the issues that we have been debating today and will continue to debate in the coming weeks around religious discrimination and the need to call it for what it is. I want to commend Ms. Khalid for bringing her motion. Let me take a moment, as well, to say that the incident of anti-Semitism in North York hits very close to home, Mr. Mostyn. You know that my riding is very close to that neighbourhood and I work very closely with the community there. I was quite alarmed and disturbed to see that incident. Hopefully, the authorities will be able to pursue their investigation vigorously. The government's pos …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 541, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/marco-mendicino-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "calls the North York anti-Semitism incident alarming and disturbing", "trigger": "Bill C-305 and the proposed amendments to subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… n here. As I mentioned, in sentencing, item 718.2(a)(i) can increase the sentencing up to 10 years for general mischief. Are there guilty pleas that are taking place? It's hard to understand, I guess, from a civil society perspective exactly why police may or may not be issuing charges. Richard was talking about other anti-Semitic incidents targeting our community. One thing of concern to our community, being that most targeted group, is that we want to ensure that we feel safe. All Canadians want to make sure that all other Canadians, regardless of religious background, regardless of any identifiable background, are safe, and that the law is b …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 197, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/michael-mostyn-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "act_why": "seeks broader protection for Jewish community buildings from hate mischief", "trigger": "the \"primarily used for\" wording in the Bill C-305 amendments", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Correct. It could be in that example. The reason I raised the example of the anti-Semitism that took place in North York is that our community, the Jewish community, does in fact self-identify 365 days a year, because of the fact that Jewish households have mezuzahs. Often, with many religious groups, there's a seasonal identification. You might put up a wreath around Christmas time. There are other religio …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/michael-mostyn-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "seeks broader protection for Jewish community buildings from hate mischief", "trigger": "the \"primarily used for\" wording in the Bill C-305 amendments", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn (Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Established in 1875, B'nai Brith is Canada's most senior membership-based Jewish organization. Through its league for human rights, it is the premier advocate for Canada's grassroots Jewish community. B'nai Brith operates a hotline to assist the victims of anti-Semitism and racism on a daily basis. We are here today to discuss Bill C-305 , whose aim is to close a gap in the Criminal Code by extending the legal protection from mischief afforded to houses of worship to a wide variety of other property critical to our community lives. It is very hard to come by proper statistics in this …", "… population in 2013 was 350,000, and the Canadian Muslim population was approximately one million, taking the respective sizes of the two communities into account, Canadian Jews were approximately eight times more likely than Canadian Muslims to be the victims of a hate crime in that year. B'nai Brith's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents shows that anti-Semitism in Canada has remained relatively constant since 2011. With no active conflict occurring in Israel in 2015, 1,277 incidents were reported that year. Vandalism declined to a 15-year low in that year—we had 136 incidents reported—considerably off the five-year average. Just yesterday in Toronto it was reported that units in a condo building, home to a large number of Jewish people, were the victims of anti-Semitism. Yellow Post-It Notes were slapped on some of their doors. Certain notes had pictures of Nazi swastikas, while others read, “No Jews”. Some of the residents also had their mezuzahs stolen. A mezuzah is affixed to the doorpost of every Jewish home and holds religious prayers from the Torah inside the case. However, eve …", "… say, Sunday school programming. The public school is not primarily used for religious instruction, but certainly, if the amendments are to protect religious individuals and groups from hate, then why would it matter that a public school is not being primarily used by those individuals? There are serious concerns about anti-Semitism and other forms of systemic racism in Canada. Canadians want to see charges and successful prosecutions when hate is a motivating bias in criminal acts towards identifiable minority groups. If this bill does not in actual fact increase the scope of the law to protect targeted communities from hate because subsection 4 …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1754, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/michael-mostyn-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "Sadly, our community has been ignored in this case.", "act_why": "names CJPME and Alfred Schaefer over anti-Semitic acts alongside audit findings", "trigger": "Bill C-305, which would extend the mischief protections for houses of worship to other communal property", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME); Alfred Schaefer; the Al Forqan newspaper", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2017-02-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "role": "General Counsel and Senior Political Advisor, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ivités culturelles et sportives. À Montréal, le Centre Segal abrite une compagnie de théâtre de la communauté juive. Il est tout à fait identifié à cette communauté. En vertu du paragraphe 4.1 dans sa forme actuelle, le Centre ne serait pas protégé, et ce, même si une attaque à son endroit était motivée par des visées antisémites. Je pense que le libellé proposé permet de protéger les lieux semblables. Un attentat commis dans un centre communautaire juif a tout autant de répercussions qu'un autre qui viserait le centre culturel juif ou une autre institution culturelle de la communauté."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 225, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/47/richard-marceau-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "argues attacks on Jewish cultural institutions are anti-Jewish in motivation", "trigger": "Bill C-305 and whether its property definitions cover Jewish community centres and cultural institutions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-23", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Ihsaan Gardee", "role": "Executive Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… re. If you maintain it as it is, you could have incidents occurring that are increasing the sense of alienation and marginalization of specific groups while appropriate attention and resources are not being provided by government through policies, as I mentioned in my submission, that specifically combat Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, or any type of xenophobia. Also, building on the existing policies that we have to promote things like multiculturalism, inclusion, and so forth would seem to me to be important to consider as well."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/48/ihsaan-gardee-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["funding", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "describes fear generated in Jewish and other communities by hate attacks", "trigger": "Bill C-305, with the Ottawa attacks on synagogues, a mosque and a church as the reference point", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-03-21", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… our of going along with secession and wanted to remain loyal—how would we deal with the so-called partition issue. In my view, that was the most vexing of the questions that Canada then faced in the context of the separation debate. Those books were both published in the nineties. Mario Silva and I co-edited a book on anti-Semitism called Tackling Hate: Combatting Antisemitism: The Ottawa Protocol . You were in Parliament at the time we had hearings with a group called The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat AntiSemitism. It was an informal all-party committee that met, produced a report, and then published a collection of the essays that had been submitted to us. Anyway, the point of these parallels is the time that it takes. One of the smaller of the books, maybe the size of a report, took me a year. The larger one—I had a lot more …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2127, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/42-1/55/scott-reid-52/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 55, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites his co-edited book and the anti-Semitism coalition in a procedural argument", "trigger": "the government House leader's discussion paper on reforming the Standing Orders and the motion before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-04-04", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… d to advise how the government could: collect data to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted communities.... I think this one would take less time, because this was one of the subjects addressed in the report of the inquiry panel of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, the nearest parallel we have to these hearings on Islamophobia and systemic racism, and something on which, Madam Chair, you served as a member some years back and which I chaired. There we discussed ways in which data collection could be improved. This, then, would not, I think, take too much time. It would still ta …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 410, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/53/scott-reid-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 53, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "cites the anti-Semitism coalition report on data collection procedurally", "trigger": "Motion No. 103 and the scope of the heritage committee study it mandates", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-04-04", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["All right. That gives an idea of the scope, which is very considerable. Then I want to turn to make the point about just how big our task is compared with that of the hearings of the inquiry panel of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism. That had a much narrower scope. It was just anti-Semitism. It was not any form of racism, unless you treat anti-Semitism as a form of racial rather than religious discrimination. At that time we required 10 meetings for evidence collection on its own. I haven't gone back to examine, although the records would exist, how many meetings it took us to negotiate and work on the final report, but certainly it was a number of meetings. I must …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 241, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/53/scott-reid-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 53, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural recall of the antisemitism coalition's meeting count", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Elizabeth May", "role": "Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP", "party": "Green", "riding": "Saanich—Gulf Islands", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… zed as something that people identify with, such as the young naval officers who showed up at the Mi'kmaq protest in Halifax. These are things for which I hope this committee can find ways to recommend action. We are a society that has traditionally, at least in our recent history, not always.... We've had episodes of anti-Semitism and anti-Asian laws, regulations, and rules that go way back, but we need to take a firm stand and take action that will eliminate, to the greatest extent possible, racism and religious discrimination in this country. I thank you for bringing your motion forward. Thank you for the time."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 138, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/71/elizabeth-may-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 71, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "names past episodes of antisemitism and urges firm action against racism", "trigger": "Iqra Khalid's motion M-103 and the committee study it launched (\"I thank you for bringing your motion forward\")", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Iqra Khalid", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… eir parents didn't like me or they would tell me to go home. People weren't allowed to play with me because I was native.” In November of the same year, swastikas and racist slurs were spray-painted on a church with a black pastor in Ottawa. “Go home” was spray-painted on the Ottawa Muslim Association front doors, and anti-Semitic slurs were spray-painted on synagogues. On January 29, 2017, six Canadians were gunned down in their place of worship. Statistics Canada's most recent hate crime data shows that the number of police-reported hate crimes against Muslims increased by 60% in 2015, compared to the previous year. Many Muslim Canadians have …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 970, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/71/iqra-khalid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 71, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "recounts antisemitic slurs on synagogues among hate incidents", "trigger": "motion M-103, which she tabled on December 1, 2016, and the study it directs", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Jenifer Aitken (Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs, Department of Canadian Heritage)", "role": "Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ada produces annual analytical “Juristat” reports, examining the nature and extent of police-reported hate crime in Canada. Canadian Heritage also coordinates and supports the government's participation in a number of international bodies and initiatives, including the 2010 Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Antisemitism, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The department has also recently announced the reinstatement of the court challenges program, in collaboration with the Department of Justice. This program will provide funding to advance te …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1223, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/71/jenifer-aitken-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 71, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "funding"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "departmental inventory of anti-racism work naming Jews as most targeted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… unately I didn't get the chance. I'll do it at the end. You're looking well rested anyway, for what it's worth. I want to ask you this as a starting point. A few years back, I was a co-chair, along with a Liberal MP, Mario Silva, of an informal parliamentary group called the “Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat AntiSemitism”. We had members from all parties serving on it. Are you familiar with that group?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/71/scott-reid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 71, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks whether witness knows the antisemitism coalition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. What I might try to do, then, is get a copy of the report we did. At the time, the study looked into anti-Semitism, obviously, as the name implies, and how to deal with anti-Semitism. One of the bases on which we were looking at it was the assumption that anti-Semitism has historically been a kind of canary in the coal mine for religious or, in some cases, racial discrimination, because as you know, the very worst anti-Semites of all conceived of Judaism not as a religion but a race. At any rate, we were looking at this as the canary in the coal mine for other forms of discrimination, hatred, and hate-motivated violence. We had a few recommendations that I think might prove useful in the context of the report that your motion could lead to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 285, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/71/scott-reid-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 71, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "recalls antisemitism study and urges security recommendations", "trigger": "the report of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism and its recommendations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-20", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Flamborough—Glanbrook, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Flamborough--Glanbrook", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you for your testimony. The data collection aspect I'm really excited about. It was actually a recommendation from the committee, the coalition to combat anti-Semitism, back in 2011. There are some very good models out there, people who are already collecting data on universities and co-operating with law enforcement. You were talking about a tool “for muted or marginalized voices”. The concluding comment from the commissioner was that we don't want to be hobbled in our efforts beca …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 122, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/72/david-sweet-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 72, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "academics"], "act_why": "cites the 2011 coalition data recommendation while questioning on M-103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-20", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Sam Erry (Associate Deputy Minister, Cabinet Office, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism Division, Government of Ontario)", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Cabinet Office, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism Division, Government of Ontario", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ional, but whether or not it's intentional has little bearing on the inequitable outcomes indigenous and racialized people experience. We also know that many racialized people are facing racism due to their religion. We've seen horrible incidents of hate and violence that remind us that issues such as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are real and unacceptable. It goes without saying that there is no place for religious discrimination or any form of systemic racism, not just in Ontario, but across Canada. Tackling the systemic institutional barriers that prevent indigenous and racialized people from achieving their full potential is not only a mora …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1631, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/72/sam-erry-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 72, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls Islamophobia and antisemitism real and unacceptable", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-20", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah", "role": "Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nt terrifiée à l’idée de s’attaquer à cela. Je suis ici et je vous dis que dans 500 mosquées, 20 fois par jour, on ridiculise les juifs et les chrétiens, mais les mollahs viennent vous dire qu’il y a de l’islamophobie. Je défie quiconque de demander qu’on enlève le statut d’organisme de bienfaisance aux mosquées où la haine des juifs et des chrétiens est omniprésente. En ce qui concerne les hindous, vous ne comprendrez même pas ce qu’on murmure à propos des bouddhistes ou des hindous. Et que dire des athées, mon Dieu. Je suis éberlué par ce qui se passe. J’ai enregistré des choses. Je suis allé dans 50 mosquées et j’ai enregistré tout ce qui se di …"], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 297, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/72/tarek-fatah-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 72, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "500 mosques 20 times a day are ridiculing Jews and Christians", "act_why": "charges named mosques and Muslim organizations with pervasive hatred of Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["religious or ethnic community", "institution"], "target_detail": "500 mosques 20 times a day are ridiculing Jews and Christians; organizations like ISNA and ICNA identify as fronts of the Muslim Brotherhood", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-20", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Renu Mandhane (Chief Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission)", "role": "Chief Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… d; it's a lived reality. In our recent consultation on racial profiling in Ontario, one black man said, “Out shopping, I am the probable shoplifter. Taking a walk, I am the probable wife snatcher or burglar.” Over 50 years ago, the government created the Ontario Human Rights Commission to address anti-black racism and anti-Semitism, and unfortunately we're still in business today and still uncovering forms of discrimination that have been hidden from public scrutiny for too long. Up until recently, many Canadians, including me, knew very little about the history of colonialism and the ongoing impact of intergenerational trauma on indigenous peop …", "… s, prejudice, fear or acts of hostility directed towards individual Muslims or followers of Islam in general”. We’ve used this definition for many years without controversy. It’s a straightforward definition that is completely in line with other terms we routinely use in human rights law, terms like anti-black racism, anti-Semitism, or transphobia. There’s growing evidence that discrimination and harassment, and even criminal activity against people who are Muslim, is on the rise. Earlier this year, Statistics Canada reported that the number of police-reported hate crimes against Muslims jumped 60% in one year. Muslim people were the second-most …", "… pronounced and have contributed to a hybrid of racial and religious profiling. From the commission's perspective, it is vital for our leaders to recognize the ideological foundations of hate and discrimination, and to name this in a clear fashion. That's why it is important to call out lslamophobia, anti-black racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-indigenous racism. The adoption of motion M-103 is a good example of the Government of Canada playing a leadership role in terms of both calling out racism and calling for action. This motion is similar to motion M-630, which condemned the rise in anti-Semitism and was unanimously adopted in 2015. There has been a lot of discussion about the potential for motions like M-103 to limit free speech, which is a fundamental freedom under the charter. M-103 does not limit expression. It does not prohibit any conduct whatsoever. It does not prevent people from saying what they think …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1212, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/72/renu-mandhane-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 72, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "academics"], "act_why": "calls for naming and calling out antisemitism alongside Islamophobia", "trigger": "\"the adoption of motion M-103\" and the free-speech objections raised against it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-25", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'd like to ask both of you in my remaining time, you've talked a bit about that Ontario example, specifically with the anti-racism directorate, and I think you identified four groups. It's the same four areas of study that we're looking at—anti-Semitism, anti-black racism, indigenous discrimination, and Islamophobia—but then you also said there's a program component. What are the programs? You mentioned in passing justice, or corrections, and housing. Have those been teased out? Also, could you explain a bit about that expert committee that's advising Minister Coteau …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/73/arif-virani-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "public service"], "act_why": "question listing the four pillars including antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-25", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Flamborough—Glanbrook, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Flamborough--Glanbrook", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["How common is it.... First, when people come into your office...because one of the things...and Mr. Richard alluded to it a bit. My colleague Mr. Reid and I saw it when we had a committee called the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, that there is a distinct lack of consistency in reporting throughout institutions and communities across Canada. I know resources are always stretched, so I don't want this to sound like a judgment or anything, but do you have the capability of tracking some of those reports when people tell you they're uncomfortable …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/73/david-sweet-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "cites coalition experience on inconsistent reporting", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-25", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Ayesha Chaudhry", "role": "Associate Professor and Chairholder of Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I think it's a definition that has to emerge in consultation. The society comes up with it in consultation with the people who are being marginalized. If we think about how anti-Semitism is defined, some might argue that it's an imperfect term because Arabs are also Semites. Nevertheless, it has a particular definition. I'm not worried about finding the perfect term to describe an irrational fear of Muslims and Islam, a hyperbolic fear of Muslims and Islam. Usually when students come into my classes i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 170, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/73/ayesha-chaudhry-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "uses the definition of antisemitism as an analogy for defining Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-25", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Shalini Konanur", "role": "Executive Director and Lawyer, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO)", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… erall framework and then priorities, perhaps corrections as a priority, employment as a priority, Islamophobia as a priority, hate crimes as a priority. In the work that's being done in Ontario specifically, four pillars have been identified: Islamophobia, anti-black racism, racism within the indigenous community, and anti-Semitism. Within those four pillars, there are very clearly identified targets for what the government hopes to do within the next five years. I would like to see a structure that has clarity in terms of what the framework is, then clarity in terms of the priorities, and then clarity even within those priorities about what the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 201, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/73/shalini-konanur-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "lists antisemitism among Ontario's four anti-racism pillars", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-27", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Flamborough—Glanbrook, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Flamborough--Glanbrook", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. I will just continue, then, if that's okay. I have a number of concerns coming out of your testimony, but I want to ask specifically about Islamophobia. You know, the only term I know of for religious persecution is “anti-Semitism”. Anti-Semitism has been around for over 150 years. Would it be a stretch to say....? I'm really asking you to judge my words in the House, whether they're right or wrong. But I think anti-Semitism has had 150 years to stand the test of time of public debate, of academic rigour, and of being pushed and prodded in the public square, and that's why it's generally accepted. Do you think “Islamophobia” has had that same test upon it, so that it would be an acceptable term to describe, exclusively, only hatred toward …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/74/david-sweet-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 74, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "compares the pedigree of the term antisemitism to that of Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-09-27", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Father Raymond de Souza", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Sweet. Anti-Semitism is a very interesting term, because anti-Semitism is not the same as anti-Judaism. The Semitic races, strictly speaking, include both Jews and Arabs, and Muslims and Jews, but it is true that over quite a long time, the term has acquired a conventional meaning that is widely understood. People don't use “anti-Semitism” to talk about anyone other than Jews, if that is the direction of the offending behaviour. Islamophobia is a relatively new term. In fact the term—referring to an irrational fear or phobia—already discredits anything that might be negatively construed, or proposes that there might be rational fears, so it is a problematic term. It could be that 150 years from now everybody will know what it means, in the same way as anti-Semitism is understood. At the moment it's not; therefore, both my fellow witnesses here suggest that it could be misunderstood."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 149, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/74/father-raymond-de-souza-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 74, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "mentions Jews only in listing interfaith exchanges", "trigger": "motion M-103, whose language \"seems to throw many things together\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-02", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Samer Majzoub (President, Canadian Muslim Forum)", "role": "President, Canadian Muslim Forum", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… re of Muslim faith. Regardless of any definition, the House of Commons has the right to provide their own definition. We come to the wording itself, Islamophobia, when it is targeting Muslims and individuals and properties like mosques and community centres. If we would like to give clear comparisons here, we have the anti-Semitism and we have racial profiling. Anti-Semitism is well known to be whenever there is hate targeted against the citizens of Jewish background. It is called anti-Semitism and there is no dispute that this exists. The question that comes up is that we know that Arabs are Semite, but still when an Arab is being attacked, we never say that this is anti-Semitism. Why? The definition now is that they are related by impression and by political concept to the Jewish community and there is no objection to this. It is the same thing when it comes to racial profiling. Whenever we speak about racial profiling, what comes to our mind is that, when citizens of African descent, or blac …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 990, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/75/samer-majzoub-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 75, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "uses antisemitism definitionally to argue for the term Islamophobia", "trigger": "petition e-411 and motion M-103 on Islamophobia, adopted March 2017", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-02", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Prof. Faisal Bhabha", "role": "Prof. Faisal Bhabha", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… tion and racism, whereas that might not be the issue for other cases of religious discrimination, for example. I know many Christian groups are concerned about incursions on the various churches' freedoms. That's, I think, a different issue from the specific nature of Islamophobia, which is more akin to homophobia and anti-Semitism because it's an intersectional form of discrimination. For Muslims, it's on the basis of religion, but it's also on the basis of a perceived otherness, a foreignness and a colour, but not always colour because we're a diverse community of many races, and that causes many people to say, “What do you mean?” Let me give …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 233, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/75/prof-faisal-bhabha-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 75, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "invokes antisemitism as an analogue for intersectional discrimination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-02", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Professor Faisal Bhabha (Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association)", "role": "Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… erybody of reasonable mind accepts and should acknowledge exists. Having said that, we do offer a simple working definition that is not any different from the definitions you have heard, but as lawyers we boil it down to a very simple analogy. Islamophobia is simply anti-Muslim discrimination or hate. We all know that anti-Semitism means something like anti-Jewish discrimination or hate. We also know that homophobia means something like anti-gay or anti-LGBTQ discrimination or hate. It's not that hard to extend that thinking, using logic, to Islamophobia. There are two important dimensions: the individual and the systemic. Systemic Islamophobia …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1017, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/75/professor-faisal-bhabha-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 75, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "offers antisemitism as the model definition for Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-04", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Ihsaan Gardee (Executive Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims)", "role": "Executive Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… h evidence-based policy-making. This is an important task that is timely and essential to the ongoing well-being of Canadians and newcomers. Systemic discrimination and religious discrimination have a long and sad history in Canada, with many current expressions including anti-indigenous racism, anti-black racism, and anti-Semitism. All of these require attention and the concern of this committee. As we know and have heard, Islamophobia is specifically mentioned in the motion while other specific examples are not. Some have made and continue to make an issue of this. From our perspective, as an agency working on the front lines of this issue and receiving regular and increasing numbers of complaints of anti-Muslim discrimination and harassment, the specific reference to Islamophobia is absolutely appropriate. This is in line with other actions that the government has taken including unanimously adopting a motion in 2015, M-630, which specifically condemned anti-Semitism. This committee's study is also important because of the devastating attack on January 29 at the Islamic cultural centre in Quebec, which left six worshippers dead, many injured, and families shattered. This was the single most horrific mass killing at a place of worship in Canadian history, and it occurred in the con …", "… tional, systemic and societal level. Of course, all terms have limits and “Islamophobia” is no different. From various viewpoints its limitations could be identified, but it would be unacceptable to expect that the term Islamophobia should be held to a higher standard of clarity than are other equivalent terms such as anti-Semitism. It has a clear meaning and it has gained wide usage both inside the Canadian Muslim communities and in wider society for many years. Hate expression in Canada is only limited by Criminal Code provisions, which establish a very high bar for conviction, and by human rights legislation, which prohibits discrimination an …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 771, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/76/ihsaan-gardee-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 76, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "lists antisemitism among discriminations needing the committee's attention", "trigger": "motion M-103, whose wording he quotes as the task set before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Mr. Arif Virani", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. What are your views on motions that enumerate specifically targeted communities? We've had many such motions in Canada, not just this one about Islamophobia. We had a motion with respect to anti-Semitism in 2016, one with respect to the Yazidi community in 2016, and one with respect to your community, the Coptic Christians. We've identified communities when they're basically being subjected to hatred."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/arif-virani-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "question citing the 2016 antisemitism motion among others", "trigger": "motions enumerating targeted communities - M-103, the 2016 anti-Semitism motion, the Yazidi and Coptic motions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett (Senior Fellow, Cardus)", "role": "Senior Fellow, Cardus", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ressed, as many of your other witnesses have said. We need to address anti-Muslim hatred that exists in this country. This is a hatred that is bred from three specific evils—ignorance, indifference, and fear—all of which must be addressed at the level of our own communities. These selfsame evils manifest themselves in hatred of Jews, hatred of Catholics, hatred of LGBTQ persons, hatred of people who oppose same-sex marriage, hatred of first nations people, hatred of pro-lifers, and the list goes on. We need to combat hatred and discrimination in all these cases. We need to combat hatred and discrimination in our communities and discover anew the …"], "terms": ["jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1302, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/dr-andrew-pw-bennett-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "names hatred of Jews among evils that must be combatted", "trigger": "motion M-103 and its use of the term \"Islamophobia\" (\"not the best term to have in the motion\")", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Jenny Kwan", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… t the definition of Islamophobia and the usage of it, or whether to use it. I just want to say that in from one of our previous meetings there was a simple definition that was being offered for consideration as a working definition. I quote: “Islamophobia is simply anti-Muslim discrimination or hate.” We all know that anti-Semitism means something like anti-Jewish discrimination or hate. We also know that homophobia means something like anti-gay or anti-LGBTQ discrimination or hate. Using logic, it's not that hard to extend that thinking to Islamophobia. It's on this premise that I use that word in this context, because I find that definition qu …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 171, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/jenny-kwan-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "quotes the antisemitism analogy as a working definition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Farzana Hassan (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… reasons for anti-Muslim sentiment are, in my view, quite obvious. However, here I am concerned mainly about the word “Islamophobia”. In this regard, I fail to understand why the House would not agree on a more precise term to combat anti-Muslim sentiment. The term “Islamophobia” is often falsely equated with the term “anti-Semitism”. MP Khalid has also alluded to an equivalence between the two, yet the two are vastly different. What is the House's reason for adopting a term that has clearly Islamist overtones, is uncomfortably vague, and in fact dilutes the purpose for which it is overtly intended? A common dictionary meaning of anti-Semitism is “hostility to or prejudice against Jews”. Islamophobia, on the other hand, also includes criticism of Islam as a religion. The common dictionary meaning is “intense dislike or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims\". Honourable committee members, I have no objections to inv …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1160, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/farzana-hassan-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "quotes dictionary definitions to distinguish antisemitism from Islamophobia", "trigger": "\"M-103, the anti-Islamophobia motion introduced by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ized country, we recently saw a distinguished French historian, Georges Bensoussan, of North African Jewish ancestry, up on hate crime charges for quoting another French writer or filmmaker who is also of North African descent, who said that “in Arab families in France and beyond, everybody knows but will not say that anti-Semitism is transmitted with mother’s milk.” This perhaps is unfair, but I'm not sure it qualifies as hate speech. He was charged with criminal hate speech, eventually acquitted, and that acquittal is now being appealed by the umbrella organization to fight Islamophobia in France. The fear I have is that this is the danger of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 218, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/scott-reid-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays the Bensoussan prosecution and the quote at issue", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the French prosecution of historian Georges Bensoussan for hate speech over remarks on anti-Semitism in Arab families, and the appeal of his acquittal", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "in Arab families in France and beyond, everybody knows but will not say that anti-Semitism is transmitted with mother's milk (quoted, speaker adds 'this perhaps is unfair')", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. I posited that one of the dangers I'm worried about is a parallel to what's happened in France where Georges Bensoussan, who is a historian, was charged with hate crime for saying—and he did use intemperate language at the very least—that in France anti-Semitism is imbibed with the mother's milk in the Muslim community. For that, he was charged with a hate crime. He was acquitted. He's now being charged again on appeal. This has had the effect of causing anybody who wants to express concerns about anti-Semitism within the Muslim community—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 93, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/77/scott-reid-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "repeats the Bensoussan case and the chilling of such concerns", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the hate-crime charge and appealed acquittal of French historian Georges Bensoussan", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "anybody who wants to express concerns about anti-Semitism within the Muslim community", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Mr. David Sweet", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Flamborough--Glanbrook", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Madam Chair, thank you very much. I want to echo Mr. Levitt's kind comments about the four gentlemen who are here. They have served in ways in public policy that are tremendous, going from Mr. Matas's work in the collection of evidence in regard to organ harvesting to much more in regard to reducing racism and anti-Semitism. I just want to thank all of you. Chair, I just want to say on the record that based on Mr. Fogel's comments, one of the positive non-partisan things that could come from here would be a recommendation in regard to a first ministers meeting in the future, where the focus would be, from the Government of Canada, on hat …", "… t's aggregated and subsequently categorized so that it could be used for best practices in the future for legislators like us, as well as our provincial and municipal counterparts. That would include all levels of law enforcement, including, as we've studied previously in the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, security on university campuses. Some university campuses have their security sworn in and have their data collected by local law enforcement, but there are many across Canada where it is not collected, and hence has not been able to be used properly. I want to put that on the record. Mr. Mostyn, I want to go to your …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 338, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/david-sweet-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "thanks witnesses for reducing antisemitism and urges hate-crime data work", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nd conduct needs assessments for impacted communities. It's been mentioned, but I'm going to mention it again, that according to Statistics Canada's 2015 report on hate crimes, Jewish Canadians are the most targeted religious group in Canada. According to the Toronto police's hate crimes statistical report, since 2016 anti-Semitic incidents make up the largest group of hate crimes in Toronto. Jewish constituents in my riding of York Centre have been victimized by anti-Semitic incidents, including swastikas being painted on school playgrounds. These incidents are often not considered hate crimes. My question is this: how are hate crimes and hateful incidents that do not formally qualify as hate crimes currently quantified, and how can this data be better collected, quantified, and analyzed? …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 271, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/michael-levitt-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "academics"], "act_why": "cites antisemitic incidents in his riding and asks how to counter them", "trigger": "Statistics Canada's 2015 hate crime report and the Toronto police hate crimes statistical report showing Jews the most targeted group", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "role": "Senior Legal Counsel, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I wonder if I could just add a sentence here. I would encourage the committee to look at what used to be the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia and is now the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. It originated the definition of anti-Semitism that eventually the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance adopted. It has come to grips with that very question. I think the committee could profitably look at its work."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 73, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/david-matas-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "points the committee to the origin of the IHRA definition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nization, founded in 1875, with the proud history of defending the human rights of Canadian Jews and all Canadians across the country. We advocate for the interests of the grassroots Jewish community in Canada and for their rights such as freedom of conscience and religion. B'nai Brith addresses the twin challenges of anti-Semitism and hate speech, linking them to the broader threat of discrimination and human rights, a universal issue that affects all Canadians and individuals everywhere. Anti-Semitism is but a visible portion of the dangers inherent generally in prejudice and discrimination. The committee has an opportunity to study how all Canadians can face the challenges that exist for at-risk communities, those suffering from systemic racism and religious discrimination. The committee's work and its outcome must be embraced broadly by all Canadians, and it must deal with those communities that are the targets of racism and discrimination, including Canadian Jews, who continue to be the target of anti-Semitism. The committee's work and its outcome must not diminish or be perceived to diminish the threat to Canadians of all faith communities who face racism and religious discrimination, and it must not suggest that one form of racism or religious discrimination is more threatening or of a greater priority than any other. The …", "… precise, that is embraced by one community but not all, or that catalyzes emotion or irrational debate on scope and meaning can by hijacked and only inflame tensions between and among faith communities in Canada and detract from the committee's objective. My colleague, David Matas, will explore the continued threat of anti-Semitism in Canada. Contrary to the views of some, anti-Semitism is not confined to the margins of our society. Since 1982, B'nai Brith Canada has published an annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada, copies of which you have. Over a five-year period, anti-Semitism has been on the rise. Statistics Canada has reported that in 2015, the most recent year with complete figures, Jews were the most targeted group in this country for hate crimes, a serious trend that has been continuing for nine years. While most anti-Semitic hate crimes in the 1980s and 1990s were attributable to elements of the far right, we have sadly witnessed an increasing number of anti-Jewish incidents from within the Muslim community, sometimes by those claiming to act or speak in the name of Islam. We know that this trend is of concern to many leaders in the Musli …", "… er actions to counter it through laying out the facts, advocacy education, and stressing the consequences to be faced by those who act contrary to the charter and the Criminal Code. A message to law enforcement must be this: enforce the law. Canada cannot become a haven for anti-Muslim bigotry. B'nai Brith Canada sees anti-Semitism as but a visible portion of the dangers inherent generally in prejudice and discrimination, including that directed towards Muslim Canadians. By the same token, we must ensure that no one can hide behind the idea that any criticism of Islam represents Islamophobia, or a vague definition to this effect. Our hope is tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 732, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/michael-mostyn-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "B'nai Brith testimony on rising antisemitism and enforcement", "trigger": "motion M-103 and the call for the committee's work on it to be broad-based", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "an increasing number of anti-Jewish incidents from within the Muslim community ... from within radical elements of the Muslim community", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Certainly. As opposed to certain terms of racism—such as anti-Semitism, which may have been confusing at one point, but on which there is now an international consensus, and the Ottawa protocol process was part of that—“Islamophobia” is a confusing term, unfortunately, at the moment. I would just like to point, as an example, to witnesses from the NCCM, the National Council of Canadian M …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 246, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/michael-mostyn-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "B'nai Brith testimony on rising antisemitism and enforcement (duplicate)", "trigger": "motion M-103 and the call for the committee's work on it to be broad-based", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "an increasing number of anti-Jewish incidents from within the Muslim community ... from within radical elements of the Muslim community", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ities most impacted. Comprehensive empirical data is required to effectively diagnose the problems and prescribe the most appropriate solutions. Number two is to define “hate”. One can't effectively fight bigotry and hatred without precisely defining it. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism was achieved through multilateral consensus endorsed by governments around the world, including Canada's, to accomplish just that. Concrete examples set clear standards for what constitutes anti-Jewish sentiment and what is legitimate critical expression. Similar definitions should be established for other forms of ha …", "… ition of Islamophobia that included, ”dislike...towards Islamic politics or culture”. This incident exposes significant problems associated with relying on ad hoc, inadequate definitions of Islamophobia. Muslims can be protected from hate without restricting critique of ideologies, especially those that are explicitly anti-Semitic. Recent examples of anti-Semitism on display at some mosques and Muslim organizations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver have shown that extremism is a problem within parts of the Canadian Muslim community that must be addressed. As Canadians counter hatred and protect individuals from discrimination, we must also maintain the freedom to debate and criticize ideas. Defining other forms of hate—including, but not limited to, Islamophobia—along lines similar to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is, we think, a good starting point. It would help law enforcement and others to identify hate incidents with greater accuracy and consistency and provide definitive guidance to Canadians about precisely where free speech turns into hate speech. Next, when it comes to countering hate crimes, greater and more consisten …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1533, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/shimon-fogel-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "CIJA testimony on hate-crime data, definitions and enforcement", "trigger": "\"report after report\" from Statistics Canada and police services (Peel, Toronto, York Region) on hate-motivated crime", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community", "individual"], "target_detail": "anti-Semitism on display at some mosques and Muslim organizations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver; an imam in Montreal who had called for the murder of Jews", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… sn't constitute hate crimes. We in the Jewish community have a lot of experience with this. There are those, for example—and it's not a secret—even within the Jewish community, frankly, who are critical of one or another policy of a particular government of the State of Israel. Does criticism of that policy constitute anti-Semitism? I think our consensus, and certainly the IHRA consensus, is that it doesn't. Even though it may offend me personally or I may be aggrieved by it, it doesn't constitute anti-Semitism in the sense of a hate crime. Similarly, I think that when we reflect on what we're going to build by way of a set of definitions and criteria for what constitute actionable offences, we have to be very precise and clear, and review them, because things change."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 245, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/shimon-fogel-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "community organisations"], "act_why": "CIJA testimony on hate-crime data, definitions and enforcement (duplicate)", "trigger": "\"report after report\" from Statistics Canada and police services (Peel, Toronto, York Region) on hate-motivated crime", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community", "individual"], "target_detail": "anti-Semitism on display at some mosques and Muslim organizations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver; an imam in Montreal who had called for the murder of Jews", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Sikander Hashmi", "role": "Spokesperson, Canadian Council of Imams", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That's a good question. For every verse or prophetic saying or tradition that can be misinterpreted or misunderstood, there is always another one that can act as a counterbalance to show that the misinterpretation and the misunderstanding is not correct. Anti-Semitism, of course, is wrong, and as you correctly pointed out, it's not coming from the Quran. Also, even if someone were to look at the prophetic teachings, there would be a number of examples of cordial and positive relations with Jewish people. I think it's those types of teachings that have to be shared and disseminated. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 167, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/sikander-hashmi-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "says antisemitism is of course wrong and not Quranic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "radical extremists like to [cherry-pick], and haters as well", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Mr. Scott Reid", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… a better position to know that than he would be, because he was prime minister and had information about terror plots passed on to him by CSIS The question I wanted to ask is this, and maybe you will have a chance to think about it for when we get back during the next round of questioning. My reading of Islam is that hatred of Jews is non-Quranic and that it primarily comes from some discredited Hadith. As someone who is not a Muslim, I am in no position to criticize those who are going in the wrong direction. I was going to ask how you deal with people who are just ignorant of the faith, but nonetheless are sincere in their holding of those vie …"], "terms": ["jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 201, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/78/scott-reid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 78, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "treats hatred of Jews as a wrong view to be corrected", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "hatred of Jews is non-Quranic and ... primarily comes from some discredited Hadith", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-23", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Idris Elbakri", "role": "Past President, Manitoba Islamic Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… founded in 1969. The MIA is a grassroots organization that serves Manitobans, including Muslims, through three mosques and a community centre that is a cultural, recreational, and educational hub in Winnipeg. In our presentation today, we would like to share with you why we are concerned about racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of discrimination. We will share with you how, as a community, we have responded, how we have collaborated with diverse communities, and what more can be done to combat the disturbing trend of increased bigotry. While I will speak from the perspective of a Canadian Muslim, I do so with the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 785, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/79/dr-idris-elbakri-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 79, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "recounts the 'Die, Jew' rock and other hate incidents with concern", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "those fringe racists who mostly spread their message online or spray graffiti under the cover of night [a rock painted with the words 'Die, Jew']", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-23", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Serah Gazali", "role": "Community Member, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… We talked about Islamophobia based on the experiences of individuals who were attending and also based on the recent statistics from Canada that mentioned that Islamophobia is on the rise. It has increased to almost 60%. Muslims are the second most targeted group, after Jews. We have six strategies and laws to target anti-Semitism, but there's no talk about Islamophobia, although—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/79/serah-gazali-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 79, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "contrasts existing antisemitism strategies with the absence for Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-25", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Pouyan Tabasinejad", "role": "Policy Chair, Iranian Canadian Congress", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… the Iranian diaspora feel generally. This is an argument that was made by Adam Weinstein, a writer in the United States. He said that the Jewish diaspora and the Iranian diaspora are similar in that sense, and the connection between the Jewish diaspora and Israel, the connection between the singling out of Israel and anti-Semitism, is very similar to the singling out of Iran and anti-Iranian sentiment. I hope that answers your questions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 221, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/80/pouyan-tabasinejad-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 80, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays a writer's analogy between singling out Israel and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… I think most parliamentarians would find that offensive. I would reiterate the fact that Ms. Kwan raised on what we are studying here. We are not targeting just one religion, although religions have been targeted in the past with previous motions, such as when we identified the Copts in need of particular protection, anti-Semitism in need of particular identification, and discrimination against the Yazidis. What we were doing was also studying indigenous, anti-black, and anti-Jewish discrimination, which is, I think, an important part of this study."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/81/arif-virani-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 81, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "lists the antisemitism motion among past community-specific motions", "trigger": "petition e-411 signed by 70,000 Canadians and the motions identifying targeted communities, including M-103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Janet Buckingham (Professor, Laurentian Leadership Centre, Trinity Western University, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor, Laurentian Leadership Centre, Trinity Western University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… intégrer à une stratégie nationale de lutte contre le racisme systémique et la discrimination fondée sur la religion, tandis que le Comité ici présent envisage d'éliminer un élément du droit canadien qui pourrait faire partie de cette stratégie. Lorsqu'une personne s'en prend à la religion, elle tague des commentaires antisémites sur une synagogue, et non pas sur un pont. Cela s'est produit à Ottawa l'an dernier. Une mosquée et une église unie ont également été touchées. Cette église a été particulièrement visée, car son pasteur est noir, et il s'agit donc d'un acte raciste dans ce cas. Si quelqu'un veut s'en prendre à un groupe religieux, il …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 918, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/73/dr-janet-buckingham-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites anti-Jewish graffiti on a synagogue to defend section 176", "trigger": "clause 14 of Bill C-51, which would repeal section 176 of the Criminal Code protecting religious services", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy)", "role": "President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… by calling it Islamophobia you're basically implying that Islam has rights. Islam is an idea, like anything else. It does not have rights. It's not a race and it's not part of this systemic racism and discrimination that is being addressed by M-103. I would tell you that the way to approach it is just as you approach anti-Semitism. You don't approach Judeophobia. You approach anti-Semitism because it's the bigotry that exists against practitioners of the Jewish faith that needs to be defeated. Ultimately, bigotry exists against Muslims that needs to be defeated, but we don't do it by making people afraid to push the issues that need reform and need to be addressed, because the primary victims of, even i …", "… help you counter the radical ideologies of Wahhabism, Salafi-Jihadism, and all these things that our governments have not wanted to dive into, and shift away from a whack-a-mole program in national security to working against the ideas that radicalize Muslims within our community, such as the horrendous misogyny, the anti-Semitism, and other things preached from the pulpits that radicalize and are the precursors to push Muslims down the pathway of radicalization. These conversations will not be able to be had if M-103 is implemented, which talks about Islamophobia, because then they will see any discussion of Islamism or political Islam, which …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "judeophobia"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1518, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/81/dr-zuhdi-jasser-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 81, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "charge_quote": "the horrendous misogyny, the anti-Semitism, and other things preached from the pulpits", "act_why": "charges Islamist pulpits with preaching antisemitism", "trigger": "\"the unintended consequences of M-103\" and its use of the term Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "the horrendous misogyny, the anti-Semitism, and other things preached from the pulpits that radicalize", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Balpreet Singh", "role": "Legal Counsel, World Sikh Organization of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… rts motion 103 and believes that it's important to condemn Islamophobia, racism, and discrimination in all forms. Given the sharp rise in violence and discrimination against Muslims, we feel that it's appropriate to identify Islamophobia by name as an issue of concern. In 2015, motion number 630 condemning the rise in anti-Semitism was adopted unanimously. We believe that there should be no issue with condemning the current rise in Islamophobia. We have noted the opposition to this motion with concern and believe that, while Islamophobia should be clearly defined, reluctance to name and condemn anti-Muslim behaviour is unacceptable. A refusal to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1206, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/81/balpreet-singh-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 81, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "cites the unanimous 2015 antisemitism motion as precedent", "trigger": "motion 103, which his organization supports, and its naming of Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Herman (Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… as freedom of conscience and freedom of religion. I want to provide some context. On October 18, we testified before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in its study of Motion M-103 on systemic racism and religious discrimination. We noted that since 1982, B’nai Brith Canada has published the “Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” in Canada, copies of which I understand are available to the committee. Over a five-year period, anti-Semitism has been on the rise. Statistics Canada has reported that in 2015, the most recent year with complete figures, Jews were the most targeted group in this country for hate crimes, a serious trend that has been ongoing for nine years. Our hope is that the committee will continue to bear in mind that Canada’s most targete …", "… gh not perfect in language, provides clear penalties for those who threaten or interfere with faith leaders during religious ceremonies, or who interrupt or disrupt religious gatherings. We have concerns over repeal of section 176, in the context of the signal that such a step would convey in today’s environment where anti-Semitism remains a serious challenge, and where Canadians have been witness to acts of intimidation directed at religious institutions and leaders, and not just those from the Jewish community. We've had very productive exchanges with officials who have been working on Bill C-51 's provisions. We have welcomed their assurances …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 617, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/73/brian-herman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 73, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "act_why": "says antisemitism remains a serious challenge in opposing repeal", "trigger": "Bill C-51's intended repeal of section 176 of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… tivité antimulsumane. Nous avons des préoccupations au sujet de l'absence actuelle de définition du mot « islamophobie », dans la motion 103, et le Comité ne s'est effectivement pas entendu sur une définition unique, et c'est le problème auquel nous faisons face. Pour être clair, l'activité antimulsumane, antisikhe et antisémite, c'est mal. Certaines de ces activités sont criminelles — et devraient l'être —, si elles s'accompagnent d'actes violents, et devraient être condamnées sans équivoque, et peut-être punies plus sévèrement qu'elles ne le sont actuellement. Je voulais seulement que cela figure au compte rendu. Laissez-moi m'adresser à no …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 267, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/81/scott-reid-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 81, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "states antisemitic activity is wrong and should be condemned unequivocally", "trigger": "the absence of a definition of \"islamophobie\" in motion 103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Cecil Roach (Coordinating Superintendent of Education, Equity and Community Services, York Region District School Board)", "role": "Coordinating Superintendent of Education, Equity and Community Services, York Region District School Board", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… dinary Canadians. Of course, we saw this irrational fear of Muslims explode into violent murder at the Quebec City mosque when six Muslim men were murdered in cold blood while they prayed. In my view, calling the irrational fear or hatred of Muslims “Islamophobia” is absolutely the right thing to do. We also know that anti-Semitism is very real for Jewish Canadians. In Canada, Jews are still the number one target of hate based on religion. Hateful acts and hate crimes against Jews have spiked recently. In education we are seeing the rise of anti-Semitic graffiti, students making anti-Semitic comments or posting anti-Semitic images on their social media. We also cannot ignore the fact that white supremacists seem to now feel emboldened and are crawling away from their computer screens, publicly demonstrating their hatred for Jews, Muslims, for immigrants, and for all racialized people. The question then becomes how to fight against systemic racism and religious discrimination which, I'm sure we all agree, lessens us as Canadians. I would make a couple of recommendations. First is that the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Government of Canada act relentlessly in naming and shaming anti-black racism, anti-indigenous racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. When acts of hate occur anywhere in our wonderful country, the condemning voice of our government has to be front and centre. Second is that the Department of Canadian Heritage develop an anti-racism action plan, which includes funding for community initiatives aimed at peacefully fighting hate and …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1701, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/cecil-roach-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech", "funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "public service"], "act_why": "reports rising antisemitic graffiti and emboldened white supremacists", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "white supremacists seem to now feel emboldened ... publicly demonstrating their hatred for Jews, Muslims, for immigrants", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Don Hutchinson", "role": "Author, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… are from a variety of races, as are people in other religious communities. That's the great concern with the etymology of the word. I think substituting “anti-Muslim behaviour” or “anti-religious behaviour directed towards Muslims”, would be a more appropriate term of reference. Even in regard to the Jewish community, anti-Semitism has come to mean both religious and racial discrimination, but it would be much better to talk about anti-Semitism racially, as it's most often used, and anti-Judaism in the religious context."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 161, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/don-hutchinson-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "proposes terminological split between antisemitism and anti-Judaism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shahid Akhtar", "role": "Co-Chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. The Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims is the first bilateral Jewish-Muslim organization dedicated to creating co-operation between Jews and Muslims in combatting anti-Semitism and prejudice against Muslims. CAJM was established at a time when Islamophobia was not even a known concept; the word had not even been coined. I will just mention three very brief points, because you have our written submission as well. My first point is, since you're dealing with systemic racism and religious discr …", "… discrimination as recently as the 1960s, where at the beaches there were plaques saying “Jews and Blacks not allowed”. Will the Buddhists or the Sikhs be next because somebody doesn't like their robes, their turbans, or their kirpans? Are we restarting a debate where burkini and bikini are contesting with each other? Anti-Semitism is directed not only at but between Jews and Muslims. I would very much want the committee to take it upon itself to persuade the members of Parliament to use Canada's international credibility to call for an international conference between Israel and all Muslim countries. Bring them together to create back-channel r …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 513, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/shahid-akhtar-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "community organisations"], "act_why": "joint Jewish-Muslim body on combatting antisemitism and discrimination", "trigger": "the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma under a government headed by honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shahid Akhtar", "role": "Co-Chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. One of the second points was that Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same coin. We have this habit of trying to isolate them as two different things."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 39, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/shahid-akhtar-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "same testimony (duplicate)", "trigger": "the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma under a government headed by honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shahid Akhtar", "role": "Co-Chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["What that does is it, inadvertently perhaps, creates resentment in the group that is not addressed. Any time, in any discourse, when you talk about religious discrimination, and you talk about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, they should actually be uttered together in the same sentence, in the same breath, because it is exactly the same thing. Don't go on technicalities of definitions because if you do that then anti-Semitism.... Do you know what that means? It means prejudice against Semites. Who are the Semites? They are Saudi Arabian, Palestinians, Jordanians. Those are the Semites, so don't become a prisoner of those technical, dictionary meanings. Go by what actually has an impact. Talk about people who are suffering. If Jews are suffering and they want to call it anti-Semitism, accept that. If Muslims are suffering and they want to call it Islamophobia, accept that, but do something where you can take away the root cause of that. My point also was, Madam Chair, if you don't move fast enough on this, what is going to happen is I'm really afraid, and Jews and Muslims are afraid, that we will …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 245, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/shahid-akhtar-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "same testimony (duplicate)", "trigger": "the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma under a government headed by honorary Canadian citizen Aung San Suu Kyi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Barbara Landau", "role": "Co-chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. We need to focus on improved education about each other's history, culture, and sensitivities, starting at an early age. Number two is the definition of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. There are recognized international and Canadian definitions that I've supplied in the materials. What I start with is that each group should propose its preferred definition and label, not have the label chosen by another group as this feels disrespectful. Regarding Bill 62 in Quebec—Shahid mentioned that bill—while …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 197, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/barbara-landau-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "international bodies"], "act_why": "raises BDS, bomb threats and exclusion of Jewish students as concerns", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the BDS, bomb threats, and exclusion of Jewish university students on campuses in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2017-11-01", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Barbara Landau (Co-chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims)", "role": "Co-chair, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… not having incidents of racism, discrimination, or identity taken seriously. While the fears are legitimate, often the tactics used for raising them are divisive and exacerbate tensions between groups that are both victims of stereotyping individuals. The controversy suggests that the absence of a specific mention of anti-Semitism implies that hatred directed at Jews is being ignored, despite a similar motion previously endorsed by the government that specified anti-Semitism. Motion 103 was put forward at a tragic time in Muslim Canadian relations when six innocent Canadian Muslim men were murdered at Friday prayers. To its credit, at least nine progressive synagogues responded with empathy by forming circles of peace around nine mosques during Friday prayers. Muslims responded with tears …", "… friendship were felt by both groups. However, a large Jewish organization, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, CIJA, responded quite differently. It circulated a newsletter to its extensive email list with a fear-inducing story about a sermon delivered several years earlier by a visiting speaker. The message was anti-Semitic but without context or any evidence that it sparked anti-Semitic incidents. This coincided with CIJA's message denouncing M-103. CAJM criticized this approach as divisive and lacking in empathy in a letter published in the Canadian Jewish News , which is in my submission. A similar incident was reported in the Toronto Star with respect to prayers led by Imam Ayman Elkasrawy at the Masjid Toronto mosque. Several papers reported that some of the prayers were anti-Semitic. B'nai Brith Canada urged Ryerson to fire the imam from his job as a teaching assistant and as an assistant imam at the mosque. Again, CIJA circulated an article raising fears of anti-Semitism and potential terror. The imam apologized and offered to dialogue with Jewish leaders to find out what caused offence. His apology was not accepted and he was not given an opportunity to correct any offence. He was fired without investigation from both jobs. Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress and Mosaic Institute, offered to meet. He didn't believe that the imam was an anti-Semite after meeting him. Mr. Farber invited him to attend several cultural sensitivity sessions, which he arranged with Dr. Karen Mock and other multi-faith clergy. He asked a journalist to observe. The journalist wondered if the prayers were interpreted correctly and asked several Arabic scholars to translate. The translations showed the quote had been mistranslated to appear more negative. We need to take seriously the reality of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and not fan the flames of fear and hatred of each other as a way to justify our shared—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 545, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/82/barbara-landau-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 82, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy", "academics"], "act_why": "argues the imam's prayers were mistranslated and the antisemitism charge unfair", "trigger": "\"the language of motion 103\" and the tension it created between Jewish and Muslim organizations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-06", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Ali Rizvi (Author, As an Individual)", "role": "Author, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ophobia” is an umbrella term that also conflates legitimate criticism of Islam—as is being done by many of my fellow liberals and secular activists trying to change our societies in the Muslim world—with the demonization of Muslims, which is obviously wrong. Remember, we don't use terms like “Judaismophobia”. We say, “anti-Semitism”, a term oriented around prejudice against people, not ideas. Demonizing people goes against our liberal values, but criticizing dogmatic ideas and beliefs is at the very heart of free speech, also one of our fundamental values. Criticizing Islam isn't bigotry, but singling it out for protection is and demonizing Musl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1269, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/84/dr-ali-rizvi-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 84, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites antisemitism as the people-oriented term model for renaming M-103", "trigger": "Motion M-103 and its use of the word \"Islamophobia\", which he proposes replacing with \"anti-Muslim bigotry\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-06", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Bruce Clemenger", "role": "President, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… tique of the teaching of religious doctrine and ideas. Religious freedom in Canada protects the freedom of individuals and groups to believe and to express those beliefs. It does not protect the beliefs themselves. You have heard of some jurisdictions that use the language of anti-indigenous hate, anti-black hate, and anti-Semitism. We recommend that you use the language of anti-Muslim hatred to address incidents against people of Muslim faith. Given the use of the term Islamophobia in M-103 and in public discourse, the committee should define it clearly and narrowly, but we do not recommend its use for the whole of government. We reference in our brief some examples of clear and careful definitions of anti-Semitism. Finally, collect data consistently and uniformly. Develop uniform national standards on collecting, categorizing, and reporting hate crime data to help ensure consistency across the country. This would provide a consistent body of information to inform dialogue and policy-making. Statistics Canada and other governmen …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 303, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/84/bruce-clemenger-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 84, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "cites careful definitions of antisemitism as a drafting model", "trigger": "the use of the term \"Islamophobia\" in M-103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-06", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Bruce Clemenger", "role": "President, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… in hate crimes against Muslims, I think it's legitimate to single out Islam or Muslims in the conversation. Again, the motion does extend to others. I think that's part of it. I think the term “Islamophobia” raised a lot of concerns. As I said in my comments, usually we use the language of anti-black, anti-indigenous, anti-Semitism, yet Islamophobia is different. Many people understand it to be much broader. In Canada, under protection of religious freedom under the charter, the charter protects the beliefs and expression of people, not the beliefs themselves. Therefore, there's a concern that using the term “Islamophobia” would extend the prote …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 300, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/84/bruce-clemenger-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 84, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "same submission (duplicate)", "trigger": "the use of the term \"Islamophobia\" in M-103", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-06", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Julia Beazley", "role": "Director, Public Policy, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… s Bruce said, our one concern with the motion was the use of the term “Islamophobia”, but not at all with identifying that we need to, in an unqualified way, condemn hatred and discrimination towards Muslims, but that we need to be very careful with the language we use. For example, you said that there was a motion on anti-Semitism passed in Parliament a number of years ago. That was very clear because we are talking about discrimination and hatred towards Jewish people. It is not about preventing criticism of Israel or.... Sorry. My time's up."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 175, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/84/julia-beazley-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 84, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites the antisemitism motion as clearly worded by contrast", "trigger": "M-103 and the \"irresponsible reporting on the motion\" that mischaracterized it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2017-11-08", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Aurangzeb Qureshi", "role": "Vice-President, Public Policy and Communications, Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… s is—as I alluded to earlier—the Andalusian curriculum that we're working on that shows that Muslims, Jews, and Christians have lived in peace and continue to live in peace and tolerance. The next recommendation as part of this is the creation of a federal board working to reduce and eventually eliminate Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and other forms of racism with local representation from various provinces at a grassroots level. AMPAC also has excellent relationships with law enforcement across the province. We have received tremendous support from local police and see them as equal partners in AMPAC's success. We continue to have frank discussi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1494, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/85/aurangzeb-qureshi-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 85, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "educators"], "act_why": "recommends a federal board to reduce antisemitism and other racism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… n. We talked a lot about breaking down barriers by improving dialogue. It prompted me to think about interfaith dialogue—having Jewish leaders engage with other leaders of different backgrounds. Do you see this kind of bill as a springboard to promoting more of that kind of dialogue that is so pivotal to breaking down anti-Semitism and breaking down the types of discrimination that we're seeing right now?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 290, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/arif-virani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "asks about dialogue that breaks down antisemitism", "trigger": "Bill S-232, the Canadian Jewish heritage month bill, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I don't know how much time you spend on Twitter. I spend too much time, I'm sure. If you're a Jewish person on Twitter, anti-Semitic attacks are almost a daily experience—really, truly. I feel like anti-Semitism is part of my daily life. I feel lucky, though, because I am part of a large Jewish community, so I can take solace, comfort, and support from people in my community. If you're in a smaller community, I can see how frightening and intimidating it could be when confronted with the very real problem of anti-Semitism that exists in Canada on a daily basis. It's making common cause, having a sense of community, and understanding why you should be proud to be Jewish. I do announce it. That's my solution to it. The more people think they might be able to hurt me with it, the more I make it clear to them how proud I am to be who I am, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 186, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/linda-frum-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "heritage-month answer in an exchange on breaking down prejudice; term absent", "trigger": "Bill S-232 creating a Canadian Jewish heritage month", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… l has come to the committee at an important time. I understand that you just concluded a study on systemic racism and religious discrimination. I had the opportunity to sit in on some of those meetings, in particular to hear from representatives of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada on the anti-Semitism Jewish Canadians face, and have long faced. As we know, Jewish Canadians are the most targeted group for hate crimes in Canada. What we're seeking to achieve with this bill is to recognize and share the history and experiences of Jewish Canadians across the country. A Canadian Jewish heritage month would present the o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1299, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/michael-levitt-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["commemoration", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "cites the antisemitism Jewish Canadians face in testimony for the bill", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill S-232, the Canadian Jewish heritage month act, which he sponsors", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "university"], "target_detail": "Canada had largely closed its borders to Jews since 1933; he faced a Jewish quota ... the classrooms even had segregated seating, known as the bench ghetto", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I think education is a key component of what a Canadian Jewish heritage month can help bring about. Education on issues like anti-Semitism and tolerance and diversity, and the value of those things in Canadian society, is increasingly necessary as we see the problematic behaviours that this committee has recently examined. I think there are a lot of things to celebrate during a Canadian Jewish heritage month, but there are also a lot of difficult things to reflect on, whether it's the treatment of Jews back in the thirties and forties or the rise in sustained anti-Semitism that exists across the country. The Toronto board of education recently had an exhibit on the Holocaust, and it was quite a remarkable exhibit. It was staged at a school that has no Jewish presence. They had Holocaust survivors and Holocaust educators go in, train a number of students at the school who were not Jewish …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 341, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/michael-levitt-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "points to sustained antisemitism as why education is needed", "trigger": "Bill S-232 and what a Canadian Jewish heritage month could do", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… es could definitely embrace something like this. To Senator Frum's point, I think if this were a springboard to more dialogue and better understanding, it would be a fantastic opportunity. We know how important those relationships are. We know the impact they can have on creating education and awareness of issues like anti-Semitism. I think it would be a wonderful outcome if the Canadian Jewish heritage month created a forum for increased interfaith or multi-faith dialogue—100%."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 162, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/michael-levitt-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["solidarity", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "urges interfaith education to counter anti-Semitism, no target named", "trigger": "Bill S-232 to establish Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, under committee study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-11-22", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Peter Van Loan", "role": "Hon. Peter Van Loan", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York--Simcoe", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… her great community there. She was not Jewish at all, but she started a klezmer band in her high school, which continues to this day. My observation about the value of what you're doing is this. I look back to that time when I was growing up and we were coping with events that were pretty immediate. I've seen a lot of anti-Semitism disappear in the community, and in the communities that I've known since then. At the same time, in parallel, I've seen new anti-Semitism arise in other places. While some understanding has grown, I've seen things here when we were elected, when the south Lebanon war took place and I was on the foreign affairs committee. Things were said that I thought were unthinkable and that we would never hear after the events of the Holocaust and World War II. The …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 429, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/42-1/86/the-vice-chair-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 86, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "laments old anti-Semitism receding and new anti-Semitism arising, no named target", "trigger": "Bill S-232 to establish Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, under committee study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "things said in the House at the time of the south Lebanon war", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2017-12-12", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Matthew Dubé", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Great, thank you. Mr. Fogel, we were talking about the rise in hate crimes and anti-Semitism in particular, which top some of these sad lists and rankings. When we look at the issue of radicalization, which while not necessarily part of the bill in a substantive way is a related issue in terms of how we tackle some of these issues, it was part of the debate on Bill C-51 as well. Given that radicalization is n …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/92/matthew-dube-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 92, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "question premised on the rise in hate crimes and anti-Semitism, disapproving", "trigger": "Bill C-59 national security study, questioning CIJA's Shimon Fogel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-02-08", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Glen Motz", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… imony on Canada's national security framework you said: ...the Jewish community is particularly vulnerable to hate propaganda throughout the world, and many of the most powerful terrorist organizations in existence today, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Daesh, rely upon the promotion of hatred with a particular focus on anti-Semitism to inspire acts of terror. As we know, we don't have to look very far in time to see a place where this very much is the case, and still is the case, from the attacks on supermarkets in Paris to the endless calls for the death of Jews and the democratic state of Israel by regimes like Iran. When we think of those real …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/96/glen-motz-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 96, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "in testimony on Canada's national security framework you said", "act_why": "reads witness's own testimony naming Hamas, Hezbollah, Daesh and Iran as promoting anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Bill C-59, whether it goes far enough to protect minority communities", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "regimes like Iran; Hamas, Hezbollah, and Daesh", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2018-02-08", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… , there is something of a resurgence within the extreme right, the neo-Nazi movement. A Canadian, Monika Schaefer, is sitting in jail in Germany for the promotion of Holocaust denial. She's a dual citizen and a former candidate for a political party here in Canada. The one thing that seems to connect the extreme right anti-Semitism and the extreme left anti-Semitism unfortunately seems to be the hatred of Jews. They're very explicit about that hatred. It's interesting, because when you're talking about the pathway an individual might go down, whether it's for a Criminal Code offence of hate speech or further down towards actually engaging in an act of terrorism, promotion and incitement to terror begin with the vilification …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 286, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/96/michael-mostyn-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 96, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "describes extreme-right and extreme-left anti-Semitism as a pathway to terror without a single named target", "trigger": "Bill C-59 study; answering on the radicalization pathway and hate speech provisions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "Monika Schaefer, jailed in Germany for Holocaust denial; the extreme right and the extreme left", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-02-08", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn (Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… and religion. B'nai Brith Canada testified before this committee in 2015 and, most recently, in February 2017, on what was then Bill C-51 . Our testimony today will develop the same points we had previously expressed, and we will focus on specific areas that touch on our work, particularly part 7. Our latest audit of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada contains a key truth: Jews are consistently targeted by hate and bias-related crimes in Canada at a rate higher than that of any other identifiable group. Statistics Canada recently released its report on 2016 police-reported hate crimes, and once again Jews were targeted more than any other group …", "… ll of us. These are specific points I wanted to raise. There are others that, while not specifically part of the proposed amendments to Bill C-59 , are intimately associated and are of interest and concern to B'nai Brith Canada. There are further points here. I'd like to highlight some. The continuing manifestation of anti-Semitism, hate crimes, and hate speech in Canada affects not only the Jewish community. B'nai Brith Canada sees these worrying trends as national security issues. Organizations such as ours working with law enforcement agencies at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels must address these issues collaboratively. The gove …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 820, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/96/michael-mostyn-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 96, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "testimony reporting the anti-Semitic incidents audit and urging stronger measures", "trigger": "Bill C-59, particularly part 7 and the 'advocates or promotes' to 'counselling' change", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "questionable organizations and groups, particularly those that receive government grants... organizations engaged in or supporting those expressing hate speech", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-02-08", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Peter Fragiskatos", "role": "London North Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "London North Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… rity, and how they define threats to this country. The conclusion that I've come to is that this is a matter of perspective. Daesh is certainly a clear threat to Canada and other democracies, but it is not the only threat. From your perspective, Mr. Mostyn, could you speak to the threat of far-right groups who take an anti-Semitic view, and what that means for the Jewish community in Canada? I think that matter of perspective can get us a long way to understanding exactly what is the nature of the threats confronting Canada. I don't think we can pick one or two or even three."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/42-1/96/peter-fragiskatos-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 96, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "question about the threat of far-right groups holding anti-Semitic views", "trigger": "\"the recent StatsCan report that has been compiled on hate crimes\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "far-right groups who take an anti-Semitic view", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-04-26", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Aykan Erdemir (Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)", "role": "Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… n media outlets are active in smearing and scapegoating religious minorities, using state funds for incitement, particularly against Jews and Christians. For example, The Last Emperor or Payitaht: Abdülhamid , an historical series funded and broadcast by Turkey's state-run Turkish radio-television, TRT, is a blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Christian drama. Each episode of The Last Emperor has led to an upsurge in hate speech and incitement online. One Twitter user, after watching this state-funded drama, vowed to turn the territory between the Euphrates and Nile rivers into Jewish graveyards. Another Twitter user, after watching the drama, said …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1584, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/105/dr-aykan-erdemir-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "is a blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Christian drama", "act_why": "charges Turkey's state-run TRT and pro-government media with anti-Semitic incitement", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "deterioration of religious-minority rights in Turkey since the July 2016 coup attempt, incl. state-funded anti-Semitic broadcasting and Pastor Brunson's trial", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "media"], "target_detail": "the Turkish government / Erdogan regime; Turkey's state-run media outlets, TRT and Anadolu, and pro-government media", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2018-06-06", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mark Warawa", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["… he made a startling statement that the “measure of success” from this Liberal government has been “the amount of money spent, rather than improved outcomes”, and I'm very concerned when we have the Auditor General saying that. Mr. Blaney brought up some issues about the Canadian summer jobs program being used to fund anti-Semitic and hate activities. Your response was about substantive funding to our youth. That sounds like what the Auditor General is saying. Outcomes are more important, not how much money. You said there was more money to develop their skills, and important job opportunities. I would suggest, Minister, that having funding.... …", "… irst year that the Canada summer jobs program has given opportunity with conditions. The applicants for this funding for Canada summer jobs have to attest that they agree with the government's core values. Their core values have to be the government's core values. The government owns this. When money is being used for anti-Semitic hate purposes or funding terrorism, it is very concerning. The government just announced last week that it has spent $4.5 billion to buy the Kinder Morgan pipeline, after creating an environment of chaos, and through Canada summer jobs it is actually funding Dogwood. The Canada summer jobs program announcement in that …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 585, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/42-1/107/mark-warawa-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "the Canadian summer jobs program being used to fund anti-Semitic and hate activities", "act_why": "charges the Liberal government with funding anti-Semitic and hate activities through summer jobs", "trigger": "Canada summer jobs funding of groups engaged in \"anti-Semitic and hate activities\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "this Liberal government, whose Canada summer jobs program is “being used to fund anti-Semitic and hate activities”", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-06-06", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Steven Blaney", "role": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis", "province": "QC", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["… estion. Now I'll ask you another one. We're here to approve budgetary appropriations. The Canada Summer Jobs program is discussed on page 56 of budget 2018. Do you think it's normal that 20 members of your party allocated funding to entities that support terrorist organizations that make homophobic remarks and support anti-semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 63, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/42-1/107/steven-blaney-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Do you think it's normal that 20 members of your party allocated funding to entities that support terrorist organizations that make homophobic remarks and support anti-semitism?", "act_why": "charges 20 members of the minister's party with funding entities supporting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "20 Liberal members allocating Canada summer jobs funding to entities supporting terrorist organizations and anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "20 members of your party; entities that support terrorist organizations", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-09-26", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Herman (Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… nces, how does this square with an implicit aim of affording Crown counsel greater discretion in how to proceed with less serious offences? We believe that, in today's context, we must exercise great care in taking actions that can be misinterpreted, and the signal such a step would convey in today's environment where anti-Semitism, hate speech, and advocacy to serious crimes such as genocide remain serious challenges, if not in Canada then elsewhere. Our hope is that the committee, in essence, will recommend that offences related to advocating genocide and offences that are terrorism-related are not hybridized and remain indictable. Mr. Ehsassi has already spoken eloquently today pertaining to the genocide point. As opposed to hybridization, there are other steps that can be taken. Mr. Adler, again, will explain, but in April, B'nai Brith Canada published an “Eight-Point Plan to Tackle Antisemitism\". Committee members will have that. One of our recommendations is to publish the Attorney General's guidelines for hate-related prosecutions. We believe more can be done in this area, including for other incitement offences. While we recognize it falls outside the scope of this draft legislation, we must acknowledge t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 671, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/109/brian-herman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "act_why": "testimony treating anti-Semitism and hate speech as serious challenges needing stronger law", "trigger": "Bill C-75 and its hybridization of advocating-genocide and terrorism offences", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-09-26", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'll accept that, but with your permission I'd like to go back to a couple of the points you raised earlier. We have to be careful in the context of this discussion not to conflate hate crimes—major, minor, anti-Semitic or other racist graffiti, and so on—with these particular categories of crimes. They present challenges. One of the suggestions apropos an earlier exchange that you had is that we waive or consider waiving AG sign-off on charges, and that might change the dynamic with law enforcement at the local level in terms of the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 279, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/109/shimon-koffler-fogel-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "passing reference to anti-Semitic graffiti while arguing about hybridization, no target", "trigger": "Bill C-75, hybridization and Attorney General sign-off on hate-crime charges", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-09-26", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Murray Rankin", "role": "Victoria, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Victoria", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I would like to turn to B'nai Brith and Mr. Herman. I really appreciated your powerful and persuasive presentation. To my friend Mr. Fogel, I say the same. Thank you. I thought your eight-point plan to tackle anti-Semitism is excellent. Of course, a lot of it, as you will agree, is not at the federal level, nor specific to Bill C-75 , so I wanted to focus on those matters that may be pertinent here. The first, and you referred to it, is the publishing of the Attorney General guidelines for sections 318 and 319 so that we have a better c …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 145, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/109/murray-rankin-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "act_why": "praises the eight-point plan to tackle anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Bill C-75 study; B'nai Brith's eight-point plan and s. 318/319 prosecution guidelines", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-09-26", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Murray Rankin", "role": "Victoria, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Victoria", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… gs we've heard about, that this was a law of unintended consequences, that it was not intentional but simply a lapse, and that we should fix it because it was unintended? Or could there have been an intent on their part to, for example, deal with those things which we see in situations in small towns where people make anti-Semitic slurs and so forth? They go unchecked in the criminal system precisely because they go by indictment, and that is sort of the heavy artillery. Some might say that if you use summary prosecution, you might find yourself bringing more people to justice for that activity. I'm trying to put myself in the position of how t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 296, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/109/murray-rankin-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "refers to anti-Semitic slurs going unchecked as a problem for prosecution", "trigger": "Bill C-75's hybridization of advocating genocide and terrorism offences", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-11-29", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Craig Damian Smith", "role": "Associate Director, Global Migration Lab, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["—based on anti-Semitic tropes about who controls multilateral institutions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 9, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/42-1/136/craig-damian-smith-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "fragment describing rhetoric as based on anti-Semitic tropes, target not visible", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "unnamed users of “anti-Semitic tropes about who controls multilateral institutions”", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… lly, really important. This is something that I take seriously, Canadians take seriously and my constituents in Parkdale-High Park take very seriously. I know that all of you are here with the best of intentions. We are seeing an unbelievable amount of hatred, and I'm glad you outlined many aspects of it. Whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, anti-indigenous sentiment, anti-black sentiment, incel movements, etc., these are a cause for huge concern right here in Canada. We've seen the attacks in Quebec, Pittsburgh and New Zealand. There was at one point, a tool—and I want to pick up on this, but I'm going to hold you …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 308, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/arif-virani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "names antisemitism among hatreds of huge concern in Canada", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act by the previous government in 2012-13", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Parkdale—High Park, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… I have two more areas that I want to canvass. We talked a bit about social media companies, and perhaps I will ask the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus to address this one. There are examples of different jurisdictions that regulate social media companies much more vigorously. Germany comes to mind because of its history with anti-Semitism and Nazism. Its regulations have compelled Facebook to be much more robust in the human resources it dedicates to this issue. What can we learn from examples like Germany?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 91, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/arif-virani-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "cites Germany's history with antisemitism while seeking stronger regulation", "canada_role": "legislating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Geoffrey Cameron", "role": "Director, Office of Public Affairs, Bahá'í Community of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I would agree that media literacy is incredibly important. I'm also concerned about hate-adjacent speech, the kind of prejudice that can percolate online where it becomes funny to make anti-Semitic comments or racist comments with friends in a joking way. I'm also concerned that the kind of polarization we see in our society is becoming reinforced by online algorithms that push young people especially toward content that is more and more at the extremes or margins of discourse, which then naturally cascades into …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/dr-geoffrey-cameron-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "worried that anti-Semitic joking spreads online", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"online algorithms that push young people especially toward content that is more and more at the extremes\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Ryan Weston (Lead Animator, Public Witness for Social and Ecological Justice, Anglican Church of Canada)", "role": "Lead Animator, Public Witness for Social and Ecological Justice, Anglican Church of Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… only be effective inasmuch as it recognizes the specific realities and repercussions of particular forms of hatred. Although an overarching strategy is certainly necessary in this work, we must also develop integrated strategies that address and debunk the myths underpinning anti-indigenous racism, anti-black racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia, xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment, religious intolerance and other forms of hatred that have distinct impacts on the safety and security of identifiable groups of people in this country. The Anglican Church of Canada is increasingly attending to the importance …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1010, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/dr-ryan-weston-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "church witness calls for strategy debunking antisemitism among other hatreds", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"the large social media companies\" and internet service providers that disseminate hate", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Alex Neve", "role": "Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… forward as part of wider approaches to tackling the growing concerns about online hate and fulfilling the need, still unaddressed in Canada, to develop a national action plan on gender-based violence, including through the ongoing development of a national anti-racism strategy and measures to respond to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other religious intolerance. Thank you, Mr. Chair."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1094, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/alex-neve-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "urges measures responding to antisemitism and other intolerance", "canada_role": "legislating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "social media platforms, in particular Twitter (\"Toxic Twitter\")", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… he numbers are staggering. I have reviewed some of the stuff from Facebook alone in terms of the hundreds of millions of posts. It's hard to wrap your head around the idea of monitoring and responding to that volume of information. On clear guidelines from government, I'll return to the issue of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. One of the benefits that it provides a government is that it offers a clear definition. You can then use that as a template for the algorithms you are going to put into place and the word searches you are going to use to trigger closer scrutiny and so forth. If we were to do this across the span of looking at those s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 713, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/shimon-koffler-fogel-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "international bodies"], "act_why": "argues for tools and IHRA definition to counter antisemitic hate", "trigger": "the former section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and whether a successor provision is needed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel (President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… wish Affairs, CIJA, the advocacy agent of the Jewish Federations of Canada, which represents more than 150,000 Jewish Canadians from coast to coast. CIJA is encouraged by the launch of this important study. Since the horrific mass shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, the deadliest act of anti-Semitic violence in North American history, CIJA has mobilized thousands of Canadians to email the justice minister to call for a national strategy to counter online hate, beginning with this very study. We've done so with the endorsement of a diverse coalition of partners, including Muslim, Christian, Sikh and LGBTQ+ organiz …", "… after extensively consuming jihadist content online. In the case of two recent acts of white supremacist terrorism, the mass murder of Jews in Pittsburgh and Muslims in Christchurch, the killers made extensive use of social media to promote their heinous ideology. The Pittsburgh shooter reportedly posted more than 700 anti-Semitic messages online over a span of nine months leading up to the attack; and the Christchurch shooter's decision to livestream his horrific crime was a clear attempt to provoke similar atrocities. We cannot afford to be complacent, given the link between online hate and real world violence. My hope is that this study will …", "… systematically, demonize entire communities. While freedom of expression is a core democratic value, authorities must act in exceptional circumstances to protect Canadians from those who wilfully promote hate propaganda and seek to radicalize vulnerable individuals. The international community's experience in defining anti-Semitism is an important model. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, working definition of anti-Semitism, which is the world's most widely accepted definition of Jew hatred, should be included in any strategy to tackle online hate. It's a practical tool that social media providers can use to enforce user policies prohibiting hateful content and that Canadian authorities can use to enforce relevant legal provisions. Second, a national strategy requires enhanced tracking and reporting of o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1182, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/shimon-koffler-fogel-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "act_why": "Pittsburgh killings and growth of antisemitism cited in call for national strategy", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the Tree of Life synagogue mass shooting in Pittsburgh last October and the Christchurch mosque attack", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "online platform"], "target_detail": "the Pittsburgh shooter, who \"posted more than 700 anti-Semitic messages online\"; online platforms exploited by hate groups", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Professor Cas Mudde (Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia, As an Individual)", "role": "Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… r on all kinds of different issues. For example, some parties are pretty much pro-American—the Dutch or the Poles—and many are anti-American, particularly in eastern and southern Europe. The position on Israel is very different. Some have become very pro-Israel, and others are still staunchly anti-Israel, bordering on anti-Semitic. They have very different positions on NATO, which is absolutely crucial to Baltic or Polish populist radical right parties, whereas some other parties see it skeptically. They're skeptical about the UN, although that's more of a fascination or an obsession of the U.S. populist radical right than many others, but they …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1183, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/136/professor-cas-mudde-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "analytic account of radical-right parties 'bordering on anti-Semitic'; no identifiable target", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "radical right populist parties, some \"staunchly anti-Israel, bordering on anti-Semitic\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Professor Lucan Way (Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… advertising—to seriously undermine critical media, as well as the opposition's capacity to compete for power. As a result, I do not think that Hungary can be called a democracy. At the same time, in many western European democracies, politics have been infected by the rise of populist forces that often rely on racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic appeals. Such appeals foment intolerance and intensify polarization, undermining the compromise that is critical to democratic governance. The rise of populism clearly presents a threat to the the transatlantic alliances. A number of these parties, including the National Front in France and the far ri …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1241, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/136/professor-lucan-way-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "populist forces described as relying on anti-Semitic appeals that foment intolerance", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "populist parties in western Europe, including the National Front and the Alternative for Germany", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Rabbi Idan Scher (Canadian Rabbinic Caucus)", "role": "Canadian Rabbinic Caucus", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… having me here today. I represent the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus, a group of around 200 rabbis from across the country and from across the Jewish denominational spectrum. On October 27, 2018, 11 Jews were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The murderer had been highly active in promoting anti-Semitism on social media. It's reported that he posted more than 700 anti-Semitic messages online in the nine months or so prior to the attack. Just two hours before the attack, the murderer foreshadowed his actions in his final disturbing online post. On Friday, March 15, 50 Muslims were murdered by a white nationalist terrorist at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. These murders played out …", "… an be lethal, and online hate can foreshadow mass violence. There is no question that the Internet has become the newest frontier for inciting hate that manifests itself disturbingly offline. ln 2017, the World Jewish Congress, representing Jewish communities in 100 countries, released a report indicating that 382,000 anti-Semitic posts were uploaded to social media in 2016. Stated differently, that's one anti-Semitic post every 83 seconds. Although information on online hate in Canada is limited, between 2015 and 2016, according to Cision Canada, a Toronto-based PR software and service provider, there was a 600% rise in intolerant hate speech in social media postings by Canadians. The architect of the study explains that while som …", "… our-step policy recommendation towards fighting online hate. Step one of that recommendation is defining hate. One very important prong of this step is for the Canadian government to define what constitutes hate. This should begin with the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance—IHRA—definition of anti-Semitism. The IHRA definition is a practical tool that should be used by Canadian authorities in enforcing the law and as well by social media providers in implementing policies against hateful content. The further steps of CIJA's recommendation include tracking hate, preventing and intervening to stop hate. On that last step, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 808, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/rabbi-idan-scher-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy", "academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "Pittsburgh shooter's 700 anti-Semitic posts recounted in call for action", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the October 27, 2018 Tree of Life synagogue murders in Pittsburgh and the March 15 Christchurch mosque murders", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "online platform"], "target_detail": "the Pittsburgh murderer and the Christchurch shooter; YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, which \"all had roles in publicizing the violence\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Tracey Ramsey", "role": "Essex, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Essex", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ut government intervention, without the Canadian government being a part of that and, I think, having some basic rules around what is acceptable and what isn't, some ground rules for platforms in our own country. You all spoke about Pittsburgh and the Christchurch shooting, and the extensive amount of Islamophobic and anti-Semitic material that had been posted by both of these individuals. I think Canadians are asking how it is happening that this is all being posted. Why is no one going to these individuals and stopping it at that point? Is this a failure of social media? Is this a failure of policy? They are also asking how it happens that pe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 296, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/143/tracey-ramsey-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 143, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "act_why": "deplores volume of anti-Semitic material posted before the attacks", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "Facebook and Instagram's banning this week of Canadian individuals and groups spreading hate online", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "individual"], "target_detail": "social media platforms failing to stop hate; the Pittsburgh and Christchurch shooters who posted \"Islamophobic and anti-Semitic material\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-30", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Hon. Michael Ignatieff", "role": "President, Central European University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… rightward turn of the political formations in central and eastern Europe. As you say, these are formations that depend on the continuous mobilization of their base by the creation of enemies, and you listed who those enemies are. I do think that for a Canadian audience it's extremely important to notice the recurrent anti-Semitic tone and the recurrent anti-Semitic tropes here. This should concern all Canadians. The attack is not simply on George Soros; it's a reprise on the cosmopolitan rootless speculator who destroys ordinary God-fearing Christian lives. We know where that stuff comes from, and it's poison every time you hear it, wherever you hear it. I think Canadians ought …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 324, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/137/michael-ignatieff-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 137, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "passage on liberal democracy contains no reference to the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-04-30", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Professor Jason Stanley (Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, As an Individual)", "role": "Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… g institutions for gender ideology and feminism. The European University of St. Petersburg was targeted for gender ideology. We have to pay attention to the way in which these movements centre feminism as a target. They centre institutions and the press, as was discussed in the previous panel, with these old tropes of anti-Semitism where dominant institutions, like the press and universities, are targeted as left-wing indoctrination centres run by shadowy anti-nationalist elites. They seek a one-party state. They seek to represent the other party and minority groups as sort of betrayers and traitors. They portray immigrants and minority groups a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1301, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/137/professor-jason-stanley-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 137, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "old anti-Semitic tropes attributed to far-right movements generally, not a named party", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "far-right ethnonationalist / neo-fascist movements that use \"these old tropes of anti-Semitism\" against the press and universities", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you very much. We're now out of time. I'd like to thank the witnesses. I really appreciate it. B'nai Brith, I want to thank you so much for your work on the audit. It was very helpful and informative. I certainly share your view that a national action plan on anti-Semitism needs to be coming out shortly. Thank you also, Mr. Cho. I really appreciate your presence here today. I'd like to ask the people from the next panel to come up as quickly as possible. Thank you again to everyone in this panel."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 95, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/the-chair-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Borys Wrzesnewskyj", "role": "Etobicoke Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["Thank you. Dr. Pankowski, you contributed to a report that was released just the other day by researchers at Tel Aviv University in an annual worldwide anti-Semitism report. The report states that the spike was most dramatic in western Europe, that in Germany, for instance, there was a 70% increase in anti-Semitic violence. The report also points out that France, the U.K., Belgium and the Netherlands had high numbers of cases. What's the role of Germany's AfD, France's National Rally, Orban's Fidesz, Austria's Freedom Party and others in creating the environment for the rise of anti-Semitism in western and central Europe?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 101, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/138/borys-wrzesnewskyj-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "What's the role of Germany's AfD, France's National Rally, Orban's Fidesz, Austria's Freedom Party and others in creating the environment for the rise of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "asks about AfD, National Rally, Fidesz and Freedom Party's role in the rise of antisemitism", "trigger": "the annual worldwide anti-Semitism report released days earlier by researchers at Tel Aviv University", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "\"Germany's AfD, France's National Rally, Orban's Fidesz, Austria's Freedom Party and others\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Colin Fraser", "role": "West Nova, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "West Nova", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… y in order to divide people against each other. Some of the hate propaganda that we see is certainly targeted at the Jewish community in order to divide Canadians or divide people in the western world. I wonder if you have any comment on foreign influences on our social media platforms, in particular as they relate to anti-Semitic statements and what we can do to combat those foreign influences from having such a role in dividing people."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 127, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/colin-fraser-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "act_why": "worries about anti-Semitic propaganda from unnamed foreign actors", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "\"foreign actors at play, for perhaps geopolitical reasons\" spreading hate propaganda targeted at the Jewish community", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Rafal Pankowski", "role": "Co-Founder, Never Again Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["I would like to stress that anti-Semitism is very important but it is not an isolated type of hateful discourse. Especially in central Europe I believe we have witnessed it for a long time now. We can notice that one type of hatred goes with other types of hatred, so we are rarely talking about isolated types of hateful discourse. Anti-Semitism, in many ways the revival of anti-Semitic discourse, is emblematic of a broader tendency, which can be labelled hostility to liberal democracy and diversity as such. There is a certain difference between the west of Europe and central Europe in the specifics of anti-Semitic expressions. Certainly in the countries of western Europe we can observe a larger number of physical attacks against Jews. There are few of those attacks in central and eastern Europe, partly because of the fact that there are so few Jews in those countries. In Poland, depending on what statistics you look at, it's pr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 164, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/138/dr-rafal-pankowski-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "expert account of antisemitism as emblematic of hostility to diversity", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Rafal Pankowski (Co-Founder, Never Again Association)", "role": "Co-Founder, Never Again Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… rights and liberal democracy. In my view, the current crisis of the liberal democratic consensus in Poland symbolizes the much broader crisis of the post-Cold War international order. Two main ideological drivers of this move away from the idea of diversity in Poland are known in other countries too: Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Islamophobia on that scale is a relatively new phenomenon in Poland. We can literally point to a moment in time when it skyrocketed. That was in the summer of 2015 during the so-called European refugee crisis. As we well know, it didn't really affect Poland in any meaningful, direct way, but it coincided with the ele …", "… gee and anti-Muslim. I believe the repercussions of that wave of Islamophobia are still with us today, despite the fact that the Muslim community in Poland is very small. We are talking about maybe 20,000 or 30,000 people in a country of almost 40 million. The second type of hateful discourse that is important here is anti-Semitism. That, of course, has a much longer history in Poland and the region of central and eastern Europe. Importantly, the language of hatred against the Jews is also, traditionally, the language of hatred against liberal democracy as such and against the very of idea of a diverse society. On a personal note, I can tell you that I have dealt with the topic of anti-Semitism for almost 25 years now, so I knew it existed. In a way, it is really difficult to shock me in this field, but I didn't think I would live to see the kind of explosion of anti-Semitic discourse in the Polish media and politics on the scale we experienced in Poland last year, when anti-Semitic discourse really became very widespread, especially in the state-owned, state-controlled mass media, on a scale that didn't happen in many, many years in Poland. The crisis of liberal democracy in Poland has many different dimensions. You are aware of many of them: the rule of law, media freedom, artistic freedom, etc …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1034, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/138/dr-rafal-pankowski-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "anti-Semitic discourse really became very widespread, especially in the state-owned, state-controlled mass media", "act_why": "says anti-Semitic discourse exploded in Poland's state-controlled media, quoting a party's anti-Jewish slogan", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["media", "institution"], "target_detail": "the \"state-owned, state-controlled mass media\" in Poland; the Konfederacja bloc (\"We don't want Jews, homosexuals...\")", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Barrett", "role": "Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Leeds--Grenville--Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… i-LGBTQ laws in Brunei that carry the death penalty to be carried out by stoning; the aforementioned misogynistic van attacks that resulted in the death and injury of many people in Toronto; the Christchurch mosque shootings with a white supremacist motivation; the anti-Christian bombings in Sri Lanka, a massacre; the anti-Semitic shootings at a synagogue in California. We can just look at a couple of weeks of newspapers—we're not talking about my lifetime—and we've had many examples of that here in Canada. To your point, Mr. Cho, the communities that these individuals all have in common are online. That is the real thread between this and it's …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 212, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/michael-barrett-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "lists the anti-Semitic synagogue shooting among troubling recent attacks", "trigger": "a run of recent attacks — Christchurch mosque shootings, Sri Lanka Easter bombings, the California synagogue shooting, plus the Brunei anti-LGBTQ law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Herman", "role": "Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["For those who may not be aware, I think it's a concept of pre-clearing groups or organizations that are regarded as somewhat expert in the field so that if B'nai Brith Canada, for example, is a trusted flagger and we go to a provider and say there is anti-Semitic content here, it's not as if they have to ask who B'nai Brith Canada is and how do they know we're qualified in this field."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 74, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/brian-herman-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "technology"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "describes trusted-flagger mechanism for reporting anti-Semitic content", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Herman", "role": "Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… is one reason we suggest that there could be an opportunity for a stakeholder forum or a council that involves government, parliamentarians, providers and affected communities. In our discussions with Statistics Canada, for example, we've said that while they collect hate crimes data, we also include hate incidents or anti-Semitic incidents. Is there a way that they can also collect data on incidents? I know that they're discussing that with the Canadian Association Of Chiefs Of Police, as are we. Would police forces have the capacity to do that? We have suggested that if police encounter an incident that falls below the threshold of a crime, t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 287, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/brian-herman-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "duplicate testimony on flagging anti-Semitic content", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Herman (Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Government Relations, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… I'll be introducing. We won't go into some of the broad comments about the serious nature of online hate. The committee members are well aware of it, and we know from previous testimony that you've heard about the challenges in this space. One year ago, B'nai Brith Canada called for a national action plan to deal with anti-Semitism—not a federal one but a national one—and combatting online anti-Semitism was part of that plan. This has become all the more important, given one key finding of our annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada, which we released the other day here in Ottawa. It found that of the 2,042 recorded incidents in 2018—an increase of 16.5% over 2017—80% of those anti-Semitic incidents took place via online platforms. This underscores the challenge for the Jewish community in Canada. We started our work long ago. In October 2017, David Matas authored a paper on mobilizing Internet providers to combat anti-Semitism. In November 2017, we wrote to ministers of the government regarding the European Union's May 31, 2016, code of conduct on illegal online hate speech. We suggested at that time that Canada adopt the EU's “trusted flaggers” approach as one measure in addressing online hate. Both David and I can talk about that, and we can share both of those documents with the committee. In December 2018, we submitted a policy paper to the government calling for Canada to develop an anti-hate strategy, a strategy that would include confronting online content that reflects anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion. In Canada, we know there is a need to foster public debate. The work of this committee will contribute to that end. The public needs to understand the challenges and the role they play in countering online hate, including disinformation. We feel strongly that action cannot j …", "… w us clear progress or governments will use their legislative and regulatory authorities.” We honestly feel that there is no need to reinvent the wheel if we can draw on useful work that is already under way. Secondly, B'nai Brith Canada understands that in addressing online hate generally, we know that the scourge of anti-Semitism will be captured, as long as we mark anti-Semitism as a particular problem. There were some thoughts that others offered last autumn. We don't claim authorship of them, but they are worthy of examination. The federal government needs to compel social media companies to be more transparent about their content moderation, including their responses to harmful speech. Gov …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1050, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/brian-herman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "presents audit of 2,042 anti-Semitic incidents and calls for a national action plan", "trigger": "B'nai Brith Canada's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, released days earlier, finding 2,042 incidents in 2018 with 80% online", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "social media companies and content providers, given that \"80% of those anti-Semitic incidents took place via online platforms\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Anne Applebaum", "role": "Professor of Practice, Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["You're pointing to a really important point, and Mr. Pankowski was absolutely right in that this is anti-Semitism in countries without Jews, and Islamophobia in countries with no Muslims. By the way, that is why the fact that it's taking place in the unreal world of the Internet is also so important. This is about creating fictitious threats to the nation, and then the creation of parties who can save the nation from that threat. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 200, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/138/anne-applebaum-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "describes antisemitism in countries without Jews as a manufactured threat", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "parties that manufacture \"fictitious threats to the nation\" through anti-Semitism in countries without Jews", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Reverend Daniel Cho (Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Canada)", "role": "Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… tors of this violence have been radicalized by online influences, or they have discovered a like-minded online community and through it find validation for their specific personal bigotry and hatred. Sadly, it is not difficult to countenance the cruel reality of religious, racial and gender prejudices, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and homophobia, and the online platforms designed to recruit and incite others. If we consider for a moment the brazen van attack in Toronto last spring that resulted in 10 deaths and 16 injured, mostly women, it raises an important question. Who would have thought that there existed a fringe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 952, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/reverend-daniel-cho-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "names antisemitism among prejudices incited online that should alarm us", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"the online platforms designed to recruit and incite others\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-02", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Tracey Ramsey", "role": "Essex, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Essex", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you so much. I'll actually pick up on some of Mr. Virani's themes. When you're talking about data, it's so critical. I know you're doing an annual audit at B'nai Brith on anti-Semitic incidents. I think it's a challenge for a lot of NGOs and faith communities to have the resources to do this type of data collection, but I have read your report. When you're talking about anti-Semitic incidents rising to 2,041 in 2017, 80% of those were online. Mr. Matas, you talked about the gaps in criminal law, the tribunal, the AG's powers and everything. If you could follow that up with some more detailed information, that would be greatly appreciated. When we're talking about the detailed accounting of incide …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 410, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/146/tracey-ramsey-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 146, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "cites B'nai Brith count of anti-Semitic incidents as deeply concerning", "trigger": "B'nai Brith's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents and its month-by-month case breakdown, including the Winnipeg Facebook message", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-09", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber (Chair, Canadian Anti-Hate Network)", "role": "Chair, Canadian Anti-Hate Network", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ked for almost three decades. I am also the son of a Holocaust survivor, a survivor who was the sole Jewish person to survive in his village of over 1,500 Jews, so I have some visceral understanding of what hate is. During my time at the congress, I spent much of it monitoring hate, extremism, white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. We undertook this work because, of all people, we understood that hatred run wild is a deadly virus without a cure. Today I am retired, or as I prefer to say “rewired”, since I still act as a social justice consultant with various boards of education, as well as Human Rights Watch and Community Living. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1317, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/148/bernie-m-farber-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 148, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "community organisations"], "act_why": "anti-hate campaigner recounts monitoring antisemitism and urges stronger law", "trigger": "the 2013 repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the case for restoring it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "social media companies that host hate and \"are breaking this law\"; the Yellow Vests Canada page", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-09", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Mustafa Farooq (Executive Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims)", "role": "Executive Director, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… existential threat presented by the dangers of online hate to the Canadian Muslim community but also to Canadians in general. Our brief goes into more detail in providing more empirical data and summarizing some of these potential harms relating to the effects of online hate on other communities, including the rise of anti-Semitism, the growth of the incel community, and issues around democracy and misinformation. My submissions before you today are squarely around three key recommendations. First, we are asking that the government reopen the Canadian Human Rights Act, the CHRA, for legislative review. Second, we are asking that the government b …", "… nti-racism organizations and NGOs that have expertise in thinking about digital literacy, democracy and online hate. It would also allow the government to foster further innovation in Canada. It could provide grants to everything from psychologists conducting innovative research to funding programs directly addressing anti-Semitic beliefs among a given population. I also note, in closing, that we expand significantly on the submissions before you today in our full brief that has been submitted. 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Patience premised on what? Is it patience for the executions, forced amputations, whippings and terrorism that continue unabated in the IRGC-run prisons on a daily basis? Is it patience for the state sponsor of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and the regular incitement of genocide against the Jewish people? How patient should the west be with an IRGC that continues to incarcerate and abuse western dual nationals? How patient should the long-suffering Baha'i minority of Iran be, a minority that journalist Terry Glavin has rightly descr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1241, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/153/raheel-raza-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 153, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "Where are the robust sanctions that were promised by Global Affairs?", "act_why": "charges the Iranian regime with sponsoring antisemitism and Holocaust denial", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the June 12, 2018 parliamentary motion to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity, still unimplemented a year later, and unused Magnitsky sanctions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Iranian regime and the IRGC, \"the state sponsor of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and the regular incitement of genocide against the Jewish people\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-27", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. Heidi Tworek (Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, As an Individual)", "role": "Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… a decade on the history of media. I just finished this book, which is called News From Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 . Among other things in this book, I detail how it is that Germany's vibrant, interwar media democracy descended into an authoritarian Nazi regime that could spread anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic propaganda around the world. While I was writing this book, the present caught up with history in all sorts of, frankly, disturbing ways. The far right around the world revived Nazi terminology using lügenpresse and systempresse —the lying press and the system press—to decry the media. Marginali …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1208, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/42-1/151/dr-heidi-tworek-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 151, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "historical account of Nazi regime spreading anti-Semitic propaganda as warning", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-28", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Avi Benlolo (President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ry much for having us here today and for actually doing this. This is very important work that you're all doing. I'd like to begin my statement by first telling you a little bit about our institution. We're an international human rights organization. We have a network of offices worldwide, monitoring and responding to anti-Semitism, fighting hate and discrimination and promoting human rights. The organization has status with the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE and many other notable global organizations. Additionally, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has won Academy Awards and developed museums. We are currently building a human rights museum in Jer …", "… Act allowed us to bring down several online hate sites simply by bringing them to the attention of the ISP. Our ability to sanction hate sites became limited when section 13 was repealed in 2013. We lost an invaluable tool that provided a red line for the public. If that tool was in existence today, it's unlikely that anti-Semitic websites based in Canada, like the Canadian Association for Free Expression or Your Ward News and others, would so easily find a home on Canadian servers. The advent of social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the like introduced a tsunami of hate into the social sphere. According to one study, roughly 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets were posted and reposted on Twitter between January 2017 and January 2018. Conversely, according to Statistics Canada's 2017 hate crime report, there were 364 police-reported cyber-hate crimes in Canada between 2010 and 2017. Of those, 14% were aimed at the Jewish community. I'm telling you this because this nu …", "… ent Leger Marketing poll that showed that 60% of Canadians report seeing hate speech on social media. That would mean something like 20 million Canadians have witnessed hate online. Moreover, through our own polling, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center found that on average across the country, 15% of Canadians hold anti-Semitic attitudes. That represents about five million Canadians. That's kind of the low end of that threshold; in Quebec, that number surges to an incomprehensible 27%. Social networking platforms must be held to account for allowing online hate to proliferate. We note that these platforms have begun banning white supremacist …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1371, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/151/avi-benlolo-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 151, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "act_why": "documents anti-Semitic content and websites in a call for stronger tools", "trigger": "the 2013 repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the call to reinstate it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "media"], "target_detail": "social networking platforms that \"must be held to account for allowing online hate to proliferate\"; anti-Semitic websites such as the Canadian Association for Free Expression and Your Ward News", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2019-05-28", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mr. Faisal Khan Suri (President, Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council)", "role": "President, Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… mmentators; mass murderers; U.S. President Donald Trump; and the arrival of Muslim immigrants in Quebec. In October 2018, white nationalist Robert Bowers murdered 11 people and injured seven more at the shooting inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. This was an attack that appeared to have been motivated by anti-Semitism and inspired by his extensive involvement in white supremacy and alt-right online networks. In March 2019, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons burst into the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. This white nationalist, in what was a gruesome terrorist attack, was broadcasting live on Facebook and Twitter, …", "… online hate and how it's affecting the real-life hate we are witnessing today. I think it's absolutely critical, if not fundamental, to embark on such studies as this and to look a lot further into this issue with a deep thought process in place. Online hate is a key factor in enforcing hate in all forms—Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, radicalization, violence, extremism and potentially death. This is why we must take immediate action to work on prevention, monitoring and enforcement. In order to combat online hate, AMPAC has come up with three recommendations. Number one is to employ artificial intelligence on online materials to identify any form …", "… the importance of reviewing how online access and other media have been used to propel such hate and extremist perceptions. AMPAC recommends not simply revisiting and reviving section 13, but reviewing the Canadian Human Rights Act in its entirety. The review itself needs to consider facts on the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and all other forms of hate. Questions need to be asked in terms of what determines hate and how we can bring enforcement into the picture with respect to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Part of our third recommendation that we talked about is transparency and accountability for social media platforms. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1359, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/151/faisal-khan-suri-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 151, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "Pittsburgh attack described as motivated by antisemitism; calls for action", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooting and the Christchurch mosque attack (with the Quebec City mosque killings)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "online platform"], "target_detail": "\"white nationalist Robert Bowers\", whose attack \"appeared to have been motivated by anti-Semitism\"; Facebook, Twitter and YouTube", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-28", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Elizabeth Moore (Educator and Advisory Board Member, Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Parents for Peace, As an Individual)", "role": "Educator and Advisory Board Member, Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Parents for Peace, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ve and ongoing training is provided to everyone responsible for implementing these laws, including judges, Crown prosecutors and police, victims will continue to feel that they are not heard and that justice remains elusive. As an example, just last week I heard from a member of my local community who wanted to report anti-Semitic graffiti that they found. The responding officer was not at all sympathetic, and because the swastika that was found was misshapen, he wrote it off as a collection of L's. That is not a responsible response to the community. Speaking as a former extremist and as a woman and a mother who is raising a child in an interf …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1425, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/151/elizabeth-moore-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 151, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "act_why": "anti-Semitic graffiti dismissed by police recounted with disapproval", "trigger": "section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the government's revisiting of incitement provisions in the CHRA or Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Heritage Front, \"the largest hate group in Canada\"; Wolfgang Droege and Mark Lemire's Freedom-Site", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-28", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Shalini Konanur (Executive Director and Lawyer, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario)", "role": "Executive Director and Lawyer, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… nternet have played a significant role in spreading that hate speech. Globally and domestically, we know that online hate has been a catalyst for violence against Muslim, Jewish, black and indigenous communities. I want to say quickly that a lot of the discourse, a lot of the discussion, now is around Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, but the data shows that anti-black hatred is prolific in Canada, as is anti-indigenous hatred. I believe that those two communities go largely unreported, so it's important, I think, for this committee to take notice of those particular historical communities and the hatred they continue to face to this day. Last wee …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 656, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/151/shalini-konanur-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 151, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "names antisemitism among hatreds spread online while urging attention to anti-Black hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"social media platforms and the Internet have played a significant role in spreading that hate speech\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-05-30", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Michael Cooper", "role": "St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert--Edmonton", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I can confirm that you were at that rally in which pro-Hamas chants occurred, where there were such anti-Semitic slogans as \"from the river to sea, Palestine will be free\". I'm looking at an image in which there's a sign saying \"stop the Palestinian holocaust now. Fascist Israelis will be brought to justice.” So, yes, you did attend that. Now, how much time do I have?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/152/michael-cooper-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 152, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "where there were such anti-Semitic slogans as", "act_why": "tells the witness he attended a rally with anti-Semitic slogans, quoting them", "trigger": "a rally the witness attended at which pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic chants and signs appeared", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the witness, whom Cooper places at the rally; the rally itself, \"in which pro-Hamas chants occurred\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2019-05-30", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Marie-Claude Landry", "role": "Chief Commissioner, Canadian Human Rights Commission", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… omes to protecting people from online hate. The now repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act has given the commission an informed perspective on addressing online hate in Canada. As many of you may know, section 13 was originally written into the CHRA to prevent harm from prohibited hate messages, based on anti-Semitism being communicated by telephone in the 1970s. Following the attacks of September 11, section 13 was broadened to include messages communicated over the Internet. For many years, it was effective in shutting down a number of extreme neo-Nazi websites. However, this approach is not well suited to respond to today's rapi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 919, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/152/marie-claude-landry-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 152, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "recounts s.13's anti-Semitic origins while urging action on online hate", "trigger": "the repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the gap in the law it left", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-06-04", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. John Robson", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… because as Andrew Scheer said, we are all children of God. But if you can't redeem the hater you can at least protect others by showing what's wrong with these ideas. And that's what we do. We don't drive them underground. We don't drive them into the places where the Nazi party spread its message despite laws against anti-Semitism in Weimar, Germany. We do not have the wisdom. Do not arrogate to yourselves the power to silence speech, because you don't have the wisdom to know what needs to be silenced. None of us should have that power. And it doesn't help. It simply gives hate a hiding place where conditions are propitious for it to breed and …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 549, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/154/dr-john-robson-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 154, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "opposes censorship as a remedy while treating antisemitic hate as loathsome", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-06-04", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Dr. John Robson (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ife. They become something you act on, that informs your existence and makes it better. Censorship doesn't work. It didn't even work in tyrannies. Censorship in the Soviet Union allowed communism to last longer and in the end to collapse more disastrously. It also didn't work in Weimar, Germany, which had laws against anti-Semitism, and they didn't stop Hitler. What did people say in retrospect? They said we should have listened to what Hitler was saying. I meant to bring a copy of Mein Kampf as a prop, but I'm afraid I got busy this morning and forgot it. It belongs on every educated person's bookshelf because we need to know what hate looks li …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1413, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/42-1/154/dr-john-robson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 154, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "education"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "free-speech case against hate-speech law; Weimar laws against antisemitism cited as ineffective", "trigger": "the prospect of new hate-speech legislation / restoration of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which he opposes as censorship", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-06-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Sweet", "role": "Flamborough—Glanbrook, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Flamborough--Glanbrook", "province": "ON", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["One similarity in the situation of Jews and anti-Semitism and the hatred towards Roma is that there are these diabolical stories concocted. In the Jewish case, it's the blood libel that's insidious and perpetuated by evil people. I see stories of baby theft that are constantly concocted around Roma. Tell me about that and about how that's disrupted communities and caused eve …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/158/david-sweet-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 158, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "blood libel called insidious and perpetuated by evil people", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"evil people\" who concoct and perpetuate the blood libel", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-06-11", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Ms. Dafina Savic", "role": "Founder and Executive Director, Romanipe", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… e should reinstate the provision that was part of the Minister of Immigration 's mandate, which is to revise the criteria that decide whether a country is safe or not. This is not only for Roma but also for minorities at large in most of these countries where we definitely see a rise in the far right. We see a rise of anti-Semitism as well in those countries. In those countries there is also a strong homophobic sentiment. I think we need to define the criteria under which a country is considered safe, and for whom."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 194, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/42-1/158/dafina-savic-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 158, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "answer on Roma school segregation; no reference to the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-02-04", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… is one of Canada's major trading partners. The reason I'm asking this is that there seems to be a proliferation on university campuses over the last number of years of motions around boycott, divestment and sanctions; Israeli apartheid week, and those sorts of things. Recently Parliament adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which is widely held to be applied to the idea that BDS is anti-Semitic in nature. I'm just wondering if your organization, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, has done any work to deal with these important issues."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 138, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/43-1/3/marty-morantz-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "Recently Parliament adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which is widely held to be applied to the idea that BDS is anti-Semitic in nature.", "act_why": "treats campus BDS as anti-Semitic in nature under the IHRA definition", "trigger": "the proliferation of BDS motions and Israeli Apartheid Week activity on Canadian university campuses", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "BDS motions and Israeli apartheid week; university campuses and student associations where they proliferate", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2020-03-12", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "François-Philippe Champagne", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Maurice—Champlain", "province": "QC", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… vident in the serious doubt being cast upon multilateral institutions and the rules-based international order. This is also evident in the decline of human rights and the increasingly selective enforcement of international law. Increasingly, human rights are under threat, from the plight of the Rohingya to the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to attacks on human rights defenders. Add to that an immense demographic transformation. By 2050, the world's population could increase by 2.2 billion people, and 2.2 billion people will also be facing the existential threat of our time, which is, obviously, climate change. 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I would be remiss if I didn't ask you while you were here about anti-Semitism. I know it's not about the charitable sector directly, but the rise in anti-Semitism is a very serious problem. Recently Tel Aviv University released a report that I was alarmed to see that linked part of the spike in anti-Semitism to COVID, harbouring back to the old anti-Semitic tropes of blood libel and those types of things. From that perspective, what would your organization recommend for dealing with things like online hate and offline violence?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 95, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/43-1/25/marty-morantz-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "alarm at COVID-era spike in antisemitism and revived blood-libel tropes", "trigger": "the recently released Tel Aviv University report linking a spike in anti-Semitism to COVID-19 and revived blood-libel tropes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2020-06-02", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Andrew Scheer", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "topic": "COVID-19 Pandemic (special)", "passages": ["… form. Throughout this pandemic, we have seen a troubling spike in anti-Asian racism. No one should be attacked in their community or targeted on the bus because of the colour of their skin. Nor should places of worship be broken into and desecrated, like the synagogue in Montreal. The Conservatives condemn all acts of anti-semitism, racism and discrimination. In a peaceful and free country like Canada, there is absolutely no room for intolerance, racism or extremism of any kind. But the violence and destruction we have seen in response are not the answer. Millions of people are protesting peacefully across the United States and in Canada, and we …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1055, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/covid-19-pandemic/43-1/15/andrew-scheer-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "COVID-19 Pandemic (special)", "committee_slug": "covid-19-pandemic", "meeting": 15, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "states Conservatives condemn all acts of antisemitism and racism", "trigger": "the killing of George Floyd in the United States and the protests and riots that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-06-02", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Elizabeth May", "role": "Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP", "party": "Green", "riding": "Saanich—Gulf Islands", "province": "BC", "topic": "COVID-19 Pandemic (special)", "passages": ["… recommendation that just came down. We go through sequential moments where we can say Islamophobia is not okay. Six Muslims at prayer in Quebec City were murdered. We can all stand up and say we denounce Islamophobia. Or we can denounce anti-trans violence against individual trans people who are murdered. We denounce anti-Semitism when we see anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on the door of an Ottawa rabbi's home. We denounce it, but can we get to the root of it? As the honourable leader of the Conservative Party mentioned, in recent days we're seeing anti-Asian racism on the increase. We're seeing all this happen and we want to be good allies. We want to be a good ally t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1422, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/covid-19-pandemic/43-1/15/elizabeth-may-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "COVID-19 Pandemic (special)", "committee_slug": "covid-19-pandemic", "meeting": 15, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "denounces anti-Semitic graffiti at a rabbi's home among other hate", "trigger": "the murder of George Floyd and the U.S. response, including the targeting of reporters", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "police forces infiltrated by white supremacist groups; whoever scrawled \"anti-Semitic graffiti... on the door of an Ottawa rabbi's home\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-06-16", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Andrew Scheer", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "topic": "COVID-19 Pandemic (special)", "passages": ["… ct at the UN. In the process, he's cozied up to dictators and human rights violators. He's abandoned Israel and committed funding to UNRWA, an organization whose schools have been used as storage facilities for Hamas rockets against Israeli civilians, and whose facilities have served as breeding grounds for racism and anti-Semitism. He has apologized for the Iranian regime when it shot down a plane full of Canadian citizens, and he refuses to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity. 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My main concern, of course, is the safety of sex workers and their ability to support their families during COVID. Can I turn quickly, in the very little time we have left, to the rise of online hate and in particular to the rise of anti-Semitism during COVID? It's is a very unfortunate sidebar that we have to deal with. In a previous Parliament, this committee tabled a report called “Taking Action to End Online Hate”, which I don't believe the government ever officially responded to. That report called for reinstating section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights A …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 138, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/43-2/3/randall-garrison-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "raises the rise of antisemitism during COVID and asks about restoring s.13", "trigger": "the justice committee's report \"Taking Action to End Online Hate\" and its unanswered recommendation to reinstate section 13 of the CHRA", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-11-02", "year": "2020", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Bill Blair", "role": "Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough Southwest", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Elizabeth, I agree that there's absolutely no place in policing, in law enforcement or in any element of public service for racists, white supremacists, anti-Semites and Islamophobes. I think we have a responsibility to purge those influences and those individuals from the public service, and most certainly from policing. I believe that the overwhelming majority of police officers do their job with integrity, professionalism and very sincere respect for all people in Canada, but w …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 183, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/5/bill-blair-46/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 5, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "public service"], "act_why": "says there is no place in policing or public service for anti-Semites", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "policing, law enforcement and the public service, from which \"racists, white supremacists, anti-Semites and Islamophobes\" must be purged", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-01-29", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… as been adequately dealt with. Second, I greatly appreciate Facebook's recent decision to ban Holocaust denial on its platform. I also appreciate your quarterly transparency reports. I wish that other platforms would do the same. Third, many of my constituents and I share a real frustration about the growing amount of anti-Semitism on the platform and the lack of response with respect to complaints that are made. I'd request to have a call with you guys on that, separately, if that's okay. I have a lot of questions. If you can answer in one word yes or no, or briefly, that would be great. If not, I'll ask you to follow up in writing. There are a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/43-2/12/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 12, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "charge_quote": "the growing amount of anti-Semitism on the platform and the lack of response with respect to complaints that are made", "act_why": "charges Facebook with growing anti-Semitism on its platform and failing to respond", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the growing amount of anti-Semitism on the platform and the lack of response with respect to complaints", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-02-01", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Ahmed Kassem", "role": "Executive Director, Global Village Centre", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ritical. Brooks is the “City of 100 Hellos”, and we do have a large number of different ethnic groups from all over the world. It is a very big challenge when it comes to a lot of messaging. That has been proven during the COVID-19 pandemic, a public health nightmare. As well there's the difficulty of racial conflict, anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia. The messaging, as John just mentioned, the way that we broadcast through the podcast, we reach out to every community through their own language, through their own culture. That reaching out helps the communities to stay in the rural area with their families, and to work and be part of the co …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 202, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/43-2/13/ahmed-kassem-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 13, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "lists anti-Semitism among community challenges to be countered", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-02-04", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["I just have a very brief point. I don't want to hold this up. I agree with proceeding in that fashion. I just want to say that we have to acknowledge that this is a very big deal. This is highly anti-Semitic material in educational materials that are being given to children in a conflict zone. Given the history, the idea that we would just take UNRWA's word for it.... At the very least, trust, but verify, right? We know what they said, and we can report what they said. I think that's the best way to proceed, but I think s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 192, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/43-2/16/garnett-genuis-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 16, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "This is highly anti-Semitic material in educational materials that are being given to children in a conflict zone.", "act_why": "calls UNRWA educational materials highly anti-Semitic", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "\"highly anti-Semitic material in educational materials that are being given to children\" through UNRWA schools", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "UNRWA - highly anti-Semitic material in educational materials that are being given to children", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2021-02-04", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Rob Oliphant", "role": "Don Valley West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… respect to this, and I simply have decided that I think we need to take that for what they say—so I'd be supportive of Ms. McPherson's amendment—and then continue to work with UNRWA to ensure it never happens again. Absolutely, we want to ensure that there are appropriate educational materials, that we do not tolerate anti-Semitism in any fashion, and that we expect all the materials that Canadian dollars are being spent on to uphold that as well. I think that adding “in error” does not diminish that whatsoever; it simply acknowledges what UNRWA has told us. 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I know the minister is aware that during the pandemic we've seen a rise in hate crimes directed against Asian, Black and other racialized Canadians. We've seen the ongoing scourge of anti-Semitism at very high levels including in my own community. We [ Technical Difficulty—Editor ] very public graffiti, which the police dealt with very well, as did the volunteers who cleaned it up and the media, by not showing the images during that incident. One of the things we lost under the previous Conservative government …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 142, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/43-2/24/randall-garrison-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 24, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism an ongoing scourge and cites local graffiti", "trigger": "\"very public graffiti\" targeting the Jewish community in his own community, amid pandemic-era hate crimes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the previous Conservative government - repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-04-29", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… ioned that you had a grandparent who was a Holocaust survivor. This is something we have in common; I also had the same. Therefore, I hope I can ask this question at a human level and that it won't be perceived as partisan. It's important that we do all we can to not be complicit in a case where there is incitement to anti-Semitic violence happening. Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted an unprecedented resolution condemning UNRWA for teaching hate and incitement to violence, and insisting that the EU make aid conditional on educational materials' compliance with UN values. 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We're only talking about two meetings and the possibility of a third, which is doubtful. It's kind of focused. If we go into the fall, then I'd be amenable to amending it or expanding it if the will is there. I agree that sometimes it's hard to tell. Is anti-Semitism religious-based or is it something else? It's extremism. It's terrible and awful and, as pointed out, one of the worst most common forms of discrimination, and can be violent as well. I think this study, and the intention of the mover from the very beginning, was to deal with the specifics of ideologically motivated—p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 219, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/28/jack-harris-49/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 28, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism terrible, awful and among the worst forms of discrimination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-06", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Leonid Volkov", "role": "Chief of Staff for Alexei Navalny, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… riously they are taking Alexei Navalny and his movement. Actually, it was back in 2013 when Navalny ran for mayor of Moscow and they started to plant articles of disinformation against him in the western media. For instance, they posted an article. They paid for an article in the Jerusalem Post pertaining to him being anti-Semitic, which is quite funny because he was a guest of honour on my chuppah, and a lot of different stuff like that. This year's campaign was, of course, the most noticeable. It included attempts to undermine his credibility and the credibility of our movement on many different international platforms, including people imper …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 336, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/43-2/33/leonid-volkov-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 33, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "says the article calling Navalny anti-Semitic was paid-for Kremlin disinformation", "trigger": "\"a Kremlin disinformation campaign against Alexei Navalny\", including a paid Jerusalem Post article calling him anti-Semitic and Amnesty International's revocat", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-12", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Dominic Rochon (Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, National Security and Cyber Security Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)", "role": "Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, National Security and Cyber Security Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… deologically motivated violent extremism, or IMVE, is the term that Canada has adopted to describe what was previously referred to as right-wing and left-wing extremism. My colleague from CSIS will expand on this in a moment, but in brief, the violent actions and rhetoric of IMVE actors are fuelled by white supremacy, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, violent misogyny, anti-authority and, often, all of the above, making IMVE one of the most serious threats we are facing today. The listing of terrorist entities is one tool that is available to the Government of Canada. In 2019, as you may recall, the Government of Canada added the international neo-Na …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 297, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/29/dominic-rochon-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "names anti-Semitism as fuel for one of the most serious extremist threats", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "IMVE actors - the violent actions and rhetoric of IMVE actors are fuelled by white supremacy, anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Dr. Barbara Perry", "role": "Professor and Director, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… ime in terms of immigration patterns, perhaps, or in terms of the assertion of rights by particular communities, that sort of thing. These groups seem to be the key targets in recent days. In the context of COVID, I think we also need to raise the issue of anti-Asian narratives and violence. Finally, I should add that anti-Semitism is always there, barely below or barely above the surface. It's almost a foundation for so many other forms of hatred. Often those Jewish conspiracy theories are used to explain the evil ways of others, that it's Jews who are responsible for drugs in Black communities or—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 210, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/dr-barbara-perry-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "expert testimony treating ever-present anti-Semitism and Jewish conspiracy theories as a foundation of hatred", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Dr. Barbara Perry", "role": "Professor and Director, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I will just respond briefly to the first one. That was the question of misogyny in the movement. There's no doubt that misogyny from the get-go is embedded in the far-right movement. It is grounded in racism, yes, and anti-Semitism but also in patriarchy. One of the mantras is the 14 words, which is well known, I think: We must ensure the existence of the white race and a future for our children. If we're going to ensure that, we have to control our women, and our women's sexuality in particular. That expands into other elements of the movement …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 416, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/dr-barbara-perry-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "expert testimony treating ever-present anti-Semitism and Jewish conspiracy theories as a foundation of hatred", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Dr. Barbara Perry", "role": "Professor and Director, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… y, just in the last three or four weeks with heightened activity in the Middle East, we've seen a really dramatic uptick in online attacks, as well as physical attacks on Jewish communities across the country, so that is absolutely a significant issue. Even the COVID-related narratives are not just anti-Asian but also anti-Semitic, those very traditional age-old conspiracy theories rear their heads again."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/dr-barbara-perry-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "expert testimony treating ever-present anti-Semitism and Jewish conspiracy theories as a foundation of hatred", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Jack Harris", "role": "St. John's East, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "St. John's East", "province": "NL", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. Dr. Perry, at the end of your commentary, you talked about anti-Semitism as not quite an afterthought, but that it wasn't part of the mainstream of your concerns. However, we've met with members of the Jewish community who are very concerned about the rise in anti-Semitism over the past number of years, four or five at least, and they are concerned about their security and safety and with direct attacks and ongoing threats against them. Is this something that you've noticed, or is it something that's separate from this far-right extremism? What can be done about that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 100, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/jack-harris-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "voices Jewish community's concern about rising anti-Semitism and asks what can be done", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Martin Geoffroy", "role": "Director, Research Professor, Centre d’expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux, les idéologies politiques et la radicalisation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["In terms of the specific nature of far-right groups in Quebec, there's obviously the fact that the groups are bilingual and that they're at the crossroads between American and French extremist groups. A great deal of anti-Semitism comes from French far-right groups. As you know, France has a significant history of anti-Semitism. This is spread through certain groups. The Fédération des Québécois de souche, for example, is very anti-Semitic. There are several fundamentalist groups. I spoke earlier about the White Berets. The members of this community in Rougemont, near my home, are anti-Semitic. They constantly talk about the global Jewish conspiracy and so on. This isn't new. This anti-Semitism is reflected in the QAnon movement's obsession with George Soros, who is Jewish."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 122, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/martin-geoffroy-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "The Fédération des Québécois de souche, for example, is very anti-Semitic", "act_why": "names Fédération des Québécois de souche and the White Berets as anti-Semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "The Federation des Quebecois de souche ... is very anti-Semitic; the White Berets ... are anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… nd wounding five others. Recently, in Quebec City, there was someone who was arrested in Mr. Lightbound's riding with an arsenal of weapons and bombs. There was a similar arrest in Alberta at the end of April. What is the connection with far-right extremism? Obviously, at the Quebec City mosque, we're seeing a rise in anti-Semitism. We're also seeing a rise in Islamophobia. Neither is acceptable in any way. Could you talk about the connection between these terrorist acts, potential terrorist acts and far-right extremism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/pam-damoff-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "says the rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is not acceptable in any way", "trigger": "\"the attack at the Quebec City mosque\" plus the recent arrests of a man in Quebec City \"with an arsenal of weapons and bombs\" and a similar arrest in Alberta", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-31", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Shannon Stubbs", "role": "Lakeland, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lakeland", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I have a question for Dr. Geoffroy. Dr. Perry spoke about this a bit. There are, of course, reports that in Quebec they have the highest rates of anti-Semitic incidents. The highest rates were in 2018 and 2019. I know earlier you said, in your words, the most violent year was in 2020. I wonder if you have any comments on that. What is the driver of that? Do you know why that would be the case, localized in Quebec?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 80, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/31/shannon-stubbs-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 31, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "cites incident-rate reports and asks the witness about drivers, taking no position", "trigger": "\"reports that in Quebec they have the highest rates of anti-Semitic incidents\", highest in 2018 and 2019", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-03", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["All right. Please provide it to the extent that you know them. Now, I want to ask a question. It came to light last fall that anti-Semitic materials were being distributed through UNRWA to Palestinian students in Palestinian schools. At the time, I was encouraged when Minister Gould issued a statement saying that she instructed Canadian officials to investigate the references in school materials, in the West Bank and Gaza, that violate UN values of human …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 148, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/43-2/39/marty-morantz-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 39, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "I asked what the status of the investigation was and who the Canadian officials were who were involved in this investigation, and there was no information with respect to that", "act_why": "asserts anti-Semitic materials were distributed through UNRWA and presses on the investigation", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "\"It came to light last fall that anti-Semitic materials were being distributed through UNRWA to Palestinian students\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "anti-Semitic materials were being distributed through UNRWA to Palestinian students", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2021-06-07", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Steven Guilbeault", "role": "Minister of Canadian Heritage", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Laurier—Sainte-Marie", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… nd racist content online. In addition, the poll revealed that racialized groups in Canada are more than three times more likely to experience racism online than non-racialized Canadians. Since the beginning of the COVID‑19 pandemic, we have seen a rise in anti-Asian hate speech on the Internet and a steady increase in anti-Semitic rhetoric, further fuelled by recent events. A June 2020 study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that Canadians use more than 6,600 online services, pages and accounts hosted on various social media platforms to convey ideologies tinged with white supremacism, misogyny or extremism. This type of content wre …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1018, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/43-2/38/steven-guilbeault-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 38, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "minister cites a steady increase in anti-Semitic rhetoric online as harm to be legislated against", "trigger": "\"a recent poll by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation\" and \"a June 2020 study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue\" on online hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "online platforms ... share damaging content, either to spread hate speech", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Emmanuella Lambropoulos", "role": "Saint-Laurent, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I want to speak in support of Pam's motion. My riding has a very high concentration of Jewish and Muslim Canadians. Both groups are living in fear right now because of events that occurred in Montreal a couple of weeks ago, anti-Semitic events that happened, and now because of the London event that took place. People are afraid to walk in the streets alone. People are having their windows broken if they have a certain flag or a certain sign on their door. I definitely think this is a pressing matter right now especially. I feel that it definitely des …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 105, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/emmanuella-lambropoulos-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "reports anti-Semitic events in Montreal leaving constituents in fear", "trigger": "\"events that occurred in Montreal a couple of weeks ago, anti-Semitic events that happened, and now... the London event that took place\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Jack Harris", "role": "St. John's East, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "St. John's East", "province": "NL", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… ions or contortions about all the various aspects of it that we've already wondered about, whether they're ideologically motivated or religiously motivated or whatever. I would prefer to ask both of the proposed witnesses—and I don't disagree with the witnesses—to come and ask them specifically. We know the horrors of anti-Semitism and the effects thereof, as well as clearly what's before us, the horrors of what's called Islamophobia, which is literally the fear of Islam. I think it's really more of an Islamic hatred than a phobia. I don't know where that name actually came from. What I would like to do is to ask these individuals to address tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 377, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/jack-harris-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "refers to the known horrors of anti-Semitism and seeks recommendations", "trigger": "the attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario, and the recent rise in anti-Semitic acts", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Jack Harris", "role": "St. John's East, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "St. John's East", "province": "NL", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you. I would agree with most of what Mr. Lightbound said. Yes, we have heard, in recent weeks, in fact, about the climate of fear in the Jewish community in Canada, voiced publicly as a result of recent events and the rise of anti-Semitic acts. We have also heard clearly, since the events in London, an expression of real fear from the Muslim community and a call for action to get results. I support the idea of having a 90-minute session where each of those groups could express their concerns and also offer specific recommendations regarding solutions a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 452, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/jack-harris-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "cites the climate of fear from the rise of anti-Semitic acts and backs hearings", "trigger": "\"the events in London\" and \"the climate of fear in the Jewish community in Canada... as a result of recent events and the rise of anti-Semitic acts\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Joël Lightbound", "role": "Louis-Hébert, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Louis-Hébert", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… re than any other form of extremism. In terms of concrete steps parliamentarians can take, we need to hold these meetings and invite representatives of the National Council of Canadian Muslims. As Mr. Harris suggested, we should ask them what concrete actions they want us to take to fight the scourges of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and racism in Canada. This would also be an opportunity for them to go on the record before a parliamentary committee, given what a timely and sensitive issue this is. That is something concrete that we, as parliamentarians, can do. I support Ms. Damoff's motion or a similar motion to move up the meetings we already h …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/joel-lightbound-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a scourge to be fought", "trigger": "\"the victims of the attack in London\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Joël Lightbound", "role": "Louis-Hébert, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Louis-Hébert", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, if I may say respectfully, what's before this committee is not about getting a warm feeling, as Glen has suggested. It's about giving a voice before a parliamentary committee to two communities who in recent years have felt increasingly unsafe because of the drastic rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. We've seen 2020 become a record year for hate crimes in this country. To me, reducing it to getting a warm feeling when this is an action we can take.... As parliamentarians, we offer this space to these groups to make their demands known and public and to hear what actions they'd like to see the Government of Canada …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 347, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/joel-lightbound-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites a drastic rise in anti-Semitism making communities unsafe, pushes hearings", "trigger": "the drastic rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and the London attack that made 2020-21 \"a record year for hate crimes in this country\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Brampton West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… roups, and is taking action but, as Pam said, what we saw yesterday was all parties coming together at the vigil and saying that we must work together. We already have a study before us where we were studying IMVE. We heard just the week before from witnesses about this climate of hate and the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Committees have a role to play in listening to these groups, as this is the most important threat right now to Canada, as we heard. I think it's truly incumbent upon all of us to hear from these groups, give them the space that's needed, and make recommendations to the government before the House rises. I just don't …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 209, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/kamal-khera-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the climate of hate and rise of anti-Semitism the most important threat now", "trigger": "the London attack and \"the vigil\" attended by all parties the previous day", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-09", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… deal with today, that would see us continue our study next week, on Monday, and add an extra day on Wednesday. I think it would be important for us to hear from the National Council of Canadian Muslims to talk about the rise of Islamophobia, as well as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs to talk about the rise in anti-Semitism. Chair, the clerk should have the motion in both official languages. It reads as follows: That, pursuant to the motion passed on May 5, 2001, the public safety committee continue its study on ideologically motivated violent extremism; that the meetings occur on June 14 and June 16, 2021; and that the committee invite …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 278, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/34/pam-damoff-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "procedural motion premised on the rise in anti-Semitism needing committee attention", "trigger": "\"the attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario, which killed three generations of one family\" and the vigil the night before", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-15", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Maryam Monsef", "role": "Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Peterborough--Kawartha", "province": "ON", "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["… nd of this year. There are also many reckonings happening. There is climate change, the horrendous experiences of our elders in long-term care, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, who is an essential worker and pay equity. The rate of femicide continues to increase. Anti-Asian rhetoric and anti-Asian hate is increasing, as is anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. The bodies of 215 children being discovered—and many more each and every day—offers an opportunity to us as Canadians to have courageous conversations and to move forward in a better way. I was in London this weekend and was grateful to see MP Mathyssen and her mom, as well as Salma Zahid, Minister A …", "… vely standing up in the House of Commons in 2017 and asking us to study Islamophobia. Because of her, we have the tools, the lexicon and the partnerships to fight Islamophobia. That fight, for her, was not an easy one to fight. Our oppressions are connected, whether it is sexism, misogyny, racism, ableism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or other forms of hate. It is only truly together that we can put an end to the hate and violence and build back better communities, stronger advocacy networks and programs that put an end to violence and ensure that every Canadian is safe. I am hopeful and optimistic, because despite COVID, we are movin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 683, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/43-2/42/maryam-monsef-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 42, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["solidarity", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "lists rising anti-Semitism among connected hatreds to be stopped", "trigger": "the London, Ontario attack — \"I was in London this weekend... We witnessed the burial of four bodies—three women and a man\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Emmanuella Lambropoulos", "role": "Saint-Laurent, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… o help us figure out what the situation is on the ground and to try to protect communities across Canada. I represent a riding that has a very high percentage of Muslims as well as Jewish Canadians. I've heard from both sides how much the fear is very real right now. I've heard that the Jewish community does feel that anti-Semitism is on the rise, especially in the last couple of months. After seeing what happened in London last week, obviously the Muslim community feels afraid to walk in the streets, afraid to go to the mosque, afraid to do things that they shouldn't be afraid of doing. Currently we have a program—and I'm sure you guys are awar …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 191, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/emmanuella-lambropoulos-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays the Jewish community's fear at rising anti-Semitism and asks about security funding", "trigger": "\"After seeing what happened in London last week\" and the rise in anti-Semitism \"especially in the last couple of months\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Glen Motz", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you. Mr. Farooq, I want both of you to comment on this, but I address this initially to you specifically. You wrote an article recently that you said “Anti-semitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin”. Can you both comment on that and why you see it that way?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/glen-motz-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "quotes the witness's own article line and asks him to explain it", "trigger": "the witness's recent article, \"Anti-semitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Jack Harris", "role": "St. John's East, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "St. John's East", "province": "NL", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… eel about what happened in London last week. I think, Mr. Farooq, you yourself found difficulty expressing the concerns as well. I think the whole country is shocked by this once again, I'm afraid to say. Also, we heard from CIJA, and Mr. Fogel, about the ongoing and increasing incidents of hatred against Jews and the anti-Semitism spreading throughout the country. I think we are here today because we as a committee felt that it was extremely important for us to hear from you about what concrete actions should be taken that haven't been taken to date and that might go some way to show that this country takes it seriously, that the government has …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 259, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/jack-harris-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "voices shock and concern at anti-Semitism spreading and asks for concrete action", "trigger": "\"what happened in London last week\", alongside CIJA's account of increasing incidents of hatred against Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Brampton West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… l pose the question, and maybe I'll get a response. I want to ask about the recent findings in the NSICOP report, which noted that right-wing extremist actors are active online with 6,600 channels, pages and groups. Professor Barbara Perry noted that there are over 300 groups in Canada that are anti-Muslim, as well as anti-Semitic, and that are described as a foundation—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 76, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/kamal-khera-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites NSICOP findings and Professor Perry's count of anti-Semitic groups", "trigger": "\"the recent findings in the NSICOP report, which noted that right-wing extremist actors are active online with 6,600 channels, pages and groups\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "right-wing extremist actors ... over 300 groups in Canada that are anti-Muslim, as well as anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Brampton West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… the recent findings of the NSICOP report that right-wing extremist actors are now active online with 6,600 channels, pages, groups, accounts and Canadians. They're actually perhaps more active than we've seen in the U.S. or the U.K. Professor Barbara Perry noted that there are about 300 such groups in Canada that are anti-Semitic as well as anti-Muslim, which describe a foundation for so many other forms of hatred. I want to ask both of you, based on your experiences, do these numbers surprise you? What role do you think social media played in terms of hatred towards your members?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 107, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/kamal-khera-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites NSICOP findings and Professor Perry's count of anti-Semitic groups", "trigger": "\"the recent findings of the NSICOP report that right-wing extremist actors are now active online with 6,600 channels, pages, groups, accounts\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "about 300 such groups in Canada that are anti-Semitic as well as anti-Muslim", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Mustafa Farooq", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… s a group in Canada. It baffles me that we have appeared and spoken to folks again and again about the existence of groups like the Three Percenters and that our concerns don't appear to be heard. They don't appear to be dealt with. It baffles me that a group like the O9A, which is deeply connected and implicated with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia internationally...that the individual who is linked to the O9A and the killing of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis.... It boggles my mind that the O9A is not dismantled. That's something that could be done today. There is nothing to prevent that. There is an urgent security threat in Canada that needs to be dealt …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 265, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/mustafa-farooq-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "It boggles my mind that the O9A is not dismantled", "act_why": "names the O9A as implicated with anti-Semitism and demands it be dismantled", "trigger": "the London attack and \"the killing of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis\" linked to the O9A", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the O9A, which is deeply connected and implicated with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia internationally; the Three Percenters; government inaction on listing them", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… st dynamic relationships with targeted communities, provide the support necessary and gain the intelligence in order to more effectively track things. There is a whole range of things that I think are tools that law enforcement, prosecutors and the like can receive, which should be a focus of both the Islamophobia and anti-Semitism summits that will be taking place over the next couple of months."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/shimon-koffler-fogel-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "term absent from this passage; witness treats online hate and radicalization as harm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel (President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… senting more than 150,000 Jewish Canadians affiliated through Jewish federations from coast to coast. Our mission is to preserve and protect the quality of Jewish life in Canada through advocacy. For Canada's Jewish community, the conversation about ideologically motivated violent extremism is inextricably linked with anti-Semitism. As I speak, Jewish Canadians are facing a dangerous rise in anti-Semitism across the country, and indeed, around the world. The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, an organization that closely monitors the security situation of the Jewish community in the GTA, reported a fivefold spike in anti-Semitic incidents last month compared to previous months this year. In May, individuals who attended a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Montreal were pelted with rocks. Police seized weapons and made 15 arrests, including for armed assault. In April in Victoria, the words “Kill the Jews” and “Gas the Jews” were spray painted on a …", "… ppah or a Star of David necklace in public. This isn't the Canada we know or want. In 2019, the most recent year for which Statistics Canada data are available, Jews were the most targeted religious group for police-reported hate crimes, and targets of the second-most-police-reported hate crime overall. On average, an anti-Semitic incident happens pretty much every day of the week, 365 days of the year. Comprising only less than 1% of the Canadian population, Jewish Canadians accounted for 16% of all victims of hate crimes in 2019, a trend repeated year after year. This should be of grave concern to all Canadians. Anti-Semitic incidents are also occurring online, in troubling numbers, where anti-Semitism and ideological extremism percolate and pose a threat to the well-being of all Canadians. As social media has become central to our daily lives, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-authoritarian and other hate-filled groups are exploiting platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and Instagram to spread …", "… ere they promote their hatred, radicalize and recruit Canadian youth. We know from experience that this toxicity spread online can and too often does have real-world consequences. Online activities spurred murders of Jews in Pittsburgh and Muslims in Christchurch. The Pittsburgh shooter reportedly posted more than 700 anti-Semitic messages in hate-filled online communities over nine months prior to the attack. The Christchurch shooter's livestreaming of the killings was a means of promoting and inciting more such heinous acts. While we welcome the addition of the Proud Boys to the list of terrorist entities, we believe more needs to be done. Fo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1188, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/43-2/36/shimon-koffler-fogel-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "catalogues anti-Semitic incidents with alarm and asks the committee to act", "trigger": "\"a fivefold spike in anti-Semitic incidents last month\" — rock-pelting at a Montreal rally, \"Kill the Jews\" and \"Gas the Jews\" painted on a Victoria Jewish inst", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "online platform"], "target_detail": "swastikas and Nazi symbols on banners at anti-Israel rallies in multiple cities; hate-filled groups exploiting platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and Instagram", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2021-12-13", "year": "2021", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ya'ara Saks", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… re will always be an enumerable list of important issues that we need to cover and explore and, in many cases, rehash and review, I share Mr. Fergus's concern about our not getting to the matters of the day. In my own riding of York Centre, the digital space is a terrifying one. It's filled with hate. It's filled with anti-Semitism. It's filled with inciting language that disrupts the lives of many constituents in my community. They are are asking us time and again how we, as a government, find the fine line in making sure that freedom of speech is available to every constituent in the digital space they use, while at the same time making sure t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 498, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/1/yaara-saks-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 1, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "describes riding's digital space as filled with anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"the digital space is a terrifying one. It's filled with hate. It's filled with anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-03", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… nt to read a notice of motion into the record. The notice of motion is as follows: That the Committee invite representatives from GoFundMe to appear as soon as possible to answer questions regarding security measures the company has in place to ensure the funds are not being used to promote extremism, white supremacy, anti-Semitism and other forms of hate, which have been expressed among prominent organizers for the truck convoy currently in Ottawa, including: a) how the company prevents the use of anonymity to funnel money to extremist groups; b) what measures are in place to prevent foreign funds from being used to support these views, and to …", "… lready been released is not going towards promoting any of the forms of the aforementioned unacceptable views and activities. Mr. Chair, that's the notice of motion I've put on the record. I understand that it would require the unanimous consent of the committee for this motion to be moved today. Given the displays of anti-Semitism and harassment we have seen over the past week in the city of Ottawa and some of the extremist behaviour, I was wondering if my colleagues would give unanimous consent for me to move this motion today and to have a quick vote on it."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 258, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/5/alistair-macgregor-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 5, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "security measures the company has in place to ensure the funds are not being used to promote extremism, white supremacy, anti-Semitism and other forms of hate", "act_why": "charges prominent convoy organizers with expressing anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"the displays of anti-Semitism and harassment we have seen over the past week in the city of Ottawa\" during the truck convoy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["protest movement", "online platform"], "target_detail": "\"prominent organizers for the truck convoy currently in Ottawa\"; GoFundMe", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-28", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. France-Isabelle Langlois (Executive Director, Amnistie internationale Canada francophone)", "role": "Executive Director, Amnistie internationale Canada francophone", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… the occupied Palestinian territories. After a number of years of detailed investigation, the conclusion is harsh, but it is undeniable. The state of Israel is practising a policy of apartheid against the Palestinians. The Holocaust is very real, it really happened, as did many other pogroms against the Jewish people. Anti-Semitism is still rampant around the world, including here, but that can either excuse nor explain a policy of apartheid being conducted against the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 819, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/44-1/4/france-isabelle-langlois-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 4, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "affirms anti-Semitism is rampant while defending the apartheid finding", "trigger": "\"Amnesty International's major report on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2022-02-28", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you for that. The other question I want to ask you is about online hate. We certainly saw how this has succeeded in radicalizing a percentage of the Canadian population. We saw that with the occupation, and we're seeing that with a rise in anti-Asian hate, anti-Semitic incidents, Islamophobic incidents, racism and misogyny. We are seeing people being radicalized now. How do you intend to tackle this issue of online hate, which is radicalizing a certain percentage of Canadians and having a profound impact, as we're seeing, on the number of hate incidents across the country?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/8/peter-julian-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 8, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites rising anti-Semitic incidents in asking about online hate", "trigger": "online radicalization \"We saw that with the occupation\" and \"a rise in anti-Asian hate, anti-Semitic incidents, Islamophobic incidents\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"online hate\" that is \"radicalizing a certain percentage of Canadians\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-03", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… absolutely took it seriously. I have extreme concerns, though, about the comments you were making to my colleague about the Proud Boys. We listed them as a terrorist entity in 2019. The United States has not done that. You continue to fundraise for them. You continue to fundraise for groups that promote Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists. I just wonder how you can justify giving people like that a platform to raise funds."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/12/pam-damoff-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 12, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "You continue to fundraise for groups that promote Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists", "act_why": "charges the witness's platform with fundraising for groups promoting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the convoy occupation and crowdfunding for \"groups that promote Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"You continue to fundraise for groups that promote Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-29", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Siham Rayale", "role": "Director, Foreign Affairs, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["Yes, we should be using the word “racism”. We can define what kind of racism it is. Anti-Black racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are very common forms of racism directed at particular groups. My colleague, Nadiya Ali, also directly works with IRCC and other federal agencies to look at these issues, so I'll refer to her on some other strategies."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 59, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/44-1/13/dr-siham-rayale-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 13, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "names anti-Semitism as a common form of racism to be called racism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-31", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dane Lloyd", "role": "Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sturgeon River--Parkland", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for coming today. We're seeing a definite theme in the testimony that extremism is on the rise—and this is not an exhaustive list—by way of anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and some anti-establishment rhetoric. However, what I haven't heard about is two cases that are also concerning to me. The first is a rise in environmental extremism. One case in point is the recent attack at the Coastal GasLink site, where extensive damage was done to property and traumatizing workers o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 152, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/16/dane-lloyd-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 16, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notes rising anti-Semitic rhetoric while asking about other extremism", "trigger": "\"the recent attack at the Coastal GasLink site\" and \"the iconic St. Jean Baptiste church in Morinville, which was burned to the ground\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-31", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mubin Shaikh", "role": "Counter Extremism Specialist, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… has thrown us into a situation where we almost don't know where the threat is going to come from tomorrow. Also, you have individuals who are basically picking and choosing from the salad bar of extremist ideologies. Some of them may be far right, but they may also have anti-vaxxer views and all far-right members have anti-Semitic views. You have Islamophobic views. Very often you have people who are just picking and choosing and ultimately are just upset at whatever is happening in the world or just frustrated. Of course, COVID exacerbated and made that even worse. These are some of the things that have made things different for us today from …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 203, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/16/mubin-shaikh-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 16, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "expert testimony that far-right actors hold anti-Semitic views", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"all far-right members have anti-Semitic views\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-31", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Aurélie Campana (Full Professor, As an Individual)", "role": "Full Professor, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… ological motives—masculinism in the case of the incel community. Issues that may have been prominent at one point can become less important periodically or permanently. In the 2010s, numerous groups and individuals in the radical right and far right emerged around identity issues. Although the racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views they promote have far from disappeared, they have taken a backseat to anti-public health measure discourse and, especially, anti-elite and anti-establishment messages. Both radical right and far-right groups and individuals have joined networks with international reach. Social media has led to a convergence of d …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 722, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/16/aurelie-campana-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 16, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "research testimony on far-right groups promoting anti-Semitic views", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"Canada's radical right and far right\" and \"the racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views they promote\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dane Lloyd", "role": "Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sturgeon River--Parkland", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… don't hear it talked about in this country. I understand that it's not your organization's mandate to talk about these things. As you've said, you're clearly focused on the far right. During the convoy protests, your executive director—I believe that's his position—Bernie Farber, posted a tweet with a photo of a vile anti-Semitic flyer and claimed that this was a picture of the flyer being circulated in Ottawa among the trucker protesters. Upon further examination, it was proven that this exact same photo was taken in Miami, Florida, weeks before the protests ever began. Can you explain why the executive director of your organization was claim …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 196, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/19/dane-lloyd-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 19, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "argues an anti-Semitic flyer was falsely attributed to the protests", "trigger": "\"your executive director...Bernie Farber, posted a tweet with a photo of a vile anti-Semitic flyer and claimed that this was a picture of the flyer being circul", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Evan Balgord (Executive Director, Canadian Anti-Hate Network)", "role": "Executive Director, Canadian Anti-Hate Network", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… that, they added new grievances. They said it's not just Muslims, but also also about oil and gas, and western separation. But, of course, make no mistake: If you went into the Facebook groups at those times, you would find regular occurrences of largely anti-Muslim racism—although you'll find every form of racism and anti-Semitism present—and you would also find calls for violence, oftentimes towards politicians. They also had a convoy, interestingly enough, called United We Roll. A lot of people who organized that convoy would later organize the more successful occupation of Ottawa. You can see how you can draw a straight line from one thing t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 894, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/19/evan-balgord-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 19, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "anti-hate director describes anti-Semitism across far-right groups", "trigger": "\"how it escalated to the convoy and the occupation\" of Ottawa", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the far-right movement, Yellow Vests Canada and the convoy occupation, where \"you'll find every form of racism and anti-Semitism present\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… 260 years, and the Black community has been here for hundreds of years. There's a proud legacy of contributions that all of these different communities have made to Canada, and nobody deserves to face hate in their own country. No. There are a lot of things that I can say, and one is that Canada has a very low rate of anti-Semitism overall. If you look at Pew studies, you see that compared to other countries, the rate of anti-Semitism overall in Canada is low. In fact, in the Angus Reid poll that was done last week, you saw that the Jewish community had the highest favourability of any religious community in Canada. At the same time, as a Jewish Canadian in the last federal election, I was shocked to see that every day of my campaign, new Nazi swas …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 458, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "recounts swastikas on his election posters and fear among Jewish constituents", "trigger": "the proposed ban on hate symbols — \"would it be a useful addition to the Criminal Code as it was proposed in my friend Mr. Julian's bill?\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"every day of my campaign, new Nazi swastikas appeared on my posters\" (perpetrators unnamed)", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "John Nater", "role": "Perth—Wellington, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Perth—Wellington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That's great. Thank you very much for that commentary. I want to move into the room now for a couple of questions. I may start with Mr. Marceau and then ask the same question to Ms. Kirzner-Roberts. Both of you mentioned the prevalence of anti-Semitism in Canada, of hatred towards the Jewish people. Mr. Marceau, you especially talked a little bit about the society and the culture that allow that to happen. I want to touch a little bit on the BDS movement, which we see, unfortunately, often on university campuses, and whether we, as parliamentarians at the federal le …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 135, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/john-nater-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks about the prevalence of anti-Semitism and action on campus BDS", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"the BDS movement, which we see, unfortunately, often on university campuses\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ceptable and what's not. I also have another concern. These days, with debate being polarized, groups tend to be a little more open to certain ideas. We're also seeing associations forming. I had a discussion earlier with a colleague about an upcoming appearance by a radical—let's call him Mr. Sky—who is known for his antisemitic rhetoric, promoting antisemitism, and denying the Holocaust, among other things. He will be coming as part of a protest against health restrictions. However, the people he's going to meet and talk to are likely at risk of being somewhat influenced by ideas other than the views he puts forward about health restrictions. Don't you feel that some of the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 194, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/martin-champoux-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "describes a polemicist known for promoting anti-Semitism while doubting a symbol ban", "trigger": "the proposal to ban hate symbols in the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"a radical—let's call him Mr. Sky—who is known for his antisemitic rhetoric, promoting antisemitism, and denying the Holocaust\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Daniel Panneton", "role": "Manager, Online Hate Research and Education Project, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… t narrative for a lot of the growing pains of modernity. Those conspiracy theories and the general framework that the protocols have promoted continue to exist, whether people realize it or not. You alluded to George Soros and QAnon. People may not realize that when they say “globalists”, they actually mean a very old anti-Semitic narrative, but that is what they are saying."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/daniel-panneton-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "explains that globalist talk carries an old anti-Semitic narrative", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "people who \"say 'globalists'\" and invoke George Soros/QAnon narratives", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Daniel Panneton (Manager, Online Hate Research and Education Project, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre)", "role": "Manager, Online Hate Research and Education Project, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… the next OK hand gesture, and users were quick to connect the acronym to “ Heil Hitler ” and openly posted about their hope that the mainstream media and the Anti-Defamation League would take their bait and describe it as a hate symbol. The memes that emerged from the “freedom convoy” developed independently from the anti-Semitic clown memes on 4chan. However, memes, as a medium, build upon existing imagery, and the “freedom convoy” memes were quickly contaminated by the visual vocabulary and content of the previously created, explicitly anti-Semitic examples. After the events of the convoy, many supporters and participants are even more alienated and perhaps radicalized. The concern is that participants and supporters may now be finding themselves in increasingly extreme spaces online and off, where they may be encountering hateful material like “Honk Honk” image …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 766, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/daniel-panneton-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "expert testimony on anti-Semitic hate symbols and memes at the convoy", "trigger": "\"the course of the 'freedom convoy' protest in Ottawa when they saw unambiguous hate symbols such as the Nazi swastika and the Confederate flag\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"known hate group leaders and members present\" at the \"freedom convoy\" displaying hate symbols", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Levitt", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["We have already addressed the issue of campuses. I think the campus has been a hotbed of anti-Semitism. We have Jewish students who have to become campus warriors, defending their right to wear a kippah or to have a table supporting Israel or to do any of these things. That's out of control. We know the IHRA definition. We've seen IHRA adopted in university institutions across the U.S. and across the U.K. Again, it's a tool. It's something to be able to help bring clarity. We get a number of cases at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center from parents and students coming in who have faced discrimination, anti-Semitism and racism on campus. The answer from administration is that they're not really sure if it's anti-Semitism or not. There's a definition. There's a way to deal with this. We need to see that being adopted much more widely across the country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/michael-levitt-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "calls campuses a hotbed of anti-Semitism and urges the IHRA definition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "\"the campus has been a hotbed of anti-Semitism\"; university administrations", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Levitt (President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Yes, I think Mr. Marceau has correctly positioned it as an anti-Semitic movement, but I think one of the tools we have in the tool kit, which has been adopted by Parliament of Canada as part of the anti-racism strategy and has been adopted by provinces, is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism. It is one of those tools, whether on campus or in municipal governments, that allows anti-Semitism to be identified, and when we can identify it, we can seek strategies for dealing with it. That's something that our special envoy on anti-Semitism, Irwin Cotler, is certainly working on across the country. We've seen it implemented on campuses in the U.S., Europe and the U.K., and its use is something that we continue to advocate. The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism being adopted is a key part in being able to combat anti-Semitism like BDS."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 147, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/michael-levitt-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "Mr. Marceau has correctly positioned it as an anti-Semitic movement", "act_why": "endorses positioning BDS as an anti-Semitic movement", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "BDS, \"correctly positioned ... as an anti-Semitic movement\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "role": "Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… are particularly vulnerable to this rise in hate. Statistics Canada's numbers from 2020 show that while Jews represent 1% of the Canadian population, we are the target of 62% of police-reported hate crimes targeting religious minorities—62%. As Canada's special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, Irwin Cotler, has said, we haven't seen this much Jew hatred since the end of the Second World War. We are acutely aware of the threats to our safety. With hate against us rising, the sight of someone openly waving the Nazi flag, the Nazi symbol, on the steps of the Château Laurier during the truckers' convoy brought deep feelings of horror and fear to our community. I will put …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 661, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/richard-marceau-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "cites hate-crime statistics and the horror of the swastika at the convoy", "trigger": "\"the sight of someone openly waving the Nazi flag, the Nazi symbol, on the steps of the Château Laurier during the truckers' convoy\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the truckers' convoy (swastika on the steps of the Château Laurier); those flying \"Hamas and Hezbollah\" flags in Montreal and outside Parliament", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "role": "Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Nater. The BDS movement has a very clear goal of delegitimizing and demonizing the only Jewish state on the planet. It is an attack not on Israeli policy but on the very right of the Jewish people to self-determination. That is why we believe it's anti-Semitic. I'll go further. You would have seen in the last six to eight weeks a flurry of diplomatic action in the Middle East, where you saw the President of Israel going to Turkey. You would have seen a summit in Egypt, at which the Prime Minister of Israel, along with the President of Egypt and the Crown Prince of the Unite …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 163, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/richard-marceau-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites hate-crime statistics and the horror of the swastika at the convoy", "trigger": "\"the sight of someone openly waving the Nazi flag, the Nazi symbol, on the steps of the Château Laurier during the truckers' convoy\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the truckers' convoy (swastika on the steps of the Château Laurier); those flying \"Hamas and Hezbollah\" flags in Montreal and outside Parliament", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Roderick Brereton", "role": "Executive Director, Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise prides itself, I would say, on imparting social education where the traditional school systems have not, whether it be on anti-Black racism or anti-Semitism or in terms of under-represented groups having a voice, and empowering community to have a voice when they often have not been seen or heard. We look through a lens or we work through a lens of empowerment, of giving people that voice to be able to be at the tables as opposed to being on the menus. Often we find ourse …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 162, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/roderick-brereton-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "describes education work against anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-04-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Roopnauth Sharma (President, Hindu Federation)", "role": "President, Hindu Federation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ins and Zoroastrians is protected, celebrated and remains completely legal in Canada. It should be amended to clarify that the evidence demonstrates that Nazi hakenkreuz is a weapon of hate, not a matter of free expression. Whatever the political events of the day, it is absolutely possible—indeed, essential—to combat Jew hatred while ensuring the rights of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Zoroastrian Canadians and respecting their benevolent and sacred symbols. Let us together take the steps to celebrate our religious freedom and unity in confronting Nazism, or any form of hate that is projected by any group in any form. Today the statistics tell u …"], "terms": ["jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 688, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/17/roopnauth-sharma-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "argues the Hindu swastika is wrongly treated as the Nazi hate symbol", "trigger": "\"Mr. Julian's bill, Bill C-229, an act to amend the Criminal Code banning symbols of hate\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed", "role": "Chief Executive, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… rs, the fact that they're given access to enormous audiences and they're amplified.... One of our research reports, “Malgorithm”, looked at the way the algorithm works on Instagram. It showed that if you follow wellness, the algorithm was feeding you anti-vax content. If you follow anti-vax content, it was feeding you anti-Semitic content and QAnon content. It knows that some people are vulnerable to misinformation and conspiracy theories and that conspiracy theories, because of the psychology of them—they're driven by epistemic anxiety but they never sate that epistemic anxiety—lead to rabbit-holing. It was driving people deeper and deeper int …", "… eories. Why? Because the commercial imperative is simple. You find conspiracy theories on social media platforms because they are the least regulated spaces in terms of quality control that you have for mass publishing of content. Deplatforming these people and putting them into their own little hole, a little hole of anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers and general lunatics, is a good thing, because you limit their capacity to infect other people. Also, for trends such as the convergence and hybridization of ideologies.... I went to an anti-vax rally in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, and standing there were members of the Kennedy family, QAnon, anti-Semites, Proud Boys and kooky hippies who smoke ayahuasca. It's an entire mix of people, which is driven by social media convergence. It is vital that they are deplatforming people so that we don't end up with the kinds of problems that you also faced in Canada a few months ago."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 309, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/imran-ahmed-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "technology"], "act_why": "disapproving account of disinformation super-spreaders; the term does not appear in the retained text", "trigger": "'On March 24, 2021, we issued our report' showing 12 super-spreaders responsible for 65% of anti-vaccine disinformation shared on social media", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed (Chief Executive, Center for Countering Digital Hate)", "role": "Chief Executive, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… r organization had been around for six years. We have around 20 staff in London and Washington, D.C. We're independent. We're not affiliated with any political party. We don't take money from governments or from technology companies. Our research throughout that six years has tracked the rise of online hate, including anti-Semitism. The reason we started this organization was that we were seeing the rise of virulent anti-Semitism and disinformation on the left in the United Kingdom, as well as seeing that fringe actors, from anti-vaxxers to misogynist incels to racists such as white supremacists and jihadists, are able to easily exploit digital platforms to promote their own content. The platforms and search engines benefit commercially from t …", "… gh adequately resourcing the enforcement of their own rules. Another is bad laws, the absence of legislation and global coordination at a scale that will protect citizens through assessing and enforcing common standards and sharing intelligence and metrics about them. We've published a series of reports on things like anti-Semitism. Our most recent was on anti-Muslim hate. It showed that even when you report anti-Muslim hate to platforms by using their own tools, nine out of 10 times they fail to take it down. That includes posts promoting the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, violating pledges that they made in the wake of the 2019 Christchu …", "… spired the Christchurch attacks as well as the Tree of Life Synagogue attacks in Pennsylvania in the United States. So there are commercial hate and disinformation actors who are making a lot of money from spreading discord and peddling lies. I've used anti-Muslim hate as an example, but we found the same figures with anti-Semitism, with misogyny and with anti-Black hateful content in the past. Why are they failing to act? The truth is that there is a web of commercial actors, from platforms to payment processes to people who provide appetizing technology that is embedded on hateful content, giving the authors of that hateful content money for e …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 744, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/imran-ahmed-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "technology"], "act_why": "witness opening tracking the rise of online anti-Semitism and platform failure to remove hate", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "CCDH's published research, including 'our most recent [report] was on anti-Muslim hate', showing platforms fail to remove reported hate 'nine out of 10 times'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "platforms and search engines that profit from hate; also 'the rise of virulent anti-Semitism and disinformation on the left in the United Kingdom'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Rotrand", "role": "National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… ll be worried. This year's audit revealed the number of violent incidents against Jews in Canada went up from nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021—a 733% increase. While at McGill, the board of trustees annulled the student society motion, clearly, there's been a movement at certain campuses to make anti-Zionism the new form of anti-Semitism, denying the rights of Jews to self-determination in their historic homeland, and basically attacking Jews everywhere for decisions made by Israel. I'd like to say that in 2016 you may recall Parliament passed an anti-BDS motion. We think that Parliament might want to update that. In Germany, Austria and certain count …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 137, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/marvin-rotrand-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "there's been a movement at certain campuses to make anti-Zionism the new form of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges a campus anti-Zionism/BDS movement with making anti-Zionism the new anti-Semitism", "trigger": "'This year's audit revealed the number of violent incidents against Jews in Canada went up from nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021—a 733% increase'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "certain campuses and the McGill student society; the BDS movement", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Rotrand", "role": "National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["We certainly welcome any investment that promotes Holocaust remembrance, but we would also very much like to see an improvement in school curriculum, particularly at the high school level. As well, we would like to see the broadening of the mandate of the special envoy preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism. The Honourable Irwin Cotler was just recently named, and the mandate includes preserving the Holocaust. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 68, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/marvin-rotrand-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "charge_quote": "there's been a movement at certain campuses to make anti-Zionism the new form of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "same text: campus anti-Zionism/BDS movement charged with anti-Semitism", "trigger": "'This year's audit revealed the number of violent incidents against Jews in Canada went up from nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021—a 733% increase'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "certain campuses and the McGill student society; the BDS movement", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Rotrand", "role": "National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… a littérature haineuse, mais aussi de trouver une façon de modifier leurs algorithmes. Je ne suis pas un expert en la matière. Cependant, nous pouvons voir chaque jour — et nous recevons de plus en plus de plaintes de la part de notre communauté — ce qui est en ligne et comment cela mène au vandalisme et à la violence antisémite dans nos rues."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 168, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/marvin-rotrand-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "community organisations"], "charge_quote": "there's been a movement at certain campuses to make anti-Zionism the new form of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "same text: campus anti-Zionism/BDS movement charged with anti-Semitism", "trigger": "'This year's audit revealed the number of violent incidents against Jews in Canada went up from nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021—a 733% increase'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "certain campuses and the McGill student society; the BDS movement", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Rotrand (National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["My name is Marvin Rotrand. I'm a former Montreal city councillor, now national director of the League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada. Indeed, we do oppose all forms of discrimination while we concentrate on anti-Semitism as our main mission as an organization. We have existed since 1875. We recently released our audit for 2021 of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada and discovered that we have reached the highest level ever recorded in the 40 years we have been tracking anti-Semitism in Canada. One of the areas where we note a large increase is online hate. During the pandemic, we've experienced less in-person harassment, but online hate has exploded. In fact, the number of incidents tracked in 2021 was 2,799. The bulk of them were online incidents. There has been an increase of almost 100% in onl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 458, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/marvin-rotrand-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "B'nai Brith audit of record anti-Semitic incidents presented with alarm and calls for action", "trigger": "'We recently released our audit for 2021 of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada' — 2,799 incidents, 'the highest level ever recorded'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "Facebook, YouTube and podcasts as vehicles of online hate", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… which is a religious commandment for Jews, should be negatively impacted. It shouldn't be allowed if you hold a certain political ideology, that of Zionism. Of course, more than 90% of Jews in Canada are Zionists. That is the overall connection between our community. It is something that's disturbing. We consider BDS anti-Semitic—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 250, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/michael-mostyn-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "We consider BDS anti-Semitic", "act_why": "states outright that BDS is anti-Semitic and points to named campus unions", "trigger": "the McGill student society's 'Palestine Solidarity Policy' and University of Toronto student union positions on kosher food", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["university", "union"], "target_detail": "campuses across Canada; student unions at McGill and the University of Toronto", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn (Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, National Office, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you very much. My name is Michael Mostyn. I'm the chief executive officer for B'nai Brith. I'll be sharing my time with Marvin Rotrand, our national director of the league. B'nai Brith is Canada's oldest grassroots Jewish community organization dedicated to eradicating racism, anti-Semitism and hatred in all of its forms, championing the rights of the marginalized while providing basic human needs for members of our community. We focus on anti-Semitism, but of course, we're concerned with all forms of discrimination. Hate is hate, whatever the source. There are two quick items that I just want to mention in my statement. First of all, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran is an entity that my community, and many others, have been asking for years to designat …", "… Our system is being questioned at the moment. There was a front-page article in the National Post last weekend talking about Khaled Barakat. Khaled Barakat is the leader of the PFLP. That is a listed terrorist organization in Canada. Not all IMVE groups are from the right. It is a Marxist-Leninist organization. It is anti-Semitic. It is hateful. It is active, and one of its leaders is present in Canada. Canadians are questioning why he is here. It is strictly forbidden for members of terrorist groups to enter Canada, or to obtain Canadian citizenship. We have no answers as Canadian citizens. We need to deal with IMVE. We need to deal with all …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 341, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/michael-mostyn-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["border", "foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "It is a Marxist-Leninist organization. It is anti-Semitic. It is hateful.", "act_why": "calls the PFLP, a named listed organization, anti-Semitic", "trigger": "'a front-page article in the National Post last weekend talking about Khaled Barakat', leader of the PFLP, present in Canada", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Khaled Barakat, leader of the PFLP, described as anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Tony McAleer (Author and Co-founder, Life After Hate, As an Individual)", "role": "Author and Co-founder, Life After Hate, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… lic health. Technology is the arena in which these ideologies are spread, the Internet and social media. Again, this is a complex area, and great care must be exercised to set healthy limits to freedom of expression. In the 1990s, I operated the Canadian Liberty Net, a computer-operated messaging system that contained anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and Holocaust-denial messages that was subject to a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, an injunction and ultimately a trip to the Supreme Court of Canada. The more the hate line was suppressed, the more callers dialled in and were drawn into the world of intolerance. At its peak, it received 300 calls per …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 786, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/tony-mcaleer-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["mental health"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "former extremist recounts anti-Semitic hate line and mass-murder attacks with disapproval", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "the speaker's own former Canadian Liberty Net, which carried 'anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and Holocaust-denial messages'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Raquel Dancho", "role": "Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kildonan—St. Paul", "province": "MB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for being here. My questions are for B'nai Brith. Thank you again for being here today. As a little bit of background, I wasn't familiar with anti-Semitism. I grew up in rural Manitoba, and it wasn't something we were really exposed to. I later went to McGill University, and my first exposure to this were large, from my perspective, very angry protests for the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement, or whatever you'd like to call it. That's where I first started learning ab …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 251, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/raquel-dancho-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays B'nai Brith release on the McGill policy and voices concern for Jewish students", "trigger": "the McGill student society vote 'to adopt an extreme Palestine Solidarity Policy' committing SSMU to boycotts, flagged in a B'nai Brith news release", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "McGill's student society and its 'Palestine Solidarity Policy'; the BDS movement", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-05", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Sameer Zuberi", "role": "Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Pierrefonds—Dollard", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… edia platforms, as I think that's really important. In the last 30 seconds I'd like to shift to Mr. Rotrand. Can I get your thoughts and comments on us as a federal government investing in the new Holocaust museum in Montreal to the tune of $20 million and how that will help to educate Canadians and Montrealers around anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in particular?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 88, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/22/sameer-zuberi-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "asks about Holocaust museum funding as education against anti-Semitism; supportive, no target", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the federal government 'investing in the new Holocaust museum in Montreal to the tune of $20 million'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-09", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Charlie Angus", "role": "Timmins—James Bay, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Timmins--James Bay", "province": "ON", "topic": "Natural Resources", "passages": ["… t will go well with the Conservatives. I was actually trying to figure out where Mr. McTeague gets his science from. He says that “people are waking up”. He refers to “the gilets jaunes ” in France—the yellow vesters. I kind of remembered them, so I looked them up. CNN says the yellow vesters are fanning the flames of anti-Semitism in France. ABC says that the yellow vesters are “dogged by intolerance [and] extremism”. France 24 says violence is seen as legitimate by the yellow vesters. I want it on the record that the person they brought here to represent their interests on affordability says that the people we need to be learning from are the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 210, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/natural-resources/44-1/21/charlie-angus-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Natural Resources", "committee_slug": "natural-resources", "meeting": 21, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "CNN says the yellow vesters are fanning the flames of anti-Semitism in France", "act_why": "cites CNN to charge the gilets jaunes, and by extension the Conservative witness, with fanning anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Conservative witness Dan McTeague's Twitter feed and his invocation of the French gilets jaunes, whom press reports describe as 'fanning the flames of anti-Semi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the Conservatives and their witness Mr. McTeague; the gilets jaunes / yellow vesters", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-09", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Gabriel Ste-Marie", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… on Justice. Division 19 amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. In my opinion, the Standing Committee on Finance does not have the expertise to deal with body cavity x-rays, far from it, as I have already mentioned. Division 21 of part 5 amends the Criminal Code to create the offence of wilfully promoting antisemitism. I believe that this division falls under the purview of the Standing Committee on Justice, as does division 22, which amends the Judges Act, the Federal Courts Act and the Tax Court of Canada Act and certain other acts. So that is my motion. I hope I have answered my colleague Mr. Albas' question correctly. Thank you …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 609, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/43/gabriel-ste-marie-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 43, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural motion describing division 21's offence of wilfully promoting antisemitism, no position taken", "trigger": "Bill C-19, including 'division 21 of part 5 [which] amends the Criminal Code to create the offence of wilfully promoting antisemitism'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-10", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… on this. I want to ask you specifically about the subject of deplatforming. We had Mr. Imran Ahmed before our committee last week. He is with the Center for Countering Digital Hate. I'll read a quote from his testimony. He said, “Deplatforming these people and putting them into their own little hole, a little hole of anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers and general lunatics, is a good thing, because [actually] you limit their capacity to infect other people. Also, for trends such as the convergence and hybridization of ideologies”. You're proposing a set of recommendations where it's a positive intervention. Do you have any comments on the concept of de …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 209, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/23/alistair-macgregor-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "reads a quote from prior witness testimony and asks about deplatforming", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-10", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… my first question, if I can. I was present as a member of Parliament in the 42nd Parliament, and I remember the furor over the debate involving motion 103, which was using the term “Islamophobia” and calling it out for what it is. It always struck me as very strange that we have a general acceptance of what the term “anti-Semitism” means, but the word “Islamophobia” created just such an uproar and furor. I guess what I want to know from you, sir, is what the legacy has been of that very charged debate on Islamophobia for the Muslim community. Where are we at now in the years that have passed since that debate?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 145, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/23/alistair-macgregor-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "contrasts settled meaning of anti-Semitism with the furor over Islamophobia; no label dispute", "trigger": "'the furor over the debate involving motion 103' on Islamophobia in the 42nd Parliament", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-10", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… y on Facebook, I remember, whenever COVID-19 was mentioned, a little disclaimer was posted at the bottom of each post that would direct people to factual information. Can you comment a little bit on that specific example? Do we need to have similar ones here, for example, if a post is alluding to white supremacy or is anti-Semitic in nature or something? Do we need to have little educational tools that point people to a verified true source on those things? Could you perhaps expand on that point, please?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 179, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/23/alistair-macgregor-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "act_why": "asks about warning labels on anti-Semitic posts; treats the content as harmful", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-31", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Catherine McKenney", "role": "Councillor, City of Ottawa", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… more, or anywhere, who came and parked for two days and then left the next day. It was what was left behind, and it was the space that opened up for others to come into our downtown residential neighbourhoods because it was lawless. We had no protection, and there was an openness to the racism that we were seeing, the anti-Semitism and the homophobia. What happened was that—especially on the weekends, I might say—hundreds and hundreds of people who were sympathetic poured in, but wouldn't allow people into grocery stores or would go into grocery stores and harass people. We had seniors who were terrified of leaving their apartments. People with …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 247, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/44-1/23/catherine-mckenney-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 23, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "reports anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia during the convoy occupation with evident distress", "trigger": "the three-and-a-half-week convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa — 'hundreds of daily threats', 'the racism that we were seeing, the anti-Semitism and the homopho", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa and those it drew in", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-06-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Karim Sadjadpour (Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)", "role": "Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… re we're talking about Lebanese Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, the Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, the Shia militias in Iraq, as well as many more ancillary groups. One of the things that Iran and its militias have in common are an intolerance towards women. The second thing is an intolerance towards religious minorities and an anti-Semitism, which all the proxies share. Third is the persecution of LGBT communities. The fourth is hostility, repression of independent thinkers; we've had several assassinations over the years in Lebanon and Iraq. The fifth is accumulation of wealth through illicit means. As a previous panellist pointed out, increasingly a lo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 672, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/44-1/12/karim-sadjadpour-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 12, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "an intolerance towards religious minorities and an anti-Semitism, which all the proxies share", "act_why": "attributes anti-Semitism to Iran and its named proxies Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iraqi militias", "trigger": "the Iranian regime's conduct and that of its regional proxies — 'an intolerance towards religious minorities and an anti-Semitism, which all the proxies share' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Iranian regime and its regional proxies (Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi Shia militias)", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2022-09-23", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual)", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… esearch chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, and I'm a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. I appear in a personal capacity, representing only my own views. With the start of the Jewish new year about 48 hours away, I want to begin by thanking the committee for planning to look into the funding of an anti-Semite as part of Canadian Heritage's anti-hate program. I want to urge you to fully investigate how this happened and to ensure that it never happens again. With respect to Bill C-18 , as you may know, I've been fairly critical, but that criticism doesn't stem from doubts about the importance of a robust, diverse news secto …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 179, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/43/dr-michael-geist-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 43, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "urges the committee to investigate how an anti-Semite was funded under an anti-hate program", "trigger": "'the funding of an anti-Semite as part of Canadian Heritage's anti-hate program' (Laith Marouf / CMAC)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "the funded 'anti-Semite' (Laith Marouf); Canadian Heritage's anti-hate program", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-09-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nt to thank my friend, Mrs. Thomas, for her comments. I agree with some of what she said, and not with some of the other parts of what she said. I agree that it was absolutely outrageous that Laith Marouf and CMAC received any contract from the Government of Canada to perform anti-racism training. The man is an abject anti-Semite, and has made horrible comments about indigenous Canadians, racialized Canadians, French Canadians and many other groups, although the bulk of his comments were directed against Jews. As I said before, the contract should have been immediately terminated. I think there has been a widespread recognition that the minist …", "… inister Rodriguez is not the minister responsible, Minister Hussen is the minister responsible. As a Jewish MP, I feel that people from all sides need to speak out against this. It shouldn't be Jewish MPs carrying the ball on an issue that directly impacts the Jewish community. We all need to speak out with respect to anti-Semitism and all forms of racism. I think this was a lesson for all of us that when other groups are impacted, we need to speak out even stronger. I hope we'll all take lessons from this, but I don't think, as I said before, that Minister Rodriguez is the right minister. Minister Hussen is the right minister to come before the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 434, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/44/anthony-housefather-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 44, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech", "funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "The man is an abject anti-Semite", "act_why": "calls Laith Marouf, named, an abject anti-Semite and faults the contract", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic comments and the federal anti-racism training contract to CMAC — 'The man is an abject anti-Semite'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "own side"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf, 'an abject anti-Semite', and CMAC; the Government of Canada for awarding the contract", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-09-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. This issue of the Community Media Advocacy Centre is profoundly disturbing. The anti-Semitism that was expressed was appalling. That's why I called for ending the contract when we became aware of the comments, as you'll recall, Madam Chair. This is part of a broader trend of increased hate, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Certainly with the convoy occupation earlier this year we saw the most appalling symbols—Nazi symbols—flying on Parliament Hill. We saw blatant anti-Semitism. Anyone who supports the convoy—sadly, we saw some members of Parliament supporting those despicable acts and expressions of hate—are people who should be really examining themselves because that was a low period in Canadian history. Of that there is no doubt. I support having Minister Hussen before this committee and …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 668, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/44/peter-julian-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 44, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["funding", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitism expressed appalling and recounts convoy Nazi symbols with disgust", "trigger": "the Community Media Advocacy Centre contract and Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic comments ('The anti-Semitism that was expressed was appalling')", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf and CMAC; 'members of Parliament supporting' the convoy occupation where Nazi symbols flew", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-09-27", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome to Ottawa. It's a good place to be. I wish to speak to the motion with regard to bringing Minister Rodriguez forward on the hiring of an individual who has now been identified as an anti-Semite. This individual was hired by Canadian Heritage in order to provide anti-racism training specifically to the media. This individual has made numerous posts on social media with regard to Jews and his belief in terms of their value and how they should be treated within Canadian society—and I daresay worldwide. His comm …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 662, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/44/rachael-thomas-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 44, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "I'm particularly disappointed with the Prime Minister , Minister Hussen and, ultimately, Minister Rodriguez , who took more than two weeks to finally offer a comment with regard to this incident", "act_why": "identifies Marouf as an anti-Semite and charges Liberal ministers with shielding the decision", "trigger": "the hiring of Laith Marouf, 'now identified as an anti-Semite', by Canadian Heritage to provide anti-racism training", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf, 'identified as an anti-Semite'; Minister Rodriguez, Minister Hussen and the Prime Minister for silence and failed vetting", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… of the committee, good afternoon. Thank you for your invitation to appear today and for this opportunity to discuss the funding granted—and subsequently terminated—to the Community Media Advocacy Centre. I am joined today by Mala Khanna, associate deputy minister, Canadian Heritage. I want to begin by reiterating that anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms have no place in Canada. Our government is firmly committed to fighting racism. In 2019 when our government created Canada's first ever anti-racism strategy, we did so with a clear direction to support community organizations across Canada, addressing the issues of anti-racism and multicult …", "… was intended to empower communities on the ground and to help address all forms of racism and discrimination. When it comes to the selection process, we expect funded organizations to uphold the core values championed through the anti-racism strategy. That, of course, wasn't the case with one of the organizations. The anti-Semitic, hateful and xenophobic comments made by Laith Marouf are vile and reprehensible. I have said this before and I'll say it again: I condemn them in the strongest possible terms. The fact that the Community Media Advocacy Centre received federal funding while employing Mr. Marouf is unacceptable and should, quite frankl …", "… and vet projects. I have asked Canadian Heritage to undertake a comprehensive review of the assessment of applications and to introduce enhanced training on application verification for all program officers. This will include enhanced diversity and inclusion training for all program officers, including anti-racism and anti-Semitism awareness training. I've also asked officials to introduce conditions in all of our funding agreements that will allow the federal government to take immediate action should any organization or individual be identified as having promoted or shared hate, racism, anti-Semitism or discrimination in any form. This will help us to ensure that, moving forward, we can move quickly and decisively as soon as we are made aware. All organizations and individuals that see their funding cut in this manner will also never be eligible for future funding. These are important measures and will help us pre …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 676, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["funding", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "minister condemns Marouf's anti-Semitic comments in the strongest terms and apologizes", "trigger": "'the funding granted—and subsequently terminated—to the Community Media Advocacy Centre' and Laith Marouf's 'anti-Semitic, hateful and xenophobic comments'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "own side"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf and CMAC; the government's own vetting process, which 'failed'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I want to make this absolutely clear: The comments made by this individual are absolutely appalling. I've said this before and I'll say it again. They are reprehensible and vile. We condemn the anti-Semitism, racism and hatred that he has spread in the strongest possible terms. I thank MP Housefather for bringing this individual to our attention. When this issue was raised, we immediately asked the Department of Canadian Heritage to confirm the organization's project funding details and to inform us on the procedural next …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "repeats condemnation of the anti-Semitism and racism spread by the funded individual", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic comments and the CMAC funding that was cut", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf, whose comments are 'reprehensible and vile'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… alties to successful applicants who showcase racism, hate and bigotry. We will continue to take every measure to ensure this never happens again. We are also putting in place enhanced vetting training for program officers, ensuring that multiple officials review each and every application, and enhanced anti-racism and anti-Semitism training for all program officers. To develop this training, we will be working with the special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, the Honourable Irwin Cotler. We'll also be working with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Jewish Public Servants' Network to develop this program. It will also include training on the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. We'll also implement conditions in all funding agreements to allow the government to take immediate action if any organization or individual is identified as having promoted hate and to ensure that all organizations that see their funding cut in this manner will never be eligible for future funding. I want to assure …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 278, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "announces anti-Semitism vetting and training measures after the funding failure", "trigger": "the failed vetting that let CMAC and Laith Marouf receive federal anti-racism funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["own side"], "target_detail": "the government's vetting process, which 'failed'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Absolutely, and I appreciate your emphasis on those measures going forward. I want to reiterate that our measures will include enhanced online and social media vetting training and enhanced diversity and inclusion training for all program officers, including anti-Semitism and anti-racism awareness training, all of which will be informed by the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism. I want to assure the honourable member that we will ensure that our findings and our measures are shared with other government departments so that they learn from this incident, making sure that we can move forward in a way that ensures that these types of situations never happen again. We're also putting all funding …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 114, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "details IHRA-based anti-Semitism training as a remedy; treats the hate as established", "trigger": "the CMAC / Laith Marouf funding failure and the vetting measures it prompted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you for the question. I want to show the honourable member that I find— I've stated this before and I'll state it again—the comments made by this individual as well as this organization to be vile, reprehensible, hateful and unacceptable. The anti-Semitism, racism and hate that has been expressed—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 50, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls the individual's anti-Semitic comments vile and reprehensible", "trigger": "'the comments made by this individual as well as this organization' — Laith Marouf and CMAC", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "'this individual as well as this organization' (Laith Marouf and CMAC)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I have stated very clearly that the hateful comments towards francophone community members by this individual, by this organization, are reprehensible. I said this from the very beginning, and I will repeat that. Absolutely, we will make sure that the enhanced training on anti-Semitism, anti-racism, anti-discrimination and anti-hate for all program officers includes sensitivity and fighting against hatred towards francophone community members. That is a commitment I can make to you, sir."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "reiterates the comments are reprehensible and commits to anti-Semitism training", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's hateful comments toward francophones as well as Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "'this individual, this organization' (Laith Marouf and CMAC)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Mr. Julian, I would have to start my response by responding to your initial comments. I in no way meant to suggest that anti-Semitism should not be taken seriously. Quite the contrary, in many years of my adult life I have spent time fighting anti-Semitism, fighting Islamophobia, fighting racism on the ground working with community members from various communities, so I take this extremely seriously and I would encourage you to revisit my remarks on this matter on a number of occasions. I disagree with you, with respect, sir. On the issue of the previous processes that …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "insists he takes anti-Semitism seriously and has long fought it, rejecting the minimizing charge", "trigger": "the 2021 approval of federal funding to CMAC despite Laith Marouf's record", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["own side"], "target_detail": "the vetting in place before the speaker became minister, through which 'this individual fell through the cracks'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["My response to your question, which is an important question, is that we are surprised and disappointed by the CRTC's decision. Funds should never go to an organization that demonstrates racism and anti-Semitism—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 33, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-38/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "says funds should never go to an organization that demonstrates racism and anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the CRTC's decision on cost awards to CMAC / Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the CRTC, for its decision; the organization that 'demonstrates racism and anti-Semitism'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Absolutely. Thank you very much for the question, MP Housefather, and thank you for your work on this really important issue, both as an individual before entering public life and now. As the minister responsible, on behalf of the government, I can state unequivocally that combatting anti-Semitism and combatting hate against Jewish Canadians are absolutely a priority for our government. We have taken a number of steps in that regard and we will continue to be a strong champion in the fight against anti-Semitism in this country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-40/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "states combatting anti-Semitism is a government priority", "trigger": "the Laith Marouf / CMAC funding affair prompting questions about the government's commitment on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… the ability of the government to move more quickly, and to put an attestation to applicants so they're able to proactively commit to live by the standards expected of them with respect to making sure their organization—including any consultant, employee, partner, or anybody associated with it—cannot engage in racist, anti-Semitic or hateful behaviour or comments against Black Canadians or francophone community members, and that if that happens, we can take quick action."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 224, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-41/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "describes attestation and termination clauses barring anti-Semitic conduct by recipients", "trigger": "the inability to terminate the CMAC contract quickly after Laith Marouf's statements came to light", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ion would not go through the cracks. Now we're introducing a new vetting process to ensure, for example, that there is enhanced vetting training for program officers and ensure that multiple officials review each and every application so that mistakes can be caught, and to ensure that there is enhanced anti-racism and anti-Semitism training for all program officers. To develop this training, we're turning to the experts, people like the Honourable Irwin Cotler, the special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Jewish Public Servants' Network to develop this program."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 135, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-42/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "explains new vetting and anti-Semitism training after the failure", "trigger": "the failure of vetting that allowed Laith Marouf and CMAC 'to go through the cracks'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["own side"], "target_detail": "the department's earlier vetting and due diligence measures, which failed to catch 'this individual and organization'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ahmed Hussen", "role": "Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York South--Weston", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… mments such as those made by this individual and CMAC can be caught, and that we can address this, move faster, cut funding quicker, and terminate contracts faster. I'm actually trying to answer your question, Mr. Julian. That's the new process that will be in place in addition to more enhanced vetting and training in anti-Semitism, anti-racism, hateful behaviour, discrimination against Black Canadians, with francophone community members and so on—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 78, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/ahmed-hussen-49/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "promises faster action on hateful comments like those of the funded individual", "trigger": "'hateful comments such as those made by this individual and CMAC'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "'hateful comments such as those made by this individual and CMAC'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… the outset that I share the minister's strong disappointment with the CRTC's comments that were reported today. This organization, CMAC, and Mr. Marouf should not be funded by anyone or any agency at all, so I appreciate the minister's comments with respect to that. As someone who has been involved since 2015 on this anti-Semitism issue, whether with respect to the apology about the St. Louis , with respect to the nomination of Irwin Cotler as our special envoy on anti-Semitism, with respect to the decision to adopt the IHRA definition and implement it across government, or with respect to the decision to criminalize Holocaust denial and supporting that—which was originally a motion from our colleague Mr. Waugh that became part of the budget implementation bill—I think we've had a very strong record as a government and across party lines in fighting anti-Semitism in this country. That is why this situation was so disappointing. Minister, I appreciate your efforts to take responsibility and say that you're going to get this problem fixed now on the due diligence side, on the contractual side and on the training side, because those are all really important. I want to ask a couple of questions about that. First, though, there are many members of Canada's Jewish community who feel, for whatever reason, that anti-Semitism is not treated on par with other forms of racism. Can you reassure Canadians, particularly the Jewish community, that you believe anti-Semitism is just as important as any other form of racism or phobia in this country?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 265, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "shares disappointment over CMAC funding and asks for reassurance that anti-Semitism ranks with other racism", "trigger": "the funding of CMAC and Laith Marouf, and the CRTC's reported comments on it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "CMAC and Mr. Marouf; the CRTC, whose reported comments the speaker shares disappointment with", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you so much, Mr. Minister. I appreciate that. I think many people don't know your past history before being elected of working with CIJA and working with the Jewish community to fight anti-Semitism. I think it's important that people know that you were fighting anti-Semitism long before you became a minister. Let me ask a second question. My colleague Mr. Julian talked about the vetting procedure, which is very important. Equally important is the training. I was very pleased to hear that the Jewish Public Servants' Network, which has been complaining to me quite a lot about the lack of coherence about anti-Semitism training in different departments, is going to be part of this process. We can use this as an opportunity to create the best anti-Semitism and other forms of racism training, which you can then implement not only in your department, but across departments, which is excellent. I want to get to the question of the attestation and the contract, because one of the problems here was that the termination clause in the existing contract didn't allow you the imm …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 222, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "presses for better anti-Semitism training and termination rights, treating the hate as given", "trigger": "the vetting and training failures exposed by the Laith Marouf / CMAC contract", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["We can talk to him in the second hour, because I have more questions for you, Minister. You have said that you have put in place measures internally and provided training on racism to ensure that there is no racism or anti-Semitism within the organizations to which you entrust public funds. Where do you place francophobia and hate speech towards francophones in your order of severity of hateful and disgraceful speech? I ask, because it still took until September 12 before you acknowledged that Mr. Marouf had also made hateful comments towards fr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 107, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/martin-champoux-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks where francophobia sits in the anti-racism and anti-Semitism training; no label dispute", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's hateful comments, including those toward francophones acknowledged only on September 12", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Minister, you are not answering my question. I want to know if, in the training you give on anti-racism and anti-Semitism, there is a section on francophobia. We see that this phenomenon is percolating more and more, we see it in social media. Nowhere in your program is there any mention of the hateful comments made towards francophones. My question is simple, Minister: does the training address this problem?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 69, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/martin-champoux-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "repeats the question whether anti-Semitism training also covers francophobia", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's hateful comments toward francophones and the training that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ion of a program like the one you wanted to put in place at that time with Mr. Marouf's company. What measures were in place before this incident? How was the due diligence carried out on companies that were entrusted with large sums of public money to go and provide training on such sensitive issues as anti-racism or anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 128, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/martin-champoux-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "cites the minister's 'system failure' interview and questions due diligence, not the label", "trigger": "the minister's September 12 National Post interview calling the Laith Marouf incident 'a system failure'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the minister and his department, for the due diligence that let Mr. Marouf's company be funded", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Madam Chair, I'll start off. Thank you, Mr. Minister, for presenting today at committee. Mr. Housefather provided the minister's office with information in July about Mr. Marouf's vile anti-Semitism. After this came to light, a statement was made only on August 22. That's at least 22 days, if Mr. Housefather told the minister's office on July 31. I want to know what day you were made aware of Mr. Marouf's vile, anti-Semitic hate spewed everywhere, which I think a simple Google search could have turned up."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 86, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/melissa-lantsman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "After this came to light, a statement was made only on August 22", "act_why": "names Marouf's vile anti-Semitism and charges the minister with sitting on it for weeks", "trigger": "'Mr. Marouf's vile anti-Semitism' and the delay between July 31 notice and the August 22 statement", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the minister's office, for the delay after being told; Mr. Marouf's 'vile anti-Semitism'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Madam Chair, I think Canadians want to know who approved the release and whether this is an omission or incompetence. Did nobody google anybody in the release? Why would the government say that it is proud of the work that was being done by the vile anti-Semitic hatred that has been spewed all over the Internet? A simple Google search by the minister's office, anybody in the minister's organization, anybody in the Department of Canadian Heritage or anybody in the Canadian government at all would have turned that up."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 89, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/melissa-lantsman-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "Canadians want to know who approved the release and whether this is an omission or incompetence", "act_why": "charges the government with praising work done by a vile anti-Semite through omission or incompetence", "trigger": "the government news release praising work by Laith Marouf despite his 'vile, anti-Semitic hate'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the government, for praising work done amid 'vile anti-Semitic hatred'; Mr. Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… om asking questions. It's not the first time we've had officials, who are very busy people doing great work, come into a meeting to just sit there and not be asked any questions. This is not the first time it's happened. I think it's important for people who are watching this who are really concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism and racism in this country to realize what's taking place here. We have a member of the Conservative party who has, for the last hour, held the floor for a motion, and, yes, people have intervened politely to try to ask the member to allow the motion to be voted on. This is why people are so turned away from politics …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 470, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/michael-coteau-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "notes the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes while objecting to the filibuster tactic", "trigger": "the CMAC / Laith Marouf funding failure that the ministerial officials were called to explain", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Conservative member whose tactics blocked questioning of officials on the rise of anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Minister, for being here today. I was a little concerned about your initial comments where you talked about anti-Semitism remaining a reality. I believe you are minimizing this. The police reported hate crime latest statistics actually show a significant rise in anti-Semitism, hate-motivated crimes. What we're dealing with is not something that remains a reality. What we're dealing with is something that is becoming a greater and greater threat to our society. Anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism hate crimes are growing in this country. In that context, I want to come back to the comments you made initially that you believed that an adequate vetting had taken place when you became the minister. Did that adequate vetting take into consideration social media accounts that date back to 2017, which clearly show a pattern of anti-Semitic slogans and comments on social media by Mr. Marouf? Minister."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 145, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "cites police-reported growth in anti-Semitic hate crime and faults the minister for minimizing it", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's 'pattern of anti-Semitic slogans and comments on social media' dating back to 2017 and the vetting that missed them", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the minister, for 'minimizing this'; Mr. Marouf's 'pattern of anti-Semitic slogans and comments on social media'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… cause you haven't talked about a social media screen at all. That was clearly something that was a huge and significant omission from the process that was put into place. In terms of the social media screens, what are the social media screens that are put into place as part of your new revised policy, and going beyond anti-Semitism, which, as I've mentioned, is growing, and Islamophobia is growing, racism is growing? We've heard this week about a toxic incel group, a misogynistic group that was on the leader of the official opposition 's YouTube feed, “men going their own way”, MGTOW. Does your social media screen that you're putting into place include all of those hateful signs and hashtags to ensure that this kind of thing never happens again whether we're talking about anti-Semitism or all other forms of hate?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "presses for social media screens against anti-Semitism and other hate", "trigger": "the absence of a social media screen that would have caught Laith Marouf's posts", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the minister, for omitting a social media screen from the new process", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. There's obviously a problem. We have two ministers who are compiling and working in one file. When we have one minister having to get information from another department, we have a delay. In this case, it was over a month of very virulent, toxic and anti-Semitic comments basically continuing to be funded by the federal government over that period. I don't have reassurance from the minister right now that the kind of social media screen that is so important—whether we're talking about anti-Semitism or misogyny—has been clearly put into place to stop this from happening again. That is a matter of some concern."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 107, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "it was over a month of very virulent, toxic and anti-Semitic comments basically continuing to be funded by the federal government over that period", "act_why": "charges the federal government with continuing to fund anti-Semitic comments for over a month", "trigger": "'over a month of very virulent, toxic and anti-Semitic comments basically continuing to be funded by the federal government'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the federal government, which kept funding 'virulent, toxic and anti-Semitic comments' for over a month; Mr. Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Excuse me for interrupting, but I don't have much time. It is obvious from your answer that you have not done this check with the organizations that are already in place. The anti-Semitism and attacks on French speakers that have taken place have gone unanswered. I have two questions about this. Firstly, has there ever been a requirement for organizations to attest that no hate speech is made within them? Secondly, even under the previous regime, you had the power to conduct a thorough audit of the expe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "says the anti-Semitism and attacks on francophones went unanswered and asks about audits", "trigger": "the CMAC contract and whether any audit or attestation existed before Laith Marouf's comments surfaced", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the minister and department, whose failure left 'the anti-Semitism and attacks on French speakers... unanswered'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Madam Chair, through you to Mrs. Thomas, I have really important questions that I want to ask the ministerial officials. This is a really important issue. Fundamentally, we're seeing anti-Semitism grow. I would ask Mrs. Thomas, through you, that she stop the filibuster and allow us to get more answers from the ministerial officials."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 54, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "public service"], "act_why": "invokes growing anti-Semitism to demand the filibuster end and questions resume", "trigger": "the CMAC / Laith Marouf funding questions put to ministerial officials", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "Mrs. Thomas and the Conservative filibuster blocking answers as 'anti-Semitism grow[s]'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ancophone communities, was sabotaged by the Conservatives. I don't understand at all why they did it. There is no logic to it, it makes no sense at all. I have a lot of questions that I couldn't ask, because the Conservatives completely sabotaged the meeting. It's quite striking to me, Madam Chair, that at a time when anti-Semitism is growing, and this was a crucial hearing to get answers as to why this contract was accorded, the Conservatives sabotaged the hearing, shut it down, basically filibustered it out. So I, for one—and I know other members had many questions that they were hoping to ask—can't ask those questions. Now we have to convene …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 162, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "laments a sabotaged hearing at a time of growing anti-Semitism; partisan attack, not label dispute", "trigger": "the hearing into 'why this contract was accorded' to CMAC / Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Conservatives, who 'sabotaged' a hearing 'so important to the Jewish and francophone communities'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… Twice I've said to them, let's have this first hearing, let's get the answers, and then we can come back. I've been open to the consideration. For the Conservatives to be so disrespectful, so childish, in how they are approaching an issue that is so fundamental.... When we see a growth in hate, when we see a growth in anti-Semitism, instead of dealing with that issue seriously we have this childish temper tantrum and filibuster that does not allow the community to be reassured that we're getting the answers that are required. I'm quite frustrated, Madam Chair. I don't know if it's because of the embarrassment that the leader of the official oppo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 272, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/peter-julian-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "same objection to the filibuster while stressing the growth of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the CMAC / Laith Marouf contract hearing, and the leader of the opposition's 'vile connection to this misogynistic group'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Conservative Party and its new leader, for filibustering the hearing 'when we see a growth in anti-Semitism'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… he issue once again and saying that it is the system's fault. It is not the system's fault. It failed, yes, but today you as the minister are before this committee because it was your responsibility to act when you became aware of what was going on. Your first point of action should have been to condemn the racist and anti-Semitic actions of Mr. Marouf—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 404, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/rachael-thomas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Your first point of action should have been to condemn the racist and anti-Semitic actions of Mr. Marouf", "act_why": "charges the minister with failing to condemn Marouf's racist and anti-Semitic actions", "trigger": "'the conduct of Mr. Marouf' and the month of ministerial silence between July 19-20 and the August 21 statement", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "Minister Hussen, the Prime Minister and Minister Rodriguez, for silence and refusal to take responsibility; 'the racist and anti-Semitic actions of Mr. Marouf'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nister Rodriguez oversees, it seems incumbent upon us as the committee to ask Mr. Rodriguez to come and to testify here so that we would have opportunities to ask him questions. Again, I don't need to remind this committee of the vile nature of Mr. Marouf's interactions on social media and the fact that he is a raging anti-Semite who was asked by this government to put in place anti-Semitic training or anti-racism training. I think that—I don't know—it baffled me—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 120, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/rachael-thomas-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "received over half a million dollars dating back to 2016 and given that that funding came through the CRTC, which Minister Rodriguez oversees", "act_why": "calls Marouf a raging anti-Semite hired by this government through CRTC funds", "trigger": "CMAC / Laith Marouf receiving 'over half a million dollars dating back to 2016', including CRTC funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf, 'a raging anti-Semite'; the government and the CRTC under Minister Rodriguez that funded him", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ssing here today is, of course, the opportunity to bring the minister forward. I share the many sentiments that were put forward by Mr. Housefather and by former MP Michael Levitt who tweeted this: “Looking back on events over the last [year] w/regards to Marouf affair, I'm utterly disheartened. Taking a stand against antisemitism should be a given and yet so few of my former Liberal colleagues have done so. This truly hurts. Jewish MPs shouldn't be left to call this out alone.\" Having used his voice to bravely call for accountability, I commend that former member. I commend Mr. Housefather as well for the wise and brave words he spoke this pas …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 423, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/rachael-thomas-43/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Minister Rodriguez did not speak to this situation for nearly five weeks after it came to light", "act_why": "quotes Levitt's tweet faulting Liberal MPs for not taking a stand against antisemitism", "trigger": "the Marouf affair and the silence of Liberal MPs, as tweeted by former MP Michael Levitt", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "Minister Rodriguez and Liberal colleagues who stayed silent ('so few of my former Liberal colleagues have done so'); Mr. Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ya'ara Saks", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ir. I want to thank Minister Hussen and the team from the department who are joining us today to address this egregious error that took place in terms of funding for the CMAC. First, Minister, I want to thank you for reiterating our government's unwavering commitment to tackling all forms of racism and hate, including anti-Semitism, particularly since the government did adopt the IHRA definition in 2019 and made a strong commitment for a whole-of-government approach in ensuring that anti-Semitism and all forms of hate are not seen in any of our programming or in any of our departments. I'd like to thank you as well for being here today to talk about the action you're taking to hold Laith Marouf and the CMAC accountable for the hateful, anti-Semitic and racist comments that Mr. Marouf made and to ensure that no organization like this ever—and I repeat “ever”—receives federal anti-racism funding again. As the minister has stated, he's been working with organizations, and I can say, as a member of the community, that I'm very grateful for the time and attention tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 301, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/yaara-saks-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "thanks the minister for acting on Marouf's hateful anti-Semitic comments and IHRA commitments", "trigger": "'this egregious error that took place in terms of funding for the CMAC' and Laith Marouf's hateful, anti-Semitic comments", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "own side"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf and CMAC, for 'the hateful, anti-Semitic and racist comments'; the government's 'egregious error' in funding them", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ya'ara Saks", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… little deeper because, as you stated in your opening remarks, we know that in this case the vetting process failed. As we move forward to ensure that this doesn't happen again.... I mentioned in my opening question about the IHRA definition being an anchor in terms of how the government approaches its understanding of anti-Semitism. Just for clarification, in all of these measures that we're taking, especially with the work of the special envoy, Irwin Cotler, and the work that Canada has done on the international stage to ensure that it is a partner in the formation of the IHRA definition and also in its application and use not just here in Cana …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 206, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/yaara-saks-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "presses for the IHRA definition to anchor vetting and training", "trigger": "the failed vetting in the Laith Marouf case, 'a litmus test of why the IHRA definition is so important'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "own side"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf; the government's vetting process, which 'failed'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-07", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ya'ara Saks", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay, well, thank you, Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair. Anti-Semitism is one of the oldest forms of hate and the most pernicious. Minister, I appreciate your comments and your taking a full departmental approach in applying IHRA in addressing this matter."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 41, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/46/yaara-saks-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 46, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism one of the oldest and most pernicious forms of hate", "trigger": "the Laith Marouf / CMAC funding matter and the departmental response to it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-18", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… pposed that, too. I'm glad that you have confirmed that. That is consistent with positions that Google has taken. At a previous parliamentary hearing, you were asked about the number of staff and employees that you have cracking down on online hate. We've had concerns levelled against Google around homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. At the time, you were asked how many full-time staff work in Canada and you weren't able to give that figure. Could you give it to us now?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/47/peter-julian-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 47, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "act_why": "relays concerns about anti-Semitism and other hate on Google and presses on moderation staffing", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "Google, against which 'concerns [have been] levelled... around homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Ian Scott", "role": "Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… had been a party to commission proceedings. There are two things I would say. One is that we're quasi-judicial in nature and we control our processes. I can tell you that if Mr. Marouf or organizations or individuals that hold views like that seek to intervene in our process in the future and we're aware that they are anti-Semitic or otherwise preaching hate, it's within the powers of the commission not to allow their participation. More importantly, I have instructed staff—I'll just finish this quickly—to review our cost award process to address this very situation, should it arise again."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 138, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/ian-scott-35/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "public service"], "act_why": "CRTC chair says anti-Semitic or hate-preaching parties can be barred from proceedings", "trigger": "'public reports about Mr. Marouf's comments' and CMAC's participation in CRTC proceedings", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf and organizations 'that are anti-Semitic or otherwise preaching hate'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ue of the Community Media Advocacy Centre. You've just testified that $32,147 was given in two payments to the Community Media Advocacy Centre and Mr. Marouf. Can you tell us how much was provided by the broadcast participation fund? My second question is related to the measures that have been taken. We've seen rising anti-Semitism, rising Islamophobia and rising racism, often violent. We had the convoy and the flying of Nazi flags. We have a threat in terms of racism and hate in our society. What measures has the CRTC taken, both for your own operations and also for any funds that are related to the CRTC, to ensure that those who hate do not re …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/peter-julian-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "points to rising anti-Semitism and convoy Nazi flags while asking what measures were taken", "trigger": "the $32,147 paid by the CRTC to the Community Media Advocacy Centre and Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the Community Media Advocacy Centre and Mr. Marouf; 'the convoy and the flying of Nazi flags'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["My question still stands, and that is what vetting procedure have you put into place? I ask because obviously another organization, the convoy group, can throw themselves in and have an active participation and then seek an award, so to what extent has this episode of rampant anti-Semitism served the CRTC to ensure that groups that are vehicles of hate are not given funding or given awards?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/peter-julian-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls the episode rampant anti-Semitism and presses on vetting of funding recipients", "trigger": "'this episode of rampant anti-Semitism' — the CRTC cost awards to CMAC / Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "individual"], "target_detail": "'the convoy group' as a possible funding recipient; 'this episode of rampant anti-Semitism' (Marouf/CMAC)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thanks very much, Madam Chair. Thank you, Minister Rodriguez, for being here with us today. I want to come back to Minister Hussen 's testimony on October 7, when he appeared before this committee. He said that he was aware of Mr. Marouf's vicious and “vile” anti-Semitic comments on July 19. When did you become aware of those comments?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/peter-julian-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "quotes Hussen's testimony about the 'vile' anti-Semitic comments and asks a timeline question", "trigger": "Minister Hussen's October 7 testimony that he learned of 'Mr. Marouf's vicious and vile anti-Semitic comments' on July 19", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf's 'vicious and vile anti-Semitic comments'; Minister Rodriguez, on when he knew", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["My next question, of course, is pretty obvious. What has the Department of Canadian Heritage done to ensure that there will never be funding again to any organizations that are vehicles of hate, whether we're talking about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism or misogyny? What steps have you taken as minister to ensure that the Department of Canadian Heritage no longer funds anyone involved in those activities?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/peter-julian-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks what steps prevent funding of vehicles of anti-Semitism and other hate", "trigger": "the Canadian Heritage funding of CMAC / Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Department of Canadian Heritage, for funding 'organizations that are vehicles of hate'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-21", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… on when I think perhaps you felt a little overwhelmed by my questions and you said that well, the Canadian public just needs to trust us. They just need to trust us. That was was what you said. Mr. Scott, this summer it came to the attention of the Canadian public that over half a million dollars was given to a public anti-Semite, a bigot, a racist, and that this money was given by the CRTC."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 101, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/48/rachael-thomas-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "over half a million dollars was given to a public anti-Semite, a bigot, a racist, and that this money was given by the CRTC", "act_why": "charges the CRTC with giving half a million dollars to a public anti-Semite", "trigger": "'over half a million dollars was given to a public anti-Semite, a bigot, a racist... by the CRTC'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "the CRTC, which gave 'over half a million dollars... to a public anti-Semite'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Adam Chambers", "role": "Simcoe North, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Simcoe North", "province": "ON", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["Thank you very much, sir. Mr. Fogel, I just have 30 or 40 seconds left. Do you believe there's a double standard with respect to hate against certain groups in this country and how that compares to the hate we see in anti-Semitism and how it's treated, discussed or addressed?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 50, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/64/adam-chambers-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 64, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "asks whether anti-Semitism is treated less seriously than other hate; unequal treatment, not misapplied label", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel (President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… final area is with regard to government resources to implement the new anti-racism strategy. We at CIJA are deeply concerned by the situation in which funds from the Canadian Heritage anti-racism action program were directed to an organization that gave a platform to someone who publicly made statements of the vilest anti-Semitic content for years. While we are grateful and pleased that Minister Hussen and the government have promised, and acted on, a review and renewal of Canada's anti-racism strategy, this was not an isolated incident. Our concern is that insufficient resources are being committed to actually address and educate on anti-Semitism and racism within the relevant government departments, especially for those tasked with vetting funding recipients. Our recommendation is that the Government of Canada provide dedicated funding and work with community stakeholders to ensure that government funding never again goes to an organization that promotes anti-Semitism and racism in general. This funding should include education on anti-Semitism for government decision-makers; a genuine and measurable implementation of the IHRA definition, already adopted by the government; and continued funding for the office of Canada's special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism. Finally, Mr. Chair, although we eagerly anticipate the new legislation to deal with online hate and harms that both Heritage and Justice are working on, there is another dimension we feel is urgently needed. We believe that a social media literacy campaign has to be undertaken. Our view is that hard-core haters repre …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 896, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/64/shimon-koffler-fogel-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 64, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "CIJA brief deploring the vilest anti-Semitic content and the funding failure, with recommendations", "trigger": "'funds from the Canadian Heritage anti-racism action program were directed to an organization that gave a platform to someone who publicly made statements of th", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Canadian Heritage anti-racism action program, whose funds went to an organization that platformed someone making 'statements of the vilest anti-Semitic content'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… with you there. Next I'll jump to the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. I think you gave some very intelligent testimony and some very good ideas. I would like to give you a bit of an opportunity to put some context around some of those suggestions. I think it's been fairly well reported that we've seen a rise in anti-Semitism. Could you talk about the impact on some of the people in your community? Do you agree with me that there has been a rise in anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/64/philip-lawrence-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 64, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "asks the witness about the rise of anti-Semitism and its impact on the community", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-26", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Yvan Baker", "role": "Etobicoke Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["Thank you very much for that. One of the things I'm concerned about when it comes to social media—and I'd like to hear your reaction to this—is how social media is used to incite violence, for example, or incite hatred. When I think about anti-Semitism and I think of hate, I also think the foundation for that is often in misinformation. Do you agree with that? Please tell me if you agree with that, because if you do.... Perhaps you can answer that question, and I'll come back to you with my follow-up."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 93, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/64/yvan-baker-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 64, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks about misinformation as a foundation for anti-Semitism and incitement", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "social media, 'used to incite violence... or incite hatred'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-01", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I want to start with Dr. Singer. I had the pleasure of being in Congress. We did hearings for our interparliamentary task force on online anti-Semitism. We got to have hearings where we had Meta, Google, TikTok and Twitter. I had a chance to talk to a lot of legislators, at least at the House level, and I found real consensus amongst Democrats and Republicans on both sides, whether it related to section 230 or to monopoly of the platforms, that there needed to be mor …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 148, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/51/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "technology"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "passing descriptive mention of an online-antisemitism task force; question is about tech monopoly", "trigger": "'the House of Representatives antitrust subcommittee recently accused platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook of abusing their monopoly power'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-01", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Hal Singer", "role": "Managing Director, Econ One", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["What I want to say first is that I'm a defender of big tech's freedom to engage in content moderation and particularly when it comes to keeping anti-Semitism or inflammatory violence.... Hopefully, we could agree that any comments that incite violence should be under the domain of the platform and they should have the free rights to restrict and to engage in content moderation. I don't think that the JCPA at least infringes on their ability to do so. But in terms of the ef …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 185, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/51/dr-hal-singer-25/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "testimony on Bill C-18 funding allocation; no use of the term in the captured text", "trigger": "Testimony on the news-bargaining bill and the U.S. JCPA: 'a more recent amendment ensures that a significant share of the funds—65%—collected, pursuant to the J", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-01", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Sue Gardner", "role": "McConnell Professor of Practice (2021-22), Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… easons to be critical of big tech. Those do include the algorithmic amplification of inflammatory material. I think that is something that the House is intending to grapple with through online harms legislation. That's a really important issue. I'm on the board of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. That is what we track: anti-Semitism and hate of various kinds, and racism in Canada, including what's disseminated by the platforms. It's an important issue. I don't want to diminish or make fun of the importance of the issue. I think your instinct is correct. There's an anti-big tech sentiment increasingly over the past, let's say, five years and it ma …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 208, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/51/sue-gardner-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "affirms antisemitism tracked by her organization is an important issue she will not diminish", "trigger": "'a lot has been brought into the room today that is not germane to Bill C-18'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the platforms / big tech", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-01", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… y, where he's got the Saskatchewan and Alberta weekly newspapers associations asking for legislation like this. I'd like to come back, Mr. Singer, to your comments about community news, because you are absolutely right to identify that one of the reasons why we're seeing the rise in hate in all of its toxic forms—more anti-Semitism, more racism, more homophobia and transphobia, more Islamophobia, more misogyny—is in part that those links that community journalists play, that community newspapers play, are being exploded as big tech tries to profit from hate. As you know, in the United States, a major campaign that involves a whole range of organ …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 205, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/51/peter-julian-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 51, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "deplores rising antisemitism and blames a diffuse 'big tech' sector rather than a named party", "trigger": "Bill C-18 committee testimony on community news; 'the Saskatchewan and Alberta weekly newspapers associations asking for legislation like this'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "big tech", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-02", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tracy Gray", "role": "Kelowna—Lake Country, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kelowna--Lake Country", "province": "BC", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["… e as well that during the heritage committee meeting on October 21, in testimony regarding the grant given to the CMAC, Minister Rodriguez said, “Minister Hussen is totally responsible for this program.” We have new information that we need answers to. We need to hear from Minister Hussen quickly, given Laith Marouf's anti-Semitism and anti-French views. Thank you, Mr. Chair."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 223, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/42/tracy-gray-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 42, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "We need to hear from Minister Hussen quickly, given Laith Marouf's anti-Semitism and anti-French views", "act_why": "motion premised on Marouf's antisemitism and the named minister's handling of his funding", "trigger": "'the federal funding provided to the Community Media Advocacy Centre'... 'given Laith Marouf's anti-Semitism and anti-French views'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf; the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion and officials", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-04", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Hon. Stanley Kutcher (Senator, Nova Scotia, ISG)", "role": "Senator, Nova Scotia, ISG", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Medical Assistance In Dying", "passages": ["… e “yuck factor”. As a reminder, it's an intuitive emotional response to something that should be interpreted as evidence for the intrinsically harmful or evil characteristic of that thing. It's the idea that repugnance equals wisdom, or repugnance equals a moral judgment. That's been used throughout history to justify anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, alternative sexualities, same-sex marriage, etc. Mr. Trump glorified it with his decision-making motto of “this is my gut feeling and therefore it's right”. You warned us against making this mistake in our thinking. Do you think this yuck factor and its counterpart of moral panic may characterize …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 132, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/medical-assistance-in-dying/44-1/25/stanley-kutcher-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Medical Assistance In Dying", "committee_slug": "medical-assistance-in-dying", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "treats antisemitism as a historic harm wrongly justified by the 'yuck factor'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-11-15", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… cholson. You mentioned that Sport Canada was sort of in an oversight position, knowing what was happening at Hockey Canada all those years. What control should the government be putting in place to ensure that we're not continually funding organizations that we then find out are having sexual assault issues or funding anti-Semites, and all of these different issues come up? What should the government do to show better governance there?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 77, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/53/marilyn-gladu-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 53, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "What control should the government be putting in place to ensure that we're not continually funding organizations that we then find out are having sexual assault issues or funding anti-Semites", "act_why": "premises the question on the government having funded anti-Semites", "trigger": "Government funding of organizations with 'sexual assault issues or funding anti-Semites' (Hockey Canada and the Marouf grant)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the government, for \"funding anti-Semites\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-12-06", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… s. It's disturbing to see this across Canada. It is therefore important that the journalistic content that is supported by Bill C‑18 be subject to this code of ethics so that hate and misinformation are not part of it. We've seen a disturbing rise in hate, a disturbing rise in racism and misogyny, a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and a disturbing rise in homophobia and transphobia. This is something we have to take action on. Journalism plays a key role in that. We've already talked about Bill C-18 playing a role in encouraging local journalism in a way that counters that hate and disinformation. The reality is that what is f …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 418, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/59/peter-julian-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 59, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "deplores the disturbing rise in antisemitism and hate as grounds for a code-of-ethics amendment", "trigger": "Subamendment to the Bloc amendment BQ-4 to Bill C-18 requiring a code of ethics on hateful news content", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… om. As for Laith Marouf and why this is important for Canadians, this was his Twitter description: “I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces or for entertaining Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.” That was the top thing you saw on his Twitter feed. In 2021, we had a rise in anti-Semitism like we've never seen. We had to hold a national summit, the first national summit on anti-Semitism, and this was his tweet about it: “A wacko Indigenous House-Slave of Apartheid Canada, from the 'First Nations Confederacy of Educational Centres', opens the Jewish White Supremacist Colonist conference hosted by the Zionist Lobby, PM @JustinTrudeau and Apartheid Israel; to infer Indigenity on Zionist Colonists.” Thes …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 234, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "At that point, did anyone bother to google Laith Marouf?", "act_why": "quotes Marouf's tweets, names him an antisemite and presses the department on why it funded him", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's tweets ('a bullet to the head'; the tweet about the 2021 national summit on anti-Semitism) and the April 14, 2022 press release quoting him", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf; the department that never \"bothered to google\" him", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Would you be able to provide to the committee a copy of the new screening mechanisms? I would like to see how department officials are now being trained on anti-Semitism and other forms of hate, what the new training process is and what the new vetting process is. Could you provide those documents to the committee?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 56, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "procedural request for the new screening and antisemitism training documents", "trigger": "The CMAC/Marouf grant and the department's new screening and anti-Semitism training mechanisms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. Let me just come now to another issue I have to get into because it's important. Does the new contract incorporate the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism? Does either the attestation or the new contract require applicants to subscribe to the government's anti-racism strategy, which incorporates, by definition, the IHRA definition?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "procedural question on whether the contract incorporates the IHRA definition", "trigger": "The new Canadian Heritage contract and attestation adopted after the Marouf grant; whether they incorporate the IHRA definition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… y reference, the IHRA definition. Let me just mention this because it was important. My friend, Mr. Julian brought it up. The Jerusalem declaration is a competing definition of the IHRA definition. The IHRA definition was developed by many countries, including Canada, over 10 years to come to a consensus definition of anti-Semitism. The Jerusalem declaration was developed by eight people. It was a response to IHRA. The internationally accepted definition that all Jewish organizations—all mainstream Jewish organizations—in Canada subscribe to is IHRA, which is why the government adopted that, so I wouldn't want to see a competing definition come …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 110, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "community organisations"], "act_why": "recounts the provenance of the IHRA and Jerusalem definitions and states a preference, no charge", "trigger": "The definition of anti-Semitism used in the post-Marouf contracts; IHRA versus 'the Jerusalem declaration'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… basically understanding, though, is that because of this incident, we're trying to figure out all the.... You make lemonade out of lemons. You now have a situation in which the Jewish Public Servants' Network, Simon Wiesenthal, the Public Service Alliance and Professor Cotler are working with the department to create anti-Semitism training that can be rolled out across government and across departments. Is that correct?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 71, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-32/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "describes who is building the department's antisemitism training, no stance taken", "trigger": "'because of this incident' - the Marouf grant - the department is building anti-Semitism training with the Jewish Public Servants' Network, Simon Wiesenthal, PS", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Can I ask what those flags were? Were there any defamatory, racist, anti-Semitic or francophobic tweets among them?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 18, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/anthony-housefather-40/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "factual question about whether flagged tweets were antisemitic", "trigger": "The flags raised in the departmental vetting of Marouf: 'Were there any defamatory, racist, anti-Semitic or francophobic tweets among them?'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["You say “ultimately”. I don't want to belabour the point, but we have a deep misunderstanding of the process and this delay in making a decision that seems so obvious to everyone. You have in front of you tweets, statements and reports of absolutely unacceptable remarks because they are francophobic, anti-Semitic and hateful. Who had to make the decision and didn't? Who didn't take the initiative to terminate this contract immediately? I'm trying to figure out why it took so long. No one around the table here would have waited a minute before telling Mr. Marouf that it was over. Why did it take so long?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/martin-champoux-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls the antisemitic and francophobic remarks absolutely unacceptable and faults the delay, not the label", "trigger": "The delay in terminating Marouf's contract despite 'tweets, statements and reports of absolutely unacceptable remarks'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf's \"francophobic, anti-Semitic and hateful\" remarks; the officials who did not terminate the contract", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… be audit training for program officers. In addition, officers would be required to review each funding application before it is approved. These officers would receive training in reviewing the social media accounts of organizations and individuals, as well as diversity and inclusion training, including anti-racism and anti-Semitism awareness training. The minister went on to say that if an organization had its funding withdrawn, it would no longer be eligible for funding from Canadian Heritage. The minister concluded by stating that candidates should commit to taking steps to create an environment free from harassment, abuse and discrimination. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 173, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/martin-champoux-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education", "other"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "relays the National Post account of the minister's promised antisemitism-awareness measures", "trigger": "'On September 12, 2022, the National Post reported remarks by the minister that this incident represented a system failure' and the measures promised afterward", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the department, for measures \"that should have been in place from the beginning\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Wow. With a long list of clearly anti-Semitic, anti-French, anti-Black tweets, you'd still respect the 30 days. I find that shocking. There's now a new date that we know: September 23. On August 19 it was suspended. It should have been terminated, and I think Canadians at home would agree. How many people work in communications at the Department of Canadian Herit …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 62, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/melissa-lantsman-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls the tweets clearly antisemitic and is shocked at the delay; the charge is slowness, not antisemitism", "trigger": "'a long list of clearly anti-Semitic, anti-French, anti-Black tweets' and the August 19 suspension / September 23 termination dates", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "\"a long list of clearly anti-Semitic, anti-French, anti-Black tweets\" (Marouf); the department that \"still respect[ed] the 30 days\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Now the department is putting out communication with Laith Marouf's name in it, with the minister's name in it, presumably together, patting each other on the back for $133,000 of over $600,000 that the Government of Canada has given to this, frankly, anti-Semite. Nobody in the department, in a team of 100 people, has ever come across a single tweet, for which there's a long list, if you want to see it, of his vile tweets. Is that correct?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/melissa-lantsman-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "Nobody in the department, in a team of 100 people, has ever come across a single tweet", "act_why": "names Marouf an anti-Semite and charges the department with promoting him in its communications", "trigger": "The Canadian Heritage press release naming Marouf and the minister, and the $133,000 of over $600,000 paid to him", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "\"this, frankly, anti-Semite\" (Laith Marouf); the Department of Canadian Heritage", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["It was on July 26. That was when the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Yes, we can provide those documents to the committee. There was training done in October for all program advisers with respect to both the way in which the criteria are to be implemented and the training on anti-Semitism and anti-racism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 40, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["education"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… racism or discrimination would not be eligible for funding. These additional requirements and training were brought in because it was new. Previously there was training for program advisers. This new training was specifically on the new criteria that we were piloting, along with additional training on anti-racism and anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 123, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-42/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": [], "response": ["education", "other"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Yes, the training that was done on October 27 was done by UNESCO with the special envoy for Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism. The definition of anti-Semitism that was used is the definition by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which is the same definition that was adopted as part of Canada's anti-racism strategy."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 53, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-44/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'm going to turn to my colleague. I am aware that the definition that was used is the IHRA definition for anti-Semitism. I am not sure about the Jerusalem declaration."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 30, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-45/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["The definition for anti-Semitism that is part of Canada's anti-racism strategy is the one that has been given by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 24, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-71/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That's correct—and the Canada School of Public Service. We are working to develop other training on anti-Semitism, because combatting anti-Semitism is an integral part of Canada's anti-racism strategy. We know that we need to ensure that there is a continuing awareness and understanding of the way in which anti-Semitism is experienced. That includes in the public service."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 57, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-79/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "educators"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I understand the question. What I can say is that there is no place for anti-Semitism. The time it took was really an effort to understand the situation, and yes, it took too long."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 34, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-121/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Yes. Thank you. I can assure you. On the work the department has done both to ensure that both official languages are respected and celebrated in the programming we do, and to ensure that anti-Semitism is combatted with the programming we do, whether it's the summit we had on anti-Semitism or round tables, we need to continue our efforts. We need to be vigilant. We understand that hate is going up and that anti-Semitism is an integral part of Canada's anti-racism strategy. We need to continue efforts to ensure it is understood in terms of how it is manifest in society, but also within our institutions. That is the work we are engaged in."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 114, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-122/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "official relays the date the minister's office phoned about an antisemitism issue", "trigger": "'On July 26... the minister's office called to say that there was an issue that required some follow-up with respect to anti-Semitism with one of our projects' ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Mala Khanna (Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage)", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… cesses. My name is Mala Khanna. I'm the associate deputy minister for Canadian Heritage, and I'm here with Charles Slowey, who is the assistant deputy minister for the community and identity sector. We are joining you today from the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. Let me start by reiterating that anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred have no place in Canada. Organizations and individuals demonstrating hateful and racist behaviour, whether anti-Semitic, anti-francophone, anti-Black, anti-indigenous or against any other racial or religious groups, should not be supported through government funding. The hateful comments made by Mr. Marouf were shocking and profoundly disturbing to us. Had Canadian Heritage officials been aware of his comments, the project would not ha …", "… but it was not done of the individuals who would be performing the work, because nothing came up after the search of CMAC. Had hateful comments turned up, the project would not have been funded. On July 26, the minister 's office informed me by phone that there was an issue that would need to be looked into concerning anti-Semitism in one of our projects. On August 2, I received information from the minister's office via email about the case, including one of the offensive tweets. Between August 2 and August 19, the department determined how the individual was connected to the project, reviewed the contractual obligations, sought legal advice an …", "… oms and the Canadian Human Rights Act. The minister now has the option to immediately terminate a contract. We are conducting an online public information search on the organization and the individuals identified to work on the project. Program officers have received training on the new criteria and on anti-racism and anti-Semitism. Using the new audit process, we reviewed each of the active and funded agreements, approximately 350 in total and approximately 200 additional applications, which fall under Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy. Funds are now flowing back to the communities, where they belong, so that groups can continue to undertake this i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 714, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/mala-khanna-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education", "other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "opening statement says antisemitism has no place in Canada, calls the comments shocking and apologizes", "trigger": "'funding granted to and subsequently terminated for the Community Media Advocacy Centre'; 'the hateful comments made by Mr. Marouf were shocking and profoundly ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"The hateful comments made by Mr. Marouf were shocking and profoundly disturbing\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for being here. This is, obviously, a concern to all members of the committee and to the Canadian public, I think, writ large. We've seen more and more instances of anti-Semitic hate and all other forms of toxic hate. A year ago on Parliament Hill, a Nazi flag, which is a despicable symbol of genocidal violence, was waved during the so-called “freedom convoy”. This is something that all Canadians have to be concerned about: the rise in anti-Semitism and the rise in hate. I've introduced a private member's bill, Bill C-229 , to ban those symbols of hate, like the Nazi flag that represents nothing more than the genocidal violence and hate that led to the Holocaust. The concerns, I think, are very legitimate. The fact that this anti-Semitism was funded by the federal government, funded by the taxpayers, I find unbelievable. I want to understand that changes have been made to ensure that this never happens again. I listened very carefully to your testimony—thank you, Ms. Khanna—that there are new procedures that have been put into place. I think you referr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 236, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/peter-julian-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "deplores the rise in antisemitism and the Nazi flag, and finds the funding unbelievable, while seeking fixes", "trigger": "Federal funding of Marouf's anti-Semitism; also 'a year ago on Parliament Hill, a Nazi flag... was waved during the so-called freedom convoy'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the so-called \"freedom convoy\" where a Nazi flag was waved; the federal government that funded \"this anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["You made reference to a training process and training material. Mr. Housefather has asked that we get copies of that material, and I echo his call. Do the training process and training material include a definition of anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 38, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/peter-julian-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks whether the training material contains a definition of antisemitism", "trigger": "The anti-Semitism training material adopted after the Marouf grant: 'Do the training process and training material include a definition of anti-Semitism?'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I know the organization. I don't question its work at all. It does terrific work. The definition itself, as I'm sure you're aware, has been controversial because...less clear. Are you familiar with or is there reference incorporated in the training materials to the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which has a definition that says very clearly that “Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)”? Is that incorporated into the material that is provided for training?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/peter-julian-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "international bodies"], "act_why": "quotes the Jerusalem Declaration definition and asks if it is in the training material", "trigger": "Whether the post-Marouf training materials reference 'the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. Concerns have been raised. I think the minister received correspondence in this regard as well. One of the concerns that was raised was by Kenneth Stern, who wrote in The Guardian that “as the American Jewish Committee's antisemitism expert, I was the lead drafter of what was then called the 'working definition of antisemitism'”. He suggests that there are concerns with that definition because it is less clear. One of the concerns that has been raised is that white supremacists, the most vicious anti-Semites of all—and I reference the flying of the Nazi flag—can find loopholes through that definition that are not available for them to use through the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. Are you aware of those concerns that have been raised?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 124, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/peter-julian-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "relays Kenneth Stern's published concerns about the working definition", "trigger": "Kenneth Stern's article in The Guardian: 'as the American Jewish Committee's antisemitism expert, I was the lead drafter of what was then called the working def", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "white supremacists, \"the most vicious anti-Semites of all\"", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ing to have to, of course, go through all the old applications, new applications, the old contribution agreement, the new contribution agreement. I am, as I think we all are around this table, concerned about the length of time that this took. Really, essentially from the point of first clearly identifying the hateful anti-Semitism that was being funded by the federal government to actually ending the contract took over two months. With the rise of white supremacy, the rise in hate, we can't have a federal government that takes that long to respond to egregious cases of hate being disseminated whether that's online or any other venue. When you t …", "… is identified with the department or in the ongoing vetting that's taking place within the department, there can be a rapid end to that contract? The reality is that it undermines confidence in our federal government when we have federal government funds going to a person or an organization that is propagating vicious anti-Semitic comments and hateful messages."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 197, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/peter-julian-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "objects to federal funds reaching vicious antisemitic messaging and presses for faster termination", "trigger": "'from the point of first clearly identifying the hateful anti-Semitism that was being funded by the federal government to actually ending the contract took over", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"the hateful anti-Semitism that was being funded by the federal government\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-13", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Awesome. I'd love for that to be tabled with the committee. It's come to light that Mr. Marouf is quite the anti-Semite, and very public about it. It's all over his Twitter account and other social media accounts. It's interesting that this wasn't caught. When did the department become aware that there was a problem? When did that first cross the desk of someone within the department?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/65/rachael-thomas-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 65, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "It's come to light that Mr. Marouf is quite the anti-Semite", "act_why": "names Marouf as a very public anti-Semite and asks why the department missed it", "trigger": "'It's come to light that Mr. Marouf is quite the anti-Semite, and very public about it. It's all over his Twitter account'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "\"Mr. Marouf is quite the anti-Semite\"; the department that did not catch it", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-03-07", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Jennifer O'Connell", "role": "Pickering—Uxbridge, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Pickering--Uxbridge", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… members scares me. I have sat with members of my Muslim community when there have been attacks against Muslims in Canada and around the world. I've seen the fear they have. To see that hate embraced once again by the Conservative Party of Canada scares me for them. It scares me for our Jewish community. We are seeing anti-Semitism on the rise. To see that a person, a foreign actor, with these hateful views being embraced by the Conservative Party of Canada.... Why are we not calling that out? Well, we are. Why are the Conservatives not calling that out? I think there's an opportunity here. By the way, CSIS has raised the alarm bells on alt-righ …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 5725, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/44-1/57/jennifer-oconnell-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 57, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "PROC filibuster on foreign interference; no use of the term in the captured text", "trigger": "The motion before PROC to summon the Prime Minister's chief of staff over foreign interference, and the appointment of a special rapporteur", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-03-07", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ya'ara Saks", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… process with as little influence as possible—or none, frankly. We now have communities that are afraid of being questioned over their right to be here. I speak about that from a personal perspective. It's no secret that aside from being Jewish, I am Israeli, and I get accused of dual loyalties all the time as part of anti-Semitic tropes. It's one of the oldest forms of hate. We could go as far back as the Dreyfus trials, which were about dual loyalties. Frankly, I cannot believe that in 2023, we are here, and this kind of hatred could potentially bubble to the surface. It already has for some communities, as Ms. O'Connell mentioned. Muslim com …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2486, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/44-1/57/yaara-saks-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 57, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "charge_quote": "I haven't heard the Leader of the Opposition be public and firm about members who dined with Christine Anderson", "act_why": "faults named Conservative members for dining with Christine Anderson and the Leader for not disavowing it", "trigger": "'several Conservative members who met with Christine Anderson from AfD, and my community members in York Centre were appalled by this'; the convoy where 'I saw ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "\"several Conservative members who met with Christine Anderson\"; Christine Anderson's \"Holocaust denial views\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-03-10", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Gabrielle Lim", "role": "Doctoral Fellow, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["Yes, for sure. Very briefly, again, I don't want to directly say correlation is causation, but we see this in other communities as well. When there's criticism of Israel, for example, there are reports of increased anti-Semitic attacks. Similarly, over COVID, the coronavirus, there was increased resentment towards Chinese immigrants. Similarly, after 9/11, there was a lot of backlash against people who were perceived brown, not just Arabic. This is the general ballpark we're dealing with. I think we have to be careful about how we word certa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 183, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/61/gabrielle-lim-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 61, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "cites reports of increased antisemitic attacks after criticism of Israel as an analytic pattern", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-03-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Artur Wilczynski", "role": "Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… s and particularly non-state actors from friendly states. I think that it doesn't take a big stretch to see how ideologically motivated, violent extremist organizations, particularly those based in the United States, are trying to amplify certain messages that divide target minority communities, whether it's promoting anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia or transphobia, and undermining democratic principles and values. Lots of folks are out there doing so in a non-transparent way. They're not state actors; therefore, the ability of governments like ours to address them is a challenge. That's one of the things I think an inquiry should look at …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/63/artur-wilczynski-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 63, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "warns that extremist non-state actors are amplifying antisemitism and other hatreds", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "\"ideologically motivated, violent extremist organizations, particularly those based in the United States\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-05-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That's why I wanted to clarify that. I know, for example, that you're passionate about sports, especially soccer. I know you're passionate about religious minority communities in Canada. You have often talked to me about anti-Semitism and other communities, the protection of churches and the protection of all of the things that have been raised today. I know you are passionate about them, and I don't want people to think that just because you're not responsible for them, you don't care about these things. I know you care deeply about them. Mr. Chai …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 109, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/83/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 83, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "credits a colleague's concern about antisemitism, treating it as a harm; no target", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-05-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Has anybody faced consequences for hiring Laith Marouf? Has anybody been fired? In a regular job, in a regular place, if you do something like that, there are consequences. Has anybody at all in the ministry faced consequences for the vile anti-Semitism in funding Laith Marouf?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 46, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/83/melissa-lantsman-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 83, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "Has anybody at all in the ministry faced consequences for the vile anti-Semitism in funding Laith Marouf?", "act_why": "names Marouf and charges the ministry with vile antisemitism in funding him", "trigger": "'Has anybody faced consequences for hiring Laith Marouf?'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "the ministry, for \"the vile anti-Semitism in funding Laith Marouf\"; Laith Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-05-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Okay. I'll come back to this question, because I also note in the estimates a decrease of nearly $12 million for the community support, multiculturalism and anti-racism initiatives in your department. I mentioned earlier the increases in hate crimes provoked by the extreme right. In anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, there's a 67% increase; in crimes related to sexual orientation, there's a 64% increase; in race and ethnicity, there's a 6% increase. This is over the course of the last couple of years. We see a decrease in funding at the same time that we see a marked increase in police-reported hate crime. I want …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 125, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/83/peter-julian-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 83, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "pairs rising antisemitic hate crimes with a funding cut and presses the government on the contradiction", "trigger": "'In anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, there's a 67% increase; in crimes related to sexual orientation, there's a 64% increase; in race and ethnicity, there's a 6%", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"the increases in hate crimes provoked by the extreme right\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-05-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. We all owe you. I want to reiterate the importance that the money is being reclaimed in the Laith Marouf case, though I do believe, given that there are members of the Conservative caucus who met with a vile anti-Semitic and Islamophobic neo-Nazi, that it's a bit rich for the Conservatives to give any lessons around anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. That said, I wanted to come to the issue of copyright. A number of organizations are looking to update the Copyright Act. It is a little unclear who is taking that one and it is a little unclear what the timelines are. Can you update us on this badly needed update to the Copyright Act and how much of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 136, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/83/peter-julian-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 83, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "there are members of the Conservative caucus who met with a vile anti-Semitic and Islamophobic neo-Nazi", "act_why": "charges named Conservative caucus members with meeting a vile antisemitic neo-Nazi", "trigger": "Recovery of the money 'in the Laith Marouf case'; 'members of the Conservative caucus who met with a vile anti-Semitic and Islamophobic neo-Nazi'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "\"members of the Conservative caucus who met with a vile anti-Semitic and Islamophobic neo-Nazi\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-06-02", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett", "role": "Director, Cardus", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "National Defence", "passages": ["I can't comment necessarily on how it has impacted the Canadian Armed Forces, but certainly, in terms of society, StatsCan has demonstrated in its crime reporting survey that there have been increases in anti-religious hate crimes, particularly against Jews—anti-Semitism continues to be a major problem in the country—and certainly there's a significant increase in anti-Catholic hate crimes. That obviously can trickle down into different parts of society, but I think it's very important that we recognize that religion is something that is deeply important to a significant number of Can …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 138, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/44-1/62/dr-andrew-pw-bennett-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "National Defence", "committee_slug": "national-defence", "meeting": 62, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "cites StatsCan data and calls antisemitism a continuing major problem", "trigger": "'StatsCan has demonstrated in its crime reporting survey that there have been increases in anti-religious hate crimes, particularly against Jews'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-06-02", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Barrett", "role": "Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Leeds--Grenville--Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes", "province": "ON", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["Thanks, Chair. Mr. Mitrovica talked about gutter comments, with which he's very well acquainted. He's written columns filled with disgusting anti-Semitic tropes. He's written columns including lies about Jews murdering Christian children in Europe, and he's compared the men and women who served in the IDF to being members of the Mob. I certainly didn't add him to the witness list today. I have no lessons to take from him, and I have no questions for him. I'll return th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 86, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/74/michael-barrett-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 74, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "He's written columns filled with disgusting anti-Semitic tropes.", "act_why": "names Andrew Mitrovica as writing columns filled with antisemitic tropes and blood-libel lies", "trigger": "The witness's published columns: 'He's written columns filled with disgusting anti-Semitic tropes... lies about Jews murdering Christian children in Europe'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "media"], "target_detail": "Mr. Mitrovica, who \"has written columns filled with disgusting anti-Semitic tropes\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2023-06-02", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Shelby Kramp-Neuman", "role": "Hastings—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Hastings--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "topic": "National Defence", "passages": ["In the past you've been interviewed stating that anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic views are all on the rise. How has this progressed since 2021, and how do you believe this has impacted CAF?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 34, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/44-1/62/shelby-kramp-neuman-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "National Defence", "committee_slug": "national-defence", "meeting": 62, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays the witness's earlier interview statement and asks how the trend has progressed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-09-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Government Operations and Estimates", "passages": ["… rn about these darker moments in our collective history so we can prevent these grave evils from repeating themselves. The promise that was made to my grandmother's generation, the promise of “never again”, of not allowing genocides to happen in the future, is one we have obviously failed to deliver on. We have rising anti-Semitism around world, including here in Canada. By my count, there have been four instances in the time I've been a member of Parliament in which this House has recognized contemporaneous acts of genocide, so we know genocide continues. This, again, underlines the importance of knowing world history, of knowing our history, a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1464, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/government-operations/44-1/77/garnett-genuis-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Government Operations and Estimates", "committee_slug": "government-operations", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "outrage at the Nazi-veteran recognition and rising antisemitism; charge against government is negligence, not antisemitism", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "\"what happened on Friday\" — the recognition in the House of an individual who \"voluntarily enlisted with the SS in 1943\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Prime Minister is ultimately responsible for this apparatus", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-09-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Stephanie Kusie", "role": "Calgary Midnapore, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Midnapore", "province": "AB", "topic": "Government Operations and Estimates", "passages": ["… hers and sisters are reeling as to the mere possibility of this event having taken place. I have here a letter from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, which states: The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, it is incredibly disturbing to see Canada's Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen-SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials. There should be no …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 859, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/government-operations/44-1/77/stephanie-kusie-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Government Operations and Estimates", "committee_slug": "government-operations", "meeting": 77, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "term appears in the Wiesenthal Center letter she reads and endorses with outrage", "trigger": "\"a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament\" during President Zelenskyy's address on September 22", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the international embarrassment created by the Liberal Government by allowing a former soldier of a Nazi military unit", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nparalleled in the world. Freedom of expression is not constrained, except by Web giants like Meta, which has censored opinions at the request of regimes like Putin's in Russia and Modi's in India. So, censorship exists, but not against hate speech. Meta always says it doesn't have the means to prevent Islamophobic or anti-Semitic speech and hate speech towards the LGBTQ community, but when a dictatorship demands that certain things be censored, as we saw in the case of the murder of Mr. Nijjar, in Surrey, a few miles from where I live, they are censored. However, the Conservatives don't say a word. They don't say it's unacceptable. When Meta l …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 541, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/91/peter-julian-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 91, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "act_why": "denounces far-right hate speech generally, antisemitism cited as one form", "trigger": "Mr. Champoux's motion on freedom of expression and censorship by the web giants, before the heritage committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Meta always says it doesn't have the means to prevent Islamophobic or anti-Semitic speech; the Conservatives don't say a word", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… all think carefully about in terms of freedom of speech and how we ensure that we maintain that privilege in this country. To speak very personally, as a Muslim it's been a tough few weeks for a couple of reasons. One is that I represent a riding with a large Jewish community and a large Muslim community. The rise of anti-Semitic tropes, comments and commentary and anti-Muslim commentary, online and in person, has been really ramping up. At the same time, I saw members of my community participate in what I considered to be some pretty awful expressions of freedom of speech over the course of the last couple of weeks. When we think about the co …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 486, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/91/taleeb-noormohamed-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 91, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "alarm at rising antisemitic and anti-Muslim commentary in his riding", "trigger": "\"the motion by Mr. Champoux\" on freedom of speech and hate speech before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-19", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kevin Waugh", "role": "Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Grasswood", "province": "SK", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nsequences, including here in Canada. After politicians and Canadian media promoted the Hamas narrative that Israel targeted the hospital, several emergency rallies were organized across the country, including one, Madam Chair, that we had right outside the Shaw Centre last week, where all the leaders were involved in anti-Semitism. We had a lot of organized rallies. We can speak from first-hand experience: All such rallies that claim to be protests against Israel in fact target Canadian Jews. According to the organizers, more than 1,000 individuals gathered outside their anti-Semitism conference, where calls for violence against Jews were made that night. “Canadian elected officials”—that's all of us around the table and many more, but the second part I like even more—“the media, and other influencers have a responsibility to verify facts before commenting, particularly during times of war.” By pro …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1444, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/93/kevin-waugh-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 93, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "By promoting that Hamas lie, the lives of Canadian Jews were put at risk.", "act_why": "relays CIJA charge that CBC-amplified disinformation and rally leaders endangered Jews", "trigger": "CBC's reporting — refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organization and publishing the false claim that Israel bombed the Gaza hospital — and the rally of more th", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the CBC ... spreading unverified information; more than 1,000 individuals gathered outside their anti-Semitism conference, where calls for violence against Jews were made", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2023-10-26", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ave intelligence from Canada's national defence and intelligence command, and we also have verification from the United States, France and the United Kingdom, saying that is false. Yet, the CBC has not offered an apology for their spreading of dangerous disinformation, dangerous disinformation that actually feeds into anti-Semitic beliefs and behaviour in this country. When taxpayers are putting $1.4 billion toward a machine that is spreading disinformation, that's wrong."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 278, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/94/rachael-thomas-39/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 94, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "dangerous disinformation that actually feeds into anti-Semitic beliefs and behaviour in this country", "act_why": "charges the CBC with disinformation that feeds antisemitic beliefs", "trigger": "CBC's article that \"the Gaza hospital was bombed by Israel and that hundreds were dead\", since assessed as false, and its instruction not to call Hamas terroris", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media"], "target_detail": "the CBC is spreading dangerous disinformation ... that actually feeds into anti-Semitic beliefs and behaviour in this country", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2023-10-26", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… t was found, and has been confirmed by the Prime Minister of Canada, the Minister of National Defence , the Canadian Forces intelligence command, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France that this is a false narrative the CBC has been spreading. It is in fact dangerous disinformation that feeds into anti-Semitism in this country. It is wrong, and this committee has the responsibility to hold the CBC leadership to account. For the members of this committee to try to backstop the leader of that organization is absolutely horrendous. It's despicable. This is the spreading of dangerous disinformation that has had a massive impact …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 392, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/94/rachael-thomas-48/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 94, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "It is in fact dangerous disinformation that feeds into anti-Semitism in this country.", "act_why": "repeats that CBC's false Gaza hospital story feeds antisemitism in Canada", "trigger": "CBC's article \"Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City hospital, Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says\", subsequently contradicted by Canadian, U.S", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the CBC is spreading disinformation ... that feeds into anti-Semitism in this country; the Liberal and NDP members of this committee", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kevin Waugh", "role": "Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Grasswood", "province": "SK", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… intense time. In Saskatchewan, two or three offices have been invaded in the last couple of days. Right now, because of certain anti-racism comments made in the past number of weeks, we are seeing this. I'm floored the Department of Canadian Heritage has not taken this at all seriously...from Laith Marouf. This is an anti-Semite. It was brought up by the member for Mount Royal at the committee. It was brought forward, almost a year ago, to his own department. This person shouldn't have received a dime from the Liberal government, yet he did. Mr. Chair, I'm appalled by what I saw in the National Post. I had suspected the collection agency had …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 259, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/kevin-waugh-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "I'm floored the Department of Canadian Heritage has not taken this at all seriously", "act_why": "calls Laith Marouf an antisemite and faults the Liberal government for funding him", "trigger": "Jamie Sarkonak's article reporting that Laith Marouf — given $134,000 in anti-racism grants despite his anti-Semitic output — has repaid none of the $123,000 ow", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf. This is an anti-Semite; This person shouldn't have received a dime from the Liberal government", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would say that I support this motion, because I am very concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. We see from this Laith Marouf incident that he hasn't paid the money back. There was no consequence to him. There was no consequence to Minister Hussen or Minister Rodriguez at the time. Now we're seeing, within our country, a rise in anti-Semitism inflamed by the situation in Israel and Gaza. We have Jewish children afraid to go to school. We have clear pro-Hamas demonstrations happening in the country. People are saying to me, “Where are the police? Where are the consequences? Where is the action? What will the government do to stop this rising anti-Semitism, so Jewish people can be free here in Canada to worship in safety?” I think this is the tip of the spear, as they say. I certainly support this resolution. I think it makes a point that there needs to be consequences for anti-Semitism in our country, and it begins here."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 172, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/marilyn-gladu-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law", "funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "concern at rising antisemitism and demand for consequences; no party charged with it", "trigger": "\"this Laith Marouf incident\" — the anti-racism grant to a self-declared anti-Semite that has never been repaid", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "this Laith Marouf incident; We have clear pro-Hamas demonstrations happening in the country", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Shields", "role": "Bow River, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bow River", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… u. I appreciate your answers. I'd like to move a motion. There's a notice of motion that has been distributed: Given that, the Department of Canadian Heritage approved ‘anti-racism’ grants upwards of $130,000 to Laith Marouf of the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) despite his open and repeated history of racist, anti-semitic, violent and anti-francophone language, and that, after 8 months of the Department of Canadian Heritage confirming that they have revoked the grant funds and requested a return in full, the Department has yet to receive any of the revoked funding, the committee: a) Demand the immediate return of all government grant f …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 155, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/martin-shields-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the Department has yet to receive any of the revoked funding", "act_why": "moves a motion citing the grant recipient's repeated antisemitic language", "trigger": "the Department of Canadian Heritage's \"anti-racism\" grants of upwards of $130,000 to Laith Marouf \"despite his open and repeated history of racist, anti-semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf ... his open and repeated history of racist, anti-semitic, violent and anti-francophone language; the Department of Canadian Heritage approved 'anti-racism' grants", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Marouf was given almost $130,000 to do what the government called “anti-racism training”. We're not entirely sure what was accomplished with that $130,000. What we do know is that his entire social media feed is filled with anti-Semitic comments, images and things he has also said with regard to the French language, the French people and very much—I would say even vehemently—against their language and culture. Of course, it should concern us, as Canadians, that there would be an individual who functions like this in the public realm and is then being paid almost $130,000 to run anti-racism training. Almost $130,000 was given to Mr. Marouf in order for him to run anti-racism training, yet his Twitter feed is full of these images, full of these statements that are unquestionably anti-Semitic. It's disgusting, absolutely disgusting, yet this government approved this individual to receive nearly $130,000 to run anti-racism training. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. This committee then looked at that and came to the conclusion that this was wrong. Then it put forward a motion asking that the money be pa …", "… ion, then, is this: Why hasn't Mr. Marouf paid back the money? Why is Mr. Marouf still allowed to hold this $130,000, and what's he doing with that money? Some of the reasons that this question is all that much more important right now are the war that's taking place in Gaza, the heightened tensions and the heightened anti-Semitic behaviour and comments that are being made in this country. Meanwhile, 130,000 taxpayer dollars still remain in the hands of a verified anti-Semite. That's extremely dangerous and problematic. We are asking that the committee: a) Demand the immediate return of all government grant funding awarded to Laith Marouf; b) Call on the Government of Canada to collect the revoked grant funds by any means necessary, including legal action; c) Hear testimony from the Minister of Heritage on this matter within one week of this motion being adopted; d) Report this to the House. The reason the Minister of Canadian Heritage needs to come and answer is that, ultimately, it is her responsibility to make sure that this money is brought back into the government coffers. It was given to an anti-Semite. It has been demanded that he pay it back, and he needs to make good on that. It is within the mandate of this committee to ensure that's the case. If the members of this committee vote against this motion, they will be saying that it is okay for Laith Marouf to hold this money and continue to perpetuate his anti-Semitic behaviour. They are saying that it is okay for the government to turn a blind eye. They are saying that it is okay for the heritage minister to not have to answer for this, and they are saying that there is no accountability to the House."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 528, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/rachael-thomas-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "They are saying that it is okay for the government to turn a blind eye.", "act_why": "calls Marouf a verified antisemite funded by this government", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic and anti-francophone social media output and the $130,000 anti-racism grant he still has not repaid", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "a verified anti-Semite (Mr. Marouf); this government approved this individual to receive nearly $130,000", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'm sorry, but I have to be able to come to this committee and contend for a motion like this, where I am calling to account someone who is a raging anti-Semite. I have to be able to talk about that issue without being attacked from across the way."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/rachael-thomas-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "I am calling to account someone who is a raging anti-Semite", "act_why": "insists on holding a named raging antisemite to account", "trigger": "the motion holding Laith Marouf to account for his anti-Semitic conduct and the unreturned grant", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "someone who is a raging anti-Semite (Laith Marouf)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. The level of tension created by a motion asking for an anti-Semite to be held accountable is interesting to me. He's an anti-Semite who was given close to $130,000 by this current government. The members across the way can't stand that a motion like this would be moved to hold this individual to account. It's a motion that would draw attention to the fact that this individual took this money. It was demanded that he pay it back, but he hasn't. It' …", "… incumbent upon us. I believe it's the right thing to do. Allow the Minister of Canadian Heritage to come before this committee to be asked questions with regard to her intent and whether or not this money is in fact going to be reclaimed. The Canadian taxpayer deserves to know their money isn't being used by a raging anti-Semite. The Canadian public deserves to know the money they pay into the coffers of this government is going toward the common good. Certainly, when money goes into the hands of an anti-Semite, it is not for the common good. I'll leave my comments there."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 228, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/rachael-thomas-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "the current government has done little to get the money or hold Mr. Marouf to account", "act_why": "charges Marouf as an antisemite and the government with failing to recover funds", "trigger": "the $130,000 anti-racism grant to Laith Marouf, \"an anti-Semite\", and his failure to repay a dollar after eight months", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "He's an anti-Semite who was given close to $130,000 by this current government", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["On a point of order, Mr. Chair, this is now the second time that Mrs. Thomas has made specific comments with respect to me, and I am now beginning to see a trend. I don't want to assume what her intentions are, but it seems awfully convenient that the two times we have been discussing issues related to anti-Semitism, the two times that we have discussed issues related to people saying abhorrent things about the Jewish community, her comments were made directly to me, and I'm now really beginning to take offence to this."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/taleeb-noormohamed-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "point of order rejecting the insinuation aimed at him during antisemitism debates", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… u, Mr. Chair. I want to begin by putting a couple of things on the record. I take great pride at being among the first members of Parliament of any party to condemn what Mr. Marouf did. On August 21, when the issue first was brought forward, I put out a statement saying that Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, racist and anti-Semitic. They were wrong by any measure, and particularly for someone who is supposed to be working to help eliminate racism from broadcasting. I stand by every single one of those words. I believe that Mr. Marouf's actions were vile. They were reprehensible. They were anti-Semitic. They did absolutely nothing to advance the cause of diversity, inclusion or elimination of racism in this country. I believe that to be the case, and I believe every single person in this room would agree with that. I also think it's important for us to try not to use incredibly inflammatory language around things th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 611, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/taleeb-noormohamed-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, racist and anti-Semitic", "act_why": "states on the record that Marouf's comments were racist and antisemitic", "trigger": "\"Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, racist and anti-Semitic\" — the CMAC grant scandal first raised on August 21, and the motion on recovering the funds", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, racist and anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["If that is how Ms. Gladu understood what I said, then I take back my comment unreservedly. I apologize if that is how that was taken. There have been comments made in this committee over the last little while about the scourge of anti-Semitism. I think it's really important for every single person in this room to condemn those things when they are heard and when they are seen. I think it's important for members opposite to condemn those members of their party who chose to have dinner with a raging anti-Semite, Islamophobe and neo-Nazi. I am still waiting for every single member opposite to do that because, my goodness, if we are going to hold ourselves to that standard, then we must all be held to that standard. I take great pride and great responsibility in ensuring that when I see an act of anti-Semitism or Islamophobia or hatred that I speak out against it. That is our obligation, even when our colleagues are doing that. It is important for us not to equivocate on this. I look forward, as part of this conversation, for the members opposite, who have yet to apologize unreservedly for the actions of their colleagues and their party in hosting an anti-Semite from Germany, from a neo-Nazi organization—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 214, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/taleeb-noormohamed-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "I am still waiting for every single member opposite to do that", "act_why": "charges opposition members with dining with a raging antisemite and neo-Nazi", "trigger": "the Marouf grant debate, and Conservative members \"hosting an anti-Semite from Germany, from a neo-Nazi organization\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "those members of their party who chose to have dinner with a raging anti-Semite, Islamophobe and neo-Nazi; an anti-Semite from Germany, from a neo-Nazi organization", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. I look forward to—given that we are so keen, all of us, to make sure that we don't do things and shouldn't do things to incite hatred or racism—that, as we ensure we work hard to make sure that our colleagues call out when they are associating with anti-Semites, Islamophobes and neo-Nazis, we take it upon ourselves to make sure that our colleagues are doing that, we take it upon ourselves to apologize when we try to implement government policies like a ban on the niqab and we apologize for voting against motions that condemn Islamophobia. It think it's really important that we hold ourselves to these very important standards and that we are consistent in that. I am grateful that all of us in this room have decided that we take it upon ourselves to condemn anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, because that's the right thing to do. We have all rightly condemned the work of Mr. Marouf, or I think we have, anyway—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 165, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/taleeb-noormohamed-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "we work hard to make sure that our colleagues call out when they are associating with anti-Semites, Islamophobes and neo-Nazis", "act_why": "faults colleagues for associating with antisemites and neo-Nazis", "trigger": "the Marouf grant debate and members' association with \"anti-Semites, Islamophobes and neo-Nazis\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "our colleagues ... associating with anti-Semites, Islamophobes and neo-Nazis", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-31", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… y to really work together to get this thing passed. I know that we are now pretty much out of time in this room. I had more things that I did want to say about this, because I do think this meeting should not end without us all being absolutely on record that Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, reprehensible, disgusting, anti-Semitic and anti-francophone. They are anti-Canadian and un-Canadian in their truest form, and I think that getting this money back for the taxpayers of Canada is something that we are all united in and committed to doing. That is what I really hope this amendment, along with Mr. Shield's preamble, will actually accomplish. W …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 445, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/95/taleeb-noormohamed-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, reprehensible, disgusting, anti-Semitic and anti-francophone", "act_why": "puts on record that the named grant recipient's comments were antisemitic", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's \"vile, reprehensible, disgusting, anti-Semitic and anti-francophone\" comments and the outstanding grant money", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Mr. Marouf's comments were vile, reprehensible, disgusting, anti-Semitic and anti-francophone", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-06", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Glen Motz", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… s. The way that subclause 28(3) is written in the act right now talks about the commission's doing an investigation on its own initiative, not because somebody has complained about an issue. They have undertaken all by themselves to do something. That's different from what Mr. Julian is suggesting in regard to racism, anti-Semitism or any sort of complaint that someone might have that goes to the commission. That's a totally different scenario and a totally different path for an investigation. I agree with Mr. Julian's suggestion that if a complaint of that nature was to come to the commission and they chose not to investigate it because they di …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 315, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/81/glen-motz-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 81, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "procedural remarks relaying a colleague's suggestion about antisemitism complaints", "trigger": "clause-by-clause consideration of the bill's subclause 28(3) and amendment NDP-19.1 on commission-initiated investigations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-23", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… s with Disabilities, Ms. Khera , and question her, to find out where we stand. That would have made a bit more sense as the basis for discussion. What I want to know is what is being done to recover that money, which is still in the bank account of an individual who continues to engage in behaviour that is aggressive, anti-Semitic, disgraceful and insulting to an entire community and to the entire population of Quebec and Canada. I am going to stop here, Madam Chair, but I think this motion is just a political game that has nothing concrete or tangible to contribute and I will not be supporting it. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 804, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/100/martin-champoux-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 100, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["funding", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "the measures that have been taken to recover the money that was given to this individual are timid", "act_why": "calls the named grant recipient's ongoing conduct antisemitic and faults the minister", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's continuing \"intolerably violent and racist\" social media output during the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the failure to recover the $130,000 anti-ra", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf ... continues to engage in behaviour that is aggressive, anti-Semitic, disgraceful; the minister who exhibited extreme incompetence ... was Mr. Hussen", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-11-23", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… As you know, I was the first to call for Laith Marouf's contract to be cancelled when this information was revealed. The NDP took it very seriously and called for the contract to be cancelled. I support what Mr. Champoux said. I think the comments were unacceptable from someone who has a contract to combat racism and anti-Semitism. This person has shown his racism and anti-Semitism repeatedly. In my opinion, the most important thing is to do everything possible to recover the $130,000. It is extremely important and it has to get done. I know that we will be hearing the Minister of Canadian Heritage next Thursday, November 30. In seven days, we will be able to ask the Minister and department officials these questions. This is extremely important and much anticipated. Because I was the first to call for the cancellation of the contract because of his despicable racist and anti-Semitic views, I believe it is extremely important that we get that money back. We have the minister coming next Thursday. That is vitally important. I think it is an issue on which all four parties around this table agree. That money, by every means possible, needs to be taken back for taxpayers. The fact that we have the mi …", "… “a number of MPs”; it was me. I was the one who asked the question about the date. The answer satisfies me, whether or not there were a few hours between the email and the information. That, to me, is not relevant. What is relevant is getting the money back for taxpayers. What is relevant is ensuring that a notorious anti-Semite—anyone who has expressed anti-Semitic or racist views—never gets a government contract again. We are seeing a rise in hate. We are seeing a rise in Islamophobia. We are seeing a rise in anti-Semitism. We are seeing a rise in racism and misogyny. We are seeing a rise in homophobia and transphobia. Hate, in all of its appalling toxic forms, is appearing now. That is what this committee should be taking on. We have a safe sport study that we haven't completed, because at every single meeting, there's another motion f …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 643, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/100/peter-julian-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 100, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["funding", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "I deplore the fact that the money has not been recuperated", "act_why": "calls Marouf a notorious antisemite who repeatedly showed antisemitic views", "trigger": "Laith Marouf's \"despicable racist and anti-Semitic views\" and the unrecovered $130,000 contract, with the heritage minister due to appear November 30", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "a notorious anti-Semite (Laith Marouf) ... his despicable racist and anti-Semitic views", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-23", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ormer Diversity and Inclusion Minister, the Honourable Ahmed Hussein, his former chief of staff, Minister Rodriguez’s former chief of staff, and the deputy minister at Canadian Heritage between August 17th and August 19th, 2022, including one sent to Minister Rodriguez’s personal email account titled “Laith Marouf and antisemitic hate speech,” the Committee invite the former Minister for Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, to appear before the committee as soon as possible for no fewer than two hours to clarify his remarks concerning Laith Marouf, and that the committee report its findings to the House. To the committee, through you, Chair, the reason why this motion is important is that the members here will recall the former minister of heritage, Mr. Pablo Rodriguez , was brought before this committee and asked questions with regard to Laith Marouf's hiring and as to when the minister was made aware of Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic behaviour and conduct on social media platforms. The minister told this committee he did not find out until it was announced in the media, but we have an ATIP that actually shows the minister was made aware through an email to his P9 account and that email was sent between August 17 and August 19, before things broke in the media. That email was titled “Laith Marouf and antisemitic hate speech”. That's pretty clear. That's a pretty clear indication to the minister that there's a problem. The minister either misled this committee or didn't do his job with great competency. I'd like to give him the opportunity to clarify which one it is. In order to give him that opportunity to clarify, he would n …", "… the opportunity to ask questions, hence the motion I have put on the table today, which asks for him to come for no fewer than two hours so we would be able to finally—hopefully, I guess—get to the bottom of this and understand what took place here. After all, $130,000 was given by the heritage department to a raging anti-Semite and someone who also rages against francophones, and then that $130,000 was given to him to run anti-racism training. It's insane. It is the definition of insanity. It is incumbent upon the minister to come to this committee and answer the questions we have with regard to what happened and, further to that, to answer …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 663, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/100/rachael-thomas-25/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 100, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "The minister either misled this committee or didn't do his job with great competency.", "act_why": "motion citing an email on antisemitic hate speech charges Marouf and the former minister", "trigger": "the Marouf grant, and a Globe and Mail article plus an access-to-information release showing an August 2022 email to Minister Rodriguez titled \"Laith Marouf and", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic behaviour and conduct; the former Minister for Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… at filling that gap is hateful content or other kinds of content. There have been some reports that suggest some of what has filled that space are, frankly, memes, pictures of friends and things like that. It isn't that harmful. I want to state this unequivocally, because Mr. Julian raised the issue of hate online and anti-Semitism. We need to be absolutely clear here. I've been outspoken on these issues. I've been targeted by Laith Marouf on these issues. A year or so ago, a former member of this committee suggested that I was racist for raising questions around anti-Semitism. This is deeply personal for me and my community right now. We need action. We also need true accountability, with everyone willing to stand up and say so. Where that hasn't happened, I find it enormously troubling when those things take place."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 168, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/dr-michael-geist-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "testimony on Bill C-18 harms; no use of the term in this passage", "trigger": "Bill C-18 and the news-link blocking that followed the legislation taking effect in June", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual)", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… osition to tech regulation. There are real harms, and we need regulation. I recently appeared before the INDU committee, calling for the strengthening of Bill C-27 on privacy and AI regulation. I have to say that I have spent much of my time, in the aftermath of the events of October 7, focused on the alarming rise of anti-Semitism and the urgent need for action both off-line and online, which could include the much-delayed online harms bill. Since this study is about tech efforts to influence policy, I'll focus on that. There have been important studies and reports that chronicle tech sector efforts to influence policy. For example, the Tech Tr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 847, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/dr-michael-geist-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "describes the alarming rise of antisemitism and urgent need for action", "trigger": "Bill C-11 and Bill C-18 and the committee's study of tech-sector efforts to influence policy (with the delayed online harms bill raised in light of October 7)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ing extremists' misinformation to users. Once the user exhausted the latest content from all accounts they follow, they gave new content as an extension of their feed, identifying users' potential interests based on their data and habits. If they were looking at COVID-19 disinformation, it actually gave them QAnon and anti-Semitic disinformation. If they were looking at anti-Semitic users, they were being fed anti-vax and COVID-19 disinformation as well. Our findings illustrate how platforms' algorithms and design choices can quickly lead users from one conspiracy into the next, from investigating questions about the efficacy of a novel vaccine to unrelated conspiracies like QAnon, electoral rigging and anti-Semitic hate. Meta owns, controls and profits from the Instagram algorithm, which here was shown to amplify dangerous misinformation and conspiracies. That's just one example of the malignant dynamics caused by our reliance on a revenue-maximizing algorithm."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 434, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/imran-ahmed-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "technology"], "charge_quote": "Meta owns, controls and profits from the Instagram algorithm, which here was shown to amplify dangerous misinformation and conspiracies.", "act_why": "charges Meta with owning and profiting from an algorithm amplifying antisemitic hate", "trigger": "the witness's own research, \"our 2021 report on algorithms\", finding Instagram's recommendation system pushed users toward QAnon and anti-Semitic disinformation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "Meta owns, controls and profits from the Instagram algorithm, which here was shown to amplify dangerous misinformation and conspiracies", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["You reference the anti-Semitic killings at the Tree of Life. I'll reference the Islamophobic killings in London, Ontario, and Quebec City; the homophobic killings in Colorado Springs; and the racist killings in Buffalo, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina. We can go on and on. I note that, in 2022, every single ideologically motivated mass mur …", "… s—over $1 billion a year for businesses to advertise on Meta. It's a tax write-off. The Canadian taxpayer picks up the tab for Meta and Google. Do you believe this is a responsible action, to so heavily subsidize companies that are engaged in that deliberate fomentation of hate? To what extent can we push back against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia by ending that massive subsidy to these companies?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 183, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/peter-julian-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Do you believe this is a responsible action, to so heavily subsidize companies that are engaged in that deliberate fomentation of hate?", "act_why": "charges Meta and Google with deliberate fomentation of hate including antisemitism", "canada_role": "funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "companies that are engaged in that deliberate fomentation of hate (Meta and Google)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Roy, we hear about islamophobic, anti-semitic, homophobic and racist attacks, which have an impact in real life. We know there's a connection between what people see online and what's conveyed in the real world. Earlier it was mentioned that we're subsidizing Meta and Google to the tune of more than $1 billion a year. The Library of Parliament calculated that num …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 101, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/peter-julian-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "We're still subsidizing companies that refuse to respect our democracy and engage in practices that undermine our society.", "act_why": "charges subsidized platforms with practices behind antisemitic and other attacks", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "subsidizing companies that refuse to respect our democracy and engage in practices that undermine our society (Meta and Google)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… milar legislation to oblige big techs to actually expose the algorithms they use to force-feed, in this case, hate and disinformation to so many people. The concern in big tech, of course, is that they'll be libel if there is a direct link between the massive terrorist attacks that we've seen linked to hatred, whether anti-Semitic, homophobic or racist, and their algorithms. A legal liability would be established. How important is it for Parliament and the U.S. Congress to adopt this kind of legislation to hold big tech libel for the egregious practices they have?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 247, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/peter-julian-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "deplores rise of anti-Semitic and other hate spread by big-tech algorithms, no named party charged", "trigger": "Bill C-292, before the Canadian Parliament, seeks to [require algorithm transparency]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "big tech algorithms force-feeding hate", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ormer Diversity and Inclusion Minister, the Honourable Ahmed Hussein, his former chief of staff, Minister Rodriguez’s former chief of staff, and the deputy minister at Canadian Heritage between August 17th and August 19th, 2022, including one sent to Minister Rodriguez’s personal email account titled “Laith Marouf and antisemitic hate speech,” the Committee invite the former Minister for Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, to appear before the committee as soon as possible for no fewer than two hours to clarify his remarks concerning Laith Marouf, and that the committee report its findings to the House. Mr. Chair, I have read th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 381, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/101/rachael-thomas-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Laith Marouf should have been scolded and had the money taken from him far sooner than it was by this minister, who chose instead to turn a blind eye.", "act_why": "reads motion charging Minister Rodriguez with turning a blind eye to Marouf's antisemitic hate speech", "trigger": "approved 'anti-racism' grants upwards of $130,000 to Laith Marouf ... one sent to Minister Rodriguez's personal email account titled 'Laith Marouf and antisemit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez; Laith Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-30", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Isabelle Mondou (Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage)", "role": "Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… Agency to have any money from the organization that is paid to the Canada Revenue Agency turned over to us. Finally, a lawsuit has been filed with the court. We also set up a training program for our analysts to ensure that they conduct more thorough research on social networks. Our employees have received training on anti-Semitism. An attestation has been added to the procedure to make it clear that, in applications, no contravention of the Canadian Human Rights Act or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms will be tolerated. Finally—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 128, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/102/isabelle-mondou-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "deputy minister relays departmental recovery steps and anti-Semitism training, no stance", "trigger": "In terms of recovering the funds [paid to Laith Marouf / CMAC]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-30", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pascale St-Onge", "role": "Minister of Canadian Heritage", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brome—Missisquoi", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Madam Chair, I'm here in good faith to answer my colleagues' questions, and I refute all of the member's claims. The deputy minister made it very clear that legal proceedings are currently under way against Laith Marouf. We have always denounced anti-Semitism and hate speech. We do not tolerate it in the Department of Canadian Heritage or in the government. I've spent my life defending minorities and others, including members of the LGBTQ2+ community, and I will not allow my colleague to say just anything about me. I refute all her claims. It's shameful to sit here and hav …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 105, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/102/pascale-st-onge-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "minister's point is that the member's claims of tolerating antisemitism are unfounded", "trigger": "legal proceedings are currently under way against Laith Marouf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-30", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Minister, thank you for joining us today. We hope you will come back often. I'm going to ask you three questions. I would like brief answers, please. First off, Laith Marouf, who was providing the most vile expressions of anti-Semitism and hate, was given a contract through Canadian Heritage. The NDP was the first party to call for the cancellation of that contract, and the government cancelled the contract. However, I want to know whether the money has been paid back—around $125,000—and what steps have been taken within Canadian Heritage to ensure that those who promote hate in any form will no longer get contracts through the government. Secondly, on Meta, in testimony before this committee just this week, the Center for Countering Digital Hate stated very clearly, and its studies have shown us, that Meta, in its algorithms, is promoting the most vile anti-Semitism. Meta is not only refusing to respect Canadian democracy with Bill C-18 , but has also been cited numerous times for that expression of vile anti-Semitism and other forms of hate. However, we provide subsidies to Meta and Google, according to the Library of Parliament, that are in the order of more than $1 billion every year. That is in the advertising tax credit as an indirect subsidy for Meta. Why do we continue to subsidize Meta when it is not respecting Canadian democracy and when it has been implicated in the most vile expressions, through its algorithms, of anti-Semitic hate, Islamophobic hate, racism, misogyny, and homophobic and transphobic hate? My final question concerns the agreement with Google. We know that, with a crisis hitting news media across the country—we saw what happened at TVA—we need the web giants to contribute to our society and to the dissemination of news. Googl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 376, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/102/peter-julian-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation", "funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "Why do we continue to subsidize Meta when it is not respecting Canadian democracy", "act_why": "charges Meta by name with promoting vile anti-Semitism through its algorithms", "trigger": "Laith Marouf, who was providing the most vile expressions of anti-Semitism and hate, was given a contract through Canadian Heritage", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "online platform"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf; Meta", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-30", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Minister, I'd like to come back to the question of online harms. Last year, in 2022, multiple ideologically motivated killings in North America were carried out by right-wing extremists. We all saw it. We talked about homophobia, anti-Semitism, hate messages and racism. All these online harms are still happening. Why is the government still waiting to take action? Why do we still not have a date for the introduction of this important bill?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/102/peter-julian-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "lists anti-Semitism among online harms and presses for the promised bill, a remedy complaint", "trigger": "Last year, in 2022, multiple ideologically motivated killings in North America were carried out by right-wing extremists", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "right-wing extremists", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… is in every single community. We see it among our own constituents and communities. They speak to us parliamentarians. They wonder why, in this country, they do not feel safe. I wrote a letter to the Minister of Public Safety a number of months ago. Particularly after the heinous attacks of October 7, we saw a rise in anti-Semitism. Now, subsequently, we also see a rise in Islamophobic rhetoric and action right across the country. We wonder why there was no coordination. It took a month to respond to that letter, and even longer to act on it. We feel it's not there. This motion speaks to a number of issues. Actually designate those whom the gove …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2179, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/87/melissa-lantsman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 87, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["security", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "reports shootings and firebombings and the post-October 7 rise in anti-Semitism with alarm", "trigger": "the shooting just outside of my colleague's riding in Montreal, where shots were fired at a school overnight ... it did happen again", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the IRGC and the Iranian regime; the government for not listing it", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-12-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Yes, we heard testimony from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In their report, “Malgorithm”, they found evidence that Meta's Instagram recommendation algorithm is “actively pushing radicalising, extremist misinformation to users”, including anti-Semitic and far-right, white supremacist tropes. Thank you for that. As you're probably aware, Canada heavily subsidized Meta and Google to the extent of over $1 billion a year in indirect subsidies. These are writeoffs that businesses can undertake by advertising on the Meta platform. Does it make any sense at all for us to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 128, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/103/peter-julian-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "Does it make any sense at all for us to be massively subsidizing Meta", "act_why": "cites the Malgorithm report to charge Meta by name with pushing anti-Semitic extremist content", "trigger": "In their report, 'Malgorithm', they found evidence that Meta's Instagram recommendation algorithm is 'actively pushing radicalising, extremist misinformation to", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "Meta's Instagram recommendation algorithm", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… part of what you said, which I believe is important to follow up on, was on the rise in hate. As you pointed out, the Center for Countering Digital Hate has pointed to Meta and X contributing to what the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called “the pipeline of hate”. We've seen a rise in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and racism, with racist attacks seen right across North America. They were all provoked by Meta's secret algorithms, which attempt to foster and provoke, through what the Center for Countering Digital Hate calls “malgorithms”, that rise in far-right extremism. We certai …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 294, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/103/peter-julian-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "charge_quote": "the government already interferes massively in the marketplace, giving over $1 billion in indirect subsidies each and every year to Meta and Google", "act_why": "charges Meta and X by name with provoking the rise in anti-Semitism and other hate", "trigger": "the Center for Countering Digital Hate has pointed to Meta and X contributing to what the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "Meta and X", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. As I've said before, I may be alone on this. I, too, am very concerned about the situation we're seeing around the world, particularly the acts of antisemitism committed in recent weeks. In fact, such acts have been going on for a long time. I personally find them abhorrent. The same goes for acts against Muslims or any other religion. Religions should encourage us to unite and work together in harmony. I don't want to use clichés, but I would say that they should encourage …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 449, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/87/rheal-fortin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 87, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "calls recent acts of antisemitism abhorrent while objecting to the motion's haste", "trigger": "a motion [on listing the IRGC, security infrastructure funding and an anti-hate task force] we cannot easily make a decision on in two minutes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-05", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I see. It's fantastic. I should really start using that word. When you look at the use of these algorithms as they pump some of this content out—particularly, as Mr. Julian pointed out, the hateful comments, the anti-Semitic comments and the Islamophobic comments, the stuff that really can cause material damage to people—who tends to benefit from the spread of that misinformation? When the algorithms on these platforms spread that information, who tends to be the beneficiary, politically?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 78, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/103/taleeb-noormohamed-26/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats anti-Semitic content spread by platform algorithms as harmful, asks who benefits", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "these platforms and their algorithms", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-11", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["… the strategy, we appointed Canada's first-ever anti-racism secretariat. Additionally, we are hard at work at developing Canada's first-ever action plan on combatting hate. Also, the work that we are doing by hosting the national summits has led us to appoint two special envoys on combatting Islamophobia and combatting anti-Semitism in this country. As you know, Mr. Chair, their work has never been more important than it is right now. Our diversity is what truly sets us apart from the rest of the world. It is at the core of who we are as Canadians, and I look forward to continuing to work with this committee and all Canadians to continue to build …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 809, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/95/kamal-khera-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 95, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "minister cites the alarming rise in hate and the special envoy on combatting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "local police agencies have reported a significant rise in hate crimes in cities and communities right across the country [and the newly released 2022 Canadian s", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-14", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… that. As you mentioned, Mr. Ahmed talked about “malgorithms”. These are algorithms that deliberately stoke hatred. We saw last year that every single ideologically motivated mass killing in North America came from the far right. We saw a homophobic attack in Colorado Springs, racist attacks in Charleston and Buffalo, anti-Semitic attacks in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life synagogue, Islamophobic attacks in Quebec City and London, and misogynistic attacks in Toronto. All of them were provoked by this extensive network of encouraging hate in all its toxic forms. What responsibility do the executives at these companies carry when their malgorithms …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 115, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/105/peter-julian-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "lists the anti-Semitic attack on Tree of Life among hate-driven killings, companies unnamed here", "trigger": "anti-Semitic attacks in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life synagogue ... racist attacks in Charleston and Buffalo ... Islamophobic attacks in Quebec City and London", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the executives at these companies", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-01-30", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Peter Julian", "role": "New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "New Westminster--Burnaby", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ry much, Madam Chair. I certainly agree with the points that you've made, Ms. Tait, that the issue of disinformation and hate.... We've seen the far right and their massive propaganda infrastructure, Fox Media, and Meta, which allows through its algorithms tragic growth of toxic hate in all of its forms, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, all of those toxic forms of hate. We need to have an institution like the CBC that provides that balance and provides for the real information to counter the far-right disinformation that is washing over North America. I note a couple of things. First off are the massive sub …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 218, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/106/peter-julian-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Do you feel it's appropriate that the federal government subsidize so massively and directly the advertising for Meta and Google?", "act_why": "charges Meta by name with letting its algorithms grow anti-Semitism and other hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["online platform", "media"], "target_detail": "Meta; Fox Media", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-08", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to weigh in, in support of what Mr. Garrison said. Look, this is as if I put forward a motion on anti-Semitism and I referred to Jews, then somebody pulled the word “Jews” out of the motion so that it was no longer about Jews and the flagrant anti-Semitism we're now facing, but a general portrayal of everything. I do agree that the motion by itself may be perfectly fine, but it's not the motion Mr. Garrison intended. It's a wholesale amendment to the core subject of the motion. I think it is unreceivable, Madam Chair. First of all, in order for it to be receivable, ther …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/93/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 93, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "uses the flagrant anti-Semitism now faced as an analogy in a procedural argument", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-15", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I believe that's regular practice. Thank you very much. I appreciate getting the floor. I wish to move a motion, I don't think it will take too long. I have a second motion after this, which I think will be quick too. Hopefully I'll have the consent of the committee for this one first. I move: Given that: A rise in antisemitism and antisemitic violence at Canadian university and post-secondary campuses is being witnessed and documented across the country; Six Canadian universities are currently subject to class-action lawsuits alleging “decades-long documented history of antisemitic rhetoric at multiple Canadian universities”; and The 2024 AGPI Universities Antisemitism Report Card highlights the “serious problems our universities have with antisemitism, anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish hate”; Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee: Immediately undertake a comprehensive study, of no less than 10 hours, and invite Presidents of Canadian Universities to discuss what actions they are taking to counter this escalation of antisemitism and antisemitic violence on their campuses, and report its findings to the House. Madam Chair, this is the motion I'm moving today. I brought copies of it should you wish for me to distribute them to the committee."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 195, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/111/rachael-thomas-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 111, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "community organisations"], "act_why": "moves a motion citing documented campus antisemitism and antisemitic violence as a problem to study", "trigger": "The 2024 AGPI Universities Antisemitism Report Card highlights the 'serious problems our universities have with antisemitism' [and class-action lawsuits against", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian university and post-secondary campuses; six Canadian universities", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-02-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I have two short points I want to make. The first is that I've had a study on anti-Semitism on the table since December. I've politely waited to move it at committee until the steering committee has had the opportunity to consider it. My Conservative colleagues, who seem to want that, continue to put forward motions without going through the steering committee. I'm disappointed in that. The second point is t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 236, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/96/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 96, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural remarks about his tabled anti-Semitism study, treats it as a problem needing study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… issued following the meetings on the Laith Marouf affair were followed. Now, I want to talk about the fact that we're using an event like this, which isn't on the same scale. I'm not saying it's right; on the contrary, it's completely reprehensible. There's nothing good about giving money to an organization that uses anti-Semitic rhetoric and wants to start an intifada. It makes no sense to give public money to such organizations. However, we can discuss the path this money has taken. As for the motion itself, I'm not convinced that the work has been done properly. I'd be willing to hear the Conservatives' arguments on that, but according to m …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 510, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/112/martin-champoux-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 112, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls funding groups with anti-Semitic rhetoric reprehensible while questioning the motion's facts", "trigger": "giving money to an organization that uses anti-Semitic rhetoric and wants to start an intifada [the federally funded conference]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an organization that uses anti-Semitic rhetoric and wants to start an intifada", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-02-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… e took away a platform from a speaker who served in the Israeli military 30 years ago, who is a Canadian, who is a champion of feminism and women's rights and is a celebrated athlete. You have one organization de-platforming views that they don't agree with, and you have the Government of Canada platforming these vile anti-Semitic voices with Canadian tax dollars. I would expect that the committee would want to get to the bottom of this. I am very grateful that the vice-chair of this committee continues to bring these issues forward. I hope that we don't have to come back to this committee every time a grant is given to fund the prevalent anti-Semitism that this government is frankly behind."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 912, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/112/melissa-lantsman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 112, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "you have the Government of Canada platforming these vile anti-Semitic voices with Canadian tax dollars", "act_why": "charges the government with platforming vile anti-Semitic voices and being behind prevalent anti-Semitism", "trigger": "It's $25,000 ... 'Mediations of Racial Capitalism' conferences [funded speakers sharing PFLP material]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Government of Canada; Laith Marouf and the conference speakers", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-02-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ion to this. I'm going to make a couple of quick comments, and then I think it would be advisable to move to suspend, if the committee thinks that is fair. I would like to put this briefly on the record: We are in a precarious time, a time I have never seen in my 45 years on this earth and in Canada. We have forces of anti-Semitism—and I might say as well Islamophobia—that are really ripping at the very fabric of our country right now. We have a government that is putting out legislation that professes to fight this hatred but that in reality, regardless of whether we're talking about Canadian Heritage or otherwise, is funding this hatred. I thi …", "… o the bottom of this. This is not a resolution about condemning but about exploring, so I think it's very reasonable to study this in order to understand this situation, and I think we should do it promptly, because we don't have much time. As a committee and as a country, we need to show that we are fervently against anti-Semitism in all of its forms. With that, I would move to suspend so that we can move forward, hopefully in a quick way, to begin this study and to get to the bottom of this."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 238, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/112/philip-lawrence-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 112, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "We have a government that is putting out legislation that professes to fight this hatred but that in reality, regardless of whether we're talking about Canadian Heritage or otherwise, is funding this ", "act_why": "charges the government with funding the hatred its legislation professes to fight", "trigger": "a government ... that in reality ... is funding this hatred", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "a government that... is funding this hatred", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… manities Research Council in the sum total of $600,000 and $569,353 respectively, and that, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awarded a February 2022 Connection Grant in the sum of $24,999 in which the main applicant and speakers at the conference for which funding was granted have publicly expressed antisemitic views, including calling for a “global intifada” and support for designated terrorist organizations in Canada, and that, The Department of Canadian Heritage has confirmed the implementation of an anti-racism declaration as a condition of funding in their grant applications, and that, The Government of Canada has committed to the Canada Anti-Racism Strategy; Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee: Invite the Ministers of Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science & Economic Development for a minimum of two hours each, to discuss the repeated and systemic awarding of grant funding to individuals or organizations expressing antisemitic views; Recommend the Government of Canada immediately conduct a whole of government review of grant applications to include an anti-racism declaration as a condition of funding, and Report its findings to the House. Madam Chair, the reason this motion is so important to move today is that a group within the University …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 327, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/112/rachael-thomas-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 112, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "the main applicant and speakers at the conference for which funding was granted have publicly expressed antisemitic views", "act_why": "moves a motion charging the government with repeated, systemic funding of antisemitic grantees", "trigger": "a February 2022 Connection Grant in the sum of $24,999 in which the main applicant and speakers at the conference ... have publicly expressed antisemitic views", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant recipients; the Ministers of Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science and Economic Development", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-02-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… from across the country, as have my other Conservative colleagues. Finally, we've decided that we're going to act on the information that we've been given and advocate on behalf of Canadians, and in particular on behalf of the Jewish population, the Jewish community here in Canada. There is no place in our country for anti-Semitism, and for $25,000 to be transferred from the Government of Canada to a group that is known for furthering anti-Semitism is absolutely alarming. It's appalling. It's disgusting. There needs to be an investigation. There needs to be an understanding of what took place here. It should be noted that this is not the first time this has happened. We've been here before, haven't we? Laith Marouf, a raging anti-Semite, who is incredibly vile in the comments that he made online, was granted $133,000 through the heritage department. Of all things, he was granted that money to run anti-racism training. The hypocrisy could not be more rich. To this day, the government has not recouped those dollars, even though it claims it has tried. We have an individual out there who continues to be a raging anti-Semite and has received $133,000 from the Canadian public to help further his cause. To make matters worse, there is this organization, or this group of anti-Semites, that conducted a three-day conference at the University of Alberta, and their speakers have anti-Semitic content all over their social media pages. I have it right here. These are just a few that I printed out—one page, two pages, three pages, four pages, five pages, six pages, seven pages, and there are multiple posts on every single page. These folks got $25,000 to host a conference at the University of Alberta. I don' …", "… wer for the decision that was made. If we want to understand this further, the University of Alberta hosted this conference in February, on three different Fridays. They called it the “Mediations of Racial Capitalism Conference”. Then they brought in speakers, as mentioned and as shown, who have this history of making anti-Semitic comments. One of them even called for a global intifada. This would never be okay, but then I look at it in light of October 7 and what happened, and it just makes my skin crawl all the more. There were members who took the stage at this conference, who took a key place, who are advocating support for organizations th …", "… ation, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Others are publicly celebrating or supporting Hamas' attack on Israeli civilians on October 7. That's disgusting. You have others sharing support for the Houthi movement in Yemen. That's crazy. Then you have another who signed a petition supporting an anti-Semitic professor at a university who is being fired for his vile views and for spreading them, and this person was coming to his defence. Here we have it. This conference is sponsored by the Government of Canada, with the logo full on. This money came down from Canadian Heritage, went to the council and then went to the Univ …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1397, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/112/rachael-thomas-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 112, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "for $25,000 to be transferred from the Government of Canada to a group that is known for furthering anti-Semitism is absolutely alarming", "act_why": "charges the government with granting money to Marouf and to a conference of anti-Semites", "trigger": "this organization, or this group of anti-Semites, that conducted a three-day conference at the University of Alberta, and their speakers have anti-Semitic conte", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the University of Alberta conference and its speakers; the Government of Canada", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-02-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… eally important study. I know we don't have time to deal with this in my two and a half minutes. I just want to put it on the record that I will be moving the following at the next meeting of the committee, when we come back in two weeks: That pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and in view of the alarming escalation of antisemitism in Canada, the committee undertake a study on the issue of antisemitism and the additional measures that could be taken to address the valid fears that are being expressed by Canada’s Jewish community. That the study include but not be limited to the issue of antisemitism on university campuses. That the study be at least three meetings and that the committee report its findings to the House. I know that the subcommittee will be discussing this afterwards, but I also know that a lot of my colleagues sympathize and agree that this is an important study that we should be doing. This has not gone away since October 7. There has been a dramatic escalation in anti-Semitic incidents all across the country in Canada's big cities. That's not to say that there hasn't been an increase in other incidents for other communities, such as the Muslim community. I would welcome other studies on that issue as well. With regard to the numbers on anti-Semitism, Jews constitute 1.1% of Canada's population, but over 70% of religious-based incidents are anti-Jewish. Students at campuses across the country have come to me. I have spoken at Hillels across the country. Yesterday at UBC, there was a referendum proposal to end the lease with Hillel. There are just constant incident …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 380, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/97/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 97, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "reads a study motion on the alarming escalation of antisemitism and cites incident numbers", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you so much, Madam Chair. Thank you to my fellow committee members. The motion I want to put forward is the one we have in front of us: That pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and in view of the alarming escalation of antisemitism in Canada, the committee undertake a study on the issue of antisemitism and the additional measures that could be taken to address the valid fears that are being expressed by Canada's Jewish community. That the study include but not be limited to the issue of antisemitism on university campuses. That the study should be at least three meetings and that the committee report its findings to the House. Madam Chair, briefly, I had a chance on Monday to deliver a speech in the House that dealt very much with this issue. The Jewish community in Canada is feeling frightened to a level I have …", "… appening much. What is happening is people expressing their fears to me and wondering if they're safe in this country and have a future in this country, which I never in my life believed would happen in Canada. I don't see that anywhere near as much, frankly, when I'm in the United States. Something is happening here. Anti-Semitism is happening around the world, but the perception of the community in Canada is drastically different from what I find south of the border. I think the committee needs to look into what is happening and what we can do. I'm going to talk about two issues very briefly, which I think are the most poignant and important o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 658, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "moves the study motion on the alarming escalation of antisemitism and Jewish Canadians' fears", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "demonstrations blocking buildings and intimidating people; campuses", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… Of course, Islamophobia is also a very important form of hate, but they are two very distinct and separate forms of hate, so I want to make sure that it is clear that the meetings that we're going to have on one versus the other and the report that we're going to do are going to be clear that we're doing something on anti-Semitism and something on Islamophobia and that they're not two tropes that are together. Too many times, people feel that one is equal to the other, and when an act of anti-Semitism occurs, they feel necessary to mention Islamophobia in the same breath and vice versa. In the same way, anti-Black racism is not the same as anti-gay racism. They are all different tropes, so my proposal would be to subamend Mr. Garrison's amendment to add the following words. It would now read, in line two, “Undertake a study on the issue of anti-Semitism and”, and add the words, “a study on the issue of Islamophobia”. I'm adding the words “a study on the issue of” after the end of line two. In line five at the beginning of the second paragraph, we would replace the word “study”, the third word, with “independent studies”. Then, on line seven at the beginning of the th …", "… instead of “that it should be at least six meetings”, it would be “that each study should be at least two meetings”. I've heard from colleagues that six meetings means that we're not studying anything else for a prolonged period of time, so instead of three meetings each, it would be two meetings each: two meetings on anti-Semitism and two meetings on Islamophobia. Then, “that the committee report its findings on both studies”. So, after the word “findings”, it would be “on both studies to the House”. Thank you, Madam Chair and Mr. Clerk. Mr. Fortin, I apologize for not having drafted this in French, but I can give you the—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 351, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "insists anti-Semitism be studied as a distinct form of hate from Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm talking about the fact that we're going to have two meetings on anti-Semitism and two completely separate meetings on Islamophobia. We'll prepare a report on anti-Semitism and a separate report on Islamophobia, and then table them in the House for a response."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 43, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/anthony-housefather-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural clarification about separate meetings and reports on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… happening, isn't that much better? Peace bonds are not perfect, but we believe they can be a valuable tool to keep people safe. In the face of rising hate crime, our government believes that doing nothing in an instance like this would be irresponsible. I think that's what explains both CIJA's and the special envoy on anti-Semitism's support of Bill C-63 . As always, I am open to good faith suggestions to improve this legislation. My goal is to get it right. I look forward to debating the Online Harms Act in the House of Commons and following the committee's process as it reaches that stage. I am convinced that we all have the same goal here: we …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1437, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/arif-virani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "minister cites record hate crimes and synagogue threats in defending the online harms bill", "trigger": "a few weeks ago, I introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… suggest taking your cues from the groups that were also there beside me. The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs have, in the last six months, not seen eye to eye on a lot of issues. On this bill, they do see eye to eye. They both support this, as do the special envoys on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Those are important voices to be hearing from, and that's what I will continue to do."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 283, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/arif-virani-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "cites CIJA, NCCM and the special envoys on anti-Semitism as supporters of the bill", "trigger": "when you talk about a 24-hour takedown of things like revenge porn ... That's in Bill C-63", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ed Fast", "role": "Abbotsford, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Abbotsford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… at an event in support of the Jewish community this Sunday in Vancouver. I want to assure Mr. Housefather that I will be sharing his concerns at that event. I support the elegant solution Mr. Maloney suggested, which has been presented to this committee: Conduct, effectively, two studies—one on Islamophobia and one on anti-Semitism. However, I also want to articulate my strong support for the original motion Mr. Housefather brought forward. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/ed-fast-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the threats in Jewish life today a pernicious problem and backs the study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["How about I read the whole thing? That pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and in view of the alarming escalation of antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada, the committee undertake a study on the issue of antisemitism and a study on the issue of Islamophobia, and the additional measures that could be taken to address the valid fears that are being expressed by Canada's Jewish and Muslim communities. That the independent studies include but not be limited to the issue of antisemitism and Islamophobia on university campuses; That each study should be at least two meetings for a total of four consecutive meetings; that the committee report its findings on both studies to the House; and that the committee request a government response to these reports."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 125, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/the-chair-41/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lindsay Mathyssen", "role": "London—Fanshawe, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "London—Fanshawe", "province": "ON", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… ts of what they teach. However, clearly, there's no comprehensive education about World War II in many different ways. What do you believe we need to do better to create an awareness and have better education within our schools? What can our federal government help do in terms of that? I know there's a commissioner on anti-Semitism. There are things in the works in terms of providing those greater educational components. However, if you could add your thoughts on this, that would be great."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/44-1/110/lindsay-mathyssen-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "asks what education could counter it, referring to the commissioner on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… pe that his community will take some hope and inspiration from. I would just add that in Toronto, my hometown, the police chief there, Chief Demkiw, just reported 48 hours ago that Toronto has seen a 93% increase in the number of reported hate crimes since October 7, 2023, and that compounds the ongoing rising tide of anti-Semitism, which I think parliamentarians, regardless of partisan stripe, have an obligation to deal head-on with. I would also say that the anecdotes that Mr. Housefather referred to are the same stories that I hear from the community that I represent in Eglinton—Lawrence. The fear, the profound sense of anxiety and, most of a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 346, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/marco-mendicino-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the rising tide of anti-Semitism vile hate parliamentarians must confront", "trigger": "the police chief there, Chief Demkiw, just reported 48 hours ago that Toronto has seen a 93% increase in the number of reported hate crimes since October 7, 202", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. I just want to say that I also am extremely concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. We just had the justice minister here telling us that we already have hate laws, hate speech laws, but people are calling “death to Jews” across the country and not a single charge has been filed. I'm quite alarmed, when I see the protests, the violence and the targeting of Jewish businesses, that the reaction from the police is not the same as it is in.... We've just seen a fishers' protest going on. The police are there making sure that the protest remains peaceful and are bringing in their horses, but here in Ottawa when we're having pro-Palestinian demonstrations and they're calling out things that are anti-Semitic and kicking in cars and breaking off mirrors, the police are standing by and doing nothing. What is the point of having federal law if you don't have the enforcement of law? I think that this has come to a crisis point, and I'm very supportive of doing a study to figure out what exactly we can do to use the existing l …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 243, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/marilyn-gladu-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "alarmed at anti-Semitic chants and unpunished targeting of Jews, faults enforcement generally", "trigger": "when I see the protests, the violence and the targeting of Jewish businesses ... people are calling 'death to Jews' across the country", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "institution"], "target_detail": "pro-Palestinian demonstrations; the police", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s locked up without bail. The Hindu community has reached out to me to let me understand that they are receiving hate speech and death threats. So, while all religions appear to be under attack, I don't want to dilute Mr. Housefather's original motion that talks about the crisis we're facing right now with the rise of anti-Semitism. You know, it's rising by as much as 700% in some places. There are violent crimes; people are unsafe. I'll defer to the will of the committee, but I do think that has to be the priority."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 165, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/marilyn-gladu-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls the rise of anti-Semitism a current crisis that should be the committee's priority", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. David Vigneault", "role": "Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… , is one of the most significant evolutions in terms of violence, not just in Canada but across the world. At CSIS, with our partners, we have done a lot of work in terms of conceptually defining what ideologically motivated violence is, because it is morphing. It is not just people who are anti-immigration or who are anti-Semitic or Islamophobic. It's also anti-authority. We've seen a number of the threat vectors increasing. From that point of view, CSIS is devoting about 50% of its counterterrorism resources to investigating the threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism. I would say that it is also more than just a CSIS, law enforce …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 298, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/100/david-vigneault-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 100, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "CSIS director places anti-Semitic actors within ideologically motivated violent extremism, calls it vile hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… nti‑Semitic cartoon that it had to withdraw, and it apologized for publishing it. A theatre in Hamilton, the Playhouse Cinema, cancelled the Hamilton Jewish Film Festival under pressure. One of your colleagues, NDP MP Brian Masse , had to apologize for his comment in the House linking a ceasefire in Gaza with tackling anti-Semitism here. The Toronto police released their numbers regarding hate and saw a 93% rise in hate crimes in Toronto since October 7, the majority of which targeted the Jewish community. I could add that the Jewish community had to get an injunction in Montreal to protect its institutions, including a community centre, a schoo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 690, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/44-1/110/richard-marceau-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "sets out the increase in anti-Semitism and calls the Hunka and Khatatba invitations unacceptable", "trigger": "the invitation extended to Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran of the 14th grenadier division of the Waffen-SS ... and the standing ovation he received", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "the House of Commons and the Office of the Speaker for failed vetting; Yaroslav Hunka and Nazih Khatatba", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I, too, would like to commend Mr. Housefather for his tireless work against anti-Semitism and bringing the attention of this committee and all of Parliament to the rise of anti-Semitism. I have seen the evidence of this in my own constituency and again on campus at two educational institutions that I've been long associated with in my community. Jewish students have approached me saying they no longer feel safe just being on campus, not in doing anything on campus, and I have an extreme level of concern about this. I am completely supportive of this study. However, I take very seriously what Mr. Housefather said about leadership, and a necessity for providing leadership, so I am going to propose an amendment to his motion, not to diminish in any way the study of anti-Semitism, but for our committee to provide the same leadership with the parallel rise of Islamophobia in this country. On my proposed amendment, I have a text in both official languages. I will read the technical...and we have a version as it would read. I think my staff will give it to the clerk at this point."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 194, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/randall-garrison-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "commends work against anti-Semitism, reports Jewish students feeling unsafe, backs the study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ould expand the number of sessions from three to six, so that we can devote an equal amount of time to the rise of Islamophobia in Canada and provide leadership on opposing all forms of religious-based hatred in this country. The technical amendment has five parts. It would add “and Islamophobia” after each mention of anti-Semitism on line two. It would add “and” before “additional measures” on line three. It would replace the text on line four with “Canada's Jewish and Muslim communities.” It would add “and Islamophobia” after “antisemitism” on line five. Finally, it would replace the number of meetings from “three” to “six” on line seven. We have the final version as it would read. I think that's easier for people to deal with. It's really only adding the parallel study of Islamophobia to the study of anti-Semitism. With that, I move my amendment, Madam Chair."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 150, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/randall-garrison-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "reads out the technical wording of his amendment, no stance on the term", "trigger": "Housefather's motion for a committee study on antisemitism, and Garrison's amendment adding a parallel study of Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Okay, but it appears a little further on in the same sentence. Is it “include but not be limited to the issue of antisemitism and independent study on Islamophobia”? Are there any changes to the second time it's mentioned?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 39, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/rheal-fortin-28/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural question quoting the motion's wording", "trigger": "the wording of the subamendment to Housefather's antisemitism-study motion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… efather was mentioning, the lawlessness around some of these protests and the fear that that's instilling in many Canadians. I can't imagine the fear that it would instill in Canada's Jewish community. Every Canadian, every person, should feel safe in Canada, and there's no place in Canada or anywhere in the world for anti-Semitism. I think this motion is timely and important. I certainly support Mr. Housefather's motion."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 102, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/rob-moore-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "says there is no place in Canada for anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Housefather's motion to study antisemitism, which had been before the committee 'for quite some time'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the lawlessness around some of these protests and the fear that that's instilling", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a number of studies that have been proposed by members around the table, one of which—and I think it's a very important one—is the study proposed by Mr. Housefather dealing with anti-Semitism. I'm prepared to support his study without any amendment. I think the original motion is one that was brought to us some time ago. It's kind of in the queue with other studies that have been proposed. If other people want to have other studies on other issues, they're welcome to bring those forward for consideration by the committee. In light of Mr. Housefather's willingness to get consensus around the table, I am happy to also support his amended version. I'll note that it gives us one less day to study anti-Semitism, but I think it's a goodwill effort for us to not monopolize all the remaining time left on studies when there are others that are in the queue that are also important. I do want to make it clear that I'm happy to support Mr. Housefather's original motion that we study anti-Semitism, but I'm also willing to support this amended and subamended motion as currently written."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 196, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/rob-moore-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "backs the antisemitism study as important, no named target", "trigger": "Housefather's motion to study antisemitism and the amended/subamended version of it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… referendum was even suggested, I think, has been very disturbing for not only people in my home province of British Columbia but throughout the country. The motion also would have included BDS sanctions—boycott, divestment and sanctions—against Israel and anything to do with Israel, and that's just the newest form of anti-Semitism. I find it all very disturbing. I'm very supportive of having this study to better understand what is going on here in Canada with anti-Semitism, which is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime, and also to demonstrate to the Jewish community that we stand with them and that they are an important part of Canadian culture. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 228, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/tako-van-popta-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "that's just the newest form of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "calls BDS against Israel 'the newest form of anti-Semitism'", "trigger": "Housefather's motion to study antisemitism; supported by reference to the threatened UBC referendum to terminate Hillel House's campus lease", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "a referendum or a threat of one recently to terminate the lease that Hillel House has had on campus", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "The Clerk", "role": "The Clerk", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["The subamendment would therefore apply at the end of the second line. At the end of line two, if I start after the comma, “the committee undertake a study on the issue of antisemitism and”, and we introduce the subamendment here, “a study on the issue of Islamophobia”. Then we continue the text. The second amendment is on line five. It says, “that the independent studies include but not be limited”. That's the second part of the subamendment. The rest of the second paragraph reads as is. The third …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 93, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/99/the-clerk-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 99, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "clerk reads the subamendment text", "trigger": "the text of the subamendment to the antisemitism-study motion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'm going to start by simply saying that I agree with Ms. Thomas's motion. I believe that anti-Semitism is a very important issue and I regret that we weren't able to discuss that motion today. I will now turn to Mr. McKinnon, because the Court Challenges Program is absolutely one of the most fundamentally important programs that exist in this country. I think it helps minority language groups, including francophones ou …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 153, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/116/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 116, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a very important issue and backs the motion", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion on antisemitism and Mr. McKinnon's Court Challenges Program bill", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nvite the clerk to distribute it so that everyone has access to it in writing. Bear in mind, of course, that I am giving notice of this motion. The motion I wish to give notice of reads, “Given that, according to a National Post article published on April 17, a York University faculty committee has presented a list of anti-Semitic recommendations that include labelling the support of Israel as 'anti-Palestinian racism', classifying anyone who supports Israel as 'anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic and anti-Arab', granting academic freedom and free speech to pro-Palestinian students while revoking these same rights from Jewish students and anyone sup …", "… t should be isolated and destroyed, and given that the Government of Canada has committed to the Canada anti-racism strategy; and that the Minister of Canadian Heritage is responsible for 'fostering and promoting Canadian identity and values, cultural development, and heritage', and that the 2024 Canadian universities anti-Semitism report highlights the serious problems that our universities have with anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish hate, the committee unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of this faculty committee at York University and report this to the House.” Chair, I have given notice of this motion, but I believe it is so important. I would imagine that all around this table agree that anti-Semitism is wrong and that this type of vile conduct should be condemned in the most serious terms. Given that we should share this commonality, I seek unanimous consent to consider this motion moved and adopted."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 314, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/116/rachael-thomas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 116, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "the committee unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of this faculty committee at York University", "act_why": "moves condemnation of a named York University faculty committee's anti-Semitic conduct", "trigger": "the York University faculty committee's 'list of anti-Semitic recommendations', reported in a National Post article published April 17, together with the 2024 C", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "a York University faculty committee has presented a list of anti-Semitic recommendations", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-04-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. I would just remind the honourable member that the six minutes are mine, and I can use them as I wish. This was a really important motion that I brought forward today, and I am confused as to why the Liberals wouldn't grant unanimous consent when we have evidence there is anti-Semitic rhetoric and conduct taking place on university campuses across this country. The Liberal government has signed off on, and committed to, a Canada anti-racism strategy, and it is incumbent upon the Minister of Canadian Heritage to abide by her mandate, which is to foster and promote Canadian identity and values, cultural development and heritage. I would certainly hope that anti-Semitism does not belong within the definition of that. There was an opportunity here today for us all to agree to something that seems quite collaborative in nature. All of us should agree that it is wrong to perpetuate hate toward the Jewish community in Canada, and I'm confused and grieved, actually, by the fact that I wasn …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 213, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/116/rachael-thomas-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 116, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "I'm concerned about how the current government that's in power treats that community", "act_why": "faults the Liberals for blocking her motion and for how they treat the Jewish community", "trigger": "her own motion condemning the York University faculty committee, after unanimous consent to move it was refused", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "university"], "target_detail": "why the Liberals wouldn't grant unanimous consent; anti-Semitic rhetoric and conduct taking place on university campuses", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I just want to raise the concern, Madam Chair, that we can continue, but if we continue, we will not have the opportunity to go over the witness list for the anti-Semitism study. If we don't do that today and we do it on Thursday, I don't believe there will be time to invite witnesses to be here next Monday. I just want to understand that, when we do get to studying the witness list, we're not going to make the study start the next day, when there's no time for witnesses to be invited p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 179, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/102/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "scheduling point about witnesses for the anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "scheduling of the witness list for the committee's adopted antisemitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["On your point, you indicated that we would start committee business at 12:30 p.m. It's 12:30 p.m. now. In no way, shape or form should anything that's happening on Bill C-273 impact what we're doing on our study on anti-Semitism. I think we should go to committee business now and that we should pick this up at some time in the future. For now, we have an agenda for today, and I think we should stick with it and go on with our consideration of committee business."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/102/rob-moore-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 102, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural insistence on proceeding with the anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "Bill C-273 crowding out the committee's study on antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-30", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Kalenský, my first question is for you. On October 7, Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, creating the biggest massacre of Jews since the Second World War and the Holocaust. Since then, there's been a great increase in anti-Semitism all across the world, including here in North America, where today college campuses are being occupied by people spreading anti-Semitic messaging. How has Russia been involved in fomenting that happening?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/114/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 114, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "How has Russia been involved in fomenting that happening?", "act_why": "question presupposes Russian involvement in fomenting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the worldwide rise in antisemitism since, including campus occupations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "How has Russia been involved in fomenting that happening; college campuses are being occupied by people spreading anti-Semitic messaging", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… your non-disclosure would prevent you from answering that either, but I was just wondering because we've had Meta witnesses before and they haven't exactly been forthcoming. Mr. Finkelstein, I'm going to turn to you. I'm familiar with a lot of the work that you've done, and some of your most impressive work relates to anti-Semitism—how anti-Semitic tropes are spread on social media and how misinformation is fed from social media and then amplified to the extent that it comes out in the real world. Can you give us some examples of that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 98, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/115/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "question framing anti-Semitic tropes on social media as a problem", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["Would you say that Russia, for example, and Iran are behind disinformation on social media—on platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Meta—in order to convince people to accept anti-Semitic tropes and disproportionate blame on Israel?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 34, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/115/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "Russia, for example, and Iran are behind disinformation on social media", "act_why": "leading question naming Russia and Iran as sources of anti-Semitic disinformation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Russia, for example, and Iran are behind disinformation on social media", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Mr. Maloney, was there anything else on that point? I do want to move on. I've already made my decision. If somebody wishes to challenge me, please go ahead. I welcome that. This committee has agreed, unreservedly, a number of times that the study on anti-Semitism will commence when we finish this clause-by-clause. Nobody is not agreeing to that. We never put a specific date. In fact, I was trying to figure out a date last time, when nobody was able to agree. We want to finish this clause-by-clause on this bill that we are doing because we do have important work to do other tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 171, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/the-chair-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I had some phone calls and some emails and some text messages about this, because immediately after it was introduced, the member opposite went onto social media and made the claim that we were standing in the way of fighting anti-Semitism. That was really disheartening for me as someone who's dedicated most of his professional career in politics to fighting racism and all forms of hate. I just want to bring clarity to this issue, because we're not playing games here. These are real-life situations in which people are being hurt and people are being dis …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 260, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects the social-media claim that he stood in the way of fighting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee, and her social media post afterward saying Liberals stood in the way of fighting antisemit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, it's interesting. I can say anti-Semitism 100 times over. In fact, I was the minister for anti-racism for the Province of Ontario. I was the first person in this entire country to embed anti-Semitism into legislation. Ontario was the first province in the history of this country to have anti-racism legislation. I believe B.C. is only the second province. I was responsible for putting that term, along with anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, and many different elements like anti-indigenous hate, into a piece of legisl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 440, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "rebuts the imputation that he is afraid to say anti-Semitism, citing his record", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee and her accusation that he would not say 'antisemitism'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["There is a motion on the floor talking about anti-Semitism and hate. I think we need to talk about the state of affairs in this country and the state of affairs in politics in this building, in the House of Commons, and the relationship among the parties. I have dedicated my political career to looking for ways to balance the playing field for all people. I would strongly agree to do a study on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-Black racism. I would love to do a study that focused on how it's impacting young people. I would like to look for ways to collaborate with the Conservatives to really flesh out some of this ugliness we're seeing in this country, and we should not use these motions in a way that creates divides. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 203, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-27/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "objects to wedge motions while backing a study of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… asn't even here, actually. I was virtual and I couldn't tell who said what was said. The first thing is that I was identified by Ms. Thomas on her social media. She tagged me as @Coteau and said that I had just basically.... I don't want to read the text, but it's something to do with saying that I stood in the way of anti-Semitism. I want to say right now for the record that I am—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 135, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-40/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "denies the tagged claim that he obstructed action on anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion, and her social media post tagging him after the notice of motion was introduced", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["It was that I stood in the way of fighting anti-Semitism. The member put this out. It was very political. It was very misleading. It was very charged. People were calling me. Friends in the Jewish community that I have worked with for 20 years in fighting anti-Semitism called me to ask me what was going on. You know what? Mrs. Thomas occupied eight hours of my time afterwards—I was phoning people and constituents to explain what happened. Unanimous consent was asked for a motion that was never shared with this committee, that came in at the last minute when we were doing a study, without any attachments to policies it was talking about. It was asking us—the way I read it—to call out York University for its policies. I don't even know what the policy was. It was very misleading. It undermined my efforts, over the last two decades, of fighting hate, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-indigenous hate and anti-Black racism. You know what? It was really difficult, Chair. I would like to ask the member opposite this: Can we come together in a meaningful way to look for a way to really.... There are students on our campuses—Jewish students, Muslim students, and students who are ther …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 262, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-42/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "calls the charge that he stood in the way of fighting anti-Semitism misleading", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion, and her social media post saying he 'stood in the way of fighting anti-Semitism'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… s to fight hate for a long time. My point is that we should come together. I don't mind reaching to the other side, working together and pushing away our partisanship. In politics, it can get pretty rough sometimes, and the divides are strong. When it comes to racism, when it comes to Islamophobia and when it comes to anti-Semitism, we need to hang up our political colours—our stripes—and we need to look for ways to work together. When we put motions on the table that are designed to create wedges, it actually starts to impact people in our communities—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 119, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/michael-coteau-43/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls for cross-party work against anti-Semitism, no misapplied-label claim", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Joel Finkelstein", "role": "Founder and Chief Science Officer, Network Contagion Research Institute", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["I wouldn't even know where to start. I think that the problem has become so prolific. I think that there are historical reasons; that's true. The hatred of Jews is a fairly high-octane hate. It's very powerful. It has a 1,000-year history, or a 3,000-year history or whatever, to draw upon in order to inform critics and people who are looking for something to blame. One of the things that we discussed earlier is that in the current information environment, it's so complex that …", "… ing the blame game. When that happens, the groups that have historically been best at receiving that blame end up being highlighted. It's really not different from other forms of hate; it's just far more elaborate, robust and systemic. I think a lot of what we're seeing now is unusual, and there's an anomalous rise in anti-Semitism. This has been drafted deliberately. There have been efforts going back to the Soviet Union and to others to agitate for a blood libel in the United Nations and other places to accuse Israel of genocide and to say that what's happening in Israel amounts to grotesque violations of human rights that don't occur elsewhere and are unique to the Jewish people and to Israel—to one and only one nation. The way that has been amplified across college campuses in the face of recent aggressions in Israel has led to spill-out where we definitely know that these signals start online, and they forward-predict anti-Semitism. It's not just that the systems exist in and of themselves. We know that where we see the strengthening of these blood libels and this high-velocity political language is where the geographic signature of that language will predict where anti-Semitic attacks take place. The temporal signature of that information will predict when they take place and not the other way around. We know that the social media signal is carrying something that is potentially instructive. That's what's important to understand about this dynamic. It's highly manufactured by enemy nations. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 385, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/115/joel-finkelstein-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "There have been efforts going back to the Soviet Union and to others to agitate for a blood libel in the United Nations", "act_why": "witness blames the Soviet Union and CCP for manufacturing anti-Semitic blood libels", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "efforts going back to the Soviet Union ... pushed on very deliberatively by the CCP; a blood libel in the United Nations", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Joel Finkelstein", "role": "Founder and Chief Science Officer, Network Contagion Research Institute", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["This is unpublished, but the data we have on this is very convincing that that is the case. I won't get into all the details, but what we see is that there is an anomalous level of belief in authoritarian ideology that's prevalent in TikTok users that is not as present on other platforms. There's an anomalous level of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 60, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/115/joel-finkelstein-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "There have been efforts going back to the Soviet Union and to others to agitate for a blood libel in the United Nations", "act_why": "duplicate testimony blaming named states for fomenting anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "efforts going back to the Soviet Union ... pushed on very deliberatively by the CCP; a blood libel in the United Nations", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… porting residential school denialism and anti-indigenous racism. There's a piece, I believe in today's paper, that shares deeply racist messaging around Ontario MPP Sarah Jama. It engages in both racism and anti-Palestinian racism. I think we have to be clear. This motion from the Conservatives is not about condemning anti-Semitism; it's about playing their political games, because if they cared to condemn anti-racism, then 30 minutes ago they would have supported the motion put forward by the Liberals to study the rise of the far right, which is engaged in anti-Semitic hate and other forms of hate. In fact, their leader , for days now, has refused to condemn Diagolon, a far-right organization that also pushes anti-Semitism. He met with folks who support this far-right movement and he still refuses to condemn them. If we're going to talk about condemning hate, I will say that just this past October, this member came out with the egregious accusation of CBC journalists being on the side of terrorism in their coverage of genocide in Gaza—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 227, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/niki-ashton-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "has refused to condemn Diagolon, a far-right organization that also pushes anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges the Conservative leader and Diagolon with pushing anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the Conservative motion condemning the York University faculty committee, premised on a National Post piece", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "media"], "target_detail": "their leader, for days now, has refused to condemn Diagolon, a far-right organization that also pushes anti-Semitism; the National Post", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["This is not about condemning anti-Semitism, as the member indicates. I also find it deeply troubling that part of the rhetoric we heard from the member was also in reference to what's happening on campuses across North America. I think it's very dangerous for parliamentarians to make accusations of the kind we've heard from Conservatives on that front. Conserv …", "… Here we should be reiterating, as parliamentarians, that we respect students' and Canadians' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, including when it comes to anti-war protests. Many Canadian young people are standing up against genocide and Canada's complicity in it. We should be, as parliamentarians, condemning anti-Semitism along with condemning Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. That is not what today's motion purports to do. To me, the fact that 30 minutes ago the same party chose not to look into the rise of far-right extremist hate really undermines the sincerity of the motion ahead of us and indicates that they're keen to get clicks on social media rather than actually get into taking on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and other forms of hate. As parliamentarians, we need to be genuine in what's being discussed here today. It's also not lost on me that this is coming up during a debate on the Court Challenges Program, which is a program that is premised on fighting for equality and justice in Canada, fighting against hate on behalf of marginalized communities, communities that have been denied justice time and again. Canadians see through these kinds of political games. Let's be serious and condemn anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, and also support, very clearly, the right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly that students and Canadians have, and and stand up against all forms of hate. I will leave it there. I'm looking forward to a productive discussion on this front, rather than scoring political …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 389, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/niki-ashton-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "argues Conservatives are wrongly casting campus protest as anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the Conservative motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I would go back. I know we're given a wide latitude. This is, I agree, a very important issue. Quite frankly, I congratulate the member for fighting racism. It truly is a scourge. The reality is that he now has had notice. Let's just move to a vote and condemn anti-Semitism, as we all should."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 55, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/philip-lawrence-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "urges the committee to vote and condemn anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the motion condemning antisemitism before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Notice was given of this motion on April 18, and the motion reads as follows. I move that, Given that, according to a National Post article published on April 17, a York University faculty committee has presented a list of anti-Semitic recommendations that include labelling the support of Israel as “anti-Palestinian racism”; classifying anyone who supports Israel as “anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab”; granting academic freedom and free speech to pro-Palestinian students, while revoking these same rights from Jewish students and anyone s …", "… y” that should be isolated and destroyed, and that the Government of Canada has committed to the Canada anti-racism strategy, and that the Minister of Canadian Heritage is responsible for “fostering and promoting Canadian identity and values, cultural development, and heritage,” and that the 2024 Canadian universities anti-Semitism report highlights the “serious problems our universities have with antisemitism, anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish hate”, the committee unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of this faculty committee at York University and report this to the House. Mr. Chair, it is important to note that the motion I have just read into the record does call on this committee to unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of the anti-Jew faculty committee at York University. I gave notice of this motion on April 18. However, since then, in just those few weeks, anti-Jewish rhetoric and actions on campuses across this country have only grown in number. In fact, it is out of control and altogether vile and disgusting. 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I've noticed that the member across the way refuses to use that word. He's accusing me of wanting to condemn people. That's not true at all. That's not what this motion says. It says that it condemns anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 48, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "insists the motion condemns anti-Semitism rather than persons", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Just for clarification, the Liberal chair ruled out of order a previous anti-Semitism motion, so there really wasn't a space to—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 21, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural note that the chair ruled an earlier anti-Semitism motion out of order", "trigger": "a previous antisemitism motion ruled out of order by the chair", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberal chair ruled out of order a previous anti-Semitism motion", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I wish he stood in the way of anti-Semitism. It would actually appear that the member supports it."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 18, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "It would actually appear that the member supports it.", "act_why": "says the named member appears to support anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "It would actually appear that the member supports it", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That is exactly what this motion seeks to do. It invites the members around this table to participate in the condemnation of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 23, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-29/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "invites members to join in condemning anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["—the Liberals have held the floor for over 20 minutes in a filibuster, and so I'm curious as to their motivation. I invite them to allow this to come to a vote so that, together, we can stand against anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 40, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-32/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks for a vote so members can stand against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberals have held the floor for over 20 minutes in a filibuster", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["We have a motion on the table. The motion that has been brought forward has to do with anti-Semitism on university campuses."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 22, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-35/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "bare procedural description of the motion's subject", "trigger": "her motion on antisemitism on university campuses, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["—what it is that they're hoping to do and stand together against anti-Semitism. We have the opportunity to vote on this right now."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 23, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-40/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "urges the committee to stand together against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Again, I'm just not sure why the member across the way isn't allowing this to come to a vote so that we can do exactly what he's talking about, which is to work together toward a positive end of standing against anti-Semitism. That offer is on the table, and we can collectively do that right now. Instead, the Liberals have now been filibustering for 30 minutes."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-42/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "repeats the call to vote and stand against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, before the committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberals have now been filibustering for 30 minutes", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… e is a proper order to be followed, which is to say that the member across the way can put forward an amendment to the motion; however, he chose not to do that today. Instead, he held the floor in a filibuster, trying to defend himself, yet offering no support for the motion that is in front of us, which would condemn anti-Semitism in this country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 76, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/rachael-thomas-55/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "point of order defending a motion that would condemn anti-Semitism", "trigger": "her motion condemning antisemitism, and the absence of any amendment to it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "he held the floor in a filibuster ... offering no support for the motion that is in front of us, which would condemn anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… h apply in this committee, to impugn the motives of other members. Mr. Moore has used the word \"blackmail\". He's used other things to imply what the motivations of other members are in supporting this bill. I unreservedly support this bill. I have no other motivations. I would very much like to move on to the study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. It is out of order and a breach of privilege for Mr. Moore to imply that we have motives other than those we have stated in this committee."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/randall-garrison-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "point of order on motives, mentions the pending anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "Bill C-273 and the pending study of antisemitism and Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ers and especially by witnesses and the Supreme Court. We had a big surprise dropped on us on Monday when we heard that the Minister of Justice acknowledges that this is a problematic bill and will be bringing in, presumably, government legislation. I agree that we should, as we scheduled, quickly move to our study on anti-Semitism on Monday. This bill is not ready. The committee has not heard from the minister. The committee has not heard from departmental officials on the content of the new justice legislation that may be coming to respond to the fallout from this bill. I want to make it extremely clear that we should be moving on, on Monday, regardless of what happens with Bill C-273 , which is a flawed bill that's out of touch with teachers and parents in this country. Regardless of what happens with it, we need to move on with our agenda. Our agenda should be that, on Monday, we begin Mr. Housefather's study on anti-Semitism. Look at your phone, look at the headlines and turn on the television. You will see that this is a massive issue across the country right now. That's why we have agreed as a committee, unanimously, to study Mr. Housefather's motion. I believe we should be studying Mr. Housefather's motion on Monday. I think we should all be in agreement on that. Madam Chair, I am moving a motion at this time that we begin our study on Mr. Housefather's motion on anti-Semitism on Monday and Thursday of next week. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 393, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a massive issue across the country and urges the study", "trigger": "Bill C-273 (repeal of Criminal Code section 43) and his motion that the antisemitism study begin Monday", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, is it your ruling that this committee could not decide to study the anti-Semitism motion on Monday?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural question about scheduling the anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "whether the committee could decide to study the antisemitism motion on Monday", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… xtremely troubling for me—Mr. Maloney basically said the quiet part out loud—is that somehow the Liberals and NDP are using the passage of an extremely problematic and controversial private member's bill, which is completely irrelevant in the context of the Supreme Court decision, to hold up Mr. Housefather's study on anti-Semitism, which is urgent and timely. That's what's happening. I want to be crystal clear: If we do not study the motion on anti-Semitism, which should begin on Monday, we're not going to allow members to use this extremely flawed private member's bill to delay that study. If we're not studying the motion on anti-Semitism on Monday, it's because the Liberals and NDP don't want to study the motion on anti-Semitism on Monday. It is that clear. There is no rule. If members would like to point me to the rule that says we have to complete our study on this before we can study the anti-Semitism motion on Monday, I would love to see it. The fact is, everyone around this table knows that there is nothing preventing us from starting that study. This is an attempt to blackmail committee members into moving on to a study by passing an extremely flawed bill."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 264, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitism study urgent while accusing rivals of delay, not of bigotry", "trigger": "Bill C-273 and the promised government legislation, said to be delaying Housefather's antisemitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberals and NDP don't want to study the motion on anti-Semitism on Monday", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Subject to and in compliance with your ruling, we've dealt with that amendment. I would like to now move a motion, irrespective of any misunderstanding of decisions that were made in the past, that this committee begin our study on anti-Semitism on Monday and on Thursday of next week."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "moves a scheduling motion for the anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "his motion that the committee begin the antisemitism study on Monday and Thursday", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… any kind of detail regarding what is in that legislation, because obviously the government feels that's necessary if this bill is to pass. Apparently the government is asking us to pass this bill today, this NDP private member's bill, which criminalizes parents and teachers, or else we will not study our own member's anti-Semitism motion. That's what committee members are faced with today."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 265, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural complaint about bill tactics delaying the anti-Semitism motion", "trigger": "amendment G-1 to Bill C-273 and the government legislation promised to follow it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the government is asking us to pass this bill ... or else we will not study our own member's anti-Semitism motion", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Moore", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["If my point is wrong then there should be no problem with agreeing that we begin the study on anti-Semitism on Monday. If we're all in agreement on that then I will drop this line of argument. Irrespective of what happens with this private member's bill today, we should begin our study of anti-Semitism. I'm not framing that as a motion; I'm asking members to agree that we will begin our study on anti-Semitism on Monday. If members around the table agree to that then there's nothing to prevent it from happening on Monday."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/rob-moore-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "asks for agreement to start the anti-Semitism study Monday", "trigger": "the request that the committee agree to begin the antisemitism study on Monday", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to put this in perspective, today at the justice committee we were supposed to be starting our study on anti-Semitism. That is an issue that is front and centre in Canadian society today, given the noisy, disruptive and even violent protests and encampments celebrating the atrocities of Hamas against innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, and denying Israel's right to defend itself against an enemy dedicated to its destruction. That's …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 733, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/103/tako-van-popta-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 103, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "decries protests celebrating the October 7 atrocities and backs the study", "trigger": "Bill C-273 and Conservative motion number 1 to codify the Supreme Court's 2004 section 43 decision, displacing the scheduled antisemitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the noisy, disruptive and even violent protests and encampments celebrating the atrocities of Hamas", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ious about doing this and about not having a partisan game, let's go in camera, all of us. Let's come up with a motion that can be supported unanimously. Please, let us take this seriously. I don't want this to be a political game for any community in this country. We have serious issues related to hate, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. These are all issues that we should rightly be working together to fight. In the case of this conversation about anti-Semitism, Mr. Chair, my sincere request is that we actually do the right thing here—and I have a track record that I am proud to stand on in working with the Jewish community in my riding and others. Let's sit together without cameras, without the show of theatre, and come up with something together that would send an unequivocal message to the Jewish community in this country and to all communities that none of us have daylight between us when it comes to the fight against anti-Semitism. There are too many things in this world that people in this country are being held to account for. There is nothing reasonable about holding Jews in Canada responsible for what is happening in Israel and in Gaza any more than it was right for people to look at me as a Muslim and tell me that my people are responsible …", "… saying that she cares about the Jewish community. That's wonderful. That's important, and she should. We all should, but then let's take this seriously. I am reaching my hand out to ask every member of this committee that we sit down in a room together. Let us craft language that is unequivocal in its condemnation of anti-Semitism. Let's do that. Let's send a message that protest is fine, that anti-Semitism is not. Let's send a message that says that fighting for things that we care about is right but that glorifying violence is not. Let's send a message out there that says that no innocent life should be lost in vain, that there should be condemnation of all loss of innocent life. These are things that we all should be …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 797, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-64/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says holding Canadian Jews responsible for Gaza is wrong and seeks a joint motion", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee, which he asks her to withdraw", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… dia of what happened in this committee caused harm, caused hurt feelings, caused ill will, and caused further pain to members of the Jewish community, which is simply unacceptable. For those across the way who somehow believe any of us are equivocating on this subject, let me speak very clearly. I condemn all forms of anti-Semitism, and all Canadians should. I condemn all forms of anti-Semitism, and all Canadians must. That is who we are as Canadians. There is no place for hate in this country. There should be no place for hate in this country on our campuses, in our streets, in our communities, anywhere. That, I believe, Mr. Chair, is something that we should be able to do all together, without fancy preambles, without hypotheses, without depending on National Post articles. Mr. Chair, what we should be able to do as a committee, as Mr. Coteau rightly pointed out, is come together and condemn hate—in this particular case, anti-Semitism, the insidious nature of anti-Semitism—and be united in that message. In so doing, we are saying to people that this isn't a political football. This isn't a game for people to score points on social media. This is a serious issue facing our country. We should let Jewish Canadians know that the fight against anti-Semitism is not their fight alone. It is a fight that all of us are a part of. It is a fight that all of us are committed to—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 278, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-38/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "states he condemns all forms of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion and the social-media misrepresentation of what happened in committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I was saying before I was interrupted, it's really important to me and the constituency that I represent that they—the members of my constituency, the residents in my community—know and understand that their member of Parliament stands up against hate and anti-Semitism in all of its forms, and that I am committed to working with all parliamentarians regardless of their political stripe. I'm sorry that saying that working with other parliamentarians may cause others some harm, but I think it's important for us to do that, to work with other parliamentarians across political lines to fight anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 102, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-41/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "commits to standing against anti-Semitism in all forms", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I go back to what I was saying. It's important for members of my community and of communities across this country to know that we are all in the fight, or we should all be in the fight, against anti-Semitism together. It is one thing to protest. Protest is important. It's a part of who we are, but it is not okay for those protests to be anti-Semitic, to call for the deaths of anyone or to celebrate violence or acts of violence. It's also equally important to make sure that we approach this in a way that isn't about scoring political points, and that we recognize that, by working together across parties, across.... This is, again, unbelievable."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 122, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-43/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says protest is fine but anti-Semitic protest is not", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… cial media things that represented my position and the position of my colleagues. Had this been an honest conversation about the urgent need for all of us to come together on a motion that skipped the politicization and went clearly to the heart of the issue that we need to be talking about, which is the fight against anti-Semitism, we wouldn't be in this position today. I think it's important for us to take out the preambles, assertions and value judgments about newspapers being sources, and actually say that this committee is unequivocally united in its support for the fight against anti-Semitism, and that fight is one that must be taken on by all. That is something I believe every single member of this committee would stand for. What I find deeply troubling is that this is not the first time, Mr. Chair, that some have chosen to use social media to grossly misrepresent the views of people on this side, of othe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 200, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-47/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls for unequivocal united condemnation while faulting a misrepresentation of his stance", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion and her social media posts representing his colleagues' position", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I don't want to presume anything. What I want to say is this: It is really important for Canadians—Muslims, Jews, people of all faiths, of no faiths—to see parliamentarians able to stand up together and say they condemn anti-Semitism in a motion in this House, in this space, and do that. Therefore, I would make an offer to anyone, including Ms. Thomas, Mr. Gourde, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Beaulieu, my own colleagues, Ms. Ashton, and you, Mr. Waugh—you're the chair—to agree to park motions that are not necessarily at the heart of this issue. Let's speak t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 115, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-55/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "urges parliamentarians to stand and condemn anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion, which he asks members to park in favour of a jointly drafted one", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… heap political points. Everybody does it. It's fine. We've all thrown motions out there for whatever reason. I don't want to prejudge what people's motivations are. What I do want to say is this: This is serious. This is serious for all of us in our committees. It's important for us to set an example. When it comes to anti-Semitism in this case, when it comes anti-Palestinian hate, when it comes to Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate and anti-Black racism, we should be able to just say that this is not partisan. Right? Every government, historically, of every stripe has sought to make strides in this regard, regardless of their political party. I will …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 237, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/117/taleeb-noormohamed-66/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 117, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks for a jointly drafted motion against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Ms. Thomas's motion condemning the York University faculty committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… largely responsible for what happens. Despite that, there seems to be an attempt by one party to pretend that the federal government is responsible for everything. Again, I want to come back to your experiences on campus. One of the things I've heard a lot from many sources is that these demonstrations are not at all anti-Semitic, and it's a tiny group of people at these demonstrations who are anti-Semitic. I think you've all said you don't agree with that. We're going to have the opportunity to call university presidents to this committee, if we would like to do that, and I think we should. What universities' presidents should we call? Ms. Pressmann, you have a national organization. Could you give us some examples of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 167, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/anthony-housefather-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "relays and rejects the claim that the demonstrations are not anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the campus demonstrations and encampments, and the claim that only 'a tiny group of people at these demonstrations' are antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "these demonstrations are not at all anti-Semitic ... I think you've all said you don't agree with that; college administrators are largely responsible for what happens", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kevin Waugh", "role": "Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Grasswood", "province": "SK", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… . It was 2009. We sent our daughter over to Poland. To move ahead now, 14 or 15 years later, I am so thankful that we scraped together that money for her to go over to learn about the Holocaust and teach it in our classrooms. Now, when I see this motion in front of me, I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't include anti-Semitism because we're dealing with it in every city. The two meetings would bring us towards the end of May, because we have the minister coming, and as duly noted by MP Thomas, we do need to hear about safe sport. You have had a lot of emails, Madam Chair, and I have had dozens of emails on safe sport. Outside of Hockey Cana …", "… t the full report to us—and now we have some recommendations on safe sport. The whole country is waiting for that report, and I can see now it's going to be delayed until probably the first part of June, which is too bad. That's all I'll say on this. I was a little disappointed by the motion in that it did not include anti-Semitism, since I believe that is first and foremost what we've seen in this country from coast to coast. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 398, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/kevin-waugh-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "regrets the motion's omission of anti-Semitism, seen in every city", "trigger": "the motion and amendment before the heritage committee, which he objects does not include antisemitism, alongside the pending safe sport report", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["We'll start the meeting. Welcome, everyone. I call the meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 104 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on March 21, 2024, the committee is commencing its study on anti-Semitism. I have a few things to read before we start. The first is on audio feedback. I want to remind all members and other participants in the room of the following important preventative measures. To prevent disruptive and potentially harmful audio feedback incidents, which can cause injuries, all in-person participants ar …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 752, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/the-chair-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "chair's housekeeping announcing the study on anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the motion adopted by the committee on March 21, 2024, under which the study on antisemitism commences", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… to put the Criminal Code in place to set the law and to ensure it's enforced. In the Criminal Code, it's an offence to advocate or promote genocide; to publicly incite hatred in a way that's “likely to lead to a breach of the peace”; to “wilfully promote..hatred against [an] identifiable group”; to “wilfully promote...antisemitism”; or to commit mischief related to certain forms of property that's “motivated by bias, prejudice or hate”. Yet, all of these things are happening across the country. We have heard from your testimony about the things that are happening on campus. We could add to that the blocking at Avenue Road of critical infrastruc …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 195, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/marilyn-gladu-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "charge_quote": "the federal government has not taken an action to ensure the rule of law is enforced", "act_why": "quotes the Criminal Code and faults universities, police and Ottawa for not enforcing it", "trigger": "the blocking of the Avenue Road overpass and of the road in front of Mount Sinai Hospital, and the campus conduct described in witness testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "we do not see universities enforcing their code of conduct ... the federal government has not taken an action to ensure the rule of law is enforced", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ing here and sharing your stories. I don't think anyone could hear them without really being horrified. I want to say how brave you all are for coming here and telling your stories. I know it will make a difference. I can't help but feel that this is an historic meeting. We are finally trying to deal with the issue of anti-Semitism in this country. Mr. Oberman, you talked about the blank page and moving forward and legislating, but I want to turn the clock back to October 7 and the period between then and now. The reality is that the actions of our government have not made things better. They've actually made things far worse. I'm going to take …", "… ny excepted, stood up and gave themselves a standing ovation, with the NDP, in the House of Commons because they were proud of the fact that they passed this motion. Therefore, Mr. Oberman, would you agree that the actions, and not just the inaction, of this Liberal government since October 7 have fanned the flames of anti-Semitism in Canada and exacerbated the problem on university campuses?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 429, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/marty-morantz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "charge_quote": "the actions, and not just the inaction, of this Liberal government since October 7 have fanned the flames of anti-Semitism in Canada", "act_why": "asks whether the Liberal government's actions fanned the flames of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the October 7 Hamas attack and the government's actions since - the UN ceasefire vote, the arms ban on Israel, restored UNRWA funding, and the House motion the ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the actions, and not just the inaction, of this Liberal government since October 7 have fanned the flames of anti-Semitism in Canada", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Coteau", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I would just ask the member to add Islamophobia and anti-Semitism to the motion, and let's move forward. I think that's what he's getting at."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 25, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/michael-coteau-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural suggestion to add the terms to the motion", "trigger": "the motion before the committee, which he asks be amended to add Islamophobia and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Eshayek", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I think a lot of it has to do with Jew hatred. I'm always saying that I think I'm more pro-Palestinian than the people who are screaming the things they're screaming, because I actually want the people in Gaza to have a decent life, but in order to do so, we have to get rid of Hamas. I didn't see these people standing outside and screaming and chanting when Syria killed—murdered—500,000 Arabs or when Egypt didn't open the borders for the people of Gaza. I didn't see them going into the streets and protesting about it. I think it has everything to do with Jew hatred and it has nothing to do with the people in Gaza. It's sad to see. I also think that once you let criminals commit crimes without any consequences, they will continue to commit crimes. Once we see university administrations and university presidents taking steps and doing something against it, we will be able to stop …"], "terms": ["jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 188, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/michael-eshayek-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "witness attributes the campus chants to Jew hatred", "trigger": "the campus protests and chants about Gaza", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "the people who are screaming the things they're screaming; university administrations and university presidents", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Eshayek", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… with you. Graham Carr, the president of the university, has set up a task force to address systemic discrimination, identity-based violence and hate on campus and beyond. On the surface, this is a positive initiative, but one of the three co-chairs appointed is a supporter of BDS. She's against the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, and she's an anti-Zionist. I think that says everything."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/michael-eshayek-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "duplicate testimony attributing the chants to Jew hatred", "trigger": "the campus protests and chants about Gaza", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "the people who are screaming the things they're screaming; university administrations and university presidents", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Eshayek", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… t the paper, because I remember these dates. I want to tell you something. The first time I came to Montreal, Canada, I was 13. It was my dream to move here. When I finished my military service, I moved here. I never imagined that moving to Montreal would be the worst thing that would ever happen to me, because of the anti-Semitism, and because of what I have to go through right now."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/michael-eshayek-25/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "duplicate testimony attributing the chants to Jew hatred", "trigger": "the campus protests and chants about Gaza", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "the people who are screaming the things they're screaming; university administrations and university presidents", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Eshayek (Student, As an Individual)", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Hi. Thank you for inviting me today and for leading a national conversation on the disturbing and troubling rise in anti-Semitism on university campuses since the barbaric terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7. My family fled persecution in Iraq, settling in Israel, where I was born. As a teenager, I often visited my great-aunt who had moved to Canada, and I fell in love with Montreal. I arrived at Concordia to study finance two years …", "… udies in a respectful and open manner. It was what learning was meant to be. In this spirit, I became one of the founders of the StartUp Nation, with the goal of bringing Israel to our campus through business, innovation, culture and technology. Little did we know that we would soon become leaders in the fight against anti-Semitism on campus. Let me share some milestone dates with you. On October 8, a day after the horrible attack, SPHR Concordia posted, “Last night, the resistance in Gaza led a heroic”—heroic—“attack against the occupation and has taken over 30 hostages.” On October 25, hundreds of students walked out of class at 1.30 p.m. and participated in an anti-Semitic sit-in in solidarity with Palestine in Concordia's main lobby while chanting “From the river to the sea,” “Intifada now,” and “Resistance is justified.” These chants are threatening and a call for the genocide of the Jewish people over and over again. On November 8, 30 Jewish students made a Shabbat table with empty c …", "… result, about 300 pro-Hamas students and faculty harassed, threatened and physically accosted us while yelling, “Go back to Poland” and “Kike”, among other threats and chants. Personally, my life was threatened, as I was told, “You'd better get off campus or you will not get to see tomorrow.” On November 23, a second anti-Semitic walkout took place. All participants were fully masked, screaming, “There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!” On December 13, students from across Montreal came to the main building on our downtown campus, chanting anti-Semitic rants and waving offensive signs and banners with things such as “Globalize the Intifada”, which is a clear call for another October 7 or another 9/11. On March 4, the administration cancelled our event because we were hosting three reservists on a diplomatic mission to speak about Israel's journey toward stability and peace. The event was then moved to the Jewish federation, the Federation CJA, where pro-Hamas students, such as SPHR Concordia, again came together to physically block all access to the building while again chanting anti-Semitic slogans. We were trapped in the conference centre for four hours while police were on site, trying to get us out. On March 12, Jewish students in the Hillel club-room, which is the only Jewish club-room on campus, were harassed by masked individuals who were banging on the walls and chanting, “All Zionists are racists …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 724, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/michael-eshayek-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "testimony recounting anti-Semitic incidents at Concordia with quoted chants", "trigger": "the dated series of events at Concordia since October 7 - the October 8 SPHR post calling the attack 'heroic', the October 25 walkout, the November 8 assault on", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "SPHR Concordia; the leadership of Concordia sat idly by, ducking and refusing to enforce its own policies", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Neil G. Oberman", "role": "Attorney, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I think that's an excellent question. I thank you for posing it. To make something legitimate, it doesn't have to be posed against something else. Let me give you an example. The moon and the sun both exist, but not at the same time. One rises, one sets. However, I can tell you that when you try to say that anti-Semitism must be the flip side of something, it delegitimizes it. It says that it cannot exist unto itself; it must have something else to make it legitimate. I reject it. It's false. It's a narrative. That is exactly what Nicole said. There is always a way to wrap up your explanations. It's anti-Semitism, but it's not. It's anti-Islamophobia, but it's.... The reality is this, sir. Anti-Semitism can exist by itself. It exists by itself. It has for 5,784 years. There are more people out there who have tried to destroy the Jewish population. They have enslaved the Jews and have murdered the Jews, but here's one thing that's not going to happen, and this is the message for each of you. 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Oberman (Attorney, As an Individual)", "role": "Attorney, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… I'm speaking to all Quebeckers. We should make changes. The law matters, but more importantly, it must be respected and enforced. You can create all the laws you want. I'm sure you want to talk about that, and we're going to get into that, but if people don't respect the laws on the books currently, there is no value. Anti-Semitism is a sickness, and it has to be eradicated. However, what's more important is ignorance and the inability to understand things, which is also a sickness. Legislators can't legislate love, and they can't tell you how to think, but they can legislate against hate. It's your job here today to legislate against hate. I'm …", "… es and gentlemen. It's a blank page. You have the opportunity, along with these people, to create a future for all of us that will be written not in blood and not in hate but in love, which you can't legislate. However, with respect, you must understand that if we don't act now, we will not be able to stop the tide of anti-Semitism. It's an illness, and it's for this parliament and our government to stop talking and start doing. Personally, I'll be there all the way for these students. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 917, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/neil-g-oberman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a sickness that must be eradicated", "trigger": "his injunction applications - against the McGill encampment and the March 4, 2024 blockade - and the assault on a schoolboy told to 'keep beating him until he s", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "I took injunctions against McGill to try to get rid of the encampment", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Yos Tarshish", "role": "Director, Hillel Queen's, Hillel Ontario", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["At the Residence Society general assembly, when candidates were asked by a first-year Jewish student what they were going to do to fight anti-Semitism in residences, given that, at this point, four mezuzahs had been removed, no one gave a good answer. The most disturbing thing was that an audible ripple of laughter went through the room the moment the question was asked. Anti-Semitic rhetoric is not limited to students. We've already heard terrible things coming out of professors within their classrooms and outside of them. I think the one that really shocked me was when a Concordia professor showed up at McGill and screamed at Jewish students, “Go back to Poland, sharmuta,” which is an Arabic der …", "… e window of her student house that night. It's her private student home. Physical assaults and threats have become alarmingly common. I've seen several videos in the last weeks from university campuses that have disturbed me greatly. The final bit is disqualification. This, to me, is really the most pernicious form of anti-Semitism that we're seeing on campuses. It's the core demand of this encampment movement right now. Removing all representations of Zionism from campus has become.... The mask has slipped. We have gone from, “We need a ceasefire” to, “Hillel must be removed from campus, because Hillel is a Zionist cultural institution.” So say …", "… om. It included as a recommendation that Hillel should not be allowed on campus. I remind you that we have been an organization serving Canadian Jewish students for more than 80 years. I'm proud to live in Canada, and it pains me to witness this trend in a country that is known for its inclusivity and diversity. While anti-Semitism is indeed an ancient hatred, its current resurgence on Canadian campuses is not merely a recurrence, but an intensification. It's threatening the safety and well-being of Jewish students and, by extension, the integrity of our educational institutions. If we stand by while history's shadows lengthen into our halls of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 475, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/yos-tarshish-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "survivors and witnesses"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "testimony recounting campus anti-Semitism with quoted slurs", "trigger": "the removal of four mezuzahs in Queen's residences and the laughter at the Residence Society assembly, a Concordia professor screaming 'Go back to Poland' at Mc", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["union", "university"], "target_detail": "So says CUPE 3903, the union of TAs at York University", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Yos Tarshish", "role": "Director, Hillel Queen's, Hillel Ontario", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you very much. One question that was asked before was, why is all of this happening? I just want to talk about a few other pieces. Firstly, Jew hatred is obvious. Anti-Semitism exists in society. We swim in it. It's just systemic; it's always been there. It's 2,000 years old. It's going to take a long time to get rid of it. That's why we at Hillel talk about pushing anti-Semitism to the margins of campus, not getting rid of it, because it's not reality, and that we have to ground ourselves in the reality that there will always be extremists and always be people with terrible opinions. 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I'm here to speak up on behalf of thousands of Jewish students across this country. My name is Yos Tarshish. I'm the director of Hillel Queen's, and I'm here representing Hillels on campuses all over the country. I've spent about 15 years deeply immersed in Jewish student communities in Canada and around the world, and this tenure's afforded me a broad insight into the patterns of anti-Semitism, particularly in a university setting. It's allowed me to observe its fluctuations and to see when it rises and when it falls. Anti-Semitism is not a new or novel phenomenon here in Canada. From as early as the 1920s, Canadian Jews faced systematic barriers to entry into Canadian universities. Universities like McGill only rescinded their numerous classist quotas on Jewish students in the 1960s. In 2009, Jewish York University students had to barricade themselves inside their Hillel building to keep themselves away from a violent mob. In 2022, Dr. Ayelet Kuper's landmark report into anti-Semitism within the University of Toronto's Temerty school of medicine uncovered really deep-seated biases that show how prejudice infiltrates even the most prestigious of academic institutions. Sadly, these are really just the tip of the iceberg, and Jewish students are facing really terrible things every single day. We're observing this anti-Semitism on campus taking three main forms. The first is both verbal and social harassment. The second is physical and symbolic acts. The third is disqualification and exclusion. For the first form, harassment, in February, a Jewish student walking on campus at York University had his picture taken from behind. That picture wa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 378, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/yos-tarshish-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "testimony on the escalating forms of campus Jew hatred", "trigger": "the TikTok posting in February of a York student's picture mocking his kippah, the removal of mezuzahs at Queen's, and the campus encampment movement's demand t", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "online platform"], "target_detail": "That picture was then uploaded onto TikTok, where thousands of comments mocked his choice of kippah; Universities like McGill only rescinded their ... quotas on Jewish students in the 1960s", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Nati Pressmann", "role": "Founder, Canadian Union of Jewish Students", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… y're not enough. The persons who are calling for an intifada until revolution still think our government is too pro-Israel. While we're talking about particular policy, I also want to keep in mind that's really the reality on our campuses, and I think we need to work towards talking about how we can actually deal with anti-Semitism on our campus. Regarding EDI, I think what we should do is try to incorporate more Jews into EDI because I think we deserve to be in those spaces, rather than get rid of them as a whole."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 131, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/nati-pressmann-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "witness urges dealing with anti-Semitism on campus", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the average Canadians who are on our campuses who are spewing hatred against Jews", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Nati Pressmann", "role": "Founder, Canadian Union of Jewish Students", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Anti-Semitism has always been a conspiracy myth. It puts the Jew in the position of what is considered evil in society. Society has changed, and what we consider evil changes. I think it's great that we have more of a cultural awareness of discrimination and of hatred toward all people, but Jews, because of the way anti-Semitism functions, are put as the oppressor, which is what is considered evil in our society. That's a good thing that we're being aware of discrimination and oppression, but Jews are put in the position where we are seen as helping that. 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They need to be using their own policies, but they need to be very clear about how anti-Semitic incidents should be dealt with so that we're not put in the situation where, for months, we're being tossed around to different departments. They also need to be using their own student codes of conduct and to understand that even if hateful speech isn't the same as hate speech, it should still be seen as dangerous to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/nati-pressmann-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "duplicate answer urging action on campus anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the average Canadians who are on our campuses who are spewing hatred against Jews", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Nati Pressmann", "role": "Founder, Canadian Union of Jewish Students", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… inions, and other people may have their own opinions, but I'm here talking on behalf of Jewish students. Yes, there is a feeling that we could get more support from the government. That is true. Some of us do feel that way, but we're working together to combat this hatred because everyone in this room here cares about anti-Semitism on campus, and I'm here on behalf of Canadian Union of Jewish Students to work with all of you, regardless of any partisanship that may be in this room. 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Thank you to the committee for this critical study on anti-Semitism. My name is Nati Pressmann. I'm a first-generation Canadian Jew in my third year at Queen's University. I'm the first person in my family to be born in a country where I'm given the same rights as other citizens, despite the fact that I am Jewish. I've always been grateful for the opportunities and peace that Canada has given me and my family. However, that peace has been blemished by anti-Semitism. Although anti-Semitism has always been present in Canada, including at universities, and Jews have consistently represented the community most frequently victimized by hate crimes, I've seen the situation get exponentially worse since October 7. As vice-president of the World Union of Jewish Students, I observed a void in Canada. There was …", "… uity. I remind the committee that these incidents of outright violence and hate speech were taking place before Israel even responded to Hamas's murderous assault. Our universities should be places of learning, critical thinking and respectful dialogue. Instead, they have become home to unsanctioned protests featuring anti-Semitic rhetoric. We frequently hear, “There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!” For Jews, the Intifada was a series of suicide bombings that claimed the lives of up to 1,400 Israelis. Israelis like me, and the children of Israelis, grew up learning how to stay away from unattended baggage in case it was a bomb. Acros …", "… Holocaust. The Students for Justice in Palestine group at the University of Regina held posters saying that one Holocaust is not equal to another. Similar signage has been seen at many other rallies in Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon and Halifax. All of these incidents result from the normalization of anti-Semitic rhetoric through inaction by university administrators, who fail to use even their own policies and their own codes of conduct to act against anti-Semitism on their own campuses. Administrators are entitled to act when students and/or faculty create a poisonous campus environment, but we have seen little to no action taken. The increase in anti-Semitism is deeply troubling. Jewish students experience fear and anxiety. We, as a society, need to support them. We, as Canadians, need to support them, as Canadian values demand no less. With over 300 members from over 20 university campuses, CUJS will play its part in providing such support for Jewish students who face anti-Semitism on campus and beyond. Now it's your turn to lift up our voices so that all Jewish students in Canada will be able to feel safe in their places of learning. 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Despite the intimidation of Jewish students on campus, we have consistently embodied the resilient flame of our ancestors, who refused to give up their Judaism to be accepted in the diaspora. 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On October 7, my aunt and uncle hid in their home in Kfar Aza for 30 hours as Hamas terrorists massacred their village. About 10% of their village was massacred. Their house does not exist anymore. It is rubble. They hid in their safe room for 30 hours, and we had no c …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 121, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/nicole-nashen-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "duplicate argument that anti-Zionist exclusion targets Jews", "trigger": "the McGill encampment sign reading 'No Zionists Allowed' and campus protesters' substitution of 'Zionist' for 'Jew'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "Campus protesters have simply replaced the word “Jew” with “Zionist”; our universities are currently failing to protect us", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Nicole Nashen", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… . One of my proudest moments ever to be Jewish was going with my cousins to the protest in Tel Aviv. Jewish people always like to argue. We have lots of different opinions on the actions of the Israeli government. That does not make us any less Zionist or any less proud of our homeland. Natan Sharansky has three Ds of anti-Semitism: demonization, delegitimization and double standards. 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My name is Nicole Nashen. I just finished my second year of law school at McGill University. I am the granddaughter of immigrants who came to Canada seeking a better life for their children. My grandparents were so proud when I was admitted to McGill for law school, but are now horrified by the rampant anti-Semitism that I and my Jewish peers are experiencing on campus. Jewish students in Montreal have been intimidated by hateful posters glorifying violence and terrorism, and by protesters chanting for the destruction of our ancestral homeland. As Michael said, on October 8, clubs funded by McGill and Concordia universities posted on Instagram, “Last night, the resistance in Gaza led a heroic attack against the occupation and has taken over 30 hostages.” These are the same groups that have been organizing the campus protests and the current encampment at McGill University. They have not tried to hide their hateful and anti-Semitic intent. Our universities have chosen to turn a blind eye, rather than stand up for their Jewish students. A student at the Université de Montréal said that, before October 7, her Jewish identity always seemed natural and readily and wholeheartedly accepted. However, at this time, a cloud of doubt or unease looms over …", "… mong her peers at school as a Jewish person. As Michael said, on November 8 at Concordia University, my alma mater, where I served on the Concordia Student Union and as the president of Hillel, Jewish students were violently attacked during a tabling event to raise awareness for the hostages. They were assaulted by an anti-Semitic mob, which was only brought to an end by police intervention. Adam Goren, VP of Israel Affairs for StartUp Nation Concordia, said that the events of November 8 had fundamentally changed the way he felt on campus, making him feel unsafe and nervous to attend classes, with his constantly looking over his shoulder. That feeling had persisted to this day. The right to peaceful protest is a fundamental tenet of democracy, and criticizing the policies and actions of the Israeli government is not inherently anti-Semitic. Having said that, the sign on the McGill encampment facing Sherbrooke Street that reads, “Agitate, escalate, shut it down” is not criticism of the Israeli government, nor is it peaceful, and the sign on the McGill encampment that reads, “No Zionists Allowed” is overtly anti-Semitic. Zionism should not be controversial. It is simply the belief in Jewish self-determination in our indigenous homeland, and it does not preclude the existence of a Palestinian state too. 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I think it can start at the top, but it also starts in institutions and in massively funding EDI programming, such that, quite literally, when I asked who decides who is in these EDI meetings—is it a percentage of population?—their response was, well, it's the groups that deserve equity and deserve inclusio …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/rachel-cook-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "criticises EDI process that excluded Jews from an anti-Semitism complaint", "trigger": "the EDI feedback meeting at the University of Alberta faculty of law held without any Jewish student or faculty member while discussing a Jewish student's antis", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the EDI system has made the problem worse ... the \"equity, diversity and inclusion\" meeting did not include Jewish people", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Rachel Cook", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["They did until I went to the media, and then I think my story got out there. It shows they're willing to subject Jewish students to anti-Semitism and hurt Christian students at the same time to make sure that they don't look like they're supporting Jewish students or Israel."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/rachel-cook-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "duplicate criticism of the EDI process handling anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the EDI feedback meeting at the University of Alberta faculty of law held without any Jewish student or faculty member while discussing a Jewish student's antis", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the EDI system has made the problem worse ... the \"equity, diversity and inclusion\" meeting did not include Jewish people", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Rachel Cook (Student, As an Individual)", "role": "Student, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ofessor concluded that the system kept Black and indigenous people of colour from their land, and made what I believed was a “Farrakhan-esque” comparison of the system to a roof infested with termites. This professor is still teaching, and would later sign an open letter stating that they “reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to contextualize the October 7, 2023 attack”. One month after the trees were banned, an EDI feedback meeting took place at the faculty of law. No Jewish student or Jewish faculty member was present at that meeting. According to the minutes, which I received by freedom of information, it was n …", "… ppearance in the media was one of the greatest attacks to student safety, and that there was space for the faculty to make comments and hold people accountable. I could never have imagined that voices on campus would advocate for holding me accountable for asking to display a menorah or for asking to speak out against anti-Semitism. I was reminded of all this earlier in the week, when I walked through Rutherford library on my way to my final exam. There was a display of student artwork, including an interactive piece discussing Gaza. Students were invited to write their feelings about history washed over by colonialism on this interactive displa …", "… gnized by the Canadian government—the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—and a message reading “Death to ZOGs”, implying that the Jews run western governments like Canada and the United States. After this year, I have been left with the impression that the U of A is more interested in covering up systematic anti-Semitism on campus than addressing it head-on and working toward change. Unfortunately, speaking publicly about documented anti-Semitism has been seen as a greater risk than the behaviour I've worked to draw attention to. I've heard from numerous members of faculty and classmates and many Albertans who have quietly offered their support for my advocacy. 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I think it's pretty clear that we're witnessing a filibuster on a motion to study the rise of the far right. The far right is clearly anti-Semitic. It is clearly Islamophobic. This is exactly what we want to look into, so I don't understand why the Conservatives are wasting our time and why we don't get to the vote on this motion. If they believe that they want to look into anti-Semitism, then let's see them vote for this motion, and let's cut this filibuster. We're wasting the witnesses' time. 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I think this is a very serious issue. I'm disappointed by the partisan tone of the motion. I think we could all work together to fight racism and to fight discrimination in all forms. There is just one area that is missing. You could perhaps put it under religious minorities. I would specifically like to see anti-Semitism called out, which we don't have in this. I'll actually bring back and just discuss a motion that the Conservatives brought forward, which unfortunately was stonewalled by the Liberals. 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Part of it says, and this is the part that I'll relate back, “and harassment towards journalists, women, indigenous peoples, Black and racialized communities, members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community and religious minorities”. I'm hoping that religious minorities, on harassment, would include anti-Semitism. 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That's why I want to talk about the importance of fighting anti-Semitism in Canada. That brings me back to the motion that was unfortunately stonewalled by the Liberal Party. It is: the committee unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic conduct of this faculty committee at York University and report this to the House. As a practice, I never try to impugn the intentions of other members. I believe we are all honourable, all 338 of us, and I believe that we all want to fight the scourge of racism and anti-Semitism. Just to show that clearly this motion needs to be amended to include the fight against anti-Semitism, I'm going to ascribe that to an oversight although I will express my disappointment on behalf of the Jewish community. I certainly heard from them about the failure of this committee because of Liberal stonewalling to pass a motion clearly calling out anti-Semitism, and it would be an absolute travesty if we were to do that twice. The Jewish community is under incredible pressure regardless of what's going on in Israel or Gaza. I have talked to many parliamentarians, and I've talked to many people in the Jewish community who don't feel safe. 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I want to apologize. I'll extend my apologies to my friend. This contemplates the harassment of religious minorities. I think it's important to specifically call out anti-Semitism. If there is not a mention of it—I thought I saw it, but maybe I did not—there should also be a specific call for the protection against Islamophobia as well."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 74, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/philip-lawrence-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks that antisemitism and Islamophobia both be called out", "trigger": "This contemplates the harassment of religious minorities (the motion under debate)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. As I was saying, given the charged nature which we currently live in, with the division that unfortunately is a real scourge on our great country, I think it's important that we parse our words very carefully. As I said, I believe that specifically we should be calling out Islamophobia as well as anti-Semitism. I was just talking about the Liberal member, Anthony Housefather , as well as our Melissa Lantsman and Marty Morantz —"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 75, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/philip-lawrence-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "urges the study to name antisemitism and Islamophobia", "trigger": "whether we should include directly, in this proposed study, Islamophobia (the motion he is seeking to amend)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["You can characterize this however you want, Chair, but you can read back the comments in Hansard. We are talking about racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia. It's all in here, and that's what I'm talking about. Quite frankly, I think my comments are constructive, and I would actually welcome the conversation of whether we should include directly, in this proposed study, Islamophobia, because I believe that to be a scourge. Certainly, in talking to many of my …", "… n't think anyone should live that, and I think that including it specifically within this study is absolutely critical. Getting back to my original point, though, which is what I was going to get to, is I have heard Mr. Mendicino , Mr. Carr , Mr. Housefather , amongst many other Liberals talk about the scourge that is anti-Semitism. Of course, I've heard Conservatives call it out, including Mr. Morantz , Ms. Lantsman and our leader, Mr. Poilievre . However, I think, if we're going to have a four-meeting study on this, that we do understand some of the background. I do want to add a little bit of context with respect to anti-Semitism in Canada. Canada actually has the fourth-largest Jewish community in the world, with over 390,000 Jews. Many of the folks I know of Jewish heritage or Jewish religion, however you wish to characterize it, have direct roots to the Holocaust. I myself am actually of part Jewish heritage as well, on my grandmother's side. When you hear the stories of the Holocaust survivors and how the storm that eventually came to be the Holocaust in Germany arose, they are horrific. Others might question why I want to include anti-Semitism in this study, but I think it's critically important. Here's just a brief look into the world of folks of Jewish heritage. Here is what has happened in very recent history: vandalism, graffiti, circulation of hate propaganda, intolerant and racist language in places like Twitter, and comments on web forums and blogs. …", "… es of safety and of growth; and yet our Jewish students often, unfortunately, feel unsafe. I'll continue here. There has been significant progress, and I would hate to see that reversed, as the last six months, since October 7, have been extremely challenging for our country. We've seen a rise of both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. I think that needs to be, quite frankly, a focus of the study, if we want to study hate in our country. For example, police—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 481, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/philip-lawrence-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "recounts vandalism, bomb threats and campus intimidation with disapproval", "trigger": "if we're going to have a four-meeting study on this, that we do understand some of the background", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "role": "Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland--Peterborough South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["It likely will culminate in an amendment. I do want to put down the context. This is extremely important, and I will not back off from talking about the importance of anti-Semitism. I certainly hope no one here would get in the way of my talking about the important fight against anti-Semitism. That would be wrong. Quite frankly, members of your caucus have told me that they would be very disappointed. The fight against anti-Semitism continues on here. Police-reported hate crime data indicates that there were 608 hate crimes targeting religion as of May 2021. Of that number, 296 were incidents targeting the Jewish people. I want to be clear: Whether you're targeting a Sikh, a Muslim or a Jew, an attack on one faith is an attack on all Canadians. O …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 189, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/119/philip-lawrence-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "cites hate-crime counts against Jewish Canadians with disapproval", "trigger": "I would actually, at this point, like to propose my amendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ted in favour of this study, I naively assumed that this committee might be able to set aside relentless partisanship to shine a light on this problem and to search for solutions. I am disappointed at some of the things that have happened early on in this room, and I hope we will get our focus back onto the problem of anti-Semitism and the problems that Jewish students are facing. Like anyone who has ties to the Jewish community, I am not surprised—I have ties in my riding and I have long, historical family ties to Jewish communities—but it's still shocking to hear all of you here, from various backgrounds and various institutions, reporting tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 299, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/randall-garrison-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "thanks witnesses and calls antisemitism on campus a problem to solve", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Mme Cook ne reçoit toujours pas l'interprétation. On ne parle plus ici d'un problème d'antisémitisme, mais plutôt d'un problème d'efficacité qui touche le bilinguisme à la Chambre des communes. Pardonnez-moi, mais je dois être intransigeant en ce qui a trait à cette question. Ne soyez pas désolé. Le fait est que vous n'êtes pas le seul. Les gens nous regardent et nous écoutent, et tout le monde devrait pouvoir compre …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 89, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/rheal-fortin-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "procedural interpretation complaint inside an antisemitism hearing", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… it à M e Oberman que je suis tout à fait d'accord avec lui sur à peu près tout ce qu'il a dit. Ce qui a particulièrement retenu mon attention, c'est quand il a nous dit qu'il était important de créer des lois, mais qu'il fallait aussi s'assurer qu'elles sont respectées. Cela ne peut pas être plus vrai dans le cas de l'antisémitisme. Notre Code criminel est déjà relativement volumineux. On peut bien l'alourdir encore et y ajouter des dispositions à l'infini, mais cela ne réglera pas, à mon humble avis, les problèmes que nous vivons sur le terrain. Je pense qu'on doit mettre l'accent sur le respect. En tant que législateurs, je suis d'avis que nou …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 400, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/rheal-fortin-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says existing laws on antisemitism must be respected and enforced", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here today. I'm shocked to hear about anti-Semitism. I was raised by Dutch immigrant parents who left the Netherlands after World War II. I was raised hearing stories about Dutch people protecting Jewish people and hiding them, sometimes for years on end, and about the Dutch resistance against the Nazi occupiers. My grandfather died in a Nazi concentration camp for his defence of Jewish people. That's what I was raised on. I thought anti-Semitism was dead, but obviously I'm naive about these sorts of things. I was very shocked, as was the whole world, about what happened in Israel on October 7. Now, I have to tell you that I'm also very shocked as to what's going on at campuses in Canada, the Canada that I thought was a free and democratic nation, a country of …", "… here the laws should be enforced. I'm shocked to hear these stories. Thank you for your bravery, for your courage and for standing up for everything that is right and decent. I do have a question. I think I'll direct it to Nicole. I thought it was a very interesting analysis equating being Jewish to being Zionist, and anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. You're equating them. Here's my question for you. In an environment of free speech and free expression, is there room for right-thinking people to be critical of the modern State of Israel today and the way it is conducting itself in the Middle East and, in particular, in the war in Gaza right now?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 268, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/tako-van-popta-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "expresses shock at campus antisemitism, then asks about criticism of Israel", "trigger": "what happened in Israel on October 7", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-05-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Good. Thank you for that. I have another question. I'm not sure to whom to direct it, but it's on this concept of equivalency. We often hear Canadian leaders also mention Islamophobia when they talk about anti-Semitism. I just wonder if that is at all helpful to the conversation about how we manage anti-Semitism. Maybe I will direct that question to you, Mr. Oberman."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 64, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/104/tako-van-popta-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 104, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks whether pairing Islamophobia with antisemitism helps; no charge or label dispute", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I think that good government policy, no matter what department, depends on solid data. Mr. Robertson, I'd like to turn to you and B'nai Brith. Your organization provides an annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, but if your organization and you were to look at the Government of Canada and Statistics Canada and the way they collect data, are there any recommendations you would like to see in this committee's report on the quality, the quantity and the frequency? Do you have anything that you'd like to see this commi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/alistair-macgregor-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "policy question on antisemitic-incident data quality", "trigger": "Your organization provides an annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents (B'nai Brith)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to the witnesses. You've brought some very important testimony. Dr. Rosenberg, on a whole, if you were to grade the universities in Canada—not singling out one university but as a whole—on how they're handling anti-Semitism since October 7, what grade would you give them?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 50, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "asks a witness to grade universities on handling antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["You know if they would have faced that.... It's hurtful, it's anti-Semitic, and it's happening across this country. Dr. Rosenberg, the biggest-ever personal donation to the University of Manitoba—$30 million—was given by philanthropist Ernest Rady to name the medical school after his father, Max Rady. He recently complained to the school about the speech of the valedictorian at the medical s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/anthony-housefather-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "It's hurtful, it's anti-Semitic, and it's happening across this country.", "act_why": "calls the University of Manitoba valedictorian's speech antisemitic", "trigger": "the speech of the valedictorian at the [University of Manitoba] medical school graduation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "university"], "target_detail": "the valedictorian at the University of Manitoba medical school; the school", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Cary Kogan", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["This isn't new. Its deep roots are evident in the speed, intensity and acceleration of anti-Semitic hate. Canadian campuses began convulsing with anti-Semitic activity while Hamas terrorists were still in Israel slaughtering innocent civilians, long before Israel launched its military response. Many on campuses say they're not anti-Semitic but merely anti-Zionist. You will even hear that a small minority of Jewish students and faculty share this view. Do not be fooled. Political criticism of Israel is absolutely acceptable and appropriate. Spend time in Israel and you will hear similar criticisms. A willingness to engage in criticism is core to Jewish v …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-cary-kogan-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "calls campus anti-Zionist activity racist and antisemitic; no named target", "trigger": "Canadian campuses began convulsing with anti-Semitic activity while Hamas terrorists were still in Israel slaughtering innocent civilians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian campuses; those who say they are “merely anti-Zionist”", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Cary Kogan", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Sure, I can speak about that. I think we have an issue right now, and in fact, we have submitted a grant request to SSHRC, actually, to look at this issue of the way that the equity, diversity and inclusion frameworks that are on our campuses are not speaking to Jewish people, are not speaking to anti-Semitism, and in fact in some cases are using an ideological framework that divides the world into black or white, victimized or victimizer, and oppressed or oppressor. What happens is that Jews get shoehorned into this framework inappropriately. It's an inappropriate application. I would say that we need to strengthen these EDI frameworks and make sure that there's an inclusion of the Jewish experience, and also of anti-Semitism, in a way that actually will protect and recognize the Jewish experience."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 136, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-cary-kogan-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "calls campus anti-Zionist activity racist and antisemitic; no named target", "trigger": "Canadian campuses began convulsing with anti-Semitic activity while Hamas terrorists were still in Israel slaughtering innocent civilians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian campuses; those who say they are “merely anti-Zionist”", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Cary Kogan", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["We need to strengthen academic freedom by ensuring that there is actually a diverse set of voices on our campuses. That's one thing that needs to happen. We need to strengthen EDI. We just heard about how we can include that. We need training. We need training on anti-Semitism. We need to make sure that our deans, our provosts and our chairs actually understand what it is."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-cary-kogan-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "calls campus anti-Zionist activity racist and antisemitic; no named target", "trigger": "Canadian campuses began convulsing with anti-Semitic activity while Hamas terrorists were still in Israel slaughtering innocent civilians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian campuses; those who say they are “merely anti-Zionist”", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Cary Kogan (Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics)", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Hello, Madam Chair. My name is Cary Kogan and I am a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa. We are the co-founders of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, or NECA. NECA is a non-partisan group of Jewish and non-Jewish academics who are united in our shared concerns about rising anti-Semitism on Canadian campuses. We are a Canadian network of more than 300 academics from 40 universities and colleges across all disciplines. We advocate for academic freedom, diverse perspectives and an expansive understanding of inclusion. Anti-Semitism is flourishing on campuses. It has reached crisis levels and represents a serious threat to Canadian democracy. It should trouble us all."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-cary-kogan-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "says antisemitism on campuses has reached crisis levels", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… lub is calling for anonymous tips to identify faculty members, instructors and courses that include “Zionist narratives” so they can “keep our campus safe from Zionist perspectives”. Often, Jewish students aren't reporting these incidents because university policies are not being applied and officials do not recognize anti-Semitism when it happens. This hostile climate is a threat not only to Jewish people but also to the core values of Canadian society. It undermines open dialogue, diversity of ideas and the search for truth, which make our universities an essential part of a liberal democracy."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 205, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-deidre-butler-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "academics"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "recounts campus incidents and slurs with evident disapproval", "trigger": "a Jewish student was called a 'dirty Jew' by his lab partners; graffiti depicted a Star of David on a scaffold with a swastika", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "university policies are not being applied and officials do not recognize anti-Semitism; a Canada-wide student club", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… one-sided statements demonizing Israel, stifling alternative viewpoints and imposing loyalty tests. Anti-Israel activists claim they are being silenced while cynically demanding boycotts of Israeli academics. Make no mistake. Boycott and divestment are threats to academic freedom and responsible university governance. Anti-Semitism presents a serious and urgent threat to campus culture and student safety. Our leaders must acknowledge and confront its ugliness, its new and evolving forms, and the harm it poses. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 201, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-deidre-butler-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "recounts campus incidents and slurs with evident disapproval", "trigger": "a Jewish student was called a 'dirty Jew' by his lab partners; graffiti depicted a Star of David on a scaffold with a swastika", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "university policies are not being applied and officials do not recognize anti-Semitism; a Canada-wide student club", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ggestions, of course. The first thing I would say is that we lack really good data in terms of what's happening on our campuses. Partially, that has to do with the reporting systems that exist on our campuses across Canada, where reports aren't being taken. They aren't being heard. If they're heard, they're not seeing anti-Semitism, and they're certainly not being counted as anti-Semitism. If you speak to university presidents and administrations, and they say there's no problem. We are telling you there is a very serious problem. We need good data, and it has to be unbiased data that everyone can accept as authentic and legitimate. 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The messages and the chants that we are finding so egregious and frightening as Jews in our community are coming across social media and circulating. I know we're running out of time, but that's the issue really—it becomes a place to amplify hate."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-deidre-butler-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recounts campus incidents and slurs with evident disapproval", "trigger": "a Jewish student was called a 'dirty Jew' by his lab partners; graffiti depicted a Star of David on a scaffold with a swastika", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "university policies are not being applied and officials do not recognize anti-Semitism; a Canada-wide student club", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… appy to submit it. I think we may have already, actually. This was actually developed by Professor Lilach Marom, who is a member of NECA, as part of her presentation on EDI that she did earlier this year to educate NECA members. The point of that is to think about how EDI can be strengthened to better include Jews and anti-Semitism. It is a framework that's designed to support people who are vulnerable and who are equity-seeking groups. How do we deal with those groups? How do we include Jews when they're not included? If you look at EDI policies across Canada at universities, “Jew”, “anti-Semitism” and “Judaism” are not even in the paperwork."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 117, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-deidre-butler-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "recounts campus incidents and slurs with evident disapproval", "trigger": "a Jewish student was called a 'dirty Jew' by his lab partners; graffiti depicted a Star of David on a scaffold with a swastika", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "university policies are not being applied and officials do not recognize anti-Semitism; a Canada-wide student club", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Deidre Butler (Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics)", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. Madam Chairwoman and members of the committee, we thank you for the opportunity to share our insights into and expertise about the state of anti-Semitism on Canadian campuses. My name is Deidre Butler. 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Diamond", "role": "Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Absolutely. It's simply another kind of legitimization of this insidious form of anti-Semitism that I would call “anti-Zionism”. What it does is lend credibility to this phenomenon that, for me, again, has unleashed another form of anti-Semitism, which has morphed many times over the ages."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 45, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-james-a-diamond-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "no substantive content beyond thanks, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. James A. Diamond", "role": "Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Obviously that was.... I'm an academic, a senior academic for many years. I've never been confronted this way. As a young man, I had various anti-Semitic incidents but never in my career as an academic. It was humiliating. However, it was also the only thing, as I said before, that could explain that kind of reaction, especially the the shouts of “go back to your country”. I was born and raised in Canada. My parents and my in-laws are survivors of the Holocaust. They c …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-james-a-diamond-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "no substantive content beyond thanks, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. James A. Diamond", "role": "Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I can't speak on behalf of the entire Jewish community in Canada, and what you said perfectly are just kinds of ways of looking at anti-Semitism. I'll focus my concern on my own area in the academic community and what I see this leading to. In terms of freedom of expression and freedom of religion people, make a mistake by looking at Jews as people who just practice a religion. Jews are far more than that. They're are a nation. They're a people. They're a cult …", "… collaborations, cancellation of conference invitations, refusal to consider scholarly submissions to journals, rejections of promotion evaluations and withdrawals of offers for academic appointments, among many other instances. From my kind of narrow perspective, this is really a pernicious phenomenon. It is a form of anti-Semitism that suppresses academic freedom within the academy, which will have unbelievable ramifications far beyond Jews."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-james-a-diamond-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "no substantive content beyond thanks, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. James A. Diamond (Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, As an Individual)", "role": "Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I really am honoured to address the committee. Thank you for inviting me to these very important deliberations on anti-Semitism. I'll begin with my own personal encounter with one of these encampments at the University of Toronto. I sent you, and I hope you have, the letter that I penned to the administration of the University of Toronto. It was quite a shocking encounter I had. If you'll notice, my letter does not contain one single word abou …", "… the way. This has gone on for decades. I'm showing my age, but I was an undergrad in 1973 at the University of Toronto. The same things were happening, except now I think you would add the toxic ingredient of social media. That's another factor that hopefully you'll take into consideration when you address problems of anti-Semitism. What's happened now is that anti-Semitism has always operated under different guises—whether it was anti-Judaism, for instance, in its beginnings; whether it was racism, anti-race, which anti-Semitism really culminated in during the Second World War during the Holocaust; or whether it was economics. Marx himself penned a treatise on Jews and money, an obscene treatise that Jews have been suffering from ever since. It cuts across all spectrums: left, right, it doesn't matter. I wouldn't use the term “racism” here. I think it is a unique form of discrimination. The way I see it, what's happening in the academy and what's happening with these encampments is that anti-Semitism has now taken the form of anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, and it's been legitimized that way. That's not to say that you can't critique a government. You certainly can critique Israel, but the obsessive-compulsive disorder, as you can see, that is solely focused on this particular conflict is for me inexplicable without th …", "… gnitude, that gets nothing. For me, as an academic, this is another form. I think the vice-chair, Mr. Fortin, asked this question at the end of the last session. It certainly is very inextricably tied. I just want the committee to be attuned to what the IHRA definition brings to the fore, that this is another guise of anti-Semitism—not all of it, not all critiques, but I think it explains a lot of what's going on. 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I want to show you.... 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I would just like to make two comments. First of all, anti-Semitism is not recognized at UBC's faculty of medicine. If you go on their search engine, it doesn't exist. How can you say there's a problem if it doesn't exist? If you feel discrimination, make a complaint that you're discriminated against, but don't say you're Jewish or that it's Jew hatred or anti-Semitic. There was a survey that went around UBC this week for all the faculty of medicine asking what group they considered themselves in. They had every single group except Jews. The second point I want to make is about DEI. It's not just that this is a very narrow definition of your Marvel universe of oppressors and oppres …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 185, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-ted-rosenberg-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "some of the Jew hatred that is accepted in the faculty of medicine", "act_why": "charges the UBC faculty of medicine with accepting Jew hatred", "trigger": "I have some posters here about some of the Jew hatred that is accepted in the faculty of medicine", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the faculty of medicine", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Ted Rosenberg (Doctor, As an Individual)", "role": "Doctor, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I truly feel honoured to be here today. I feel the weight of Jewish physicians and health care workers across Canada, who feel attacked and marginalized in our universities and hospitals. I feel the weight of the majority of Canadian Jews, who have been shocked by the unprecedented outbreak of anti-Semitic Jew hatred and are demoralized by the inadequate response from our leaders. I feel the weight of thousands of Canadians, who are appalled by the blatant hatred, harassment and violence that have drowned out civil discourse and taken over our universities, streets, theatres and shops. In January 2024, I resigned as an assistant professor from the UBC faculty of medicine because I believe UBC, like most medical schools and universities across the country, allowed naked Jew hatred to creep in, which has now become systemic. I'm a physician who's been privileged to study and practise medicine for over 40 years. I have worked in remote indigenous communities and in public health and research, and I have spent the past 20 years doing house calls for frail seniors. I love teaching and mentoring. No …", "… lty figure being downgraded by 50% by the UN the week before his speech. Sadly, facts have become irrelevant, even in faculties of medicine, which used to pride themselves on being evidence-based and scientific. UBC medical professors and senior residents posted blood libels about organ trafficking, Christ killing and anti-Semitic conspiracies with impunity. They reposted that Zionist physicians, Jews like me, are racist and demanded that they be removed from the selection process for postgraduate resident positions. These are not innocuous political differences. How are Jewish physicians supposed to teach students who hold us in such contempt? …", "… ? I doubt I would be admitted to medical school in 2024. Do you want a health care system that prioritizes ideology and decentred and decolonized medicine over individual patient care? There were 284 physicians who wrote a letter to the president and dean, Dermot Kelleher, expressing concerns about harassment, blatant anti-Semitism and a toxic, hyperpoliticized environment. He refused to meet with us. We found out that anti-Semitism or Jew hatred is not officially recognized in the DEI search engine for vulnerable groups. This is despite a Canadian government 2023 document warning about the surge of anti-Semitic hate crimes on Canadian campuses. In addition to the administration's tolerance of demonization, our concerns about Jew hatred were illegitimate. In fact, the faculty of medicine refused to acknowledge in their poster for International Holocaust Remembrance Day that the Holocaust was the anti-Semitic murder of six million Jews by the Nazis. Our concerns were illegitimate. We were told it was a universal lesson, not particular to the Jews. The poster was changed only after threats from donors. We are also subjected to a double standard. There is, rightly, zero tolerance for homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny or ant …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 869, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/dr-ted-rosenberg-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "I believe UBC, like most medical schools and universities across the country, allowed naked Jew hatred to creep in", "act_why": "charges UBC, its dean and named colleagues with allowing systemic Jew hatred", "trigger": "In January 2024, I resigned as an assistant professor from the UBC faculty of medicine; a petition signed by one-third of the UBC medical school class; Gem Newm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "individual"], "target_detail": "UBC faculty of medicine and its dean/president; Gem Newman, the U of M valedictorian", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… g to ask anyone, if you have examples, to submit them to us in writing so that we have those as examples. In this budget, we have committed to providing support to police colleges to increase training on handling hate crimes. Do any of you have suggestions as to what you would like to see in that training to make sure anti-Semitism is included?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/julie-dabrusin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "asks what hate-crime training should include on antisemitism", "trigger": "In this budget, we have committed to providing support to police colleges to increase training on handling hate crimes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… k you. I'm going to pick up on intersectionality, because Dr. Rosenberg just referred to it. I'm curious about raising this issue with Dr. Butler, if I may. There is a bit of a perception that Jewish people are all one homogenous group—one and the same. However, there are some groups on campus that may be experiencing anti-Semitism in different ways, particularly queer youth, for example. Can you talk a bit about what that experience might be and what we need to do to better protect students with intersectional identities?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 90, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/julie-dabrusin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "asks how queer Jewish students experience antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ime. I also want to quickly speak to either Dr. Kogan or Dr. Butler. As part of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, you put out a REACT model for universities. I understand this means “Reach out to Jewish students, faculty, and staff”, “Engage: With the diversity of Jewish life”, “Act: Systematically to address antisemitism”, “Call out: Antisemitism” and “Teach: about the history [and] legacy”. First of all, please submit any materials you have on that. Also, in the final minute, could you speak about why you think this is important?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 95, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/julie-dabrusin-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "asks witnesses to explain the REACT model for addressing antisemitism", "trigger": "As part of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, you put out a REACT model for universities", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I call the meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 105 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on March 21, 2024, the committee is commencing its study on anti-Semitism. Before we begin, I'd like to remind all members and other meeting participants in the room of the following important preventative measures. To prevent disruptive and potentially harmful audio feedback incidents that can cause injuries, all in-person participants are reminded to keep their earpieces away from all mic …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 352, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/the-chair-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "chair's procedural opening relaying the committee's study on antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Gladu. Are all in favour? (Motion agreed to) Thank you very much. We will now continue. I will introduce our witnesses today. For our first panel, we have Ms. Deborah Lyons, special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism. From B'nai Brith Canada, we have Richard Robertson, director, research and advocacy. From the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, we have Richard Marceau, vice-president, external affairs and general counsel. From the Simon Wiesenthal Center Canada, we have Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director, policy and advocac …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 157, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/the-chair-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses for appearing and for the roles that you are playing in combatting anti-Semitism. We need your leadership now more than ever because anti-Semitism has never been more pervasive in Canada. Indeed, as we recently saw, B'nai Brith published its annual audit, reporting 5,791 anti-Semitic incidents committed in 2023, more than double the year prior, and those trends have only accelerated since October 7. The fact is that Jewish hatred is running rampant in Canada—in government, in business, in labour, in universities, in schools, in places of worship, in our neighbourhoods, everywhere. Last time, the c …", "… nd I went to UBC, and we saw for ourselves the illegal encampment there. We saw banners calling explicitly for the eradication of Israel and violence against Jews. We toured Emily Carr and saw a Jewish student's artwork vandalized with Jewish hatred. We spoke with Jewish professors and union members who've experienced anti-Semitism and who've seen no action, leading some—like Dr. Ted Rosenberg, who this committee will hear from shortly—to resign from their faculties. The truth is that universities in Canada are not safe for Jewish students. We are, indeed, in a crisis. Many universities have diversity, equity and inclusion policies that make no reference whatsoever to anti-Semitism, which is shocking. My question is for the government's special envoy, Ms. Lyons. In my view, it's impossible to promote safe and inclusive campuses for everyone if DEI policies are completely silent on one of the most deeply entrenched forms of hatred and discrimination towards an identifiable group. Ms. Lyons, you spoke about your experiences with universities. Should universities update their DEI policies to make specific reference to anti-Semitism? Should they be engaging Jewish faculty, Jewish employees and Jewish students in doing so?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 346, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/marco-mendicino-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "charge_quote": "almost always without any recourse or enforcement of their own schools' codes of conduct", "act_why": "charges Canadian universities with failing Jewish students and silent DEI policies", "trigger": "B'nai Brith published its annual audit, reporting 5,791 anti-Semitic incidents committed in 2023, more than double the year prior", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "universities in Canada, their DEI policies and codes of conduct; the illegal encampment at UBC", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I look forward to seeing that recommendation materialize in this committee's final report. Second, I want to branch out on the need for greater training of law enforcement within this country when it comes to the prosecution of anti-Semitic hate speech, because the trends are deeply alarming. We've heard and seen demonstrators say things like, “All the Zionists are racists,” “All the Zionists are terrorists,” and, “Long live October 7,” which was the single worst day of casualties to the Jewish people since the Holocaust during the Second World War. The …", "… hnic grounds for the purposes of sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code. My question is for anyone who wants to take it. I see Monsieur Marceau in the room. I know Ms. Kirzner-Roberts is also on the line. Do we need greater training for law enforcement, including police and prosecutors, to help them understand what anti-Semitic hate speech is and to ensure that, in the application of our existing laws, we are keeping our communities safe? Monsieur Marceau."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 249, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/marco-mendicino-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "I found the decision not to pursue criminal charges incomprehensible and deeply problematic", "act_why": "names Adil Charkaoui and calls his speech antisemitic hate speech left unprosecuted", "trigger": "The case of Adil Charkaoui ... he took to the streets in Montreal, denounced Zionists and called for the enemies of Gaza to be killed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Adil Charkaoui; demonstrators chanting “All the Zionists are racists”", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… WA, which I know you are currently suing the federal government over. As well, they failed to unequivocally condemn the frivolous genocide convention claim launched in South Africa If leadership comes from the top, this is exactly the wrong kind of leadership we need in the face of a B'nai Brith report that shows that anti-Semitism since October 7 has spiked by 208%. Wouldn't you agree?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 137, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/marty-morantz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "the Prime Minister is leading but in the wrong way", "act_why": "charges the Prime Minister and government with the wrong leadership as antisemitism spikes", "trigger": "a motion that was passed in the House of Commons punished Israel and rewarded Hamas", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Prime Minister and the government", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… start specifically with Global Affairs Canada. I know that you have a long, esteemed career at foreign affairs. However, in 80 pages of anti-racism, with all of the terms you can imagine and all of the sort of myths and facts—which, frankly, in my opinion, in some cases, invert history—there is not a single mention of anti-Semitism in any of these documents. Do you really think that the Government of Canada can combat anti-Semitism if it fails to mention it in its own anti-racism training documents?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/melissa-lantsman-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "there is not a single mention of anti-Semitism in any of these documents", "act_why": "charges Global Affairs Canada training materials with omitting antisemitism entirely", "trigger": "about 80 pages of training materials on anti-racism [from the Canadian Foreign Service Institute] ... there is not a single mention of anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Government of Canada; the Canadian Foreign Service Institute / Global Affairs Canada anti-racism training materials", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'll talk about another piece. This is a participant handbook called “Anti-Racism: Let's Talk”. I use this example because it's about 64 pages. It's still offered by Treasury Board as a training manual. This participant handbook, up until well after October 7, had no mention of anti-Semitism. Now, it currently does have a mention of anti-Semitism—it was put in after October 7—but the definition of it is not an agreed-upon one. In fact, it's a definition provided by a fringe organization that wouldn't even be invited to a committee like this one to speak about anti-Semitism. There are changes being made, but they are the wrong changes. In some cases, on things like the definition of racial trauma, which can be found on page 26 of this “Anti-Racism: Let's Talk”—which is not anti-racism at all—it talks about the experiences of Black people, indigenous people and people of colour. The defin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 230, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/melissa-lantsman-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "Even the changes that are being made in government are the wrong changes.", "act_why": "charges the government with a fringe definition and continued omission of Jews", "trigger": "a participant handbook called 'Anti-Racism: Let's Talk' ... still offered by Treasury Board as a training manual", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Government of Canada; Treasury Board's “Anti-Racism: Let's Talk” handbook", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "role": "Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, sir. In a word, yes, we need better training. I mentioned this. Judges need to be better trained. Law enforcement needs to be better trained. The entire system needs to be better trained. There is a lack of understanding of what anti-Semitism is and how pervasive it is. I am with you. I am flabbergasted by the decision not to prosecute the imam you talked about. I was blown away that he was not prosecuted. I was blown away that the organizer of that demonstration gave him the microphone, knowing who this person is. What we heard on Parliament Hill, the hea …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 134, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-marceau-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "charge_quote": "I am flabbergasted by the decision not to prosecute the imam you talked about", "act_why": "charges the unprosecuted imam and the demonstration organizer over antisemitic speech", "trigger": "the decision not to prosecute the imam you talked about; What we heard on Parliament Hill ... on April 18", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "the imam (Adil Charkaoui); the organizer of that demonstration who gave him the microphone", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "role": "Vice-President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here on behalf of CIJA, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. I'll be frank and direct: There is a crisis of antisemitism in Canada. The Prime Minister called the recent rise of anti-Semitism “terrifying”, and he's right. Since October 7, we've seen in Toronto a 93% rise in hate crimes, the majority of which are directed at the Jewish community. In Vancouver, reports of anti-Semitism rose by 62% in 2023, and 70% of those occurred after October 7. In Ottawa, the number of hate-related crimes and incidents rose in 2023 by 20%. In Ottawa, 1.4% of the population is Jewish, and Jews were the target of 27% of those crimes and incidents. In Montreal, shots were fired at Jewish schools. Molotov cocktails …", "… The situation on university campuses is very bad. You heard certain things last week. You will hear more from the next group of witnesses. I will simply say the following. The situation is so bad on campus that CIJA's legal task force is supporting a student at Toronto Metropolitan University for fostering a poisoned anti-Semitic environment. We are suing TMU. TMU breached its contract with her, breached its duties of care to her and discriminated against her by failing to apply its own policies and procedures explicitly designed to protect students like her from anti-Semitic environments. We are putting universities on notice. There are and will be consequences for allowing anti-Semitism to take root on campus. I could tell you about the situation in unions. I could tell you about the situation in the country's schools, where we have often had to protect students. Since I don't have much time though, I will simply make eight recommendations. One, political leaders must lead. That means there are laws …", "… uf. Sixth, ban the display of symbols of terrorist organizations that are listed under Canadian law. Seven, list the IRGC as a terrorist organization. You voted twice for this. Now it's time to do it. Eighth, improve the collection of data related to all of this. I'll finish with this, Madam Chair. There's a crisis of anti-Semitism in this country. Words are not enough. We need action from you now."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 712, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-marceau-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "charge_quote": "It got so bad, the authorities were so passive, that the only solution the community found was to go to court", "act_why": "charges TMU with fostering a poisoned antisemitic environment and names Samidoun and Marouf", "trigger": "shots were fired at Jewish schools. Molotov cocktails were thrown at Montreal synagogues and community centres ... On Parliament Hill ... on April 18", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Toronto Metropolitan University, being sued “for fostering a poisoned anti-Semitic environment”; demonstrations around Jewish neighbourhoods and on Parliament Hill", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… 'nai Brith has been frustrated by some of what has been transpiring in some of the messaging we've heard from the federal government. We believe the federal government has put in place some strong precedents in terms of their commitment, such as the 2024 commitment to preserving Holocaust remembrance and to combatting anti-Semitism. However, now more than ever we need actuation on this. As Mr. Marceau said in his remarks, words are small. We need action, and the Jewish community needs a strong response from all members of Parliament. Fighting anti-Semitism cannot be a partisan issue. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 102, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-robertson-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "objects that the religious exemption shields antisemitic speech from the existing law", "trigger": "this individual was given an exception to a speech that was being made outside of the church and that was not based in scripture", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "this individual (the imam); the prosecuting authorities applying the religious exception", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm happy to answer that question. There are universities in the United States that have shown great leadership by adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. I think the better example to look at, though, is actually the United Kingdom, where the vast majority of educational institutions in the United Kingdom, including world-leading institutions like Oxford, Cambridge and Durham, have all adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. We need Canadian universities to follow the lead of these American, British and German institutions and to adopt the IHRA definition."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-robertson-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "act_why": "objects that the religious exemption shields antisemitic speech from the existing law", "trigger": "this individual was given an exception to a speech that was being made outside of the church and that was not based in scripture", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "this individual (the imam); the prosecuting authorities applying the religious exception", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["For the most part, Statistics Canada's data has been similar to ours and, to me, I believe that indicates that Statistics Canada is on the right track. What I would like to see, and what I believe would be helpful specifically when it comes to fighting anti-Semitism on campuses, is the further collection of data, both qualitative and quantitative, about Jewish experiences specifically on campuses. I think that is something that's lacking, and I think that funding to enable an organization or the federal government to do that will help us to really understand just how critical the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 104, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-robertson-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "community organisations"], "act_why": "objects that the religious exemption shields antisemitic speech from the existing law", "trigger": "this individual was given an exception to a speech that was being made outside of the church and that was not based in scripture", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "this individual (the imam); the prosecuting authorities applying the religious exception", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson (Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here on behalf of B'nai Brith Canada. B'nai Brith is Canada's oldest human rights organization and the voice of Canada's grassroots Jewish community. Our organization, which was established in 1875, is dedicated to eradicating racism, anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms, as well as championing the rights of the marginalized. B'nai Brith's submission to this honourable committee comes at a time when Canada's Jewish community is in crisis. In 2023, there was an alarming rise in anti-Semitism across Canada. B'nai Brith's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents recorded an over 109.1% increase in anti-Semitism in comparison to the previous year. Our audit also noted that campuses across the country are increasingly becoming the setting for anti-Semitic acts. The situation for Jewish Canadian post-secondary students has become untenable. The purpose of B'nai Brith's submission is to aid the committee in ensuring that its report contains recommendations that can be utilized by the federal government to effectively respond to the pressing needs of the nation's Jewish p …", "… nsure the continued safety and well-being of Canada's Jewish post-secondary students. For our democracy to continue to thrive, our campuses must remain environments conducive of the academic success of all our nation's students. Members of this esteemed committee have the opportunity to contribute to the fight against anti-Semitism and to preserve the sanctity of Canada's post-secondary campuses by endorsing the following recommendations in their forthcoming report. Our first recommendation is that the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry work with Canada's federal research funding agencies to amend their funding agreements with institutions to include as a component of the agreements a provision that all activities funded by the agencies are conducted in consultation with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism as well as its illustrative examples. The federal government adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in 2019. In 2021, the federal government pledged to continue to enhance the adoption and implementation of IHRA's working definition of anti-Semitism and to encourage mainstreaming and implementation of the IHRA definition to dovetail with the Canadian adoption of the IHRA definition in June of 2019 as part of Canada's federal anti-racism strategy. B'nai Brith Canada's recommendation would bring the agreement between Canada's federal research funding agencies and p …", "… g is in line with its anti-racism strategy. Our second recommendation is that the federal government include funding in its 2025 budget to develop a five-year program to enhance the IHRA literacy of post-secondary students. The federal government in its 2024 statement on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism indicated that it strongly supports and encourages the wide adoption and implementation of the IHRA's non-legally binding working definition on anti-Semitism and illustrative examples. It is the submission of B'nai Brith that efforts to ensure the wide application of the IHRA definition and its illustrative examples requires the federal government to invest in ensuring Canada's future leaders are familiar with the nuances of the definition and how its examples can function …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 727, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/richard-robertson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "act_why": "reports B'nai Brith's audit of rising antisemitism and urges IHRA-based remedies", "trigger": "B'nai Brith's annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents recorded an over 109.1% increase in anti-Semitism in comparison to the previous year", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… his morning. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss a topic that in my opinion is one of the most important issues our country is facing. I thank you for the opportunity to share a panel with respected colleagues. It is an honour to work closely with them to fight for a better Canada. As everyone in this room knows, anti-Semitism should be a non-partisan issue that impacts us all, whether Jewish or non-Jewish Canadians. It is well known that anti-Semitism erodes democracy, and as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, has recently concluded, it is a clear threat to national and international security. My mandate is to combat anti-Semitism and preserve Holocaust remembrance. It is both a domestic and an international mandate. It does not have a geopolitical focus. Madam Chair, there is so much hard work in front of us to be done on a wide range of issues, but we are here today to focus on university campuses. It is there, at our centres of learning, our …", "… not be considered places of learning or bastions of free expression as long as any students and faculties are not safe. Today, Jewish students and faculties are experiencing targeting, intimidation and anti-Jewish hate. Jewish students, particularly those who self-identify as Zionists, as I do, are facing a tsunami of anti-Semitism. Let me quote here the Prime Minister 's recent remarks. He said, “In a country like Canada, it should be and it must be safe to declare oneself a Zionist. Jewish or not, Zionism is not a dirty word or something anyone should be targeted for agreeing with”. I have heard from students, faculty and staff about serious i …", "… , and with provincial ministers of advanced education, who have direct responsibilities for universities. We will continue to work with all partners over the coming summer months to ensure a healthy campus environment for the return in September. Based on these meetings, let me close with a few recommendations. First, anti-Semitism training is badly needed. This training should be tailored to university administrations, legal counsels and, most particularly, heads of EDI or DEI offices, security personnel and student-life professionals. Clearly defining anti-Semitism and understanding its many manifestations are crucial in combatting it. We must also assist and encourage—second recommendation—post-secondary institutions and their leadership to implement their own policies. What we have seen is a reluctance to implement their own codes of conduct even when they relate to safety iss …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 691, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "international bodies"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… it was obvious before I took the job— is that there's a lot of hard work to be done everywhere in our public service—federally, provincially, municipally—in businesses, in civil society and most certainly in the universities, as we've heard this morning and as you heard previously, to make sure that people understand anti-Semitism. We need to make sure that the right training is in place and that the IHRA definition is better understood and implemented. That is exactly what we're working on doing right now, both in my office and within the Department of Canadian Heritage. In every one of the ministries, we are looking at the training that they …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 198, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… cepted by most of our provincial governments.... Thank you for the question because it gives me the opportunity to talk about the handbook on the IHRA definition that we hope to be releasing in June. There will be a clear explanation and interpretation of how the IHRA definition needs to be used to underpin all of our anti-Semitism training. You're quite correct to point out that, even as some of our people try to make adjustments and improvements, we are still not where we need to be. Again, there's hard work that needs to be done. I believe the commitment is there. I know that the new anti-racism strategy 2.0 will be launched soon. We know that the government is looking at announcing their action plan combatting hate. All of these provide an opportunity for an intensive campaign, not just across the federal government but provincially and municipally, to ensure that anti-Semitism well understood. What better time than now?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 209, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ue and making recommendations. Our office is very much looking forward to not just the recommendations but also any research that you may have done in preparation for this committee that would help us to move forward in our work. Absolutely, there is no question that EDI is failing Jews in this country. EDI is failing anti-Semitism. It focuses on a very narrow description of marginalized, racialized or equity-seeking groups, and it does not address anti-Semitism at all. That has to change. We have seen this over and over again, which is why we're working with EDI heads, and it's why, when we talk about working with university administrations, we focus particularly on EDI units. However, again, I would say that it's not just at universities. We also have to look at this in bus …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "educators"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… he opening. We now have the majority of provinces, through their ministers of education, committing to mandatory Holocaust education in K-to-12 schools, which is to be implemented in the fall of 2025. We have an enormous opportunity here with the attention in our environment—unfortunately—right now around the issue of anti-Semitism. We have attention on the issue. We have a commitment from provincial ministers of education. In the recent budget, the federal government committed an additional $5 million for the next five years, with $2 million ongoing for Holocaust education. We have excellent commitment and tools in front of us now to get the job done of really allowing our children in K to 12 the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust. Additionally, for this committee, we also need to ensure this is being tied to a better understanding of modern-day anti-Semitism and how these are connected, and do so in a way that also educates—I must admit—teachers and school boards about modern-day anti-Semitism. I think, from this committee's perspective, if we could look at making sure that, as this education curriculum rolls out, it also applies to connecting to what hate environments do and the experience we're facing right now of modern-day anti-Semitism. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 221, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "public service"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… just a few and pass to my colleagues. First of all, we really appreciate all of the good support in the budget. It's excellent. It really was wind in our sails, particularly with regard to law enforcement, money for training and the work that CRRF is doing in terms of delivering training, but it has to be specific to anti-Semitism and it has to incorporate the IHRA definition. That is critical, and this committee should make that one of its recommendations, please. It's critical that we have that. The money to be well spent must incorporate the IHRA definition and training. Second, as important an issue as it is, we have special prosecutors for auto theft. We have no special prosecutors for anti-Semitism or with a focus on hate crimes. I think this is a recommendation. Although I know it's provincial jurisdiction, it is necessary. I'll leave those two with you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 153, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "procedural remark only, coded with the witness's condemning testimony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Deborah Lyons (Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual)", "role": "Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance & Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ect. Thank you for this opportunity to examine a topic that might be one of the most important issues our country is facing right now. I also thank you for the opportunity to share a panel with respected colleagues. It is an honour to work closely with them to fight for a better Canada. As everyone in this room knows, anti-Semitism is a non-partisan issue that impacts all of us, whether Jewish or non-Jewish Canadians. It is well known that anti-Semitism erodes democracy and, as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has recently concluded, it is a clear threat to national and international security. My mandate, as many of you know, is to combat anti-Semitism and preserve Holocaust remembrance. It is both a domestic and an international mandate. My mandate does not—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/deborah-lyons-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "public service"], "act_why": "calls antisemitism a threat to democracy and security", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Jaime Kirzner-Roberts (Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, Simon Wiesenthal Center Canada)", "role": "Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, Simon Wiesenthal Center Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… sed in Toronto. I feel very privileged to be here today, to have the opportunity to speak to this room of esteemed lawmakers, alongside some truly fantastic community advocates like Mr. Marceau, Mr. Robertson and Special Envoy Lyons. Thank you for having me. Since October 7, we have seen in our country an explosion of anti-Semitic hate, the likes of which we have not seen before. At ground zero of this problem are our nation's universities, which have served as fertile grounds for the mobilization and recruitment of anti-Semitic hate groups, where students, faculty and staff have been able to engage in the ugliest of hate speech and glorification of violence and terrorism against Jews, without any fear whatsoever of consequences. Jewish students have increasingly found themselves targeted by abuse from their peers, singled out by their profes …", "… t acts. We have seen an effect on our campuses of a failure to make the strategic decisions to ensure that campuses remain safe for Jewish students, a failure of university leadership. This is not the first time in the long history of Jewish people that we have seen universities become a breeding ground for the vilest anti-Semitism, a breeding ground for anti-Semitic hate groups. We have seen this all before in our long history, and we know where it leads. This is why we know that the time for action is now. Simon Wiesenthal, the namesake of my organization, is a holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to justice. He said that freedom is not a gift from heaven; it is something w …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 417, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/jaime-kirzner-roberts-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "survivors and witnesses"], "charge_quote": "an abject failure to hold accountable students, faculty and staff who have perpetrated the most ugly of hatreds", "act_why": "charges university administrations with political cowardice and abject failure to act", "trigger": "Since October 7, we have seen in our country an explosion of anti-Semitic hate, the likes of which we have not seen before", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "our nation's universities and their administrations; protest encampments and demonstrations", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["To carry on with a focus on heritage funding, I've seen that Canadian Heritage has committed over $15 million in new funding for the multiculturalism and anti-racism program. Putting a stop to racism and hate in our country is critical. That includes anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Chinese racism, anti-Black racism, anti-indigenous racism. Canadians, regardless of their background, should feel safe, and the federal government has a lot of work to do. However, what shocked me about the anti-racism strategy is the government's steadfast refusal to acknowledge or define the raci …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 214, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/niki-ashton-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["funding", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "lists antisemitism among racisms to be addressed; the charge is about anti-Palestinian racism", "trigger": "the government's steadfast refusal to acknowledge or define the racism experienced by Palestinians ... in the upcoming anti-racism strategy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… It is that: Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee invite the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities to appear for a period of two hours before June 19, 2024, to answer questions related to its anti-racism strategy, particularly due to the increase of both anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Semitism since October 7, 2024, and because the current anti-racism strategy has no definition or even reference to anti-Palestinian racism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/niki-ashton-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "moves a motion citing rising antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism", "trigger": "I will use my time to move a motion ... that the committee invite the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities to appear", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ere is that the anti-racism strategy makes no reference to anti-Palestinian racism. This is not acceptable, in our view. We look forward to having the minister in front of us to explain why this is the case, and certainly with the hope of the department and the Government of Canada changing course and being clear that anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian racism, as well as other forms of hate, are part of the upcoming anti-racism strategy. I will be voting against this amendment."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 101, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/niki-ashton-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "wants antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism both in the anti-racism strategy", "trigger": "I do want to speak to the amendment ... I will be voting against this amendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… rnment—what are we doing here? The Department of Canadian Heritage funds those efforts, and it is within the committee's purview to ask the minister what she's doing on the issue. We regularly invite ministers to appear before the committee. Talking about anti-Palestinian hate in Canada and other forms of hate such as anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is hugely important. As far as I'm concerned, that should be one of the Liberal minister's priorities. Otherwise, that tells you how much the Liberals prioritize Canada's anti-racism strategy and the serious work required to address the issue. For those reasons, I'm not going to withdraw my motion. I …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 188, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/niki-ashton-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "public service"], "act_why": "presses for the minister to appear on hate including antisemitism", "trigger": "For those reasons, I'm not going to withdraw my motion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I simply want to add that we've been waiting for quite some time for the anti-racism strategy to be presented. That has not been the case. I think it's pretty clear that this is problematic, especially given the rise of hate in our country in terms of anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I don't think it's acceptable to wait until this strategy that we've been waiting for for quite some time to come out. As I've indicated, I'm very concerned that a number of advocates and stakeholders, including Palestinian Canadians, have concerns that anti-Palestinian racism is not being considered as part of the strategy. We want to get to the bottom of that. Obviously, we're now dealing with a truncated motion that doesn't mention anti-Palestinian racism or anti-Semitism. Certainly my intent in presenting this motion was to have a vote and hear from the minister, and, frankly, for us as a committee to share thoughts on our end. If Liberals and Conservatives don't want to support that, or the Bloc—whoever—then I say let's put it to a vote as it is now."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 182, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/niki-ashton-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "presses for the anti-racism strategy covering antisemitism and other hate", "trigger": "we're now dealing with a truncated motion that doesn't mention anti-Palestinian racism or anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Since I have just a few seconds left, I want to thank you again for being here today. I hope we can make progress on this important battle against anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred, regardless of their basis."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 39, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/rheal-fortin-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "hopes for progress in the battle against antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… legislators. Isn't there something wrong here? Isn't there something we could do? That is why my party introduced a bill recently that seeks to abolish the religious exceptions in the Criminal Code. Under section 319 currently, it is prohibited to wilfully promote hatred, to publicly incite hatred or wilfully promote antisemitism. I will not read out the entire section, but it also stipulates defences, including if a person accused of such offences has in good faith expressed an opinion on a religious topic or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text, or attempted to establish an argument. In our opinion, the Criminal Code should not i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 344, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/rheal-fortin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "legal"], "act_why": "concerned by Charkaoui's words but frames it as a Criminal Code exemption problem", "trigger": "my party introduced a bill recently that seeks to abolish the religious exceptions in the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Mr. Adil Charkaoui", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… e I have just a minute and a half, you will forgive me for going quickly. There is something I would like to know. We know there is a war being fought right now on the Gaza Strip. I will not attempt to summarize the news or offer a critique, but we know that international opinion is divided. Today we are talking about anti-Semitism in Canada and the fear expressed by the Jewish community in Canada. Ms. Lyons, in your opinion, are events in Israel and Gaza having an impact on the events we are witnessing in Canada?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 102, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/rheal-fortin-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "asks whether Gaza events drive antisemitic incidents in Canada", "trigger": "We know there is a war being fought right now on the Gaza Strip", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Ms. Lyons. Mr. Marceau, we have a few seconds left. In your opinion, should a distinction be made between criticizing the state of Israel and anti-Semitism and its consequences?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 31, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/rheal-fortin-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "asks a witness whether criticism of Israel differs from antisemitism; a question, not a label claim", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… study, and your input is equally important. Dr. Diamond, I would like to pick up on something you said earlier. I really like what you said about freedom of expression not necessarily requiring others to listen. I completely agree with you and I wanted to point that out right away. Of course, I think we all agree that anti-Semitism is unacceptable. In any case, I don't know anyone who disagrees. We are here to look for ways to improve things. Otherwise, we would simply be talking for the sake of it, which is not very productive. So we are looking for ways to better protect freedom of religion and freedom of expression across Quebec and Canada. T …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 223, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/rheal-fortin-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "states antisemitism is unacceptable and asks about equal protection", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Shuv Majumdar", "role": "Calgary Heritage, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Heritage", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. Thanks to all of you for your excellent contributions today, and apologies for the climate in which you have to appear before this committee. Dr. Diamond, perhaps I could start briefly with you. I only have six minutes, so I'm looking for a quick response. You set the table about the evolution of anti-Semitism over the ages, and it strikes me that you have concluded, sir, that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism today. Just to be precise, would you agree with that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/105/shuv-majumdar-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 105, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "asks the witness to confirm anti-Zionism is today's antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… motion is drafted, but adding the caveat that the minister appear once the report has been made public and/or presented is the key here. If withdrawing the motion and re-presenting is not an option, then perhaps the motion should say everything that's been said, because I think we all absolutely agree that the rise in anti-Semitism, the rise in Islamophobia and the rise in anti-Palestinian racism are all things we have to address in the report. I'm assuming the strategy addresses all of that or will speak to it. We should have the opportunity to review the report before the minister comes. If the desire is to have a motion—and I think we all sup …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 257, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/121/taleeb-noormohamed-40/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural motion wrangling while agreeing rising antisemitism must be addressed", "trigger": "if Ms. Ashton actually wants us to adopt her motion today ... perhaps the motion should say everything that's been said", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe", "role": "Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Lac-Saint-Jean", "province": "QC", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Minister, when you were speaking with my colleague Mr. Ali, you spoke about the impact of the conflict between Israel and Gaza here in Quebec and Canada, where quite a few serious anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents have occurred. It was mainly anti-Semitism. As you said earlier that you wouldn't want their votes. You're right. No one wants people like that to vote for them. Something unfortunate happened recently at a demonstration, when a well-known preacher openly called for the murder of Jews. According to the Criminal Code, fomenting hate against an identifiable grou …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 189, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/44-1/101/alexis-brunelle-duceppe-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "condemns a preacher's call to murder Jews and seeks removal of the religious exemption", "trigger": "The Bloc Quebecois introduced a bill which explicitly addresses this. We simply want to amend the Criminal Code to remove this exemption", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "a well-known preacher [who] openly called for the murder of Jews", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you very much for being here today. I cannot believe that, in my lifetime, we are having university presidents testify before a parliamentary committee about anti-Semitism on campus. President Carr, respectfully, I don't believe empathy should be the number one goal; it should be protecting our kids and keeping our campuses safe from intimidation and harassment. That should be the number one goal here. I have some yes-or-no questions. I'd like to ask everybody to say yes or no. If you can't answer yes or no, say, “I can't answer,” but no more than that or I'll reclaim my time. I'm going to start with President Saini, followed by President Gertler, President Bacon and President Carr. 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When you have chants at these encampments that say, “Go back to Poland”, “Say it loud, say it clear, we don't want no Zionists here!”, “Intifada revolution”, and “From the river to the sea,” do you consider these chants to be hateful and anti-Semitic, President Saini?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 50, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/anthony-housefather-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "puts encampment chants to presidents as hateful and antisemitic", "trigger": "chants at these encampments that say, 'Go back to Poland', 'Say it loud, say it clear, we don't want no Zionists here!', 'Intifada revolution'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the encampments and their chants", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["My question is on the confidence question, sir. You have the task force that's tackling anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 16, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/anthony-housefather-26/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "brief follow-up about the university's antisemitism task force", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Det Sgt Kiran Bisla", "role": "Det Sgt Kiran Bisla", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["The law addresses hate in a number of ways in the Criminal Code. There are provisions that speak to anti-Semitism specifically under the hate propaganda legislation."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 26, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/det-sgt-kiran-bisla-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "act_why": "relays the working definition of a hate crime without taking a position", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Detective Sergeant Kiran Bisla (Acting Detective Sergeant, Toronto Police Service)", "role": "Acting Detective Sergeant, Toronto Police Service", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… average number of reported hate crimes has been approximately 174 per year. The ongoing Middle East conflict that escalated after the events of October 7, 2023 is a significant contributing factor to the increase in reporting. In 2023, there were increases in reported hate crime in the following victimized categories. Anti-Semitic occurrences increased from 65 in 2022 to 135 occurrences in 2023. Anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab occurrences increased from 12 in 2022 to 36 in 2023. Anti-2SLGBTQ+ reported hate crimes increased from 40 in 2022 to 65 occurrences in 2023. There was a 32% increase in the number of reported hate crimes after …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 853, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/detective-sergeant-kiran-bisla-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "relays Toronto Police hate-crime statistics including antisemitic occurrences", "trigger": "This coming Friday, the service will be presenting its '2023 Annual Hate Crime Statistical Report' ... a 47% increase in reported hate crimes compared to 2022", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["My understanding is this is one of the tools we`d consider when going forward on any cases of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/dr-benoit-antoine-bacon-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "brief institutional answer treating antisemitism cases as something to act on", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["They are unfortunate, awful and can be considered anti-Semitic."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 9, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/dr-benoit-antoine-bacon-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "brief institutional answer treating antisemitism cases as something to act on", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon (President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia)", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the committee today. The issue of anti-Semitism is so important, and this discussion is timely. I began my term as president of UBC on November 1, 2023, three weeks afer the tragic and horrific events of October 7. My first message to the university community five days later was on the conflict in Israel, and we have remained vigilant and engaged since. Today, I state unequivocally that anti-Semitism is completely unacceptable at UBC and anywhere, and I will speak to our commitments and actions in support of this. I also refer you to my letter of January 19, 2024, to MP Housefather and others, in response to the legitimate questions they raised about anti-Semitism at universities. We are facing difficult and distressing times around the world. We see individuals and communities deeply affected by the war and violence in Israel and Gaza. UBC is part of a global society with a diverse community of almost 90,000 people. Every global event affects some members of our community. The …", "… freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate. However, we do not condone behaviours that affect the safety and security of our university community or threaten or interfere with our operations. We are doing all we can. It's extremely challenging. It's a truly difficult situation, but let me assure everyone that anti-Semitism and any form of harassment and discrimination have no place at UBC. We have a responsibility and a shared obligation to create a learning and working environment where divergent and conflicting viewpoints can peacefully coexist. This is our mission. There are a number of policies and measures that UBC has put in place …", "… ministration, to understand their concerns and consider how the university can best address them. We have engaged over that time with Hillel BC, which is on campus, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism, the Jewish Faculty Network, the Jewish Medical Association of BC, and the Jewish Academic Alliance of British Columbia. We also work closely with UBC student organizations to emphasize that our shared mission must include the protection of space for respectful debate and compassionate dialogue. It's not easy. UBC als …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 794, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/dr-benoit-antoine-bacon-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["solidarity", "security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "educators"], "act_why": "states antisemitism is completely unacceptable at UBC and anywhere", "trigger": "Recently, UBC students began to take part in a broader movement that started in the United States [the encampments]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Graham Carr", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… nfortunately, all forms of hate exist throughout society, and some are obviously also found on our campuses. As I mentioned earlier, Concordia University has set up a task force that is looking at a number of different forms of hate. I am waiting for recommendations from the various sub-task forces, including those on antisemitism and Islamophobia, in order to better understand what their recommendations are for the future."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 68, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/dr-graham-carr-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "relays Concordia's history of admitting Jewish students without quotas", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Graham Carr (President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University)", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… mpassion can only accomplish so much. I don't pretend to have perfect answers or actions to share with you. Everyone is struggling with the polarized environment and the complexity of the challenges we face. What I can say categorically is that there's no place for hate at Concordia. We're all disgusted by the rise of anti-Semitism, the spread of Islamophobia and the proliferation of identity-based hatred and violence. Canadian universities embody academic freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. They should be places of civil and evidence-informed reflection and debate. They also need to be places where people—above all, our stud …", "… Hillel club. Campus safety intervened quickly, but it was another painful event for our community. I share these examples, both positive and negative, to be transparent. Yes, tensions exist at Concordia, but there has also been a remarkable calm. This does not mean all is well. That's why our commitment to combatting anti-Semitism and all forms of hate is ongoing. In April, we launched a task force against racism and identity-based violence, involving faculty, staff, students and alumni. Our goal is to develop actionable recommendations to improve policies, training and complaint processes. 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Anti-Semitism isn't new—we've been hearing that—and the history of anti-Semitism at universities isn't new. In fact, in our next panel, we will have several universities sitting here who had quotas on the number of Jewish people who could attend certain programs or be in their universities. Do you have an inventory of which universities had that systemic anti-Semitism baked into their policies? Is that not something that needs to be addressed going forward?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 75, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/julie-dabrusin-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "academics"], "act_why": "raises historic quota systems as systemic antisemitism and asks for an inventory", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "universities that had quotas on the number of Jewish people who could attend", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm talking about Jewish students and anti-Semitism right now. I'm asking about quotas for Jewish students."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 16, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/julie-dabrusin-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "brief clarification that the question is about Jewish students and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. I'd like to begin around the conversation I was having with Universities Canada, which is that anti-Semitism at universities isn't a new thing. In fact, there's a long history. I appreciate that President Gertler made specific reference to the quota system that had applied to Jewish prospective students. I'm wondering if we could go around to each of the presidents, starting with McGill, on whether your university did have a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 80, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/julie-dabrusin-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "asks each president whether their university had a Jewish quota", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "universities with a formal or informal quota system for Jewish students", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. We've been talking a lot about the policies of equity and whether it includes anti-Semitism. For the universities here who have acknowledged that they had quota systems, is that included in part of the learning for staff, students and other people who are participating in the DEI? I'll start with McGill."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 53, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/julie-dabrusin-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "committee question pressing universities to include antisemitism in DEI training", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thanks. Going to that, can I ask you to please table with the committee Dr. Kuper's study about anti-Semitism in medical school prior to the most recent October 7 events? I have less than a minute, but I'm passing it over to Mr. Mendicino."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 44, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/julie-dabrusin-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "procedural request to table a cited study on antisemitism", "trigger": "\"Dr. Kuper's study about anti-Semitism in medical school prior to the most recent October 7 events\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Good morning, everyone. I call today's meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 106 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on March 21, 2024, the committee is continuing its study on anti-Semitism. Before we begin, I'd like to remind all members and other meeting participants in the room of some important preventative measures. To prevent disruptive and potentially harmful audio feedback incidents that can cause injuries, all in-person participants are reminded to keep their earpieces away from all microphones …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 486, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/the-chair-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "chair's procedural opening relaying the committee's mandate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Miller", "role": "Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs", "province": "QC", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["… as grasped the attention of the world, with cause, and it has polarized many people who used to talk to each other, who used to get along. It has been devastating not only in Gaza and Israel with the dreadful terrorist attack on October 7—an attempt to exterminate a people—but also here in Canada with Islamophobia and anti-Semitism running rampant. I think we need to estimate—because perhaps we've underestimated—the damage that this has caused us as a country and the divisive politics that come out of it. I don't need votes from this; I just need people to stay alive. I don't want the vote of someone who thinks that legitimate criticism of the N …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 240, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/44-1/101/marc-miller-63/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "decries Islamophobia and antisemitism running rampant; label point is secondary", "trigger": "\"the war with Hamas, the devastation in Gaza\"; \"the dreadful terrorist attack on October 7\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… y turn—students, professors, professionals, business owners, public servants, union members, faith leaders, families. Just last weekend there was the shooting at Bias Chaya Mushka, a Jewish day school for girls in North York, in my hometown of Toronto. That is another horrifying incident to add to the record levels of anti-Semitic violence against Jews as documented by B'nai Brith. Imagine having to send your daughter off to school this morning knowing there are people who want to attack her, and all you want to do is assure her she's going to be safe. How can Jews feel safe when laws aren't enforced? When encampments go on for weeks without consequence, or, as in the case of Adil Charkaoui in Montreal, who explicitly demonized Zionists and incited violence without facing charges, Jews can't feel safe. They don't feel safe, and the consequences are real. There are more unlawful protests, more violence, more Jew hatred. This study has to be a call to action for all Canadians to put on our gear, pick up a hose and extinguish the five-alarm fire that is anti-Semitism in this country. This morning, I want to focus on a written submission from Canadian Women Against Antisemitism. This is a grassroots organization in Toronto. Their written submission explains in vivid detail the impacts of anti-Semitism on Jewish women. They make two key points: first, the word “Zionist” has been misappropriated and perverted as a racist trope against Jews; and second, sexual violence against women and girls is explicitly being coupled with Jewish hatred. We see this specifically at university encampments, where there are repeated de …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 396, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/marco-mendicino-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "leadership speech"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "How can Jews feel safe when laws aren't enforced?", "act_why": "charges named actor Charkaoui and named institutions with inciting/tolerating Jew hatred", "trigger": "\"Just last weekend there was the shooting at Bias Chaya Mushka, a Jewish day school for girls in North York\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["protest movement", "individual"], "target_detail": "university encampments; Adil Charkaoui in Montreal", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rom all of the universities that are represented in today's hearing to raise the bar when it comes to transparency around private funding of your institutions to ensure that the funding is in alignment with Canadian values, including the values that have been espoused today, academic freedom and certainly not hate and anti-Semitism. I'll start with those online. Yes or no?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 108, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/marco-mendicino-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "seeks university commitments against hate and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "foreign funding of the post-secondary sector", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for being here to discuss this very serious and important topic. In my role as the critic for civil liberties, I'm hearing from across the country concerns that the rule of law is not being enforced equally, especially when we consider anti-Semitic incidents that are happening. I want to start with the Toronto Police Service. I'm just going to go through a number of the incidents that have gone on so that you can give us a picture of what's really happening there. At Christmastime in the Eaton Centre there was a pro-Palestinian demonstration where death threats …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/marilyn-gladu-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "recites antisemitic incidents with disapproval while questioning police", "trigger": "\"At Christmastime in the Eaton Centre there was a pro-Palestinian demonstration where death threats were made to the police and shoppers were intimidated and ha", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "institution"], "target_detail": "a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Eaton Centre; police enforcement of the rule of law", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["We have established that you are aware that anti-Semitism is a problem on Concordia's campus and that there have been incidents of violence. You called them “a black eye” for Concordia. I would call it absolutely abhorrent and unacceptable and an abdication of responsibility to keep Jewish students safe, but I think that's just a disagreement. Are you aware that there are gr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 70, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/melissa-lantsman-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "charge_quote": "an abdication of responsibility to keep Jewish students safe", "act_why": "charges Concordia with abdicating responsibility for antisemitism on its campus", "trigger": "\"there have been incidents of violence\" on Concordia's campus, which the witness called \"a black eye\" for Concordia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Concordia's campus and its administration — “an abdication of responsibility to keep Jewish students safe”", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… raised with us in all of our discussions with Jewish students and leaders. On the first point, we helped collect answers to a question in a letter from MPs sent to 27 universities that asked this very question. All respondents—I believe Mr. Housefather might correct me—said that their existing policies would prohibit anti-Semitism. However, what we're hearing from students and faculty is that it's in the enforcement of those codes of conduct in an equal way where they see institutions falling down. There's work to do there. I think better training—picking up on some of Mr. Sandler's points—and better tools for identifying and addressing anti-Semitism will help very much. On EDI, it's clear there's quite a bit of work to do here to make sure EDI frameworks, policies and administrators are protecting all students, specifically Jewish students and faculty. We have seen examples where changes have already been made, as well as a commitment from all of our universities …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 203, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/gabriel-miller-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "witness concedes universities are failing Jewish students; treats antisemitism as wrong", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "we're letting our Jewish students and faculty down", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["First, it's very clear that being able to define anti-Semitism is critical to being able to identify and address it. We've heard very clearly from Jewish leaders, students and faculty that our universities need to have the tools to clearly define and identify anti-Semitism, so we can be more effective in addressing it. The question around IHRA is one of the most important topics that have been discussed by this group. There are two things that I think are very encouraging in this area. First is the work by Deborah Lyons, the special envoy who is working on resources to address questions …", "… able tool. Second is the work of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, who appeared before this committee and have done very good work in demonstrating the value of that tool, underlining the fact that it is non-binding and that it can be very useful to institutions in academia and outside of academia in fighting anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 186, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/gabriel-miller-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "international bodies"], "act_why": "witness concedes universities are failing Jewish students; treats antisemitism as wrong", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "we're letting our Jewish students and faculty down", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… our society to be a place where respectful, open dialogue occurs. Picking up on some of what Mr. Sandler said, perhaps in a different context, we're seeing universities' ability to do that challenged, and we need to up our game. We need to educate ourselves and to do a better job of modelling that in a new world where anti-Semitism has morphed into new forms."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 75, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/gabriel-miller-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "witness concedes universities are failing Jewish students; treats antisemitism as wrong", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "we're letting our Jewish students and faculty down", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["It's an excellent suggestion. What we have is a very good picture of the general situation that existed in Canada. Your point is one that I think has been under-discussed, which is that this country was saturated in anti-Semitism right up until the 1960s. One of the contributions that universities had to make first was confronting their own anti-Semitism, which was deep and severe, but also opening the doors to scholars like Irving Abella, who helped document that anti-Semitism and its causes. That's a huge part of the contribution our institutions need to make going forward."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/gabriel-miller-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "witness concedes universities are failing Jewish students; treats antisemitism as wrong", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "we're letting our Jewish students and faculty down", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller (President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada)", "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… gin by thanking the committee for undertaking this important and timely study. Even more important, I want to thank the Jewish students and scholars who have bravely shared their painful stories. I'm sorry for what you've endured. We hear you, and we take this very seriously. Universities Canada unequivocally condemns anti-Semitism and all forms of racism and discrimination. Hateful anti-Semitic acts have no place on our campuses or in our communities. They must be stopped. Learning on a supportive campus free from harassment, intimidation or fear for one's safety is critical for students and for the integrity of our institutions. The academic environment should foster freedom of expression, and with that com …", "… ersity to learn and to participate fully in campus life. As a national organization, at Universities Canada, we've been acting recently in four main areas. First, we've been working with public safety and the RCMP to help ensure the physical safety of students, staff and faculty. Second, we've been preventing hate and anti-Semitic acts through campus codes of conduct, which should, by definition, help protect Jewish students. Third, we've been sharing best practices and lessons among institutions and the community. Fourth, we've been working with 27 universities to detail the specific actions they are taking to fight anti-Semitism in response to a December 13 request from MPs. Universities Canada is working closely with Deboarah Lyons, the Department of Public Safety, the RCMP, local MPs and community-led organizations such as the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada. We are also in close contact with our international counterparts like Universities UK and the American Council on Education. We are listening carefully to Jewish students and scholars and to leaders in the fight against anti-Semitism. We welcome the practical, concrete solutions that have been presented to this committee, including proposals to ensure equal application of codes of conduct; EDI policies that fight anti-Semitism and protect Jewish students, faculty and staff; new education and training programs; more extensive data collection and reporting; and broadening the use of the non-binding IHRA definition as a valuable tool to help universities identify and address anti-Semitism. We are committed to working with you, with governments and with Jewish partners to address these recommendations. We know from police reports and annual audits that incidents of anti-Semitism have been steadily rising in Canada. As many who have appeared before the committee have rightly pointed out, if anti-Semitism is not stopped wherever it's found, it spreads; it grows. We cannot forget the lessons of history when it comes to how unchecked hateful language too easily progresses to more hateful actions. These problems do not stop at the edge of campus. Anti-Semitism affects our whole society and demands a national whole-of-government response. It is not a partisan issue either, and I hope members will continue to approach this study and the resulting report with a multipartisan approach. Universities have a particular responsibility to be models for respectful dialogue and respectful conduct. This responsibility extends not only to our students, staff and faculty, but also to leaders in the broader Canadian community. It is incumbent on us to do everything in our purview to prevent antisemitism, just as it is incumbent on elected leaders and leaders from all sectors to do the same. Thank you for undertaking this important work. I look forward to answering your questions."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 658, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/gabriel-miller-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "police and security"], "act_why": "explicit statement that Universities Canada unequivocally condemns antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ious sections of the Criminal Code that do exist and that I have identified. I've also seen the absence of designated prosecutors to deal with these crimes so that you're actually having internal disagreement within Crown services about what is prosecutable and what is not. We need a national approach that understands anti-Semitism, understands the criminal law tools that are available to deal with it and applies across the country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… nvolvement of extremists and extremist organizations in Canada, which are operating with impunity here. We see foreign money infused into Canada. We've seen one expert describe Canada as a major hub for extremist financing and money laundering worldwide. We see the misuse of social media by circulating misinformation, anti-Semitic tropes and historical distortions. This misuse is orchestrated in many instances by extremists and foreign governments. We see radicalized faculty members who seek to indoctrinate students rather than engage in a discussion where controversial topics are discussed. We see in many classrooms a culture that does not pro …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 342, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Yes. There are codes of conduct that don't address this issue adequately or at all. I want to make a point. If one doesn't adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, codes of conduct that prohibit anti-Semitism are worthless, because it's defined away. People will describe it as not anti-Semitic and, therefore, define it out of existence."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 56, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["The reason it is of critical importance is that anti-Semitism is a cancer and it metastasizes in different ways through IHRA. What are we dealing with now? We are dealing with anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Zionism. I won't give the whole history lesson, but there's a well-documented history of Zionism as racism, which started in Russia and was propagandized. We've been fighting that for years, because it involves a distortion of Zionism. Zionism is nothing more or less than the right of Jews to have …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 115, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm sorry I went on too long, but to answer your question, if that definition is not utilized and we exclude anti-Zionism as part of the anti-Semitic picture, then we're not addressing the current form of anti-Semitism that's prevailing on campuses and at schools."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 44, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rotected speech and hate speech. I want to say simply that there are clear demarcations between the two. The example that I usually give is that, if someone wants to criticize Israel's policies, its practices, the conduct of its government and so on and so forth, that's contemplated by the IHRA definition as not being anti-Semitic. A democracy should welcome that. I can tell you as a member of the Jewish community that I've been sharply critical of the Israeli government where it's appropriate. The difference is when one says that all Zionists are racist, all Zionists are evil, and Israel should be wiped off the map. That transcends protected s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 132, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["It's a great question, and I thank you for it. For me, there's a multifactor answer to it. The first is that I think people genuinely don't understand anti-Semitism. I think with the lack of understanding of anti-Semitism comes a lack of understanding of where the boundaries have been crossed and a criminal offence has been committed. For me, it's back to the training and education that we've talked about. It's back to having dedicated prosecutors who are dealing with these issues every day. It's back to having a national strategy so that people understand what this is all about. Part of it, unfortunately, is latent anti-Semitism. I'm not suggesting that I would lightly attribute decisions on not to prosecute to someone being anti-Semitic, because I think ignorance is the bigger problem here when it comes to prosecutions and police, but that definitely does exist. The third thing that I think is of critical importance is that freedom of speech is now being weaponized and deliberately distorted in a way that inhibits prosecution. For example, when I say …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 254, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education", "criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "treats antisemitic crime as underprosecuted and calls for national response", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "an inconsistent application of the law right across the country; Crown services", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Sandler (As an Individual)", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… when just two days ago, a large march on Toronto's streets included not only the responsive chanting of that phrase, but also “The only solution is intifada revolution”; “We don't want two states. Bring us back to 1948,” and the chanting of Sinwar's name, Hamas's leading war criminal. Don't tell Jews this isn't about anti-Semitism or that it's only about protected speech when students and radicalized faculty say that all Zionists are evil, that all Zionists are racist, that all Zionists are genocidal. The vast majority of Jews are Zionist and many of us are pro-Palestinian. I believe without a trace of humility perhaps that I've done more as an advocate to advance the rights of Palestinians than any of the people who are protesting in the way that I've described. Don't tell Jews that their children are safe in their schools and universities. Read, for example, the shocking brief of Ottawa Against Antisemitism. In public schools, teachers are erasing Israel from the map and replacing it with Palestine. Students are giving presentations praising Hitler's leadership, saying he only failed because he didn't finish the job. A student at a graduation ceremony changed the indigenous land acknowledgement by blaming Jews for killin …", "… Jew”, while others are threatened with a knife, shoved to the muddy floor of a yellow school bus, told to taste what their grandparents tasted in the Holocaust and told by their teachers to just let it go. Don't tell Jewish women that they are safe on campuses. Read the equally shocking brief of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, who experienced the worst forms of misogynistic Jew hatred: “Zionist whore”, “fucking child abuser for having Zionist babies”, “Rich Jewish bitch, you ought to be raped.” These are from TMU students. Don't tell Canadian Jews that these are isolated instances. The data shows the opposite. I'm speaking to you in my personal capacity as someone who has combatted anti-Semitism and other forms of hate, including anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-indigenous and, indeed, anti-Muslim hate, for almost 40 years. However, I also invited over 40 groups, organizations and individuals who are deeply concerned about anti-Semitism to come together in an alliance combatting campus anti-Semitism to share their experience and expertise and recommendations with you. They all responded. You'll read the perspectives of indigenous people, Muslims, Catholics, teachers, students at all levels, doctors, lawyers, faculty, academics, a media monitor, community NGOs, extremism experts and those who are working with me on a national respectful dialogue on campus between Muslims and Jews. I'll conclude the oral comments by saying, I've identified for you, trying to draw together everything you've heard, 10 reasons overt anti-Semitism is so pervasive in Canada. I hope those will be of assistance to you as well as 14 concrete recommendations to address that anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 685, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/mark-sandler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "sustained outrage at antisemitic chants and incidents, quoting slurs; insists label does apply", "trigger": "\"On October 7, life completely changed for Canadian Jews\" — Hamas's attack on Israel and its celebration on Canadian streets and campuses", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "faculty members and students, union leaders and known jihadists; protesters marching in Toronto", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Sheryl Saperia", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Secure Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… foreign-funded or not, North American universities must find a way to start dismantling the pervasive and destructive academic paradigm in which Jews and Israelis are portrayed as today's ultimate embodiment of evil: white, rich, privileged, racist colonizing oppressors. There are also homegrown dimensions to Canada's anti-Semitism and extremism problem. It is worth researching whether a minimization of Canadian national identity and values, coupled with a high usage of identity politics, renders young people both on and off university campuses more vulnerable to charismatic recruiters looking to radicalize and recruit new members for their extr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 250, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/sheryl-saperia-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "alarm at an academic paradigm demonising Jews and at extremist funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "university"], "target_detail": "Russia and China; North American universities", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Sheryl Saperia (Chief Executive Officer, Secure Canada)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Secure Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rganization originally founded by Canadian victims of terror. Our mission is to combat terrorism, extremism and related threats to Canada's national security and democracy by creating innovative and transformative laws, policies and alliances. We are also a member of the informal coalition, the Alliance Against Campus Antisemitism in Canada. Secure Canada is not a Jewish organization. Anti-Semitism is not referenced in our mandate, but it has become increasingly clear that anti-Semitism is evolving into a national and global security threat, thereby placing this issue squarely within our mandate. Anti-Semitism is a key entry point for radicalizing, joining extremist groups and mobilizing to violence. Anti-Semitism underpins ideologically motivated violent extremism across the spectrum, from neo-Nazi and white nationalist extremism to far-left extremism, to Islamist extremism. The Jewish population may not always be the target, but anti-Semitism is used to leverage people's vulnerabilities and grievances and to bind a wide array of conspiratorial thinking. There are different factors that can make someone more vulnerable to becoming an extremist. Sometimes there are mental health considerations, or someone may be socially disconnected, or maybe they have experienced some past domestic trauma. Then they start intersecting with the hateful ideology online, where they read that their lives are so unhappy because of the Jews. Here come the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and an us-versus-them narrative. When they read it enough times in enough different places, they think, “Jewish people have taken over. I need to be part of a movement that is going to fight back.” For disenchanted young adults in particular, this is a template that makes their problems make sense. …", "… her, so you are now seeing Islamists who also love Hitler. Third, there is a new breed of extremist that hates five things: Jews, women, democracy, police and transgender people. We are living in a globalized world, so it is hard to isolate homegrown Canadian variables from foreign variables that are inflaming today's anti-Semitism, but it is worth exploring both elements. A current notable area of research is the foreign funding of North American universities. An organization called ISGAP has found that a massive influx of foreign donations to American colleges, much of it from authoritarian regimes, supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression. One of Secure Canada's board members is the renowned UK-based counter-extremism expert, Haras Rafiq. Mr. Rafiq notes that Qatar has spent up to $1 trillion to spread soft power influence and Islamist indoctrination, which, at its very core, is anti-Semitic and the bedrock of the ideology of terrorist entities such as Hamas, ISIS and al Qaeda. Russia and China, meanwhile, appear to be manipulating public opinion by promoting [ Technical difficulty—Editor ]."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 513, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/sheryl-saperia-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "relays research framing antisemitism as a radicalisation and security threat", "trigger": "\"It has now been more than seven months since the October 7 attacks by Hamas\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "university"], "target_detail": "Qatar and authoritarian regimes funding North American universities", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Deep Saini", "role": "Prof. Deep Saini", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["The way I hear them used right now on our campuses, including at McGill, I find it to be anti-Semitic."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 20, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-deep-saini-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "university head calls the campus chants he hears antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the way I hear them used right now on our campuses, including at McGill", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Deep Saini", "role": "Prof. Deep Saini", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… tion, hate, bullying, harassment or any other offensive behaviour that is targeted at specific groups based on their race, religion, background or circumstance, etc. It's much like how my colleague at the University of Toronto described it. Our policies fully cover all forms of hate against all communities. Lately, as anti-Semitism has become much more obvious and explicit in our society, including on our campuses, we have been calling it out specifically. We will certainly look, going forward, at whether any changes are needed and where we need to explicitly enshrine any particular groups within our EDI policies or discrimination policies."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 118, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-deep-saini-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "university head calls the campus chants he hears antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the way I hear them used right now on our campuses, including at McGill", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Deep Saini", "role": "Prof. Deep Saini", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, answering through you, the answer is yes. If any faculty are found to be violating any of our policies with regard to hate and discrimination, including anti-Semitism, our policies are adequate to account for that, and proceedings will be taken against those individuals."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 45, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-deep-saini-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "university head calls the campus chants he hears antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the way I hear them used right now on our campuses, including at McGill", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Deep Saini", "role": "Prof. Deep Saini", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["In 2022, we implemented an initiative on Islamophobia and antisemitism. To do that, we engaged in extensive consultations, especially with our Muslim and Jewish communities. Based on those consultations, we made a number of recommendations, which have already been implemented. Of course, we did that study because we recognized that Islamophobia and antisemitism existed in our community."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 57, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-deep-saini-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "community organisations"], "act_why": "university head calls the campus chants he hears antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the way I hear them used right now on our campuses, including at McGill", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Meric Gertler", "role": "Prof. Meric Gertler", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["In the current context, they are certainly experienced as anti-Semitic. It's for that reason we have reported certain incidents to the Toronto Police Service. I would say that the proper place is—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-meric-gertler-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "says the conduct is experienced as antisemitic and was reported to police", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "certain incidents … reported to the Toronto Police Service", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Prof. Meric Gertler", "role": "Prof. Meric Gertler", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ligion and these kinds of traits, which are straight out of the Ontario Human Rights Code. It takes that approach, rather than naming individual faiths, religions or cultures, so it's meant to be all inclusive. Another way of answering the member's question would be to note that directly as a result of the work of our anti-Semitism working group, we have reviewed and overhauled our EDI process to make sure that our equity policies explicitly recognize anti-Semitism as a form of discrimination, harassment or hate. We have trained all of our equity officers expressly to address these issues. I could say more, but I think that directly answers the member's question."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/prof-meric-gertler-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "says the conduct is experienced as antisemitic and was reported to police", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "certain incidents … reported to the Toronto Police Service", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Professor Deep Saini (President and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University)", "role": "President and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I thank the members of the committee. I would like to begin by commending this committee for taking on this important study. As we have been experiencing and have heard from your recent hearings, anti-Semitism is real. It is happening across our country, and we all have a role to play in confronting it. The conflict in the Middle East has sparked intense debate and protests on Canadian campuses. We are committed to freedom of expression, association and peaceful protest. These are basic democratic rights. Let me be very cle …", "… he years, McGill has been working in close partnership with Jewish students, staff, faculty, alumni and external community members to put in place measures to promote inclusion and provide avenues and resources to support the community. Less than two years ago, we developed McGill's initiative against Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. This was done through meaningful consultations with McGill's Jewish and Muslim communities over several months. This resulted in 21 action items, all of which are either fully implemented or are in the process of being implemented. The aim is to help address, prevent and raise awareness on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. We created a Jewish student affairs liaison, providing the Jewish community at McGill with a direct channel to the university's senior administration to request support, report incidents or provide resources. We have established specialized support services for Jewish students, as well as workshops f …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 635, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/professor-deep-saini-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "community organisations"], "act_why": "states antisemitism is real and unacceptable, describing McGill's response", "trigger": "\"the protesters setting up encampments and interfering with university activities\" at McGill; \"the situation on our campus started to worsen\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the protesters setting up encampments and interfering with university activities", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Professor Meric Gertler (President, University of Toronto)", "role": "President, University of Toronto", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair, for this opportunity to meet with you and your committee. I apologize for not being there in person, but I am required to be in Toronto today. Given the focus of your deliberations, my remarks will outline what the University of Toronto is doing to combat anti-Semitism. However, I realize there are other matters currently unfolding on the U of T campus that may be of interest to you, and I'm happy to discuss those in the question period. It is painful but necessary to recognize that anti-Semitism has been a scourge in our society for generations, if not centuries. It's particularly painful for me, as president of the University of Toronto, to acknowledge our role in this sorry history. Even more discouraging is the fact that anti-Semitic incidents and hate-based crimes are on the rise in Canada, and that anti-Semitism has been a growing presence recently in our university. In recognition of this, the University of Toronto has taken a comprehensive set of actions to combat anti-Semitism and ensure our campuses are places where Jewish members of our community feel safe, included and respected. This work is rooted in our long-standing opposition to all forms of racism and discrimination, but we have intensified our efforts since October 7. Let me describe several actions we have taken. In 2020, we convened an anti-Semitism working group consisting of colleagues with specialized expertise to examine the challenge of anti-Semitism. We accepted all recommendations from the working group's report. The university's equity office has broadened its mandate explicitly to recognize anti-Semitism as a form of discrimination requiring concerted action. We require all equity staff at the university to undergo anti-Semitism training. We're working to improve the process of reporting hate-related incidents by enhancing clarity, accountability and timeliness of response, when such incidents are reported. We've appointed our first ever assistant director for faith and anti-racism to strengthen our ability to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. She has a mandate to improve our processes for responding to such incidents, to foster dialogue, mutual understanding and respect, and to advance other measures to combat anti-Semitism. Our chief legal officer is helping leaders across the university to understand the ambit and limits to freedom of speech. The identification of hate speech is set forth in Canadian jurisprudence and our collective obligations under university and government statutes, regulations, codes and policies. In addition, in 2 …", "… aculty of medicine and leaders of our affiliated hospitals apologized for their practice of imposing quotas for Jewish medical students and hospital trainees from the 1940s to the 1960s, sponsoring a research project that shed light on this shameful historical practice. The faculty of medicine introduced a new unit on anti-Semitism and anti-racism as part of its professional training and now consults regularly with Jewish learners to ensure they are properly supported. Since October 7, my senior team has met multiple times with Jewish faculty, staff and students to hear their concerns, direct them to helpful resources and seek their advice on how we can better support them. We ensure that student organizations operate in an open, accessible and democratic manner. Our policy has been put to the test and has proven effective in holding student organizations to account. In January, we announced a new lab for the study of global anti-Semitism at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Its inaugural director is Ron Levi, a distinguished professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. We also announced a new university-wide initiative to promote civil discourse on our campuses. It's led by provostial adviser Randy Boyagoda. Our efforts to combat anti-Semitism are comprehensive and multifaceted. Are they enough? Until there are no further instances of anti-Semitism, the answer for us and for society at large must be no. However, I hope you will acknowledge the diligent efforts the University of Toronto has made to address this scourge and to atone for its role in the past, while acknowledging the work that remains to be done. Ultimately, we believe the most effective way to resp …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 700, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/professor-meric-gertler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "academics"], "act_why": "calls antisemitism a scourge and describes U of T measures against it", "trigger": "\"other matters currently unfolding on the U of T campus\" (the encampment) and \"anti-Semitism has been a growing presence recently in our university\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the University of Toronto's “role in this sorry history”; quotas for Jewish medical students", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… study. I do believe it's one of the most important things on which we've embarked. In particular, I want to thank Mr. Sandler for being very forthright in placing the situation Canadian Jews face before this committee in a forceful manner. One of the things you didn't get to was the discussion about the 10 reasons why anti-Semitism is so pervasive. It's important we understand where it's coming from if we're going to make recommendations on how to combat it. I'd like to give you as much of my time as you need to talk about that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 117, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "thanks witness for exposing pervasive antisemitism, invites the ten reasons", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Sandler. Mr. Miller, how frequently do codes of conduct at the university specifically mention anti-Semitism, and how frequently is anti-Semitism a part of diversity initiatives?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 28, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "question presses whether codes of conduct name antisemitism as prohibited", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Without reinterpreting what you just said to me, what I hear is that you haven't said anything about whether policies explicitly mention anti-Semitism and specifically protect Jewish students as part of diversity. You haven't really answered that. You said that universities say their policies would prohibit anti-Semitic acts. Do they specifically address it? I think that's a problem with enforcement. If something is not explicitly addressed, it creates a vacuum."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 70, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "faults universities for not explicitly naming antisemitism in policy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "policies that do not explicitly mention anti-Semitism — “that's a problem with enforcement”", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I had some different ideas about where I was going to go this morning, but I want to go back to Mr. Sandler. Stepping away from the narrow university context, what we see is a failure to prosecute hate crimes generally when it comes to anti-Semitic hate crimes. I wonder whether you would speculate—it's not the right word—about why we see that failure. Is there a fault in the law, or is it something more pervasive than a fault in the law where we don't see prosecutions that we might see if another group were involved?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 100, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "alarm at failure to prosecute antisemitic hate crimes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "a failure to prosecute hate crimes generally when it comes to anti-Semitic hate crimes", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… itnesses for being here today, but I have to say I find it a bit distressing that your testimony doesn't seem to match the reality that I hear from students on campus. They're not just at your institutions, but at institutions in my own riding and across the country. One of the problems is that while it's great to say anti-Semitism is unacceptable and a Jew should be included in diversity, I don't actually see that in the policies I've been able to access. I'm going to start with Professor Gertler from U of T. Where in your anti-harassment policies or anywhere else in your policies does it explicitly say anti-Semitism is not acceptable on campus?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 123, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "distressed that university testimony understates campus antisemitism; remedy critique", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "your testimony doesn't seem to match the reality that I hear from students on campus", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ings because discrimination was illegal, I found things improved once there was an explicit reference. What I would encourage the U of T to do is make more explicit statements rather than simply say all forms of discrimination are prohibited, because the one that has an epidemic of discrimination going on right now is anti-Semitism. Given the connection—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 86, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "urges explicit policy language given an epidemic of antisemitic discrimination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the U of T", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Okay. Thank you. I'll now go to Professor Saini from McGill. I have the same kinds of questions. Where in McGill's policies, if at all, does it specifically say that anti-Semitism is not acceptable as a form of harassment or discrimination on campus?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 43, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "asks McGill where policy names antisemitism as prohibited harassment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["The focus has always been on students here, but we know that many faculty have been engaged in the encampments and in other anti-Semitic activities on campus. Because I have you here right now, Professor Saini, are there policies that would apply to faculty which are explicit in banning anti-Semitism or not?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "notes faculty involvement in antisemitic activity while pressing on policy coverage", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "many faculty have been engaged in the encampments and in other anti-Semitic activities on campus", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. I'll turn to those in the room. For Dr. Bacon from my alma mater, UBC, I have the same kind of question. Are things actually made explicit when it comes to anti-Semitism and harassment and discrimination policies?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 39, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "asks UBC whether antisemitism is explicit in harassment policy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… dress one other thing that's been bothering me in this session, and that is the emphasis on due process. I'm going to direct my question to Dr. Carr to start with. When you say that there are processes under way, I have a certain amount of sympathy with that. Do your processes not require that those who are accused of anti-Semitism, harassment or other offences cease the behaviour while those processes are taking place? In other words, if we were talking in a public context, if someone continued the behaviour, that wouldn't be acceptable. They may not be found guilty of an offence yet, but they have to cease the behaviour while the process is going on. Is there no way in any of your processes to require ceasing anti-Semitic, hateful and harassing behaviour?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 143, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/randall-garrison-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "demands processes require ceasing antisemitic and harassing behaviour", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "your processes — the emphasis on due process while behaviour continues", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Ms. Bisla. In your opinion, should all forms of hate be treated equally, or should more special consideration be given to antisemitism or Islamophobia, for example? Should specific treatment be reserved for these forms of hate, or should any hate speech or any form of hatred be dealt with in the same way?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 55, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/rheal-fortin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "policy question on whether antisemitism warrants distinct treatment among hates", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… stop you there, Ms. Bisla, but time is running out. I apologize for being rude. I understand that the Criminal Code contains definitions. I'll be more specific if that's okay with you. The Criminal Code currently contains a provision, in section 319, which states that “[no] person shall be convicted of an offence” of antisemitism “if, in good faith, they expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text”. In your opinion, should an exception of this nature—that is to say that hate can be promoted based on a religious text—be maintained or should it be review …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 116, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/rheal-fortin-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "quotes the Criminal Code religious exception and questions keeping it", "trigger": "\"a provision, in section 319\" of the Criminal Code — the religious-text exception to the hate promotion offence", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Miller, I'll turn to you. Of course, we understand the intention to combat antisemitism. Hate speech is unacceptable in Canada. But we also know that there are values we hold dear, such as freedom of opinion and expression. These values are in conflict in situations like the one we are discussing now. How can we strike a balance between freedom of opinion and expression and the fight against hate speech …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/rheal-fortin-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "accepts combating antisemitism while asking about the expression balance", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ersity. That said, we believe that hate speech is unacceptable. However, it is difficult to define what is hate and what is not. As we said earlier, Bill C‑63 proposes provisions in this regard. Another thing I find problematic is what is called the religious exception in the Criminal Code, which allows hate speech or antisemitic speech based on a religious text. All these things are problematic. I will try to summarize by asking the witnesses my questions in the order in which their names appear on the notice of meeting. Mr. Carr, at Concordia University, how do you plan to combat the problem of hate speech while respecting freedom of express …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 250, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/rheal-fortin-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "calls campus situation concerning and hate speech unacceptable", "trigger": "\"Bill C‑63 proposes provisions in this regard\" and \"the religious exception in the Criminal Code\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is for Mr. Saini, from McGill University. We are obviously talking about antisemitism, since that is the topic of the study the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights is currently conducting, but there are other forms of hate. At McGill University, aside from the cases of antisemitism we are talking about, are there also cases of Islamophobia, racism or homophobia, for example? Are there other forms of hate that currently exist on McGill University's campus?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 82, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/rheal-fortin-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "asks McGill about other hates alongside the antisemitism cases discussed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Shafqat Ali", "role": "Brampton Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "passages": ["Thank you, Minister. Along with our colleague Salma Zahid, we had an opportunity to visit Palestine. We heard the stories on the ground of what the people are going through. It's from both sides. Human lives are being lost. It's a human tragedy. Here at home, Islamophobia, as you rightly said, and anti-Semitism are on the rise. Our Conservative friends are exploiting the situation rather than bringing people together. I agree with you that we should not be using this as a political issue. This is a human tragedy. We should, first of all, all come together to call for a ceasefire and try to make every effort to save lives in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 168, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/44-1/101/shafqat-ali-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Citizenship and Immigration", "committee_slug": "immigration", "meeting": 101, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["foreign policy", "solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "notes rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia; partisan jab is not about the label", "trigger": "\"what the people are going through\" in Palestine; the call \"to save lives in Gaza, Rafah and Sudan\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "Our Conservative friends are exploiting the situation rather than bringing people together", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, she said something about Islamism being at the heart of anti-Semitism. That is the last note that I have on my paper."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 24, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/tako-van-popta-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays a witness's remark about Islamism and antisemitism without position", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses for being with us today on this very important study on anti-Semitism. Detective Sergeant Bisla, my first question will be for you. You said the Toronto Police Service takes anti-Semitism very seriously, and I know that you do. You said that, in your opinion, hate speech is a precursor to ideologically motivated violent extremism. In your opinion, is what's happening on the University of Toronto campus today a precursor to what you would think of as ideologically motivated violent extremism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 90, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/tako-van-popta-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "presses police on campus conduct as precursor to violent extremism", "trigger": "\"what's happening on the University of Toronto campus today\" (the encampment)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "what's happening on the University of Toronto campus today", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. I'm going to move on to Mr. Miller from Universities Canada. You mentioned in your opening testimony, and Mr. Sandler has also referred to it, the importance of a code of conduct and adopting the IHRA definition of what anti-Semitism is. Is that a universally accepted statement across all your universities? I ask that question in the context of something I read in The New York Times, where the authorities at Columbia University are saying that it is not their job to define anti-Semitism, that it is their job to listen to students. In that context, what are your comments?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 102, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/tako-van-popta-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "international bodies"], "act_why": "cites reporting on Columbia while urging IHRA adoption", "trigger": "\"something I read in The New York Times, where the authorities at Columbia University are saying that it is not their job to define anti-Semitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the authorities at Columbia University are saying that it is not their job to define anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Why is the IHRA definition important as opposed to some of the other competing definitions, which maybe don't tie anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 22, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/106/tako-van-popta-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 106, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "advocates the broader IHRA definition tying anti-Zionism to antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ali Ehsassi", "role": "Willowdale, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Willowdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ve all established that Islamophobia, regrettably, is alive and well and that as a country, we should be doing much better to combat Islamophobia, much as we do with other hate crimes. I will start off with Dr. Islam. Mr. Fortin started off with a question about whether there are commonalities between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The reason is that he was wondering whether we could use the same tools for combatting Islamophobia. Obviously, both of them are disconcerting. You had the opportunity to say that in certain respects, there were overlaps between the two. However, I suspect you also wanted to elaborate on what the particularities of I …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ali-ehsassi-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats antisemitism and Islamophobia alike as hatreds to be combatted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ali Ehsassi", "role": "Willowdale, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Willowdale", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… with your elected official and with the University of Victoria. It truly is unacceptable that you went through such a terrible and harrowing experience and that they did not address it appropriately. Here is my question now for the panellists, and I will start with Mr. Babili. Unfortunately, we've seen a steep rise in anti-Semitism over the course of the past seven months. Is it your assessment that the rise in Islamophobia has increased considerably in the last seven months as well?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ali-ehsassi-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notes the steep rise in antisemitism while asking about Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… lences as well. I was really struck by what Omar Babili talked about. He talked about the impact when his church was attacked. Local politicians really did nothing. It resonated with me, because we've had a hundred Christian churches in this country torched, and the Liberal government has said and done nothing. On the anti-Semitism study that we're just finishing up, we heard about the 500% increase in anti-Semitic hate events. Others felt as well that the federal government had not adequately acted. I'm interested in hearing about Islamophobia, because since 2017, there's been a House of Commons study on Islamophobia, which brought forward 16 recommendations; the Senate report that was mentioned, which made 60 recommendations o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 196, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/marilyn-gladu-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "cites committee evidence of a 500% rise and others' view of inadequate action", "trigger": "\"a House of Commons study on Islamophobia, which brought forward 16 recommendations; the Senate report ... which made 60 recommendations\"; \"the 500% increase in", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberal government has said and done nothing; the federal government had not adequately acted", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Ali Islam", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ay, geopolitics, where anti-Muslim hatred is used as a justification to keep Muslim voices out of the top spheres of power and influence—and that's intentional. There's a form of Islamophobia that comes from the far left, and there's a form of Islamophobia borne from white nationalism. That type goes hand in hand with anti-Semitism, misogyny, anti-Black racism and being anti-LGBT. There are many different paths to the same end result. What we don't understand, I think, is how Islamophobia, when it goes up in one of these categories, affects the others. This is where governments, Parliament and academics can add value. If you don't look at all th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 320, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ali-islam-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "witness on hate-crime sentencing and parole, treating hate crimes as grave", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the parole system and its weighting toward rehabilitation", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Ali Islam", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… sing. There is some overlap, and where there is overlap, there are common solutions that would work to address some of the similarities. I mentioned that one of the forms of Islamophobia comes from white supremacism, a belief in the great replacement theory. The Islamophobia that comes from that goes hand in hand with anti-Semitism. I quoted one of the inspirations of the perpetrator of my family's killing. He was inspired by New Zealand. He was inspired by California. The terrorist in California, when he wasn't able to set fire to the mosque, shot people in a synagogue. You can certainly draw a chain of killers—even in Buffalo, New York, which …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ali-islam-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "witness on hate-crime sentencing and parole, treating hate crimes as grave", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the parole system and its weighting toward rehabilitation", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Ali Islam", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Yes, you are correct in your assessment. Even the word “Islamophobia” is hard to define and is much harder to define than “anti-Semitism”. People are confused and wonder if not liking Islam as a theology makes one an Islamophobe. That's not true. The word is difficult to define. I think it would be clearer if we used the words “anti-Muslim hatred” when it's a more appropriate term to use. The maintenance of the status quo internationally has a role in Islamophobia here at home. It's done on purpose to make Muslim Canadians into an outside entity or a fifth column. That type of Islamophobia does not have an overlap with anti-Semitism. As to the people who fall into the great replacement theory in white nationalism, there's a strong overlap there in the root causes and explanations. In fact, the great replacement theory says that it's a Jewish conspiracy to have Muslim, Black or other minorities come to North America to replace the voting bloc. Tha …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 171, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ali-islam-27/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "witness on hate-crime sentencing and parole, treating hate crimes as grave", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the parole system and its weighting toward rehabilitation", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Randall Garrison", "role": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rt by expressing my condolences to the families that have lost loved ones. I thank the witnesses—and I agree with the chair—for the bravery of being here today. I know that all members of the committee will want to know of any consequences of your appearance today. I heard from one of the witnesses who appeared in our anti-Semitism study of an attempt to retaliate for their appearance at the committee, and we will be taking measures to make sure that we follow up on that. We care very much and will be very vigilant about any attempts to intimidate people who appear before our committee. Your powerful testimony today illustrates what I hoped we would achieve. When we started with the idea of studying anti-Semitism, I believed we should also study Islamophobia, not necessarily because they always go hand in hand, but because these are two of the most virulent forms of hatred presently in our society. What you have said to us today about the loss of a sense of belonging and the loss of a sense of safety is very powerful and is so …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 253, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/randall-garrison-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "names antisemitism and Islamophobia as virulent hatreds and flags witness intimidation", "trigger": "\"an attempt to retaliate\" against \"one of the witnesses who appeared in our anti-Semitism study\" for their appearance", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "an attempt to retaliate for their appearance at the committee", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Merci, madame la présidente. Merci à vous, chers témoins, d'être des nôtres ce matin. Votre témoignage est important. En ce qui me concerne, j'apprends des choses. J'en ai appris lors des réunions que nous avons tenues sur l'antisémitisme, et ce matin j'en apprends sur l'islam. Je pense que nous n'avons pas fini d'en apprendre. Je reprends les paroles que M. Islam vient de prononcer: on ne connaît peut-être pas suffisamment l'islam, la religion musulmane, et il y aurait peut-être lieu, effectivement, de mieux connaître les préceptes de cette religion. …", "… ouhaitons tous avoir un milieu de vie sécuritaire, évidemment. Nous souhaitons que nos rues soient sécuritaires et nous souhaitons que tout le monde puisse vivre la religion de son choix librement et sans persécution. Récemment, le Comité permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne s'est beaucoup penché sur l'antisémitisme. Maintenant, nous étudions la question de l'islamophobie. Monsieur Islam, est-ce qu'on devrait traiter toutes les formes de discrimination de la même façon? Pensons, par exemple, à l'islamophobie, à l'antisémitisme, au racisme, dont vous parliez à l'instant, ou à la discrimination fondée sur la couleur de la peau ou sur l'orientation sexuelle. Tout cela vient nuire au maintien d'un sain climat au Canada et au Québec. À votre avis, est-ce qu'on devrait traiter toutes ces formes de discrimination de la même façon ou est-ce qu'il y …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 235, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/rheal-fortin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "treats antisemitism as a discrimination to be addressed alongside Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Merci, madame la présidente. Comme je le disais, je remercie tous les témoins d'être des nôtres aujourd'hui. L'antisémitisme est une préoccupation importante, voire majeure, pour l'ensemble du Québec et du Canada. Personnellement, je suis bien heureux d'en apprendre davantage sur la religion islamique et la vie des musulmans au Canada. Vos témoignages vont assurément nous être utiles. Nous venons de mener une étude sur l'antisémitisme. Cela nous a permis, à tout le moins dans mon cas, d'en apprendre beaucoup sur la religion juive et sur les différents défis auxquels fait face la communauté juive au Canada. Ce matin, j'en apprends sur les défis auxquels vous faites face, pour votre part. Je trouve ces enseignements très précieux. Je vous remercie do …", "… se rendent dans des endroits publics. Mme Al‑Sabawi et quelques autres témoins nous l'ont mentionné aujourd'hui. C'est un aspect important. La question que je me pose est la suivante: devrait-on traiter de la même façon les différentes formes de discrimination et les défis qu'ils posent? Pensons à l'islamophobie, à l'antisémitisme, au racisme fondé sur la nationalité ou sur la couleur de la peau, ou à la discrimination à l'endroit des groupes LGBTQ, par exemple. Devrait-on traiter tous ces problèmes de la même façon ou devrait-on envisager des solutions différentes dans le cas de l'islamophobie, puisque les défis sont différents? Monsieur Islam …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 236, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/rheal-fortin-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls antisemitism a major concern for Quebec and Canada", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Merci, madame la présidente. Ma question s'adresse à l'étudiant M. Omer. Présentement, l'article 319 du Code criminel interdit de fomenter la haine ou de fomenter l'antisémitisme. Cependant, il existe une exception à cette interdiction. À l'alinéa 319(3)b), on dit que « nul ne peut être déclaré coupable d'une infraction » quand « il a, de bonne foi, exprimé une opinion sur un sujet religieux ou une opinion fondée sur un texte religieux auquel il croit, ou a tenté d'en établir le bien-fondé par argument ». Il est donc interdit de fomenter la haine ou l'antisémitisme, mais on peut le faire si, de bonne foi, on exprime une opinion sur un sujet religieux. On a déposé récemment un projet de loi visant à éliminer ces exceptions, pour que personne ne puisse, en aucune circonstance, fomenter la haine ou l'antisémitisme. Le fait que la personne se base sur un texte religieux importe peu. Cela devrait être tout simplement interdit. J'aimerais que vous me disiez ce que vous en pensez, en une trentaine de secondes, monsieur Omer. Ensuite, j'aimerais poser la même question à d'autres témoins."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 170, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/rheal-fortin-27/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "quotes the s.319 religious exception and backs removing it for hate and antisemitism", "trigger": "\"On a déposé récemment un projet de loi visant à éliminer ces exceptions\" — the bill to repeal the s. 319(3)(b) religious exception", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… me question. Avez-vous entendu la question, monsieur Nalir? Il semble que non, alors je vais laisser tomber. Je me tourne donc vers vous, monsieur Islam. Je m'excuse, mais il ne me reste que quelques secondes pour entendre votre opinion sur la question. L'article 319 du Code criminel interdit de fomenter la haine ou l'antisémitisme. Il existe une exception qui dit qu'on peut le faire si on se base sur un texte religieux. Nous proposons d'abolir cette exception. Qu'en pensez-vous?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/rheal-fortin-28/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "proposes abolishing the religious exception to the antisemitism/hate prohibition", "trigger": "\"L'article 319 du Code criminel ... Nous proposons d'abolir cette exception\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Sameer Zuberi", "role": "Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Pierrefonds—Dollard", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses for being here and to all members for studying this important matter. This is a very apt conversation. We're having many important conversations about anti-Semitism. Now it's Pride Month. Our government addresses all forms of discrimination, be it anti-Black or other forms that exist in society. This is an extremely important study, and I want to thank the witnesses, especially those who have gone through personal tragedy, for their strength and courage. I hope their healing proc …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 156, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/sameer-zuberi-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "frames antisemitism among discriminations the government addresses", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Shafqat Ali", "role": "Brampton Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ings of your son and daughter, I could relate that to my family. I want to ask how you feel about the court decision. I know you talked about it. You can see the government's response and our law enforcement and court's responses to that incident. Do you think we are working on improving how we tackle Islamophobia and anti-Semitism or not? What are your thoughts on that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 182, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/shafqat-ali-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "asks whether Canada is improving on tackling Islamophobia and antisemitism", "trigger": "\"I was in London after the tragedy happened\" — the attack on the Muslim family in London, Ontario, and \"the court decision\" that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ziad Aboultaif", "role": "Edmonton Manning, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Manning", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ou examined what you call the “disease”, and then you mentioned that there are many types of Islamophobia, which we realize. It could be regional. It could be ethnic. It could be religion- or sect-based. It could be any type or form. We are facing a big challenge. I know that the Muslim community is not alone. There's anti-Semitism on the rise in the country too. Dr. Islam, what is the action plan? We need a short-term plan and long-term solutions in this work in progress we are faced with. You're a community representative and you're attached to a family that went through this hardship. How do you see the solution? How can everybody work togeth …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 281, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/107/ziad-aboultaif-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 107, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "deplores lack of action and notes antisemitism also rising", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Anver M. Emon (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Islamic Legal History and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor and Canada Research Chair in Islamic Legal History and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… this category error. I believe this category error creates more room for hate and bias and for stereotypes to proliferate unchecked. The category error mistakes Islamophobia for what the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association calls anti-Palestinian racism, or APR. I fear that this committee's dual focus on Islamophobia and anti-Semitism perpetuates this erasure and exclusion. If the committee's work perpetuates the category error of mistaking APR for Islamophobia, you run the risk of developing misguided policies, for three reasons. One is that you will overestimate the scope and scale of Islamophobia in Canada and thereby create false positives. Sec …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 713, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/dr-anver-m-emon-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "legal"], "act_why": "critiques the committee's categories; antisemitism appears only as a study focus", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Jasmin Zine (Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… tear gas and tasers for attending peaceful Palestine solidarity demonstrations, arm in arm with Jewish students on their university campuses. It's been heartening to see the Shabbat dinners alongside jummah prayers at these encampments, yet the Jewish faculty network and independent Jewish voices were shut out of the anti-Semitism hearings. Surely silencing diverse Jewish voices is anti-Semitic; it is definitely anti-democratic. As I documented in my book that looked at campus culture in an age of empire, when the 9/11 generation challenged the war on terror, they faced surveillance by CSIS, the RCMP and counterterrorism units on and off campuses. Now that the 10/7 generation is protesting Israel's genocide …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 819, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/dr-jasmin-zine-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "Surely silencing diverse Jewish voices is anti-Semitic", "act_why": "charges the antisemitism hearings with silencing Jewish voices, calling that antisemitic", "trigger": "\"the massive scale of Israel's deadly violence in Gaza continues to unfold\"; \"the ongoing genocide in Gaza\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the anti-Semitism hearings — “the Jewish faculty network and independent Jewish voices were shut out”", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed", "role": "Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… e commenced to operate alongside. In “Hate Pays\", CCDH shows that social media accounts used the Israel-Gaza conflict to grow and profit [ Technical difficulty—Editor ] engaging hate content by turbocharging their follower growth, visibility and revenues. Specifically, we found that accounts that began posting hateful anti-Semitism or Islamophobia in the aftermath of the attacks on October 7 grew four times faster, on average, than before the attack. This quantified how bad actors are able to exploit conflict to grow their following, disseminate hateful messages and potentially profit from this hate. On three, the irony is, of course, that all p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 454, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/imran-ahmed-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "says the hate is taking the lives of Jews, Muslims and others", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed (Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… esearches disinformation and hate speech on social media platforms. Our research has shown time and time again that social media platforms and search engines are irresponsible managers of our digital information ecosystem, because their business models have systemic problems that affect the prevalence of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ+ and other forms of identity-based hate. No investigation of the current crisis of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia can be conducted without examination of these platforms' roles. Dealing with one form of hate alone, whether anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, fails to recognize that the systems underpinning the common problem—the rules of these platforms and the poor way in which they're enforced, and their algorithms and their platform design decisions—give advantage to hateful content. My statement and the accompanying submission is drawn from CCDH's ext …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 219, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/imran-ahmed-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "academics"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "faults platforms for spreading antisemitism and Islamophobia", "trigger": "\"CCDH's extensive research into Islamophobia and other forms of hate on social media\", summarized in the accompanying written submission", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "social media platforms and search engines are irresponsible managers of our digital information ecosystem", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… mments made regarding the issue of online hate. Of course, as you know, we're already looking into that issue, and a bill is currently being drafted. My party, the Bloc Québécois, has tabled a bill to remove the religious exceptions set out the Criminal Code. In a nutshell, the Criminal Code prohibits the promotion of antisemitism or hatred, but provides for exceptions, two of which state that, if it's based on a religious text, it can be done. I'll spare you the details, but in our opinion, it shouldn't exist. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that, Mr. Brown. Should we remove the religious exception set out in the section of the Criminal Code …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 253, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/rheal-fortin-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "rejects all forms of hatred and would remove the religious exception", "trigger": "\"My party, the Bloc Québécois, has tabled a bill to remove the religious exceptions set out the Criminal Code\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… the Institute for Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. I'm sure you have looked at the issue from a number of different angles. First, I would like to know what you think the Government of Canada could reasonably and effectively do. As you know, we have also heard from witnesses over the past few weeks about anti-Semitism. It seems to me that there are parallels between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I understand that they are not the same thing, since they are directed at two different communities, but the fact remains that they are expressions of hate. Children and teenagers are being threatened or harassed in schools, mosques and places of worship in general. I don't want to just talk about on …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 297, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/rheal-fortin-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "condemns Islamophobia and draws parallels with antisemitism as hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I am digressing, but I would briefly like to hear your opinion on the issue of anti-Semitism. Should we tackle it or not? Should we only address Islamophobia? How do you see the connection between the two?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 37, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/rheal-fortin-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks whether antisemitism should be tackled alongside Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["There's not much we can do in two minutes. Mr. Emon and Ms. Zine, my question is for both of you. Currently, certain provisions of section 319 of the Criminal Code prohibit the promotion of hatred or anti-Semitism. In two cases, the code provides what is referred to as a religious exemption. Paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) state that “no person shall be convicted of an offence … if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text”. That means that promoting hatred and anti-Semitism is prohibited under the Criminal Code, but if it is done on the basis of a religious opinion or text, there would be a reasonable defence. Briefly, what are your thoughts on that? I've finished my question and I have a minute left. Ms. Zine, can you answer in 30 seconds?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 156, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/108/rheal-fortin-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 108, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "quotes s.319 exception and questions allowing hate and antisemitism on religious grounds", "trigger": "\"certain provisions of section 319 of the Criminal Code\" — paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b), the religious exemption", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Abdallah Yousri", "role": "Imam and Executive Director, Ummah Society", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I understand that many sessions were held before about anti-Semitism, and I think that we're discussing now issues about Islamophobia. Definitely, all forms of hate should be addressed and should be banned, and we should all work together to combat all forms of hate against Muslims or other religions and cultures. This goes without saying. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 57, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/abdallah-yousri-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "says all forms of hate, against Muslims or others, should be combatted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Asif Khan", "role": "National Secretary, Public Relations, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["No. I'm not necessarily a wordsmith, but it should be anything other than a word with “Islam” or “Muslim” thrown in. When we say “anti-Semitism”, it's about being a Semite. There are others, including my family, who are Semites as well. Anti-Semitic is a term that doesn't necessarily reference hate toward the Jewish faith, and rightly so. It shouldn't be that. This particular term brings that up, and unfortunately, it's just something we can't change right now. It's a term that's used everywhere, throughout media and journalism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/asif-khan-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "argues the word antisemitism is itself imprecise and does not necessarily denote hatred of Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Husein Panju", "role": "Chair, Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… e calls and messages that included threats of violence and death, as well as graphic videos and images. This is abhorrent. Following this extensive backlash I was talking about, the university engaged retired chief justice J. Michael MacDonald to thoroughly review this letter. The justice found that the letter was not anti-Semitic; nor was it anti-Semitic to “criticize the actions and policies of the Israeli government towards Palestinians” or “apply concepts from international law, like colonialism, genocide, and occupation, in discussions of and statements about the government of Israel.” That's a direct quote from the chief justice's report."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 259, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/husein-panju-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "relays the chief justice's finding that the students' letter was not antisemitic", "trigger": "\"Numerous students from the Lincoln Alexander School of Law signed a letter of support for Palestine\" and the doxxing and death threats that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Amira Elghawaby", "role": "Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you so much, Madam Chair, for the question. First, in terms of the relationship of my office with the Office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons and I are in regular contact. Both of us are extremely seized with and saddened by the rise in hate that is impacting our communities across the country. We are constantly wondering and questioning and looking for examples within our very own communities of where people are already coming together. For …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 340, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/amira-elghawaby-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "condemns the mosque and London attacks as ideologically motivated terror", "trigger": "\"when the shooter in Quebec City entered the mosque\" and \"the London attack, the terrorist who went and rammed his truck into a family\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Amira Elghawaby (Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia)", "role": "Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, members of the committee, good day, bonjour , salaam alaikum . Thank you for this invitation to join you today on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe nation. Your study on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Canada, as well as what we can and should do about it, is not only necessary, but it is also urgent and has been for a long time. The timing of this study is notable. Just last week I was in London, Ontario, for the third annual commemoration of the brutal terrorist attack that killed four members …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 728, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/amira-elghawaby-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "condemns Islamophobic violence, citing incident data, within the antisemitism study", "trigger": "\"Just last week I was in London, Ontario, for the third annual commemoration of the brutal terrorist attack that killed four members of the Afzaal family\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… being with us this morning. I think all of your testimony is important and deserves much more time than the little time we are spending on it, unfortunately. I will have only six minutes, so please allow me to be a little strict on the time. This is not our first meeting on Islamophobia, and we've also had meetings on anti-Semitism. I feel that you have similar situations on both sides. At least, you are telling us about similar cases of discrimination, which are appalling, harmful and must absolutely be combatted. Ms. Elghawaby, could you explain to me, in 30 seconds to a minute, how you see the situation and why there are so many links between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 133, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/rheal-fortin-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls the discrimination on both sides appalling and to be combatted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or other, is not acceptable. I'm with you on that. The Criminal Code currently contains a provision, section 319, that prohibits the promotion of hatred. Paragraph 319(3)(b) states that there will be a reasonable defence if an opinion is based on a religious text. The same exception applies to anti-Semitism or hatred. In your opinion, should these exceptions be removed? If not, should there continue to be a reasonable defence if a person is accused of promoting hatred and doing so based on a religious text?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 130, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/rheal-fortin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "asks whether the religious exception for hate and antisemitism should go", "trigger": "\"section 319\" of the Criminal Code and \"Paragraph 319(3)(b)\" — the religious-text defence", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… if you say that you relied on a religious text that you believe in and that you were trying to establish the merits of. That seems inconsistent to me, but it may not seem so to you. If you don't agree with me that we need to get rid of this exception, I'd like to know why. Why do you think that promotion of hatred and anti-Semitism should be allowed if they're based on a religious text?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 328, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/rheal-fortin-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "argues promoting hatred or antisemitism should not be defensible by religious text", "trigger": "the Criminal Code exception allowing a defence to promoting hatred where the accused \"relied on a religious text\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "you responded a little late after the events of October 7, some 10 days later", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Yousri. Hatred is currently controlled or stemmed by a provision of the Criminal Code, section 319, which prohibits the promotion of hatred and anti-Semitism, among other things. However, the code also contains an exception provision, according to which a person accused of promoting hatred would have a good defence if they indicated that they expressed an opinion on a religious subject or based their opinion on a religious text they believe in. In your opinion, should this …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/109/rheal-fortin-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 109, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "asks whether the religious-text exception to the antisemitism/hate ban should be removed", "trigger": "\"a provision of the Criminal Code, section 319\" and its religious-text exception", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Kasra Aarabi", "role": "Director of IRGC Research, United Against Nuclear Iran", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… tly part of the Office of the Supreme Leader Beit-e Rahbari structure. It has had direct contact with IRGC commanders in the U.K. branch and the U.K. branch of the Islamic Students Association and has hosted eight IRGC commanders as these IRGC commanders propagated and glorified IRGC terrorism. They propagated extreme anti-Semitism and they even called on British and European Muslim students to join their apocalyptic army that will “bring an end to the life of the oppressors and occupiers, Zionists and Jews across the world”. This association has a branch in Canada. We have also seen there are entities in Canada that have been propagating IRGC-a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 152, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/114/kasra-aarabi-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 114, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "They propagated extreme anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges named Islamic Students Association / IRGC with propagating extreme anti-Semitism", "trigger": "IRGC commanders hosted by the Islamic Students Association who 'propagated extreme anti-Semitism' and called for killing 'Zionists and Jews across the world'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "Islamic Students Association of Canada; IRGC commanders", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Kasra Aarabi", "role": "Director of IRGC Research, United Against Nuclear Iran", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["The two main targets by IRGC terrorism across the world are the Iranian diaspora community and the Jewish community. The IRGC is the most anti-Semitic organization in the world. A big part of its focus is targeting the Jewish community abroad. In the U.K., the IRGC has carried out surveillance, identifying Jewish targets. It has created a hit list for Jewish community members. Similarly, in Germany, they have done the same. They have also targeted Jewish synagogues and Jewish kindergartens, as well as Iranian diaspora members. They have been pushing and trying to mainstream anti-Semitism across Europe, across North America, as well as directly conducting these terror plots and terror attacks. The majority, fortunately, have been foiled by British security authorities. They have also, as I have said, been nurturing homegrown radicalization. I think this really goes to the point. The current sanctions r …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 222, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/114/kasra-aarabi-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 114, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "They propagated extreme anti-Semitism", "act_why": "duplicate testimony charging IRGC-linked association with propagating anti-Semitism", "trigger": "IRGC commanders hosted by the Islamic Students Association who 'propagated extreme anti-Semitism' and called for killing 'Zionists and Jews across the world'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "Islamic Students Association of Canada; IRGC commanders", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Kasra Aarabi (Director of IRGC Research, United Against Nuclear Iran)", "role": "Director of IRGC Research, United Against Nuclear Iran", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… make the IRGC into a more ideologically pure and extremist force, Ayatollah Khomeini has increased indoctrination in the IRGC, which now makes up more than 50% of its training. It has also restricted its conscript intake to members of the Basij paramilitary force and has doubled down on the most extremist Islamist and anti-Semitic doctrine—namely, the apocalyptic and militaristic doctrine of Mahdism, which calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the killing of Jews worldwide to facilitate the return of the so-called messianic “Hidden Imam”. These are not just empty actions. Look at the modus operandi of the IRGC—terrorism, hostage- …", "… that of ISIS and al Qaeda. At United Against Nuclear Iran, we recently obtained and exposed videos of eight IRGC commanders being hosted online by a London-based entity called the Islamic Students Association of Britain and Europe. In their online speeches, these commanders glorified IRGC terrorism, propagated extreme anti-Semitism, and even called on British Muslim students to join their apocalyptic army that will eradicate “the lives of Jews everywhere in the world”. This student body also has branches in Canada. Indeed, in 2023 an IRGC-affiliated propaganda anthem, Salute Commander , designed to radicalize children, was recorded on Canadian s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 781, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/114/kasra-aarabi-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 114, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "has doubled down on the most extremist Islamist and anti-Semitic doctrine", "act_why": "charges the IRGC by name with anti-Semitic indoctrination and calls to kill Jews", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'In the past 72 hours, we at United Against Nuclear Iran have identified an individual at a rally in Toronto, dressed in IRGC attire, threatening IRGC-inspired ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "the IRGC and the Iranian regime; the Islamic Students Association of Britain and Europe", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["That leads me, then, to a question that Mr. Mendicino brought up and that Monsieur Fortin then brought up, which is how we're dealing with anti-Semitic hate in this country, and other forms of hate such as Islamophobia. I want to refer you to recent statements made by Adil Charkaoui. Mr. Charkaoui, in Montreal, on October 28 of last year, made a speech in Arabic, in which he said, “Allah, take care of these Zionist aggressors. Allah, take care of the enemies of the p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 188, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "The Quebec prosecution service, the DPCP, determined that there wasn't sufficient evidence to reveal the commission of a criminal offence", "act_why": "names Adil Charkaoui and his exterminationist speech as the anti-Semitic hate at issue", "trigger": "'Mr. Charkaoui, in Montreal, on October 28 of last year, made a speech in Arabic, in which he said, “Allah, take care of these Zionist aggressors... then exterm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Adil Charkaoui", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["In my brief remaining time, this committee recently concluded or is in the process of concluding and drafting a study to combat anti-Semitism. A number of Jewish Canadians came forward and expressed concerns about the absence of the prosecution of anti-Semitic hate crime. Are you committed to ensuring that prosecutors have the training that is necessary and to removing any unnecessary barriers to ensure the prosecution of anti-Semitic hate crime and hate crime generally to protect communities?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 77, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/marco-mendicino-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "concern about unprosecuted anti-Semitic hate crime, no party charged", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. George Dolhai", "role": "Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s are now available in the Criminal Code to deal with terrorism offences, especially those in which hatred is incited to carry out the act of terrorism. A number of prosecutions are under way in cases where a key element is the use of the Internet to create a climate of hate, especially in relation to Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. The Criminal Code already allows the PPSC to tackle that problem, which is much more serious now, right across the country. A recent prosecution that comes to mind is the case in London, Ontario, involving the attack on the Afzaal family."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/george-dolhai-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "witness treats the climate of anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate as a worsening problem", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rachel Blaney", "role": "North Island—Powell River, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "North Island—Powell River", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. Mr. Dolhai, I want to congratulate you on your nomination. I heard a lot of what you were saying earlier in response to some of the members who have already asked questions. The committee is currently concluding its study on the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Canada. We all know that the outcomes have been incredibly painful. Can you please comment on the low levels of successful prosecutions for hate crimes? Is this a problem with the laws Canada currently has, or are there other causes impeding successful prosecutions?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 93, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/rachel-blaney-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "question about painful rise of anti-Semitism and failed prosecutions", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for being with us this morning, Mr. Dolhai. I'm going to pick up where Mr. Mendicino left off. In recent weeks, the committee has indeed heard from people on the issue of anti-Semitism in Canada. We then heard from people on the issue of Islamophobia. Had we wanted to keep studying those issues, we would have heard about all manner of situations fuelled by hate. It's something we have to deal with. Just this week, the RCMP reported an increase in hate crimes in Canada yet again and questioned whethe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/rheal-fortin-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "rising hate crimes described as a crisis needing tools, no target named", "trigger": "'Just this week, the RCMP reported an increase in hate crimes in Canada yet again and questioned whether it had all the tools the crisis demands'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-13", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Currently, section 319 of the Criminal Code prohibits the promotion of hate and anti-Semitism but includes an exemption. It is a reasonable defence if the opinion of the person accused of either of those offences is based on a religious text. I'm paraphrasing. Do you have an opinion on that? The Criminal Code contains a provision that allows hate crimes if the person's opinion is based on a religious text or s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 82, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/110/rheal-fortin-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "question about the religious-text defence to promoting hate and anti-Semitism", "trigger": "'section 319 of the Criminal Code prohibits the promotion of hate and anti-Semitism but includes an exemption... if the person's opinion is based on a religious", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-09-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Accounts", "passages": ["Canadians want answers as to why the government saw fit to hire an anti-Semite and did not do any appropriate background checks. Canadians want to know how much taxpayer money went to this Mr. Dattani while he was on leave. He resigned in disgrace. Most people, when they resign, do not receive a severance package or a compensation package. I understand that, in this case, the Government of Canad …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 108, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-accounts/44-1/137/larry-brock-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Accounts", "committee_slug": "public-accounts", "meeting": 137, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "why the government saw fit to hire an anti-Semite and did not do any appropriate background checks", "act_why": "charges the government with hiring an anti-Semite without vetting", "trigger": "'the government saw fit to hire an anti-Semite and did not do any appropriate background checks... [Mr. Dattani] resigned in disgrace'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the government, which saw fit to hire an anti-Semite; Mr. Dattani", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-09-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Stephen Saideman", "role": "Paterson Chair in International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "National Defence", "passages": ["… l and they find Putin to be a model. They want to have an authoritarian regime that's far right. They're anti-democratic. Viktor Orbán has been at the forefront of this. Hungary has led the movement on democratic backsliding. He's been fond of talking about illiberal democracy. He's been very fond of using homophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred to mobilize support for his regime and to undermine his opponents and to do that in the neighbourhood as well. That playbook has been imitated by far-right politicians in Europe and North America. It's not an accident these days that trans people are demonized. It's not an accident that anti-Semitism is rising. It's not an accident that Islamophobia is rising. All these things travel together. Putin's ideology is very similar to the ideology by the far-right political movements in the United States, Canada and Europe."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 208, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/44-1/113/dr-stephen-saideman-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "National Defence", "committee_slug": "national-defence", "meeting": 113, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "He's been very fond of using homophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred to mobilize support for his regime", "act_why": "charges Orban and the far right with using anti-Semitism to mobilize support", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Russian government, Viktor Orban and far-right movements", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-09-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Miller", "role": "Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I'd say, speaking very generally, it's probably a bit of both. We shouldn't think that radicalization doesn't occur in Canada. Terrorist networks and criminality networks work together. They use these as tools to perpetrate horrible crimes on innocent people. We've seen increased hate—anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate, particularly in the current context—and that does impact behaviour, sometimes of younger cohorts of the population as well, as we've seen in some other apprehensions. To answer your question quite succinctly, it's a bit of both."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 82, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/118/marc-miller-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 118, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "minister notes increased anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate driving radicalization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-09-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rob Oliphant", "role": "Don Valley West, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… re not all of the same opinion. What better place than Parliament and, most specifically, this committee, to have that discussion on the recognition of the state of Palestine? It goes without saying that we hold in our hearts and in our minds the people of Israel who have, for generations, for millennia, faced hatred, anti-Semitism and horrendous loss of life. Israel is their homeland, safe haven and a place that we need to defend and protect. There's no question about it, but people take up space. What I learned on my very first trip to Israel was that people take up space. We have two peoples living on a small piece of land, and we need to fin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1264, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/115/rob-oliphant-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["Israel relations", "foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "recalls millennia of hatred and anti-Semitism faced by Jews, no party charged", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "'I will speak to the amendment, but since I haven't had a chance to speak to the motion' — the committee motion on recognition of the state of Palestine", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Francesco Sorbara", "role": "Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vaughan—Woodbridge", "province": "ON", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… he opportunity to visit Yad Vashem. One of the things that struck me is the level of disinformation and misinformation—folks not believing that the events of the Holocaust actually happened. It's especially younger folks, if I can say that. It's what the data brings out. It is scary. What is also scary is the level of anti-Semitism we are seeing here in Canada. Jewish Canadians do not deserve that in any manner. I come from the city of Vaughan. We have a very vibrant Jewish community, among many others. I think over 120 languages are spoken in the city I live in—one of the ridings I get to represent. My first question to B'nai Brith is with regard to the anti-racism strategy and countering the disinformation and anti-Semitism we're seeing. What are the most effective tools the government can provide?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 211, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/francesco-sorbara-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "alarm at levels of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in Canada", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["… ederal grant programs and that you want to ensure that those projects will align with the Canadian anti-racism strategy, “Changing Systems, Transforming Lives”. In the commentary around that recommendation, you specifically note the Laith Marouf scandal, which was a terrible scandal where someone who clearly expressed anti-Semitic and hateful views towards Jews received federal money. When I read this, it reminded me of another scandal that unfolded over the summer, which was the appointment back in May or June by Minister Virani of Mr. Dattani to head the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Mr. Dattani was appointed and then resigned, and it was …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 247, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/marty-morantz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "highlights critical flaws in the Government's process for vetting candidates", "act_why": "names Marouf funding and the Dattani appointment as government anti-Semitism failures", "trigger": "'the Laith Marouf scandal, which was a terrible scandal where someone who clearly expressed anti-Semitic and hateful views towards Jews received federal money';", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Laith Marouf scandal; the appointment ... by Minister Virani of Mr. Dattani", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["Thank you. On to another topic, I know that B'nai Brith put out a statement back in the spring that they were very concerned that the federal government had chosen to reinstate funding for UNRWA. The record of UNRWA is pretty clear. For years we've known that they have anti-Semitic school materials, where they teach children to hate Israel and to hate Jews. They show them maps without Israel even being on the map. Those reports were put forward by IMPACT-se and have been widely reviewed. Then revelations came out about employees of UNRWA who participated in the October 7 massacres. Most recently …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 169, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/marty-morantz-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["funding", "foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "opposes", "charge_quote": "the federal government had chosen to reinstate funding for UNRWA", "act_why": "charges UNRWA by name with anti-Semitic school materials", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "'in the counterattack of Israel in Lebanon, a fellow named Fatah Sharif Abu al Amin, a senior Hamas leader in Lebanon, was killed, but the revelation came out t", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "UNRWA", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["Absolutely. The implementation of Canada's anti-racism strategy is absolutely critical to fighting all forms of racism and hatred in Canada, including anti-Semitism. Whether we're applying the anti-racism strategy towards our federal granting apparatuses or whether we're applying it towards federal appointments, these are measures that should be adopted and in place to ensure that, in all government action, a whole-of-government approach to the implementation of the anti-racism s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 119, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/richard-robertson-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "witness urges anti-racism strategy be applied to fight anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["I would like to point to the second recommendation in our submission, which is our strategy for an IHRA literacy program. Canada adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in 2019. It is part of our anti-racism strategy, which was renewed in 2024 for another four-year period. However, there is a disconnect between the government strategy and its implementation. As a result, we aren't seeing enough familiarity with the strategy and the definition among the general public. That's leading to the growing figures as they relate to Holocaust denialism and disinformation. By ensuring the next generation of Canadians—that's why we specifically want to target secondary and post-secondary students—is familiar with and understands the IHRA definition and what really constitutes contemporary anti-Semitism, we can begin to reduce some of those alarming figures you alluded to. The IHRA has a working definition. It's a guide. It has examples. If you don't understand the examples or are not using the guide, and if the guide isn't made expressly available to all Canadians, we're not properly implementing the definition."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 174, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/richard-robertson-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "act_why": "duplicate answer urging anti-racism strategy against anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-01", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson (Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm here on behalf of B'nai Brith Canada, which is Canada's most senior human rights organization and the voice of Canada's grassroots Jewish community. Our organization, which was established in 1875, is dedicated to eradicating anti-Semitism and hatred in all of its forms and championing the rights of the marginalized. B'nai Brith's submission to this honourable committee comes at a time of immense uncertainty for Canada's Jewish community. Over the past year, Canadian Jewry have been left feeling progressively more vulnerable and marginalized. The present responses to the increasing hate and incitement have failed to stem the rising levels of anti-Semitism and growing number of threats facing Jewish Canadians. The upcoming federal budget presents an ideal opportunity for the federal government to devote additional resources towards combatting this worsening predicament. The purpose of B'nai Brith's submission is to aid the committee in ensuring its final report contains …", "… e that federal funds are granted to projects that align with Canada's anti-racism strategy. Our second recommendation is that the Government of Canada dedicate funding to develop a five-year program to enhance the nation's literacy in relation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of anti-Semitism, particularly amongst Canadian secondary and post-secondary students. This recommendation comes at a time when, in its audit of anti-Semitic incidents, my organization noted an over 109% rise in incidents of anti-Semitism from 2022 to 2024, and when, according to a recent Leger poll conducted this summer, “Canadians between the ages of 25 and 34 were most likely (31 per cent) to doubt the official death toll of the Holocaust, followed by 27 per cent for those between the ages of 18 and 24.” The recommendation would complement the upcoming release of the special envoy's IHRA handbook. It would also ensure that young Canadians are aware of what constitutes contemporary anti-Semitism by educating them on the examples the IHRA has provided as a guide. Enhanced IHRA literacy would also help to combat the increasing levels of misinformation surrounding the Holocaust. Our third recommendation is that the Government of Canada make new investments to support and strengthen Canada's ability to monitor an …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 603, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/155/richard-robertson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 155, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["funding", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "act_why": "B'nai Brith opening statement on rising anti-Semitism and budget recommendations", "trigger": "'in its audit of anti-Semitic incidents, my organization noted an over 109% rise in incidents of anti-Semitism from 2022 to 2024'; and 'a recent Leger poll cond", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-08", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Heidi Tworek (Professor, History and Public Policy, University of British Columbia, As an Individual)", "role": "Professor, History and Public Policy, University of British Columbia, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… dio to influence global politics from 1900 to 1945. Germans wanted to interfere in foreign information environments because they felt boxed in politically and economically. Losing World War I accelerated those feelings. This obviously did not end well. The Nazis built on decades of experimentation to spread racist and anti-Semitic content, ending in a world war of words as well as weapons. Without getting into more historical weeds, this shows that analyzing international relations actually helps to predict potential foreign disinformation campaigns. This phenomenon will not disappear, but will wax and wane, so we need systemic interventions to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 699, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/132/dr-heidi-tworek-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 132, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "historical account of Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda, disapproving, no contemporary target", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "The Nazis built on decades of experimentation to spread racist and anti-Semitic content", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Jennifer O'Connell", "role": "Pickering—Uxbridge, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Pickering--Uxbridge", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Through you to the minister, thank you for being here today. Mr. Jivani spoke about what's on Twitter, so let's talk about a few things that are also on Twitter. We've talked a lot here, from all colleagues, about the increasing rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Certainly Holocaust denialism is something I have never seen before like this. When members of the Conservative Party dine with German politicians who actually, within their party, believe the Holocaust was a hoax.... I wonder if Conservatives, who care a lot about what happens on Twitter, posting and amplifying hateful rhetoric toward the Jewish community and still sit in the front row of Conservative benches.... There has been no retribution or reprimand for promoting people who share hateful Holocaust denialism. I wonder if you think that is helpful in the reduction of the anti-Semitic hate we're seeing in this country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 150, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/jennifer-oconnell-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "There has been no retribution or reprimand for promoting people who share hateful Holocaust denialism.", "act_why": "charges Conservative members with promoting Holocaust denialism and anti-Semitic rhetoric", "trigger": "'members of the Conservative Party dine with German politicians who actually, within their party, believe the Holocaust was a hoax'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "members of the Conservative Party dine with German politicians who ... believe the Holocaust was a hoax", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… , and these proportions rise to 50% among indigenous people and to 78% among racialized people. We also know that the rise in hate incidents disproportionately affects indigenous people, Black and racialized people. At the same time, Jewish and Muslim Canadians are also disproportionately being impacted by the rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Whether it is online or in our streets, hateful words and actions have a devastating impact on our communities and our country. Whether it is places of worship being attacked, communities being divided or losing loved ones, we have seen first-hand what hate and racism can do. When we look at the pain …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 731, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "minister's statement on the rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and the anti-hate plan", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I absolutely condemn such acts of anti-Semitism and acts of hate that we have seen across this country. They need to stop—full stop. We condemn them in the strongest terms possible. We're working really closely with our colleagues at Public Safety. The local jurisdictions are very much engaged on this issue. As I mentioned, we have been very proactive in the work we have been doing. Also, as I mentioned, we have put forward Canada's first ever action plan on combatting hate. This came out of the work we have been doing with community members and working alongside stakeholders. This came out of the two summits our government held on combatting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. This came out of the work my colleague Minister Ien has been doing for the action plan for the 2SLGBTQ community. The $275 million that we're putting forward is to support communities on the ground in preventing hate. We're enhancing the Canada community security program, which helps communities on t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 168, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["funding", "security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "explicitly condemns such acts of anti-Semitism in the strongest terms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I think we all recognize that it's been a difficult time, particularly as we navigate the challenging times with communities across this country. The conversations I have had with the Jewish community members and the rise in anti-Semitism that we have seen across this country are troubling. The rise in Islamophobia that we have seen across this country is troubling, and we need to make sure that we support communities on the ground. That's work we're leading across government. It's why we've been working at putting forward strategies and making tangibl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 207, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "describes the rise in anti-Semitism as troubling and lists government work", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… e never had a strategy. We put it forward in 2017, alongside community members, because we knew we needed to do this work. We then extensively met with community members across this country to talk about what more we can do to support communities. This came out of the two summits that our government held on combatting anti-Semitism and, of course, Islamophobia. We are obviously going to continue to listen to Canadians from all different backgrounds because we need to make sure that this is a policy that all Canadians can see themselves in. This is meant for every Canadian, including Palestinian Canadians."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 153, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "defends the strategy, citing the summits on combatting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["That is incorrect. I think we all recognize that there have been challenging times, but to imply that there's more anti-Semitism because of one individual or one party is, quite frankly, shameful."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-36/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects as shameful the suggestion that one party is responsible for more anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'd like to thank my honourable colleague for his question and for always being very pragmatic and always bringing people together. It's something I think we all fundamentally believe in, and we are lucky to have such members in our caucus. When you talk about the work that we're doing to combat anti-Semitism in this country, you're absolutely right. We as a government have been very deliberate about making that choice to invest in Canadians by listening to Canadians. On some of the funding that you talked about, the Conservatives voted against it, which is shameful. This came from the recommendations on the summits that we held on combatting anti-Semitism. This came from the communities that said they needed to have support, and they voted against it. You're absolutely right. Millions of dollars for the first ever special envoy, Deborah Lyons, to fight anti-Semitism and to preserve Holocaust education. We made sure that this position exists within the Government of Canada because we know how much it matters. There was $25 million for a new Montreal Holocaust museum, which you alluded to, that they voted against. There was $5 million for the first ever national Holocaust remembran …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 335, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kamal-khera-37/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "partisan fight over anti-Semitism funding votes, not a charge of anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Conservatives voted against it, which is shameful", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kevin Waugh", "role": "Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Grasswood", "province": "SK", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. Thank you to the department officials and the minister. According to Canada's new anti-racism strategy, the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism has both an “international” and a “domestic” role. You may be aware, Minister, that I had the original PMB, Bill C-250 . It proposed massive penalties for the promotion of anti-Semitism, but in the wisdom of your government, you decided to take my bill.... Bill C‑250 had teeth. It was strong. You have weakened this bill. When I look at what your government has done and not done compared to what my bill would have done, it's night and day. I'm a little concerned when you start taking bills at budget t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 164, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kevin-waugh-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "complains the government weakened his bill's penalties for promoting anti-Semitism", "trigger": "'I had the original PMB, Bill C-250. It proposed massive penalties for the promotion of anti-Semitism... You have weakened this bill'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "your government ... You have weakened this bill", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kevin Waugh", "role": "Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Grasswood", "province": "SK", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["It was a great bill. Why didn't you follow up on some of the consequences that I had on hate speech, on anti-Semitism or on Holocaust denial? We have more anti-Semitism because of your Liberal government today than we did when I brought in the bill a year and a half ago."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/kevin-waugh-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "We have more anti-Semitism because of your Liberal government today than we did when I brought in the bill a year and a half ago.", "act_why": "says there is more anti-Semitism because of the Liberal government", "trigger": "Bill C-250: 'Why didn't you follow up on some of the consequences that I had on hate speech, on anti-Semitism or on Holocaust denial?'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "We have more anti-Semitism because of your Liberal government today", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ity, belonging and rights in relation to occupied and historic Palestine; erasing the human rights and equal dignity and worth of Palestinians; excluding or pressuring others to exclude Palestinian perspectives, Palestinians and their allies; defaming Palestinians and their allies with slander such as being inherently antisemitic, a terrorist threat/sympathizer or opposed to democratic values. Why do you take issue with the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association's definition of anti-Palestinian racism? Why wasn't their voice and their work—which is cutting edge on this front—included as part of your anti-racism strategy?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 173, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/niki-ashton-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "act_why": "reads the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association definition into the record", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Niki Ashton", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… our, that we have a real problem in Canada with the rise of the far right. We have seen an explosion of hate crimes in our country targeting minority communities. We have seen hate crimes targeted at the Chinese community and Asian Canadians. We have seen hate crimes against the Jewish community—horrifying examples of anti-Semitism. We've seen clear, disturbing acts of Islamophobia. Of course, I talked about the ongoing reality of anti-Palestinian racism, which, unfortunately, the Liberals are not taking seriously, either. What's clear to me is that we need to be taking on the rise of the far right in the clearest of terms. That means condemning …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 531, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/131/niki-ashton-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 131, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "then turned around and failed to condemn the organization", "act_why": "charges the opposition leader with legitimizing the far right behind anti-Semitic hate crimes", "trigger": "'a meeting of the leader of the official opposition that took place at the end of April, when he stopped at... a convoy-style protest... he also met with people", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the leader of the official opposition ... met with individuals who espouse vile, racist, bigoted and far right views", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael Barrett", "role": "Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Leeds--Grenville--Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes", "province": "ON", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["We've heard reports of hostile foreign entities and foreign regimes that have been funding violence, like the pro-Hamas, pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations that we've been seeing on Canadian streets, without any consequences. This is as a result of a failure by the government to actually designate these groups as what they are. Samidoun is one; they enjoy non-profit status currently in Canada. The Houthis in Canada are legally allowed to fundraise, recruit …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 198, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/133/michael-barrett-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 133, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law", "border"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "This is as a result of a failure by the government to actually designate these groups as what they are.", "act_why": "names Samidoun and the Houthis behind anti-Semitic demonstrations the government failed to ban", "trigger": "'the pro-Hamas, pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations that we've been seeing on Canadian streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "hostile foreign entities and foreign regimes that have been funding ... the pro-Hamas, pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Raquel Dancho", "role": "Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kildonan—St. Paul", "province": "MB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… y serve as an “international network which disseminates anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda” and “supported and glorified various foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas”; Samidoun's leadership was deported from Germany in 2019 and denied entry to the European Union in 2022; Samidoun demonstrations promote Jew hatred and pro-terrorism messages that encourage anti-Semitic threats and violence in Canada. And given that: Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, is a Yemen-based terror proxy of Iran that, since the October 7 terror attacks, has disregarded international law by launching attacks on innocent civilians and merchant vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden; That our closest …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 364, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/123/raquel-dancho-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 123, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "border"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "Samidoun demonstrations promote Jew hatred and pro-terrorism messages that encourage anti-Semitic threats and violence in Canada", "act_why": "motion text charging Samidoun with promoting Jew hatred, citing the German government", "trigger": "'Samidoun hosted a protest in Vancouver in which a speaker told the crowd, “We are Hezbollah, and we are Hamas,” and chanted “Death to Canada! Death to the Unit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Samidoun is a proxy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Samidoun demonstrations promote Jew hatred", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-10-24", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["Je ne peux comprendre la méthodologie du rapport qu'à partir de ce qui y est décrit comme étant sa méthodologie. Il y est dit: « Le 13 novembre 2023, TikTok a publié une lettre pour se défendre contre les accusations de partialité anti-israélienne et anti-juive » — c'est un point sur lequel j'ai eu des conversations avec TikTok, et je reconnais que TikTok fait de son mieux pour y faire face. Il y est dit ensuite: « TikTok compare copieusement les mots-clics relatifs entre sa plateforme et Instagram pour étayer son argumentation. Nous avons reproduit la méthodologie de TikTok …"], "terms": ["antijuif"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 136, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/135/anthony-housefather-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 135, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "academics"], "act_why": "reads out a report's wording about anti-Jewish bias accusations against TikTok", "trigger": "the report whose methodology he is quoting: \"Le 13 novembre 2023, TikTok a publie une lettre pour se defendre contre les accusations de partialite anti-israelie", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-30", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Yipeng Ge (Family Doctor, As an Individual)", "role": "Family Doctor, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ves of Palestinians and their allies, a practice that has been advised against by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. This is a freedom of expression issue. Last year around this time, a family doctor and faculty member shared my social media posts and publicly mischaracterized them as anti-Semitic and inflammatory and sent them to the university and the Canadian Medical Association. He was someone who was neither a patient nor a direct colleague or supervisor of mine. My social media posts were from my personal accounts, and in no way was I trying to speak from any of my places of employment or affiliation. These posts were criticized as being inflammatory, racist and anti-Semitic simply because they advocated for Palestinians having the same human rights as everyone else, aligning with international law. I met with senior leadership of the Canadian Medical Association, and my social media posts were criticized. I was pressured to put together a public apology and provide personal one-on-one ap …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 979, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/135/dr-yipeng-ge-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 135, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "witness says his posts were mischaracterized as anti-Semitic", "trigger": "\"I received a phone call from the university informing me of my immediate and indefinite suspension, citing a level-three breach of professionalism for my socia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-10-30", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["No, that's fine. What I want to dig into is this: What would you say to members of the Jewish community or the Muslim community who right now are seeing incredible spikes in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, which are resulting in violent physical assaults on people and institutions? The argument many of them make is that hate speech leads to these things, these types of actions. Would you agree with that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 70, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/135/taleeb-noormohamed-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 135, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "alarm at spikes in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, no named target", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Alistair MacGregor", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["My intervention will be very brief. The only people who are preventing us from concluding the anti-Semitism study right now are the Conservatives. Let's just get that very clear. We could be done right now if we just simply brought this matter to a vote. We are dealing with a timeline issue. We need to study Mr. Viersen 's bill at this committee. It's been delayed for one reason or another, but that's beside the point. We n …", "… we also need the time for clause-by-clause review of the bill before we report it back to the House. There's a very easy solution, Madam Chair. If the Conservatives stop speaking and allow us to vote on this very simple and reasonable extension, we can do two things I've heard them arguing for. We can get back to the anti-Semitism study, and we can study Mr. Viersen 's bill. The power is in their hands, Madam Chair. I'll let the public judge as to whether they're going to do that or not."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 187, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/alistair-macgregor-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural push to finish the anti-Semitism study, treats it as urgent business", "trigger": "\"We need to study Mr. Viersen's bill at this committee\" - the motion for a 30-day extension", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… for this committee to study a bill that is a Conservative bill whose sponsor has refused to appear so far. He has been invited to appear, and he hasn't come. Without extending that, the committee will not be able to properly study the bill. Then the Conservatives are continuing to talk and not allow us to move to the anti-Semitism study. It's not the Liberals, NDP or Bloc who are talking. It's Conservatives who are refusing to vote to extend their own private member's bill for 30 days for the committee to study. It makes no sense. The anti-Semitism study was my motion. We strongly support it. We all want to get to the anti-Semitism study. I just want to note, in response to my friend, Mr. Brock, that I am not an Israeli. I am a Jewish Canadian. There is a very big difference between being a Jewish Canadian and being an Israeli. I strongly support the State of Israel, but I'm not an Israeli. I just want everybody to use the right lexicon. However, I appreciate my friends on the Conservative side. We've worked really well together so far on this anti-Semitism study. Let's go to the study. I think we all want to do that. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 248, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/anthony-housefather-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "states strong support for the anti-Semitism study he moved", "trigger": "\"Monday is the last day to extend the ability for this committee to study a bill that is a Conservative bill\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I have a point of order, Madam Chair. Not only have I sat in the meetings, but I have also been sitting in on the report, which that member has not been doing. We're waiting to do that report. We're all here to do that report. It's you guys who are filibustering and stopping us from dealing with the anti-Semitism report. You should be ashamed."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 65, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/anthony-housefather-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "procedural complaint about being blocked from the anti-Semitism report", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "James Maloney", "role": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, we can get back to the order of things that we're discussing, including the study on anti-Semitism, within minutes if we pass this motion. We have clear agreement from the other side that they want Mr. Viersen to be here. We're simply allowing for an extension of time to accommodate what obviously is a very busy schedule. We don't need to debate this motion. It's a yes or no. We can get on with it and get back to t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 118, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/james-maloney-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "procedural call to return to the study on anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"We're simply allowing for an extension of time\" - the motion to extend study of Mr. Viersen's bill", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "James Maloney", "role": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["—and ask them how well James Maloney responds to direction. I'll leave that there. Let's be clear here, on the other side what I'm hearing is we want to deal with the anti-Semitism study and get it behind us, and we want to deal with Bill C-270 . We could have been finished the anti-Semitism report about half an hour ago if they had just voted yes to the motion, which is to do the second part of what they say they want to do. I don't know whether it's hypocritical or ironic or both. It's absurd, what I'm hearing from the other side. What I heard from Mr. Brock was that the person who introduced this priva …", "… sume means his own name isn't on it. As for the contents of my tweet, I did not raise this issue. Mr. Viersen did. This is not a break-the-glass scenario, Mr. Brock. The issue is in the public and being discussed because Mr. Viersen raised it. Full stop. If you guys are serious over there and you want to deal with the anti-Semitism issue and you want to deal with this report, there's a really simple way to do it: Vote yes to my motion, and we can use the remainder of the time we have today to deal with it. For the record, I'm prepared to come back here after question period and listen to you talk all afternoon if your intention is to just delay …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 289, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/james-maloney-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural insistence on completing the anti-Semitism report", "trigger": "\"we want to deal with Bill C-270\" and the motion to extend time to study it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "James Maloney", "role": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke—Lakeshore", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… back to the issue about Mr. Viersen 's apparent refusal to come here. We can debate the merits and why he doesn't want to do that. If they are so interested in getting to the study and doing it, they should end the debate now and vote yes. Then we can get back to the topic that we should be talking about, which is the anti-Semitism study."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 114, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/james-maloney-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural call to get back to the anti-Semitism study", "trigger": "\"the very simple point of this motion is to get an extension of time\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Jamil Jivani", "role": "Durham, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Since we've confirmed that an invitation to Mr. Viersen has been resent, can we not wait for him to respond to that invitation, and can we move forward on the anti-Semitism study? Is that not an option for the committee? The clerk is confirming that it's being resent. Can't—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 53, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/jamil-jivani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks the committee to move forward on the anti-Semitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'll just correct you, so that you don't think that we're actually doing an “anti-Semitic” study. I just wanted to correct that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 22, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/julie-dabrusin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "corrects the title of the study, takes no position on the term", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Julie Dabrusin", "role": "Toronto—Danforth, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto—Danforth", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… Madam Chair, whether you're feeling all the feelings that are being spoken to. I personally love that Mr. Brock feels he's waxing poetic about how wonderful I am. That's great. However, I believe we have something we should be studying right now. I think studying how the diaspora here in Canada is dealing with rising anti-Semitism is extremely important. With that in mind, can we move to the vote or extend the time so we can hear from the Conservative member, Mr. Viersen , on his private member's bill, and then continue on?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 111, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/julie-dabrusin-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls studying rising anti-Semitism extremely important", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["No, this is a dilatory motion. I move that we move to the order of business of the day, which is to return to the anti-Semitic study. That is the primary purpose—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/larry-brock-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "dilatory motion to return to the anti-Semitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I have the floor, Ms. Dabrusin. Thank you for the interruptions. My understanding is that this is a dilatory motion. The clerk is acknowledging in the affirmative that it is, and I wish to move on to the anti-Semitic study."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 40, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/larry-brock-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural insistence on moving to the anti-Semitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… reak glass.” I too want to get to the point where we're studying this, but I'm also deeply, deeply disappointed in Ms. Dabrusin, Mr. Mendicino and Mr. Housefather, all three of whom, again, I have a great deal of respect for. These individuals, Madam Chair, were hand-picked by Justin Trudeau and the PMO to sit on this anti-Semitism study."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 316, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/larry-brock-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "partisan attack over the delay, treats the anti-Semitism study as the priority", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… Israeli, but you obviously care about human rights, and you care about the nation. Israel, the nation of Israel, is a proud ally of Canada and continues to be a proud ally of Canada, and I applaud you for your efforts, sir, but I find it so disappointing to see that all three of you, who didn't want to go back to the anti-Semitism study, voted in favour of Mr. Maloney to distract from the agenda that we had in our notice of meeting to get to the point of hopefully finalizing the final version, known as version number four, which our great analysts spent incredible time, very productive time, putting together. It was deeply disappointing to me a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 310, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/larry-brock-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "faults members for voting away from a study he calls important to the nation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["For the purpose of trying to suggest dates here for you with the clerk, I will say that my hope is that the anti-Semitism draft is completed today. We will then have one more meeting to complete the report on Islamophobia. After that, we are open for new items. At the moment, we have no other items that take precedence over this private member's bill, Bill C-270 . The question is.... We would like him to appear, probably, a week from tod …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/the-chair-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["It's “anti-Semitism”. That's what they're trying to.... Yes, we will move on to that. Let me just clear up the record. The clerk will send another invitation to Mr. Viersen to appear. As you all know, and just as a reminder, an invitation had already been sent previously for him to appear, but we will send another one again today. Now, I …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 73, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/the-chair-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Let me get back to you on that. I have a long list, but as I said, I've requested to see if we have.... Because the anti-Semitism report is almost done, I really would like to get back to it and move.... However, I have a speaking list, and I'll just read you the names for everybody: Housefather, Maloney, MacGregor, Dabrusin, Ferreri and Lantsman. Mr. Housefather, the floor is yours."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 70, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/the-chair-58/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. We have services until 45 past, meaning 15 minutes before question period today, if that is the will of the committee. I really would like to finish the anti-Semitism report, because it's done. There's just finishing it up. I leave that to the members. I'm simply the chair. I now go to Mr. MacGregor."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 56, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/the-chair-60/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Lena Metlege Diab", "role": "Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Halifax West", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I call the meeting back to order. All right, folks. Let's get back. It's 12:58. On Monday, if it's not concluded now, we will be doing the anti-Semitism report in camera. That's for notice, so that everybody knows. With respect to what has been brought out now, it appears that it cannot be moved in the way that it has been."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 61, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/the-chair-81/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Like many other people, I'm sitting in my office wondering when this study on anti-Semitism will come forward. Supposedly, this committee was going to look at the report today. It's a study that I sat in on for multiple meetings. It's a study many Canadians came to this committee to talk about. Since that study on anti-Semitism, we've seen gunshots at schools in this country. We've seen the firebombing of businesses. We've seen Stats Canada reports saying that 70% of the hate crimes in this country are targeted at less than 2% of the population. Right now, what people watching at home see is that—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 109, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "recites shootings, firebombings and hate-crime share with evident alarm", "trigger": "\"Stats Canada reports saying that 70% of the hate crimes in this country are targeted at less than 2% of the population\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, I'm going to respond to her. Are you seriously interrupting a conversation about the anti-Semitism study you're supposed to be having in committee to call relevance on it? That is worse than this government's inaction on anti-Semitism. Are you actually serious?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 43, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "That is worse than this government's inaction on anti-Semitism.", "act_why": "charges the government with inaction on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "this government's inaction on anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["You can watch this online, and that's what I was doing in my office. That's why I came here to speak about this. I was expecting the committee to study an anti-Semitism report, just like everybody else who is watching this committee today—just like the witnesses who came here to testify, and just like the members opposite, who are pretending they want, for once, to take anti-Semitism seriously in this country. Seventy per cent of the hate crimes in this country—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 81, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "cites the 70% hate-crime share while demanding the study proceed", "trigger": "\"Seventy per cent of the hate crimes in this country\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the members opposite, who are pretending they want, for once, to take anti-Semitism seriously in this country", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… m Chair. I know that you may not like the facts of the matter, but that doesn't mean that you can censure a member and in any way ask a member of the House of Commons to leave a committee. I think that's out of line, and I'm going to put that on the record. All of that is to say that we were going to get to a study on anti-Semitism in which members of this committee heard from witnesses from across the country, and I'll make my point again, because I was interrupted a number of times. Since that study, we have only seen this issue get worse in this country, so it is astounding to me that members of this committee who were part of that study and …", "… has gotten worse in this country, because it has. All you have to do is look at the encampments on university campuses, the shootings in cities and the violence in the streets, but since the committee doesn't want to get there, I have a motion to prove to everybody at home that this committee is blocking the study of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 239, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "points to encampments, shootings and street violence as a worsening problem", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "this committee is blocking the study of anti-Semitism; the encampments on university campuses", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I will then ask for unanimous consent to move that the committee proceed to the consideration of the draft report on anti-Semitism and additional measures that could be taken to address the valid fears that are being expressed by Canada's Jewish community and ones that have been expressed by Canada's Jewish community since that. I'll ask for unanimous consent to move this motion to show everybody at home that this party is not serious about this …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 86, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "moves to consider the report and calls the Jewish community's fears valid", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "this party is not serious about this issue and ... this government hasn't taken this issue seriously", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Madam Chair, in order to get to the anti-Semitism study that we were supposed to get to today as a committee, I'm going to move to adjourn debate."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 28, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/melissa-lantsman-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "act_why": "procedural motion aimed at reaching the anti-Semitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michelle Ferreri", "role": "Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Peterborough--Kawartha", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ng for the resignation of the Prime Minister . The tie-in to this, when we're talking about this motion, is that there is a lack of accountability and there is deflection across all fronts. That comes from the top down. That is what we see repeatedly, over and over again. I want to point out that when we're looking at anti-Semitism, I look at Mr. Housefather, who has stood up as a Liberal MP, trying to fight against a caucus that has blatantly insulted him, quite frankly. We have a colleague, Marty Morantz , who is a fierce fighter for the Jewish community. There is data that reveals that anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 400%. Since when, Madam Chair? Since Justin Trudeau took office. That's since when. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about the rise in anti-Semitism since Justin Trudeau took office. Let's talk about sexual assaults, which are up 75% since Justin Trudeau took office. Let's talk about sexual violations against children, which are up 119% since Justin Trudeau took office. Let's talk about forcible confinement or kidnapping, which are up 11% since Justin Trudeau took …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 301, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/michelle-ferreri-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "Let's talk about the rise in anti-Semitism since Justin Trudeau took office.", "act_why": "attributes the 400% rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes to Trudeau's time in office", "trigger": "\"There is data that reveals that anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 400%\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the rise in anti-Semitism since Justin Trudeau took office; a caucus that has blatantly insulted him [Housefather]", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michelle Ferreri", "role": "Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Peterborough--Kawartha", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ty crisis that has happened under the watch of Justin Trudeau and his incompetent ministers. That is the reality of what we're saying. Trafficking in persons is up 84%. There is a direct link to all of this and to young men being exposed to pornography, so of course we want to study this. I'm going to come back to the anti-Semitism study: My colleague Mr. Brock put forward in a dilatory motion that we get back to studying this. Clearly, the Liberals have no interest in actually delving into the justice that has been destroyed in this country and the public safety that's been destroyed. I want to reiterate that, and I hope that we will have the support of the folks across the way, because we have two studies happening in this committee, on Islamophobia and on anti-Semitism, and clearly these members of Parliament, much like the whole Liberal caucus, are not talking to each other. I will read this into the record: “New data reveals antisemitic hate crimes are up 400% after 9 years of Trudeau. 2/3 of all hate crimes are against Jews in Canada. When will Justin Trudeau finally take antisemitism seriously?” That is a direct tweet from my friend and colleague and fierce Jewish advocate Marty Morantz . That is what we would ask here today, to get to the dilatory motion of that. There is one final piece I want to leave on this, because I know there are a lot of victims and survivors watching at home. Mr. Maloney …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 668, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/michelle-ferreri-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "When will Justin Trudeau finally take antisemitism seriously?", "act_why": "reads and endorses a tweet blaming nine years of Trudeau for antisemitic hate crimes", "trigger": "Bill C-270: \"This enactment amends the Criminal Code to prohibit a person from making, distributing or advertising pornographic material for commercial purposes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "antisemitic hate crimes are up 400% after 9 years of Trudeau ... When will Justin Trudeau finally take antisemitism seriously?", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michelle Ferreri", "role": "Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Peterborough--Kawartha", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["—and that's fine, but they're not acknowledging the survivors and victims, as they have done repeatedly in other committees. That is what I'm trying to convey to you. It comes back to the anti-Semitism study. It comes back to the rise in crime. It comes back to all the same things over and over again. You have a Prime Minister who tells one group of MPs to say one thing and another group of MPs to say another thing. He himself goes and tells one thing to people in one room and another thing to people in another room …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 190, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/michelle-ferreri-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "act_why": "procedural return to the anti-Semitism study amid a crime-rise argument", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… I wasn't part of the organizing of events and the schedule for this fall session, but I had expected that those witnesses would be here on the Thursday. That would have given us enough time to get whatever materials out to them and to get them prepared. Instead, what were we doing on that Thursday? We were writing the anti-Semitism report. This was all done in camera so I need to be careful about what I say about those two studies, but we were studying anti-Semitism, and we were studying Islamophobia. That goes back to the spring of this year, when a motion was put forward that this committee should study anti-Semitism and its rise in Canada, particularly at Canadian universities. I agree that's a very important study. We all agreed with that, and we wanted to move forward. Then it became complicated when there was another motion put forward to also study Islamophobia, which was also a very important study. We suggested that maybe t …", "… es. That was all on the public record, so I can say that. We had witnesses come in on those two studies, again all on the public record. I'm very impressed with the courage of the witnesses who came forward and spoke very openly about the issues that were facing them, whether it was on the Islamophobia study or on the anti-Semitism study. They came here and gave testimony. It was very heartfelt. We all realized that these are issues that are front and centre for Canada, and that we need to deal with them. Over the summer months.... I think we had six meetings over six days, three on anti-Semitism and three on Islamophobia. We heard from many witnesses, and then over the summer months the analysts spent some time preparing the draft reports. We came back in September, and these reports are in front of us. Madam Chair, until now, we are still drafting those reports. I can't believe how long it is taking to do that. Part of the problem is that on the Liberal side of this committee, it's a different bench depending on whether it's the Islamophobia study or the anti-Semitism study. It is clear to us on this side of the table that those two groups are not talking with each other and that there's conflict in the Liberal caucus about these two very important issues. That's what's been dragging things on and on. Again, I need to be careful about what I say, because this is all being done in camera. We on this side of the table are trying our best to produce these two reports, so that they can be made public and we can talk about them publicly. I had expected that was what we were going to be doing today. We were so close on the anti-Semitism report. I think with just a little more discussion, we're going to get them done. That's why I supported the dilatory motion of my colleague, Mr. Brock, to go forward with finalizing that study, and believed that the next day we could go ahead and finalize the Islamophobia study. Now things are just dragging on and on …", "… the issues that are important. He wants to talk about the matters of Bill C-270 , and it is clear that the Liberal members of the House want to talk about something else when he is here. I think that is just unacceptable. Madam Chair, I think that it is time to move forward on all three of these studies. Let's get the anti-Semitism study done. I think we still have time today. If the Liberals would reconsider the motion of my colleague, Mr. Brock, to go ahead and finish that study, we can then go into an in camera session, and we can finish off that study. Let's proceed with the other witnesses on Bill C-270 . Let's move forward with that, regar …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/119/tako-van-popta-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 119, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "act_why": "recounts the study's history and calls the witnesses' accounts issues Canada must deal with", "trigger": "\"The motion before us is to extend by 30 days the study on Bill C-270, the stopping internet sexual exploitation act\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Don Davies", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "topic": "Finance", "passages": ["B'nai Brith came to this committee and talked about the rising anti-Semitism that I think we're all aware of in this country. We've heard your testimony today and that of Mr. Brown. We're seeing today outbreaks of tension between Sikhs and Hindus in places as diverse as Ontario and British Columbia. What advice would you give this committee on how to prepare a budget that can allocate funding …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/finance/44-1/163/don-davies-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Finance", "committee_slug": "finance", "meeting": 163, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "relays B'nai Brith testimony on rising anti-Semitism and treats it as shared concern", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["Mr. Topas, I want to take the opportunity to talk to you about anti-Semitism. Certainly there was anti-Semitism in Canada before October 7, 2023, and there was anti-Semitism in Canada after October 7, 2023. Since that time, we've seen some pretty ugly stuff happening in our streets, to our schools, to our synagogues, to our institutions and in our neighbourhoods. We have a government that says, on the one hand, that Israel has the right to defend itself, but on the other hand voted for a …", "… the context of our friend Israel being attacked and 1,200 Israelis being brutally slaughtered and more taken into brutal captivity, the Liberal government thinks it's a good idea to study unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Do you think the policies of this government specifically exacerbate the problem of anti-Semitism in Canada in our streets?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/125/marty-morantz-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 125, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "Do you think the policies of this government specifically exacerbate the problem of anti-Semitism in Canada in our streets?", "act_why": "asks whether this government's policies exacerbate anti-Semitism in Canada", "trigger": "\"voted for a motion that would deny it the means to defend itself by banning arms permits\"; \"study unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the policies of this government specifically exacerbate the problem of anti-Semitism; UNRWA ... has been teaching young Palestinian children to hate Jews for decades", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["To my question, do you think these Liberal policies are helpful in terms of containing anti-Semitism, or do they exacerbate the problem?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 22, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/125/marty-morantz-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 125, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "do you think these Liberal policies are helpful in terms of containing anti-Semitism, or do they exacerbate the problem?", "act_why": "presses that Liberal policies exacerbate rather than contain anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the same Liberal policies - the arms-permit motion and the study of recognizing a Palestinian state", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "these Liberal policies ... exacerbate the problem [of anti-Semitism]", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Corey Balsam (National Coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices Canada)", "role": "National Coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… portunity to present before you today. Independent Jewish Voices is a national organization with members and local chapters across Canada and Quebec. In our diversity, we come together as Jews to pursue a just, peaceful and dignified future for Palestinian and Israeli peoples and against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian racism. While we gather today, it bears emphasizing that the Palestinian people are facing what has now been widely deemed a genocide in Gaza. The situation in northern Gaza was further described by the heads of prominent UN agencies just a few days ago as “nothing short of apocalyptic.” As Jews a …", "… y occupation and settlement project in the West Bank. Canada has begun to sanction a few low-level actors. That is a step forward, but one that is grossly insufficient, given the urgent nature of the situation right now. Finally, we recommend that Canada retract its adoption of the anti-Palestinian IHRA definition of “antisemitism” included in the handbook released last week, both because of its absolute perversion of the important fight against anti-Semitism and because it has a role in chilling vital advocacy efforts for Palestinian human rights at this critical juncture. Mr. Chair, the Canadian government has an important role to play in fostering the conditions for viable self-determination for the Palestinian people. We owe it to both Israelis and Palestinians to help …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 703, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/125/corey-balsam-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 125, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA definition perverts the fight against anti-Semitism and chills advocacy", "trigger": "\"the Palestinian people are facing what has now been widely deemed a genocide in Gaza\"; northern Gaza described by UN agency heads as \"nothing short of apocalyp", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Henry Topas (Director, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "passages": ["… mmittee, thank you for inviting me to speak today on behalf of B'nai Brith Canada about Canada's role in advancing a two-state solution. B'nai Brith is Canada's oldest human rights organization and the voice of Canada's grassroots Jewish community. Our organization, founded in 1875, is dedicated to eradicating racism, anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms while championing the rights of the marginalized. I believe it must be stated at the outset that as we wear poppies today to remember the sacrifices of Canadian fighting men and women who defend our way of life, it is the State of Israel today that is the bulwark against those who would tea …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 673, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/125/henry-topas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "committee_slug": "foreign-affairs", "meeting": 125, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["Israel relations"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "states the organization is dedicated to eradicating anti-Semitism and hatred", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, faces an existential threat on multiple fronts\" - the ongoing war and Iranian-backed attacks", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Palestine must first cease its toxic UNRWA-funded hate education for the young", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Chris Bittle", "role": "St. Catharines, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Catharines", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I don't know the relevance of questioning the legitimacy of members, especially Jewish and Muslim members, to appear at a committee on topics of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. It's truly disgusting. It's not relevant and it's disgusting to suggest that their presence delayed the study of this bill. I'm hoping Mr. Van Popta can get to something relevant. I know he doesn't want Mr. Viersen to testify. Perhaps, as a compromise, we can meet this coming week after Remembrance Day, with Mr. Vier …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 143, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/chris-bittle-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls it disgusting to question Jewish and Muslim members' presence at the studies", "trigger": "the motion to extend time so the committee can study Mr. Viersen's bill (Bill C-270)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… sgusting. As Mr. Van Popta pointed out, this particular bill reached our committee before we recessed this past summer, in June 2024. We returned to Parliament in mid-September, and committees resumed toward the end of September. While the justice committee was studying two important reports regarding the rise of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Bill C-270 was always waiting in the wings. You, Madam Chair, would bring it up from time to time. I'm also mindful of the fact that we had many meetings over the course of two-plus months that ended early. Some meetings didn't actually happen at all. I can't say with any degree of confidence that al …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 434, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/larry-brock-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "refers to the reports on the rise of anti-Semitism as important committee business", "trigger": "the motion for a 30-day extension on Bill C-270, which \"reached our committee ... in June 2024\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… tudy to investigate the dramatic rise in terrorist plots and acts of violence targeting Canada's Jewish community, including the thwarted terror attack on Parliament Hill; that the study be comprised of no less than six meetings; that the Minister of Public Safety, the Special Advisor on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism to the Prime Minister, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner, the Director of the Parliamentary Protective Service, the Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other law enforcement officials, and civil society and academic organizations, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 430, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/129/pam-damoff-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 129, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "act_why": "reads a subamendment on the thwarted bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians with alarm", "trigger": "\"the news that there was a bombing plot on Parliament Hill\" - the thwarted ISIS-linked plot targeting Jewish Canadians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "a thwarted ISIS linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ince then. I looked through the schedule of events as to what this committee has been doing all this time to see why it could not have come to us before and why it is now a crisis such that we need to get a 30-day extension. At the time, on May 8, there were two important studies in front of this committee. One was on anti-Semitism, and one was on Islamophobia. We agreed that these were two important studies, and the Conservative members of this committee were very interested in studying these two reports. This is what happened. On May 9, the committee studied anti-Semitism. We had witnesses come before us. On May 23, anti-Semitism was studied again, and we had witnesses come before us. There was a repeat of that on Monday, May 27; we had anti-Semitism witnesses. I recall those meetings very well. They were interesting. It was good to hear different perspectives. I was very encouraged by the bravery with which these witnesses appeared and explained to us what was going on, particularly on campuses. I thought those three meetings were very educational; they certainly …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 512, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/tako-van-popta-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "recounts the anti-Semitism study and praises witnesses' bravery", "trigger": "\"the motion that is before us today, which is to extend for 30 days\" the study of Bill C-270", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s well, and I was impressed with the testimony and the courage with which the witnesses came to us to give testimony and the heartfelt stories that we were receiving. I knew there were going to be good reports coming out of these two studies. June 13, I believe, was the last day that we had witnesses come to us on the anti-Semitism study, so we were sort of going back and forth. I believe on June 13 we also gave instructions. I don't know if we had witnesses, but we took time to give instructions to the analysts as to what we thought was important to put into the report on anti-Semitism. Then, on June 17, the next week, it was the same thing with the Islamophobia study. We had all gone through the witness testimony, or at least I did, over the weekend. I read the testimony and highlighted what I thought was important to be put into the report. I remember at the time that we told the analysts, “You ar …", "… d for some refining. In my opinion, that would have been one two-hour meeting on each report, but that's not what happened. On September 23, we had set aside an in camera meeting for the Islamophobia study. Later that week, on Thursday, September 26, we had a two-hour meeting in camera to review the first draft of the anti-Semitism report. On Thursday, October 10, we had a second two-hour in camera meeting to review another draft of the Islamophobia report. On Monday, October 21, we had a third meeting, a two-hour in camera meeting, debating the drafting of the report. On Thursday, October 24, we had—let me count here—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 752, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/tako-van-popta-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural recounting of the anti-Semitism and Islamophobia studies", "trigger": "the 30-day extension motion on Bill C-270, \"referred to this committee on May 8\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… t I'll be giving a little bit of background to those who weren't part of the discussion yesterday. I'm doing it for the benefit of those who are gracing us with their presence today. I really appreciate all of them coming, from all sides of the House. On May 8, we were engaged in two very important studies. One was on anti-Semitism; the other was on Islamophobia. The anti-Semitism study was on a proposal from the Liberals. On the Conservative side of this table, we agreed to that. We thought it was very important, given what was happening, particularly on university campuses."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 348, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/tako-van-popta-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitism study important given events on campuses", "trigger": "\"It was just a simple motion to extend for 30 days\" for Bill C-270", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-07", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Tako Van Popta", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… he sound of our own voice and testing out our ability to argue our points of view. Those meetings dragged on and on and on. I think there was a second reason those meetings went so long. On the Liberal side of this table, it was a different bench depending on which topic we were discussing. When we were discussing the anti-Semitism report, we had one group of Liberals. When we were discussing the Islamophobia report, there was a different bench of Liberals. We were more or less alternating back and forth, first anti-Semitism and then Islamophobia. It became abundantly clear to us on this side of the table—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 344, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/121/tako-van-popta-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 121, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls both studies very important while faulting the delay", "trigger": "the extension motion and the delay in getting to Bill C-270", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ere in Ottawa. That was called off. They're instead going to apparently protest an MPP, but the notion of potentially protesting while kids are in school, as young as 12 years old, raises significant concerns. We've seen it at community centres. We have seen it in cities on a number of issues, not just with respect to anti-Semitism, which has, as I note, been by far the largest target in terms of hate crime in Canada over the last couple of years, especially since October 7. I know that Mississauga is also considering this, and they're considering it not out of that issue but out of other community members where we have seen tensions and some of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 308, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/138/dr-michael-geist-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notes unprecedented shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools with concern", "trigger": "\"I was actually referring to Bill S-210, which is the age verification bill\"; \"Bill C-63 needs to go to committee\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual)", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… y in the digital policy debate. Second, there is expression that chills other expression. This can occur when expression includes harassment or strikes fear in some communities, invariably leading to a chill in their ability to express themselves. My own community, the Jewish community, is a case in point. The rise in anti-Semitism, in a manner not seen in Canada in generations, has sparked safety fears and chilled expression. No group has faced and been the target of more hate crimes than the Jewish community. On campuses, this manifests itself in students and faculty concealing their identity by hiding their religion and political beliefs, or …", "… not just physical safety but also freedom from abusive or demeaning conduct that constitutes harassment and may limit the expression of others. In a committee focused on protecting freedom of expression, there are many things that can be done: ensuring we have clearly defined policies, such as the IHRA definition of “anti-Semitism”; active enforcement of campus policies and codes; principled implementation of institutional neutrality; and leadership in speaking out against conduct that creates fear and chills speech. In our broader communities, time and place restrictions—such as those included in the court ruling involving the encampment at th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 803, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/138/dr-michael-geist-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "says the rise in anti-Semitism has sparked fear and chilled Jewish expression", "trigger": "\"Bill C-11, Bill C-18, Bill C-63 and Bill S-210 all intersect with expression\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Encampments, graffiti, vandalism, doxing, online threats, the abandonment of institutional neutrality and the exclusion of those who believe in Zionism from classes or parts of campus", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-11-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. Shannon Dea (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, As an Individual)", "role": "Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… actually undercut institutional autonomy, as well as placing censorious limits on student protest, a time-worn form of campus expression that has long been, among other things, a mode whereby students develop their moral and intellectual autonomy. In the U.S., in December 2023, the United States Congress's hearing on anti-Semitism marked a new chapter in state interference in academic freedom, campus expressive freedom and institutional autonomy. Representatives' interrogation of three college presidents regarding their universities' approach to solidarity statements, institutional neutrality and student protest was deeply chilling, not least b …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 773, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/138/dr-shannon-dea-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "cites the U.S. congressional anti-Semitism hearing as an academic-freedom matter", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-11-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Ga Grant (Litigation Staff Counsel, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association)", "role": "Litigation Staff Counsel, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… , the CRU labelled Palestine solidarity protests as “pro-Hamas” and terrorist-supporting, an untrue smear that fuels anti-Palestinian racism. Such language has also been used by many politicians and police. Recently, the Department of Canadian Heritage published the “Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism”, which advocates the implementation of policing across society. This deeply problematic and controversial definition of anti-Semitism goes beyond citing anti-Semitism proper—a goal we all share—to conflate political critique of Israel with Jewish people, promoting anti-Palestinian racism. The BCCLA stands alongside many international and national human rights organizations and Jewish groups, such as Independent Jewish Voices Canada, the United Jewish People's Order and the Jewish Faculty Network. Such a conflation of Jewish people with the State of Israel is itself anti-Semitic and opposes Jewish freedom of expression. The IHRA definition and handbook has disturbing, censorious consequences and needs to be immediately revoked. Dr. Ge's testimony before this committee is but one example of the regular calls we receive from people who are losing their jobs or are facing discipline, harassment …", "… at dissent challenges the government or entrenched political interests. We call on Canada to abolish the CRU, improve police accountability, respect the rights of indigenous people, stop political and policing efforts to suppress expression and solidarity with the people of Palestine, and revoke the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism so that we can have freedom of expression for all. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 763, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/138/ga-grant-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA definition conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and must be revoked", "trigger": "\"the Department of Canadian Heritage published the 'Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism'\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the Department of Canadian Heritage published the “Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism” ... Such a conflation of Jewish people with the State of Israel is itself anti-Semitic", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-11-18", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Kathleen Mahoney (Emeritus Professor of Law, As an Individual)", "role": "Emeritus Professor of Law, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… nd national security. My paper argues for a balanced, principled approach to maximize freedoms while curbing the corrosive effects of hate. Just to remind you of the seminal legal decisions, I'm going to quickly describe them. The Keegstra case was in 1990, 34 years ago. The context was a high school teacher promoting anti-Semitic views in his classroom and requiring students to list and learn his hate ideas. The court upheld the Criminal Code provision prohibiting the willful promotion of hatred against identifiable groups when Mr. Keegstra challenged it, . I personally have been involved in all of the leading hate speech cases, and this is wh …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 681, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/138/kathleen-mahoney-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 138, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "describes Keegstra's promotion of anti-Semitic views as hate the court rightly restricted", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "The Keegstra case ... a high school teacher promoting anti-Semitic views in his classroom", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dane Lloyd", "role": "Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sturgeon River--Parkland", "province": "AB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… the hundreds of members of the Jewish community and allies who showed up on Parliament Hill. Not prioritizing that is sending a pretty strong statement. I'm also very concerned that we're not including the Minister of Public Safety in this, or the special adviser to the Prime Minister on Jewish community relations and anti-Semitism . I think a lot of Canadians, particularly members of the Jewish community, would like to hear from their special adviser on anti-Semitism, considering this attack was undoubtedly fuelled and motivated by deeply held hatred and anti-Semitism. I'm very unhappy to see that this has been removed. Also, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other law enforcement officials are being removed. I have a lot of concerns. I think Canadians want to hear from CSIS on this. There were a lot of Canadians, members of the Jewish community and eve …", "… of criminal and public security issues in this country. They're all very important. They're particularly important to the communities they impact. However, I'm very concerned that the government is expanding the scope of this study on such a level that it undermines the value of specifically investigating the rise of anti-Semitic hate in this country and this foiled, ISIS-inspired bomb attack on Parliament Hill. I'm not sure why Minecraft, Reddit and Snapchat are included in there. There are other organizations. I'm not sure if there's some direct connection between those and the attack. I don't know whether the Liberals have some information we don't, but it appears to me that there could be other, very valuable witnesses included in this. Perhaps Minecraft isn't the best witness to talk about a study on anti-Semitism and a bomb attack on Parliament Hill. However, I'm happy to be told that, perhaps, Minecraft had significant involvement in a terror attack on Parliament Hill. Otherwise, if there is no evidence that these social media companies are somehow involved in this, I would suggest that the Liberals who proposed this amendment are trying to undermine this study and blow it wide open so that we have useless meetings that don't get to the heart of the issue. I think witnesses who would be very useful to have at those meetings are the special adviser to the Prime Minister on Jewish community relations and anti-Semitism , the Minister of Public Safety and the deputy minister, and CSIS. I find it astounding that this government does not want to hear from its own officials, its own minister and our own security services, but they want to hear from Snapchat, Reddit, Minecraft and I don't even know what this Roblox is. It sounds like a t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 975, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/dane-lloyd-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "public service"], "act_why": "urges priority for a study of anti-Semitic violence after the foiled bomb plot", "trigger": "\"a thwarted terrorist attack that was to occur on Parliament Hill\" - the foiled ISIS-inspired bomb plot", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Liberals who proposed this amendment are trying to undermine this study [on] the rise of anti-Semitic hate; this foiled, ISIS-inspired bomb attack on Parliament Hill", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marty Morantz", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… tudy to investigate the dramatic rise in terrorist plots and acts of violence targeting Canada's Jewish community, including the thwarted terror attack on Parliament Hill; that the study be comprised of no less than six meetings; that the Minister of Public Safety, the Special Advisor on Jewish Community Relations and Antisemitism to the Prime Minister, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner, the Director of the Parliamentary Protective Service, the Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other law enforcement officials, and civil society and academic organizations, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 333, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/marty-morantz-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "act_why": "moves a motion on the ISIS-linked plot targeting Jewish Canadians, calling it grave", "trigger": "\"recent court filings have revealed disturbing details about a thwarted ISIS linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "a thwarted ISIS linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Lauren Southern", "role": "As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… d it funny that you are accusing me of taking a trip to Russia to stir up hatred against Jews, when I don't think Jews came up once during my interview with Aleksandr Dugin. I don't know where you're getting that from. Once again, Steve Paikin conducted an interview with him, so I guess you would have to make the same anti-Semitic accusations against TVO."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/lauren-southern-65/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects the anti-Semitic accusation made against her over the Dugin interview", "trigger": "the accusation over \"my interview with Aleksandr Dugin\" and her trip to Russia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you so much, Chair. I thank the honourable member for his words. I agree with him. It's extremely concerning what's going on right now. I've had numerous conversations with Rabbi Stephen Wise in my riding about the rise of anti-Semitism. I just read an article about the number of youth being radicalized to ISIS. We also have another problem in this country, which is the rise of Islamophobia and the rise of youth being radicalized, predominantly online. Chair, I also had put in a motion. I'm hoping that we can deal with Ms. Southern, who's taken the t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "calls the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia extremely concerning", "trigger": "the foiled terrorist plot against the Ottawa Jewish community, plus \"an article about the number of youth being radicalized to ISIS\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… vention of Violence, officials from Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, representatives from TikTok, X, Snapchat, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, Minecraft and Roblox to discuss the foiled terrorist plot against the Ottawa Jewish community, the rise of violent extremism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, recent measures the federal government has undertaken to address it, and the role that social media and gaming platforms play in radicalizing youth and mobilizing violence. Chair, I could amend Mr. Morantz's motion to reflect what I would like to bring forward, but given that we have summoned this wi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 194, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "police and security"], "act_why": "reads a proposed motion on the foiled plot and rising anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"the foiled terrorist plot against the Ottawa Jewish community\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the role that social media and gaming platforms play in radicalizing youth and mobilizing violence", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… tary Protective Services; representatives from TikTok, X, Snapchat, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, Minecraft and Roblox; and civil society and academic organizations, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith, to discuss the foiled terrorist plot, the rise of violent extremism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, recent measures the federal government has undertaken to address it, and the role that social media and gaming platforms play in radicalizing youth and mobilizing violence; that the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House; and, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the government tab …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 210, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology", "police and security"], "act_why": "reads the same proposed motion on the foiled plot and rising anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"the foiled terrorist plot against the Ottawa Jewish community\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the role that social media and gaming platforms play in radicalizing youth and mobilizing violence", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["I just want to read what Dugin said in 2014, that Russia should, “kill, kill, kill” Ukrainians. He has previously been involved with Pamyat, which has been described as the most significant anti-Semitic organization since perestroika. He has expressed his admiration for the SS, adopting the alter ego Hans Sievers, named after the war criminal who was general secretary of the Nazi research institute that Heinrich Himmler established. I'm just curious. I know you've mentioned Steve Paikin a number of times. I had limit …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 109, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "He has previously been involved with Pamyat, which has been described as the most significant anti-Semitic organization since perestroika.", "act_why": "identifies Dugin with Pamyat, described as a major anti-Semitic organization", "trigger": "Lauren Southern's interview with Aleksandr Dugin, who \"has previously been involved with Pamyat ... the most significant anti-Semitic organization since perestr", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "[Aleksandr Dugin] has previously been involved with Pamyat, which has been described as the most significant anti-Semitic organization since perestroika", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Do you prescribe to his anti-Semitic views?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 7, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Do you prescribe to his anti-Semitic views?", "act_why": "asks the witness whether she subscribes to Dugin's anti-Semitic views", "trigger": "Aleksandr Dugin's anti-Semitic views and Southern's interview with him", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Do you prescribe to his anti-Semitic views? 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Do you find that funny?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 30, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/130/pam-damoff-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 130, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "You deliberately made a trip to Russia to interview someone who is one of the most anti-Semitic people around.", "act_why": "calls Dugin one of the most anti-Semitic people around and implicates the witness", "trigger": "\"You deliberately made a trip to Russia to interview someone who is one of the most anti-Semitic people around\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "someone who is one of the most anti-Semitic people around [Dugin]; Lauren Southern for deliberately interviewing him", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-25", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Minister of Justice", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["First of all, with respect to my first response to Mr. Brock, I'd like to say that I take the demonstration of anti-Semitism in Montreal very seriously. I've spoken in the House and I'll say it again today: What we saw in Montreal is absolutely unacceptable. 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What we saw in Montreal is absolutely unacceptable\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "the demonstration of anti-Semitism in Montreal ... What we saw in Montreal is absolutely unacceptable", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-25", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford--Brant", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ing of the extermination of the Jewish state, all the while, your leader, Justin Trudeau , danced away at a Taylor Swift concert and shared friendship bracelets with other fans. You, as Canada's chief legal officer, remained silent. 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I mean, we stand firmly against research that would be considered anti-Semitic or discriminatory in any way. All of our research is reviewed through panels that involve experts who read materials, provide input and ultimately decide which projects will be recommended or not recommended. Beyond that, once these projects are funded, we rely on institutions to monitor the process of projects and ho …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 93, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/dr-ted-hewitt-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "public service"], "act_why": "states the agency stands firmly against antisemitic research", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you to our witnesses. I am very concerned about the rising problem of anti-Semitism on university campuses. I do want to focus in this round on some of the potential linkages between that and questions on research funding. Just to put the problem in perspective, first of all, it's been reported that there were over 5,700 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2023, and it is deeply troubling to see a substantial number of those incidents happening on university campuses, with very anti-Semitic statements made by certain groups, for example, as well as various incidents. I wanted to ask, just in terms of research proposals, is it fair to say that you have a process whereby you would seek to screen out research proposals that promote racist or other discriminatory ideas or narratives? Would that apply to anti-Semitism as well? 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Thank you. Would you say you're confident that this process is screening out proposals that would promote anti-Semitic ideas or narratives?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 22, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/garnett-genuis-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "presses on screening out antisemitic proposals, treating antisemitism as a harm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["Okay. We can come back to that. I wanted to ask, in terms of what anti-Semitism is, do you use the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism, or would you use a different definition?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/garnett-genuis-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "asks which definition of antisemitism is used, within a line of questioning treating it as a harm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["Okay. I am struggling a bit to understand your answer, then, because on the one hand you're saying that you do try to screen out anti-Semitic or other racist content, but on the other hand, you don't have a specific definition of anti-Semitism. How do you screen out anti-Semitic content without having a definition that you're using for anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 59, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/garnett-genuis-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "challenges the witness on screening without a definition of antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the granting council: \"How do you screen out anti-Semitic content without having a definition\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["You did say that you're applying Government of Canada policies. The Government of Canada says that it has adopted the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism. Have they said to you that they want to see you use the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism, or have they not?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 45, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/garnett-genuis-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "presses on whether the IHRA definition is required", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["It's important to know what that definition is, because B'nai Brith has sent a submission in which they identify specific examples, and they are concerned that there are aspects of the narratives promoted by these examples that are violating anti-Semitism...and they're using IHRA's definition. Someone else might say they're not, but the one we use, and that the government says it has adopted, is the IHRA's definition."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/110/garnett-genuis-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 110, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "relays B'nai Brith's submission identifying examples under the IHRA definition", "trigger": "'B'nai Brith has sent a submission in which they identify specific examples'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "funded research examples in the B'nai Brith submission: \"aspects of the narratives promoted by these examples ... are violating anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-28", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "role": "Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… d, I sent you some information on the social media and gaming platform, so I appreciate that you reviewed them and it's included in this motion. I do have an amendment—not a lot—to make to this motion that Ms. Dancho has just brought forward. I will make a comment that I understand the justice committee did a study on anti-Semitism, which has not been tabled yet. It would be helpful for us, I think, to have access to that report before we start our own study at public safety. I'll read right now the changes I have: Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), given that Canadians continue to be affected by the geopolitical impacts of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, and given that recent court filings have revealed disturbing details about a thwarted ISIS-linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill, and given that an antisemitic riot occurred in Montreal on November 22, 2024, the committee immediately study the growing trend of violent extremism, in particular, the increase in youth involvement, the rise in foiled terrorist plots and acts of violence targeting Canada's Jewish community, including the thwarted terror attack on Parliament Hill; …", "… that the study be comprised of no fewer than four meetings; and that the committee invite— I'm not going to read all of the witnesses again, but I would point out that we have changed witness number two. We've deleted what is there and inserted “Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism”. The rest of the witnesses remain the same. Then, in the last paragraph, it's “to discuss the foiled terrorist plot, the rise of violent extremism, including antisemitism, and....” The rest of the motion stays the same, Mr. Chair. I believe it's been sent electronically, and I would put that amendment forward."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 333, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/132/pam-damoff-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 132, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "technology"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "reads an amended motion citing the antisemitic Montreal riot as grounds for study", "trigger": "'recent court filings have revealed disturbing details about a thwarted ISIS-linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill' and 'an antisemitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"an antisemitic riot occurred in Montreal on November 22, 2024\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-11-28", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Raquel Dancho", "role": "Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kildonan—St. Paul", "province": "MB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… Standing Order 108(2), given that Canadians continue to be affected by the geopolitical impacts of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, and given that recent court filings have revealed disturbing details about a thwarted ISIS-linked bomb plot targeting Jewish Canadians on Parliament Hill, and given that an antisemitic riot occurred in Montreal on November 22, 2024, the committee immediately prioritize a study to run concurrently with the study on border security agreed to on Thursday, November 21, 2024, to investigate the dramatic rise in terrorist plots and acts of violence targeting Canada's Jewish community, including the thwart …", "… Parliament Hill; that the study be comprised of no fewer than eight meetings; and that the committee invite 1. the Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Immigration on the matter of the motion passed on Thursday, September 19, 2024; 2. the special adviser to the Prime Minister on Jewish community relations and antisemitism; 3. the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP, commissioner; 4. Brigitte Gauvin, the RCMP deputy commissioner for national security; 5. representatives of the RCMP's federal policing integrated national security enforcement team; 6. Robert Burley, executive director of the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and P …", "… . recognized experts in national security; 10. representatives from TikTok, X, Snapchat, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, Minecraft and Roblox; 11. civil society and academic organizations, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith, to discuss the foiled terrorist plot, the rise of violent antisemitism and recent measures the federal government has undertaken to address it, and the role that social media and gaming platforms play in radicalizing youth and mobilizing violence; that the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House; and, pursuant to Standing Order 109, that the government table a comp …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1018, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/132/raquel-dancho-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 132, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "act_why": "recites antisemitic attacks on the Jewish community with evident disapproval", "trigger": "the thwarted Parliament Hill bomb plot revealed in court filings and the November 22, 2024 antisemitic riot in Montreal, alongside firebombings, school shooting", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"protests targeting Jewish businesses and elderly care homes\"; \"riots in Montreal at which someone called for the final solution\"; the thwarted plotters and shooters", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-11-28", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Raquel Dancho", "role": "Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kildonan—St. Paul", "province": "MB", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you. I'm just trying to write this down. I believe, if I'm correct, that it's removed the priority, the part where it says that “the committee immediately prioritize a study”. Then it cuts it down from eight meetings to four and expands it beyond only violent anti-Semitism to violent extremism, with a focus or emphasis, perhaps, on anti-Semitism. However, it's been expanded beyond that. If Ms. Damoff can just confirm that my three points are correct, I would then just like to respond."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 84, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/132/raquel-dancho-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 132, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedurally restates how the amendment changed the antisemitism study", "trigger": "the amendment moved to the committee study motion on violent extremism and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anna Gainey", "role": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… uld submit to the committee in writing, perhaps after the meeting, just so we have that in its full form. That would be helpful for us. Could we talk for a minute about the online harms bill? It seems to align with the IHRA principles to combat hate online. How do you see this legislation balancing the need to address anti-Semitism and online hate with ensuring that the platforms also remain spaces for free expression?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/anna-gainey-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["platform regulation", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks how the online harms bill addresses antisemitism, treating it as a harm", "trigger": "'the online harms bill' (Bill C-63)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anna Gainey", "role": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. I agree with that. Just looking back a bit on some of the commitments this government has made in terms of a heavy investment in funding a new Holocaust museum in my hometown of Montreal and the appointment of a special envoy on the preservation of Holocaust remembrance, combatting anti-Semitism and other roles, how do you see those sorts of commitments on the part of the government as contributing both to balancing the freedom of expression and to addressing the sharp rise in anti-Semitism and hate that we've seen more widely, in particular over the last year?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/anna-gainey-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["commemoration", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "refers to the sharp rise in antisemitism as something to be addressed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "role": "Minister of Justice", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… r victims of hate-motivated crime. The funding would also help raise awareness in the judiciary about the unique dynamics of hate crime, and support the development and delivery of specialized training for Crown prosecutors on this very topic. We've seen an alarming rise in hate crimes in Canada. Horrible incidents of anti-Semitism have skyrocketed. Hate against the queer community is up. People don't feel safe in their own neighbourhoods. It is unacceptable and un-Canadian. We need to stamp out hatred in our communities and ensure perpetrators are held to account. Bill C-63 is a key part of our plan to stop hatred in Canada. I was very proud to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1439, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/124/arif-virani-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 124, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "calls skyrocketing incidents of antisemitism unacceptable and un-Canadian", "trigger": "Bill C-63, the online harms act, as part of the supplementary estimates (B) funding for combatting hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"this bill has been stalled in the House of Commons by partisan games\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… for joining us today to talk about this subject, which can give rise to considerable debate. I'm delighted we have two very interesting witnesses. Mr. Robertson, I too am going to ask you some questions, if I may. You talked about terrorist groups being glorified at rallies. Lately, I'm hearing a lot about the rise in anti-Semitism, but we're also seeing a rise in Islamophobia. Since October 7, 2023, do you believe there are as many anti-Israel protests as there are anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab or Islamophobia demonstrations per se? What's your opinion as an interested observer? Do you note a rise, too, in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Quebec and Canada?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 120, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/martin-champoux-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "asks about the rise in both antisemitism and Islamophobia as problems", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["It is the position of B'nai Brith Canada that the unfortunate rise in anti-Semitism and such recent events as protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets, present us with the opportunity to re-examine the provisions of the Criminal Code that have been designed to prevent terrorism. These Criminal Code provisions need to be amended to ensure that the groups we ar …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 182, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism unfortunate and urges Criminal Code amendment", "trigger": "'protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Certainly, they are noble efforts; however, the numbers speak for themselves. We are falling short as a society in our efforts to combat anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism continues to be on the rise across the country. More is needed: It's as simple as can be. We're seeing that we have a problem. We must continue to address it. We need stronger measures. We need measures that don't just contribute to education, such as the Holocaust museums. We need concrete measures that will outlaw a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 98, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism unfortunate and urges Criminal Code amendment", "trigger": "'protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ere was an injunction in place, and there was a legal measure preventing the obstruction of entry into the Shaar, but that was insufficient. Therefore, bubble legislation, or similar legislation, is just one avenue that we need to explore. We need to take a “full-court press”, to use the term, in our efforts to combat anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism unfortunate and urges Criminal Code amendment", "trigger": "'protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["To begin, it's my appreciation that, no, there haven't been as many anti-Palestine demonstrations as there have been anti-Israel demonstrations. The recommendations that we've put forth before the committee today would work to combat all forms of hatred and discrimination, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. It's important that any recommendations endorsed by this committee are able to impact and are able to combat all forms of racism and hatred, and are able to confront the rise, in all forms, of racism and hatred. That's why we stylized our recommendations in a way that would enable this legislation to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 117, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism unfortunate and urges Criminal Code amendment", "trigger": "'protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["When it comes to the Canadian Human Rights Act, I think it's the application of the act. It needs to be applied in a manner that coalesces with Canada's anti-racism strategy. When you talk about anti-Semitism and the Canadian Human Rights Act, it must be interpreted in relation to Canada's definition of anti-Semitism, the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "international bodies"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism unfortunate and urges Criminal Code amendment", "trigger": "'protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"protests that glorify and celebrate acts of terror, as we have seen on our streets\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Robertson (Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B’nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… charter, align with the relevant jurisprudence and ensure that the Canadian public is sufficiently protected from new and emerging forms of hate. Misunderstandings surrounding the limits of the charter freedoms have had a deleterious impact on Canada's Jewish community and have had a significant impact on the rise in anti-Semitic incidents currently plaguing our country. In response to the unprecedented levels of anti-Semitism compromising the well-being of Canadian Jewry, B'nai Brith Canada recently launched its seven-point plan for combatting anti-Semitism. The relevant provisions of our plan form the basis of our recommendations, which will be further detailed in our forthcoming submission to the committee. Our first recommendation is that the committee explore how the Criminal Code provisions that sanction hate speech can be amended in a manner that does not unduly in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 535, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/144/richard-robertson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 144, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "legal"], "act_why": "describes unprecedented antisemitism plaguing the country and proposes remedies", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"rallies such as Al-Quds Day, an annual event that celebrates the actions of listed terror entities aligned with the Islamic regime in Iran\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-02", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… me, but also to be comfortable agreeing with us. I understand that I will not get that consent today, but I invite you to think about it seriously. What we are doing is looking at the question from all angles. As you know, the committee has held meetings in recent weeks in connection with its study of Islamophobia and antisemitism. You have heard about our debates. After listening to all the testimony, I find this question to be increasingly timely and increasingly urgent. Ms. Lyons, the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, also testified before the committee. While she did not say she was in agreement on this question, she found it interesting and said we should look into it. I would therefore press the point and say to you that this is something of considerable importance in the fight against hate speech. I am changing the subject qui …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 301, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/124/rheal-fortin-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 124, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "invokes the committee's antisemitism study to press the case against hate speech", "trigger": "Bill C-373 and the proposed repeal of the religious exemption in paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-03", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Tricia Geddes", "role": "Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… w Canadian community security program. There are some important changes that have been made, in particular to enable us to support communities if they need to hire security guards, for example. We have had a really impressive reaction to this program. I will say that it's unfortunate that it is required. The fact that anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and these types of issues are on the rise in Canada is deeply concerning to our department and to everyone in our portfolio agencies. We put in place these types of measures in order to be able to support the communities that most need them. In addition, you did flag our Canada Centre. We do some really …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 205, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/44-1/133/tricia-geddes-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 133, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["security", "funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "police and security"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism deeply concerning", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Martin Champoux", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ch; That the House support the urgent need to repeal paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) of the Criminal Code in order to ensure the full application of legal protections against hate speech to all citizens of Quebec and Canada, as provided for in Bill C‑373 , An Act to amend the Criminal Code (promotion of hatred or antisemitism). Do you think the motion is reasonable? Parties in the House opposed it and even prevented me from reading it today. I'd like your opinion on that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 296, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/145/martin-champoux-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "reads a motion citing Bill C-373's title on promotion of hatred or antisemitism", "trigger": "the motion to repeal paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) of the Criminal Code, tied to Bill C-373", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"the religious exemption provides a legal shield for radical extremists to encourage hatred and intolerance towards ethnic or religious groups\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Wallis (Executive Director, Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre)", "role": "Executive Director, Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["… a woman and made threats against Pride. Since April 2024, 26% of ITAC's outputs addressed real or potential threats to individuals based on identity factors such as gender or sexual orientation. This category of violent extremist mentality is rooted, to be sure, in homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Our IMVE-related publications have increased each year over the past few years. IMVE is a global phenomenon, so ITAC also, unfortunately, provides products of this sort from allied agencies around the world. Western democracies have acknowledged how social media has contributed to the mainstreaming of violence. Our s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 606, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/44-1/136/michael-wallis-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "lists antisemitism among the roots of violent extremism the agency is concerned by", "trigger": "'The ITAC paper that is cited in the report is a threat assessment on 2024 pride events'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"this category of violent extremist mentality is rooted ... in homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mr. Peter Madou", "role": "Assistant Deputy Minister, Operational Intelligence and Assessment Requirements, Canadian Security Intelligence Service", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["… al security, but it most definitely contributes to aggravating people who are more susceptible to being radicalized. From a service perspective, what we notice is that, specifically in terms of the religiously motivated violence and extremism that we investigate, when that violence is exercised, it tends to go against anti-Semitism or against the anti-2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Often, I would say it's a bit like how my colleague referred to it. Some of these things are so individual that you don't know when someone's going to mobilize to violence, but when they do, they may just take a target of opportunity, and it would be among those communities …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 151, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/44-1/136/peter-madou-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "describes religiously motivated violence directed at Jewish and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities as hate-driven", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified", "online platform"], "target_detail": "religiously motivated violent extremists; \"a clear echo chamber of hate and violence online\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Dania Majid", "role": "President, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["We are also concerned that the newly released IHRA handbook will further erode free expression on Palestine by defining criticism of Israel, which is not prohibited expression, as anti-Semitic, infringing on the free expression rights of Jewish, Palestinian and allied communities. We call on this committee to recognize anti-Palestinian racism and commit to addressing the discriminatory Palestine exception on expression and the unprecedented repression that advocates for a free Palestine are facing. Thank yo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 74, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/145/dania-majid-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA handbook wrongly defines criticism of Israel as antisemitic", "trigger": "'the newly released IHRA handbook'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Dania Majid", "role": "President, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… te speech, which is a very high bar. Therefore, we start seeing criminalization or reprisals in the employment sector. This is having a real impact, and not just on Palestinians. In the last year, we have seen these provisions or the description of anything related to Palestine expression as supportive of terror or as anti-Semitic. It is being applied to racialized and marginalized Canadians. I have gotten a lot of calls in the legal profession, for instance, from young Black women being fired from their Bay Street jobs because they supported Palestinian rights in an open letter. I've had colleagues who've lost their office space because the pe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 337, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/145/dania-majid-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA handbook wrongly defines criticism of Israel as antisemitic", "trigger": "'the newly released IHRA handbook'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Dania Majid", "role": "President, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… rope around the definition we have put together. There is a broad consensus over the paragraph we came up with. Each one of those terms in there came out of those consultations. It is important that we recognize the manifestation of anti-Palestinian racism, including Nakba denial and the smearing of advocates as being anti-Semitic or as terrorist supporters."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 116, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/145/dania-majid-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA handbook wrongly defines criticism of Israel as antisemitic", "trigger": "'the newly released IHRA handbook'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Mrs. Dania Majid (President, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association)", "role": "President, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ists, artists, lawyers and educators who have been doxed, suspended or terminated for calling for an end to the genocide in their social media posts, participating in protests, signing open letters or simply wearing a Palestinian pin or keffiyeh. The most common excuse given was that the person's expression was deemed anti-Semitic or supporting terrorism. However, where allegations are subject to an investigation or tested by the courts, the expression is found to be neither. Nonetheless, the damage is done. Also concerning is the unprecedented criminalization of Palestinian speech and protest. The past year has seen approximately a hundred arr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 584, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/44-1/145/dania-majid-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "argues Palestinian expression is wrongly deemed antisemitic to justify punishment", "trigger": "the ACLA's 2022 report 'Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing and Manifestations' and Irene Khan's August 2024 UN report on freedom of expression", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Catherine Dubuc", "role": "Acting Director General, Hate Crimes, Culture, Innovation and GBA Plus, Royal Canadian Mounted Police", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["There are two classes of hate crimes to consider. For example, some hate crimes are covered by Canada's Criminal Code; these are offences that have actually been committed. Four specific provisions in the Criminal Code apply to certain crimes that are hate-based, such as hateful antisemitic crimes. There are also more minor incidents, although their consequences are no less serious for a community, such as hate-based incidents involving inappropriate language toward an already racialized or minority group."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 77, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/44-1/136/catherine-dubuc-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "neutral technical description of antisemitic hate crimes as a Criminal Code category", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Catherine Dubuc", "role": "Acting Director General, Hate Crimes, Culture, Innovation and GBA Plus, Royal Canadian Mounted Police", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. I can tell you that the Criminal Code provides no definition of what constitutes a hate crime. There's no such thing yet. What it does contain are four criminal offences that refer to certain elements. For example, there are advocating genocide, promoting antisemitism and public incitement of hatred, which means generating that energy in a public space. These hate-based motivations under various Criminal Code sections are actually put to good use. There's obviously what comes into play once an individual is arrested, tried and convicted. Everything that's a motive for hatred serves …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/44-1/136/catherine-dubuc-14/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 136, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "neutral technical description of antisemitic hate crimes as a Criminal Code category", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ms. Catherine Dubuc", "role": "Acting Director General, Hate Crimes, Culture, Innovation and GBA Plus, Royal Canadian Mounted Police", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["Thank you very much for that question. I will respond in English this time. Hate crime is not defined in Canadian law per se, but there are four criminal offences in the Criminal Code that deal with hateful motivation. I talked a bit earlier about willful promotion of anti-Semitism, advocating genocide, public assignment of hatred and willful promotion of hatred. 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Minister, your mandate says that you will “lead a whole-of-government approach to build a more inclusive, equitable and just society” and take action “to prevent radicalization to violence and to protect vulnerable communities.” Does that include protecting our Jewish communities from anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 45, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks whether the mandate covers protecting Jewish communities from antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Don Stewart", "role": "Toronto—St. Paul's, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Toronto—St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["Do you believe anti-Semitism is a major issue in Canada?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 10, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks whether antisemitism is a major issue, treating it as a harm", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Don Stewart", "role": "Toronto—St. Paul's, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Toronto—St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["Minister, according to StatsCan, hate crimes are up 251% since 2015. Two-thirds of religiously motivated hate crimes this year have been against the Jewish community. Your mandate calls on you to combat hate crimes in Canada. Meanwhile, we saw anti-Semitic mobs take to the streets, shouting, “From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone” and “There's only one solution: intifada, revolution.” Do you unequivocally condemn these chants by hateful mobs on our streets, yes or no?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 77, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "recites antisemitic chants and demands the minister condemn them", "trigger": "'according to StatsCan, hate crimes are up 251% since 2015. 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Do you condemn these protesters and the anti-Semitic threats?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recites the Nazi salutes and 'final solution' threat and demands condemnation", "trigger": "'two weeks ago, an anti-Semitic mob took over the streets of Montreal. 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Do you specifically condemn these chants?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 59, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "repeats the antisemitic chants and asks for specific condemnation", "trigger": "'the anti-Semitic chants that we heard in the streets in Montreal, in Toronto and in other places'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"the anti-Semitic chants that we heard in the streets in Montreal, in Toronto and in other places\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Don Stewart", "role": "Toronto—St. Paul's, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Toronto—St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["I would say that people in my community are not feeling safe because of a lack of action from the government. Hate crimes are up by 251%. Two-thirds of those crimes this year are targeted at the Jewish community. They're religiously motivated, and your government has done nothing but foster anti-Semitic sentiment. 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We have seen the denial of the rapes and savagery of October 7, 2023, the denial of pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and the denial of Jewish history itself. Jewish people tell me that they've lost hope in you and the Prime Minister . Many have lost hope in Canada. Many plan to leave. This hurts our country today and for the coming years, culturally and economically. People very close to me are ready to leave."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 96, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/don-stewart-30/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "My constituents would assess your government as being silent on anti-Semitism.", "act_why": "charges the government and Prime Minister with silence on antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"your government as being silent on anti-Semitism ... largely unopposed by you and the Prime Minister\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Jamil Jivani", "role": "Durham, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["Thank you for articulating that. Maybe I can ask you some questions and learn something today about diversity and inclusion. I have a statement here by a witness who appeared before the justice committee—Rachel Cook from the University of Alberta. She said: I think the EDI system has made the problem [of anti-Semitism] worse.... I think it can start at the top, but it also starts in institutions and in massively funding EDI programming, such that, quite literally, when I asked who decides who is in these EDI meetings—is it a percentage of population?—their response was, well, it's the groups that deserve equity and deserve inclusio …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 119, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/jamil-jivani-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "quotes a witness's claim that EDI made the antisemitism problem worse", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["institution", "university"], "target_detail": "\"the EDI system has made the problem [of anti-Semitism] worse\" (quoting Rachel Cook, University of Alberta)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, through you, every single person in the House, and I think every Canadian, condemns hate and anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/kamal-khera-83/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "states that everyone condemns hate and antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["Absolutely. 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We condemn, on this side, unequivocally, any form of hate or anti-Semitism in this country. We have actually put forward Canada's first-ever action plan on combatting hate, with $274 million supporting communities on the ground. We have put forward $25 million for a new Montreal Holocaust museum, which the Conservatives voted against, and $5 million for the first-ever national Holocaust reme …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 71, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/kamal-khera-93/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["funding", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns any form of antisemitism and lists funding measures", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"$25 million for a new Montreal Holocaust museum, which the Conservatives voted against\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["I condemn any hatred and any form of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 9, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/kamal-khera-103/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns any form of antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["I condemn any form of hate or anti-Semitism in this country—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 11, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/kamal-khera-104/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns any form of hate or antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kamal Khera", "role": "Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "passages": ["… communities. We have seen the rise in hate and the anxieties that have been fuelled by hate and division. Mr. Chair, do you know what doesn't help? What doesn't help is when we put forward supports to support Canadians—supports that the Jewish community asked for—when we appointed the first-ever special envoy to fight anti-Semitism in this country and when we enhanced funding for her department, which is what the community asked for, and the Conservatives voted against that. When the community asked for $25 million for the new Montreal Holocaust museum, the Conservatives voted against that funding. When we put forward $274 million to combat hate …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 318, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/human-resources/44-1/141/kamal-khera-121/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "committee_slug": "human-resources", "meeting": 141, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "It is shameful that they come here and pretend they care about Jewish Canadians when, with every chance they have gotten, they have voted against the very support that we have put forward.", "act_why": "charges the Conservatives with pretending to care and inciting hate while citing antisemitism measures", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"It is shameful that they come here and pretend they care about Jewish Canadians\"; \"the leader of the Conservative Party meet with members of far-right, extremist groups like Diagolon\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-12-10", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Shuv Majumdar", "role": "Calgary Heritage, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Heritage", "province": "AB", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ted Nations has been supporting terrorism directly, you said you take direction from the Government of Canada, and I appreciate that. Usually you get a position from the Prime Minister , you get a position from the foreign minister and you get another position from the special adviser on Jewish community relations and anti-Semitism . Which position is it that you reflect when you're voting against Israel at the United Nations?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/44-1/63/shuv-majumdar-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 63, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "the term appears only in the title of the special adviser on antisemitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Canada's votes against Israel at the United Nations and the UNRWA controversy", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "\"this institution of the United Nations has been supporting terrorism directly\" (UNRWA)", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-12-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["While I have you here, is CSIS currently reviewing or has CSIS reviewed the algorithms of TikTok to determine if misinformation is being circulated on TikTok in different areas? For example, are TikTok's algorithms furthering anti-Semitism in Canada by teaching a narrative that turns people or users against the state of Israel?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 52, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/44-1/145/anthony-housefather-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 145, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "technology"], "act_why": "asks whether TikTok's algorithms further antisemitism, without a settled charge", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"are TikTok's algorithms furthering anti-Semitism in Canada\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-12-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Dr. John Robson", "role": "Executive Director, Climate Discussion Nexus, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["Yes. If I may, the thing is that it's not just the direct cost, large as it is, since universities, being creatures of the state, are hugely bureaucratic these days; it's the impact on education and morale. At our universities, pro-Israel speakers are chased away by thugs, whereas people are invited in to spew anti-Semitism. There was a lounge just opened somewhere that's for non-whites only. This kind of thing does not have just a monetary cost; it's hugely demoralizing. There's another thing. The Bouchard report talks about this DEI and says how we must have this perspective and that perspective and so on. Jonathan Kay once said, “Ok s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 160, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/44-1/115/dr-john-robson-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 115, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "educators"], "act_why": "reports that campuses invite speakers to spew antisemitism, with disapproval", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"At our universities, pro-Israel speakers are chased away by thugs, whereas people are invited in to spew anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-12-12", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… like to bring you to another topic addressed by Mr. Rousseau, which is the abolition of religious exceptions in the Criminal Code. Bill C‑373 has been introduced, and it provides for the repeal of paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) of the Criminal Code. These are provisions that serve as a defence for hate speech or anti-Semitic speech, as long as it is based on a religious concept that we believe in and defend in good faith. In my opinion, the spread of hatred seems a bit difficult to accept as part of a religion. I would say that 99% of religions are based on love and communal harmony, not on the spread of hate. Is it a good idea to abolish …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 165, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/44-1/127/rheal-fortin-13/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 127, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "objects that the religious exception shields antisemitic speech", "trigger": "Bill C-373 and the repeal of paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-09-17", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Taleeb Noormohamed", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["… id earlier that I want to make sure were not personally attributed to you. You made some comments about protests on campus. As somebody who has spoken out on making sure that the Jewish community is able to feel safe and secure in this country as often as I possibly can, including speaking out to some fairly obnoxious anti-Semitic protesters on the Hill the day before yesterday, I want to make sure that what I didn't hear you say was that people who support the Palestinian cause are inextricably linked to terrorist organizations. I just want to make sure that's not what you said, because that's what I heard. I just want to make sure that's not …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 136, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/45-1/3/taleeb-noormohamed-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "speaker cites his own speaking out against anti-Semitic protesters; his pushback is about terrorism linkage, not the label", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"some fairly obnoxious anti-Semitic protesters on the Hill\"", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2025-09-17", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Vincent Ho", "role": "Richmond Hill South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Richmond Hill South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Science and Research", "passages": ["You mentioned October 7 and the anti-Semitism that we've seen all across the country that Jewish faculty and students have had to experience. Could you tell me a bit about your experience?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 32, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/science-and-research/45-1/3/vincent-ho-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Science and Research", "committee_slug": "science-and-research", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "invites witness testimony about anti-Semitism experienced by Jewish faculty, sympathetic framing", "trigger": "You mentioned October 7 and the anti-Semitism that we've seen all across the country", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-09-24", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Brown (Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage)", "role": "Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Canadian Heritage", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… calls in the last year and have been able to fund community organizations across the country in terms of programming that is aimed to bring people together and combat hate and tackle anti-racism. We also launched a separate program earlier this year, the national Holocaust remembrance program, particularly targeted at anti-Semitism. In that regard we've been working with and providing funding to a number of Jewish organizations. To do so, we actually worked with a special envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism to identify Jewish organizations across the country that would have the capacity to carry out these projects."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 158, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/3/andrew-brown-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["funding", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service", "community organisations"], "act_why": "official describes departmental anti-racism and Holocaust remembrance programming", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-09-24", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Fares Al Soud", "role": "Mississauga Centre, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["On a different, separate and more serious note, our country is grappling with rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Could you speak to the programs the Department of Heritage has to support community-based initiatives addressing this trend? Would you be able to share how many funded projects are currently under way?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/3/fares-al-soud-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia a serious problem, asks about programs", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-07", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Patricia Lattanzio", "role": "Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to recall the objectives of Bill C-9 . Canada has seen a rise in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other hate-motivated crimes targeting religious, cultural and community spaces. I would like to remind the committee that this bill aims to close the gaps in the Criminal Code by extending protections to these spaces, as with safeguards for health facilities. It also clarifies the definition of hatre …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 229, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/6/patricia-lattanzio-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 6, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "question to witness about bail measures and court resources; no antisemitism content", "trigger": "Bill C-242 and its effect on bail and provincial court resources", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ere have been a lot of people, myself included, who have criticized the words that have come out and the failure to act. Is this bill, then, not exactly what has been requested, in terms of actually acting in respect of what the federal government can do within its own jurisdiction to respond to the incredible rise in anti-Semitism and other forms of hate in the country?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/anthony-housefather-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "frames the bill as the requested action against the incredible rise in anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Is this bill, then, not exactly what has been requested (Bill C-9)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you so much. Minister, I don't know if you had a chance to read the Conservative Party's dissenting opinion in the anti-Semitism study."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 24, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/anthony-housefather-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate text; bill defended as response to rising anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Is this bill, then, not exactly what has been requested (Bill C-9)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Are you sure? Okay. Thank you, Minister, for coming here. I was a bit surprised and a bit disappointed to hear Mr. Brock categorize this legislation as something that restricts free speech and that minimizes its importance. This is legislation that comes forward after a shocking rise in anti-Semitism in Canada over the last two years that has led many in the Jewish community to feel very unsafe in the country. Last year, at my request, this committee did a study, and Mr. Brock was there at the time. Mr. Fortin was there as well. It was called “Heightened Antisemitism in Canada and How to Confront It”. It came forward with many recommendations, some of which are included in the bill. For example, Minister, are you aware of the study on anti-Semitism that the justice committee did last year?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 139, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/anthony-housefather-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate text; bill defended as response to rising anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Is this bill, then, not exactly what has been requested (Bill C-9)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Minister. Thank you for being with us today. I would like to discuss certain aspects of Bill C‑9 with you, but I will begin with something that stands out to me. It seems that the provisions in Bill C‑9 to combat hate and anti-Semitism, and so forth, already exist in the Criminal Code. I know it is not worded exactly the same, but there is already a provision that makes it a criminal offence for anyone to advocate or promote genocide, for example. It is in section 318. Subsection 319(2.1) deals with inciting hatred, promoting hatred, as well as anti-Semitism. There is also a section 430 offence for crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hate. I will not list them all, but most of the situations that Bill C‑9 seeks to legislate already exist. Can you tell me why you felt it necessary to introduce a bill that essentially takes these same situations and makes them crimes by …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 173, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/rheal-fortin-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "cites existing Criminal Code hate and antisemitism provisions and asks why new ones are needed", "trigger": "certain aspects of Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… adding six months or removing one month, but this will not change much. However, you will no doubt recall that during the last Parliament, the Bloc Québécois introduced a bill to eliminate the religious exemption defences in subsections 319(3) and 319(3.1) of the Criminal Code. Anyone charged with promoting hatred or anti-Semitism can claim to have a good defence if they spoke in good faith about a religious text that they believe in. Does that not seem more useful to you? I do not see it in Bill C‑9."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/rheal-fortin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "urges removal of the religious-text defence that shields promotion of antisemitism", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the Bloc's earlier bill on the religious exemption in s. 319", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. Mr. Ripley, I would like you to provide me with details on how things work on the ground. Right now, when the police deal with a case of incitement to hatred, for example, whether it be an anti-Semitic statement or something else, they approach the Crown prosecutor and ask whether they can prosecute the individual in question. The prosecutor considers all of that, takes a number of factors into account and decides whether there is a case to prosecute, depending on whether or not there is an effective defence or something like that. In your opinion, in the case of an anti-Semitic crime or hate crime, can the religious exemption defence currently mentioned in subsection 319(1) of the Criminal Code play a role in the decision to prosecute or not?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 132, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/rheal-fortin-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "procedural question on how the religious exemption affects charging decisions", "trigger": "the religious exemption defence in the Criminal Code as it bears on Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Sean Fraser", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… as multipartisan support, not just on that item but on some of the others you referenced, made it clear there was an appetite among parliamentarians in Canada to effect these very specific changes. It seems the Conservative Party has now shifted its position when it comes to those measures that were designed to combat anti-Semitism after the recommendations came out of that report."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 76, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/sean-fraser-48/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "It seems the Conservative Party has now shifted its position when it comes to those measures that were designed to combat anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges the Conservative Party with shifting away from measures designed to combat anti-Semitism", "trigger": "measures ... designed to combat anti-Semitism after the recommendations came out of that report (Bill C-9 study)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"the Conservative Party has now shifted its position when it comes to those measures that were designed to combat anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Sean Fraser", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… the opportunity to talk to people who face discrimination.... Let's be specific; it's not just discrimination. There are firebombs on our synagogues. There are desecrations of our National Holocaust Monument. We have seen far too many people feel unsafe to practise their faith. Although we've seen a troubling rise in anti-Semitism, it's not limited to any one particular faith. I have had the opportunity to speak with members of the Muslim community, the Christian community, the Hindu community and the Sikh community, who tell me the great pain they go through when they're unable to live their lives freely, be who they are and practise their fai …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 857, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/7/sean-fraser-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "minister decries firebombed synagogues and desecration of the Holocaust monument", "trigger": "the combatting hate act, Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-20", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I appreciate that, but this isn't the first time this has actually happened. We've seen anti-Semitic rhetoric used by the CBC and unfair reporting. For example, during the events of October 7, when those were reported by the CBC, throughout that time, statistics were often taken from Hamas itself, which of course is a terrorist entity, and used by the CBC as if they were from a government ministry itself. In addition …", "… agine the hatred and the outrage that had already been targeted toward a vulnerable population that exists here in Canada, our Jewish community. It has been time after time. Unfortunately, I don't have the allotment of time to outline all of the incidents, but this has happened a lot. What are you doing to tackle this anti-Semitic rhetoric that exists within the CBC and its news reporting?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 205, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/7/rachael-thomas-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "quotes a witness on CBC workplace toxicity; no antisemitism content", "trigger": "Mr. Dhanraj's account of a CBC culture of 'retaliation, exclusion, and psychological harm'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-20", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["With all due respect, it's not getting better, though. I mean, here we are. This most recent event just took place on September 15, when extremely racist, extremely anti-Semitic comments were made on the airwaves. I guess my question for you on behalf of the Canadian public, and in particular on behalf of the Jewish community, would be this: Will you, as the CEO of the CBC, undertake a thorough investigation to confront this type of systematic racism that exists within your organization?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/7/rachael-thomas-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 7, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "duplicate text; quotes witness on CBC culture, no antisemitism content", "trigger": "Mr. Dhanraj's account of a CBC culture of 'retaliation, exclusion, and psychological harm'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anaïs Bussières McNicoll", "role": "Director, Fundamental Freedoms Program, Canadian Civil Liberties Association", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Yes. Antisemitism is defined as holocaust denial. That is a precise definition, but it's not necessarily what people understand—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 19, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/anais-bussieres-mcnicoll-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "states the narrow statutory definition of antisemitism versus lay understanding, no claim of misapplication", "trigger": "the definition of antisemitism in the Criminal Code as carried into Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["You did mention political leadership as being important. Do you think there has been leadership from the Liberal Party on anti-Semitism in the last two years?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 26, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-18/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "technical question on dropping 'extreme manifestation' from the hate definition, no stance on antisemitism", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I appreciate that. Do you believe there has been leadership from the Liberal Party of Canada in condemning anti-Semitism in the last two years, yes or no?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 27, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ilver, you alluded to the importance of political leadership. I actually agree that in the context of Bill C-9 we have to look at the broader context of hate and its origins. I am assuming you would be aware that in August, there was an open letter signed by several Liberal members of Parliament condemning the rise of anti-Semitism. What do you make of the fact that only 31 Liberal MPs, a very slim minority, signed that letter?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 81, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-15/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm sorry. I'm not sure if you heard the question, sir. I asked what you think of the fact that in August, only 32—I apologize—Liberal members of Parliament signed the letter denouncing the rise in anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 36, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Wonderful, so not signing a declaration condemning anti-Semitism is a bit of a problem. I'm glad we got there, Mr. Silver. Your organization's founder, Irwin Cotler, actually advised Mr. Anthony Housefather, a Liberal member of Parliament, to leave the Liberal caucus over anti-Semitism in the Liberal Party. Do you agree with Mr. Cotler's advice?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 54, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Have you read the Government of Canada's report, “Antisemitism in Ontario's K-12 Schools\"?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 13, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. One of the take-aways from the report is that, of the thousands of incidents, a great many of them are anti-Semitic incidents. One in six anti-Semitic incidents involve teachers or school-sanctioned activities. Does it concern you that teachers and schools are actually involved in perpetuating hate against students?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 50, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["What do you believe should be available to students and families dealing with anti-Semitism when the person of authority, the teacher or the school, through a sanctioned activity, is responsible for it? That's what this report gets to, and I do hope you'll take a look at it afterwards."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 49, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-24/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Before the witnesses are dismissed, Mr. Chair, I want to say that I ran out of time before I could get to professors Butler and Kogan, but I sense that they have a response to the government's report on anti-Semitism in Ontario schools. I just want to ask if we could allow them to provide to the committee a written submission on anything they wish to share on that."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 69, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/andrew-lawton-25/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "duplicate technical question on the hate definition", "trigger": "the omission of the words 'extreme manifestation' from the definition of hate ... that Bill C-9 puts in law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anju Dhillon", "role": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… out of time. Quickly, there was something said about assaulting somebody because of how they look. The other thing is there are Holocaust deniers, and they use that as freedom of speech. Brian Mulroney said something very interesting in 2023: [I]n the wake of the Holocaust…firewalls were thrown up, and the bonfires of antisemitism were for a time reduced to flickering embers. But those firewalls, weakened by the passage of time and willful neglect, have been breached. Cloaked in the armour of free speech, fuelled by hate and stoked by the oxygen of the internet and social media, those fires now burn out of control. 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Thank you so much to the witnesses. I note that three of the different witnesses, Mr. Sandler, Mr. Kogan and Dr. Butler, appeared before our committee last year on the anti-Semitism study, and that Bill C-9 puts into effect many of the recommendations from the justice committee on the anti-Semitism study. I would also note that the letter that was referred to by my colleague Mr. Lawton actually endorsed each and every one of the recommendations from the anti-Semitism study, some of which Mr. Lawton doesn't endorse, so he would not have signed that letter. I don't think it was a simple condemnation of anti-Semitism. It was actually a detailed request to government to implement measures, many of which are reflected in this law, Bill C-9 . Mr. Silver, do you agree that, regardless of whether some of these measures in Bill C-9 would essentially reformulate certain elements in the Criminal Code, they send an important message to pol …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 237, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/anthony-housefather-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "defends bill as implementing anti-Semitism study recommendations; partisan jab is about endorsement, not the label", "trigger": "Bill C-9 puts into effect many of the recommendations from the justice committee on the anti-Semitism study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Brandon Silver", "role": "Director of Policy and Projects, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["In condemning anti-Semitism, there is a need for—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 8, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/brandon-silver-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "truncated line beginning 'In condemning anti-Semitism'", "trigger": "witness testimony on Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Brandon Silver", "role": "Director of Policy and Projects, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I would trust that any member of the House, given the opportunity to comment, would condemn anti-Semitism. In my own experience engaging with members of the House, I see that to be the case, that condemnation of anti-Semitism is something that should be above partisan politics, and...the strong support from all parties in the House on the matter."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/brandon-silver-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate truncated condemnation line", "trigger": "witness testimony on Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Cary Kogan", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["NECA unequivocally affirms the urgent need to strengthen academic freedom, a right that must be exercised with academic responsibility. Critically, academic freedom cannot supersede the law, including hate speech laws. As experts on anti-Semitism, we submit examples from Canadian campuses. These illustrate the pressing need to clarify, update and strengthen hate crime legislation to address bias, prejudice and hate against all minoritized groups."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 63, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/cary-kogan-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "campus examples offered to urge stronger hate-crime law against antisemitism", "trigger": "the pressing need to clarify, update and strengthen hate crime legislation (Bill C-9)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Cary Kogan", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… de loi C‑9 , de l'intimidation et de l'entrave à l'accès à l'espace. Comme nous l'avons illustré, les symboles de terreur et le fait de fomenter des idéologies terroristes sont des outils clés pour propager la haine sur les campus. Nous appuyons la proposition de Mark Sandler et de la Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, ou ALCCA. L'accusation distincte de promotion délibérée du terrorisme devrait être présentée, tout comme l'amendement au projet de loi visant à supprimer l'exigence de preuve d'intention haineuse lorsque des symboles terroristes sont exposés."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 92, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/cary-kogan-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "duplicate text urging stronger hate-crime law", "trigger": "the pressing need to clarify, update and strengthen hate crime legislation (Bill C-9)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Cary Kogan (Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics)", "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… air. My name is Cary Kogan and I am a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa. Deidre Butler and I are the co-founders of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics. The Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, NECA, promotes academic freedom, research excellence and intellectual pluralism to counter anti-Semitism. Our network includes over 400 faculty members on 52 Canadian campuses."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 65, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/cary-kogan-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "introduces a network founded to counter anti-Semitism, approving frame", "trigger": "appearance as a witness on Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Cassandra Hallett", "role": "Executive Director, Canadian Teachers' Federation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rs, will only go so far. However, if we can make strides in Canadian society to condemn hate in all its forms, that will be something that has a trickle-down effect for our educators and for their students, because as a society we will be improving in terms of ensuring that we know hate in all its forms, whether it is anti-Semitism, anti-2SLGBTQ rhetoric, etc., is not acceptable. Certainly legislation that promotes safety and freedom could be helpful, but regarding the specifics of how Bill C-9 would help in K-to-12 schools, I think it would take some time, respectfully, to see how that would bear out."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 117, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/cassandra-hallett-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech", "criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "calls for society to condemn hate in all forms including anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the specifics of how Bill C-9 would help in K-to-12 schools", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Cassandra Hallett (Executive Director, Canadian Teachers' Federation)", "role": "Executive Director, Canadian Teachers' Federation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… E does support the intent of this part of the legislation. The issue of combatting hate is very important for us and for teachers across the country. We recently worked with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and shared some of their resources amongst our members because of the alarming rise in discrimination, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and gender identity-based hate all across the country. The global political climate has ushered in a new era of divisiveness and animosity. Whatever the reason for this swell in division, children should never be on the receiving end of aggressive shows of disagreement. A school needs to be a sanctuary. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 673, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/cassandra-hallett-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["education", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "alarm at rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and hate-fuelled protest around schools", "trigger": "Bill C-9 is seeking to address intimidation felt by those attending an educational institution", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["We speak to you today as scholars. For over three decades, universities and colleges have been the front lines of contemporary anti-Semitism in Canada. Since October 7, 2023, our members describe campuses where anti-Semitism continues to surge unchecked and where Jew hatred is normalized, often under the guise that this is political speech or protected by academic freedom."], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 58, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/deidre-butler-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "says campus anti-Semitism surges unchecked and Jew hatred is normalized under a political-speech guise", "trigger": "witness testimony on Bill C-9 about campus anti-Semitism since October 7, 2023", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian campuses where \"anti-Semitism continues to surge unchecked\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Deidre Butler", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["We speak to you today as professors who research anti-Semitism, with examples from campuses across Canada. Hatred undermines the university's mission of advancing knowledge and training future Canadians. Hatred impedes the free flow of ideas that drive innovation and creativity, which are essential to the future of Canada. When identity-based hate is allowed to flourish on campus …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 68, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/deidre-butler-6/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "duplicate text on unchecked campus anti-Semitism", "trigger": "witness testimony on Bill C-9 about campus anti-Semitism since October 7, 2023", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "Canadian campuses where \"anti-Semitism continues to surge unchecked\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Deidre Butler (Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics)", "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to share our insights and expertise about anti-Semitism as you review Bill C-9 . I'm Dr. Deidre Butler, associate professor of Jewish studies at Carleton University."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 37, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/deidre-butler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "witness introduction offering expertise on anti-Semitism, no target named", "trigger": "this opportunity to share our insights and expertise about anti-Semitism as you review Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Marc Miller", "role": "Hon. 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I'll briefly remind you that …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 218, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/the-chair-28/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Mark Sandler", "role": "Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I've set out in a discussion paper that was presented at the National Forum on Combatting Antisemitism a series of issues which I think have to be addressed. The first is that police officers have to be acquainted with all of the legal measures that are available to them to combat hate, and police officers are sometimes unaware of those provisions that exist. The second is that police officers need to understand what forms of hatred exist and, in the context of anti-Semitism, what contemporary anti-Semitism looks like. They have to understand what it means in order to apply the law effectively. Third, they have to be supported, whether by municipal police service boards or municipalities if they're municipal police forces. In other words, they don't direct the day-to-day decisions made by police, but they have to demonstrate a zero tolerance for anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred. They have to create policies on policing that should be implemented by the police force, and I see some of that not taking place right across the land."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 176, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/mark-sandler-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["security", "education"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "drafting recommendation on the scope of hate offences; no antisemitism content", "trigger": "the scope of the hate offences in Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Mark Sandler", "role": "Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["It's been very challenging to address situations where they do not involve traditional forms of hate. When you're doing the intersection of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, there has to be a better understanding of what's being said and when it crosses the threshold into hate. When people are chanting that all Zionists are evil, genocidal and racist, without distinction, that crosses into hate speech. That's very different from criticizing Israel, its conduct, its policies, its governme …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 85, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/mark-sandler-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "duplicate drafting recommendation; no antisemitism content", "trigger": "the scope of the hate offences in Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Mark Sandler (Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual)", "role": "Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to address you on Bill C-9 . I bring the perspective of someone who's been involved in combatting anti-Semitism for 40 years and in training police and prosecutors across the country on the availability of criminal measures to combat hate. I have appeared before this committee and other parliamentary committees, and in the Supreme Court of Canada on multiple occasions, with regard to hate-motivated crimes and the constitutionality of hate legislation. I'm currently chair of the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, which is a non-partisan coalition of over 60 community organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, a number of which will be filing written submissions supporting the position that I will outline for you today. I have already provided the committee with a detailed written legal analysis of the legislation and with my recom …", "… ng laws. We are underutilizing existing criminal law measures. This committee should signal that all governments and law enforcement must work co-operatively to ensure that law enforcement utilizes the tools they already have available to them, as well as any enhancements this legislation may add, to address pervasive anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred in Canada. Just over a week ago, a man pleaded guilty in a Toronto courtroom to multiple terrorism-related offences, for conduct that included his authorship and distribution of manifestos on behalf of a white supremacist hate group. These manifestos were cited by criminals around the world as justification for heinous crimes that they committed. The manifestos advocated violence, including sabotage of critical infrastructure, murder of police officers and high-profile assassinations. The prosecutor described the manifesto as including “radically antisemitic” material and incitement to attacks against LGBTQ+ individuals, Jews and people of colour. Over 34 years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the need to place limits on freedom of speech to address the most virulent forms of hatred, because such speech not only marginalizes vulnerable Canadians but also attrac …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 846, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/mark-sandler-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "40 years combatting anti-Semitism, quotes prosecutor on 'radically antisemitic' manifestos, calls it an epidemic of hate crimes", "trigger": "the opportunity to address you on Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"a man pleaded guilty in a Toronto courtroom to multiple terrorism-related offences\" for “radically antisemitic” manifestos", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Nusaiba Al-Azem", "role": "Director of Legal Affairs, National Council of Canadian Muslims", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Let me be clear, this has always been the position of the National Council of Canadian Muslims: If anybody is espousing any form of hatred against any group, and that includes anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, any other identifiable group, that is incorrect and it's something we—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 44, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/nusaiba-al-azem-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "states any hatred against any group, including anti-Semitism, is wrong", "trigger": "questioning of the NCCM witness during the Bill C-9 study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["There's an offence for hatred and another for antisemitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 9, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/rheal-fortin-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "bare citation that separate offences exist for hatred and antisemitism", "trigger": "the separate Criminal Code offences for hatred and for antisemitism under review in Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… r Alford, I only have two and a half minutes, so I'm going to make this quick. If you don't want to answer a question, say so, and we'll move on. I would like to ask you the same question I asked Ms. Al-Azem about the two religious exemptions in section 319 of the Criminal Code, which allow the promotion of hatred and antisemitism based on a religious text. In your opinion, should these exemptions be removed from the Criminal Code or should they be maintained?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 90, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/rheal-fortin-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "cites the s.319 religious exemptions and asks the witness whether to remove them", "trigger": "the two religious exemptions in section 319 of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… sières McNicoll and the other witnesses for being with us today. Ms. Al-Azem, I would like to know what you think of the religious exemption. Bill C‑367 was introduced to eliminate from the Criminal Code the two defence provisions in paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b), which allowed the wilful promotion of hatred or antisemitism if an opinion was based on a religious text. 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According to section 319(2) of the Criminal Code, “everyone who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty” of an offence. Subsection 319(2.1) says the same thing for someone who “wilfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust”. These two provisions, which prohibit incitement to hatred or antisemitism, are accompanied by a defence whereby “No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)…if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text”. The same provision exists for subsection (2.1). …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 221, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/rheal-fortin-29/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "quotes s.319(2) and (2.1) verbatim and asks whether the defence should be removed", "trigger": "the religious-text defence to subsections 319(2) and 319(2.1) of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-23", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Wade Chang", "role": "Burnaby Central, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Burnaby Central", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Your organization has long championed the protection of human rights, and it fights against anti-Semitism around the world. How does Bill C-9 advance Canada's broad leadership in these areas?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 29, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/9/wade-chang-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 9, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "approving reference to the organization's fight against anti-Semitism, asks how the bill advances it", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "How does Bill C-9 advance Canada's broad leadership in these areas", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, witnesses, for taking the time to join us today. I'd like to start with you, Mr. Shack. In November 2024, CIJA wrote a letter to the government in the wake of rampant anti-Semitism across the country—riots, even. There were five actions in it. I won't go through them all, in the interest of time, but I'd invite you to submit a copy of it to the committee for our review later. I noticed that nowhere on that list of actions for the federal government was the removal of Attorney General consent on …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 173, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/andrew-lawton-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "outrage at groups whose charter seeks to eradicate the Jewish people; presses witness on October 7", "trigger": "Do you believe that October 7 was a terrorist attack", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "\"organizations that have committed in plain view acts of terror\", i.e. Hamas and October 7", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Mr. Shack, back in August of this year, 32 Liberal members of Parliament signed an open letter, initiated by Mr. Housefather, condemning anti-Semitism. Thirty-two is a small fraction of the governing body's caucus. The same week, every single Conservative member of Parliament signed a letter condemning anti-Semitism. That's 144 MPs. Do you believe there has been leadership from this Liberal government in condemning and denouncing anti-Semitic hate?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 67, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/andrew-lawton-23/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "duplicate text pressing on terrorism and eradication of the Jewish people", "trigger": "Do you believe that October 7 was a terrorist attack", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "\"organizations that have committed in plain view acts of terror\", i.e. Hamas and October 7", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["That's because anti-Semitism shouldn't be a partisan issue. Is that correct?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 11, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/anthony-housefather-22/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asserts anti-Semitism should not be a partisan issue", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for coming forward today. I'm going to reiterate something that I said at previous meetings. Last year, this committee studied anti-Semitism with a focus on anti-Semitism on campus. We put out a report from this committee last December, and the majority of items in this bill were recommendations from the justice committee in its report, which CIJA and other organizations testified on. Mr. Shack, I previously asked this question today to the Edmonton Police Service, and I got an affirma …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 193, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/anthony-housefather-16/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate non-partisan assertion about anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I'm in agreement, but each of those three elements is true, and I think we've heard for a very long time that words aren't enough and action is required. Amending the criminal law is the strongest action the government can take, and they're taking these actions straight out of this very committee's report related to anti-Semitism. Can I ask you about the Attorney General consent? I think your position is that, and I may be paraphrasing, you think there may be other ways to address it, but as you know, this committee can't address that in this bill in the ways you've just suggested to Mr. Brock. We as a committee can't give guidelines to how At …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/anthony-housefather-17/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "duplicate non-partisan assertion about anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… made the point to Mr. Lawton when he previously tried to make this implication, my letter—which wasn't only my letter; it was the Jewish Liberal caucus's letter—made very specific policy recommendations endorsing all of the recommendations from the justice committee report last year. It wasn't a simple condemnation of anti-Semitism. Mr. Lawton wouldn't have signed that letter because he doesn't support all of the recommendations in the justice committee report. I find it hypocritical at best that Mr. Lawton is raising such a point. Mr. Shack, I have heard from you today...and I do believe you speak for the vast majority of the Canadian Jewish co …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 146, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/anthony-housefather-20/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "treats antisemitism as a wrong that should be non-partisan, no target named", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Vijaykumar Jain", "role": "Director, Canadian Hindus for Harmony", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. We welcome the “facial neutral” language in the bill that is addressing hatred against all identifiable groups. However, the communication that was sent out from the justice committee on September 19 makes explicit note of addressing anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and homophobia. It excludes Hinduphobia in the communication. There have been rising incidents of Hinduphobia in Canada. When such communication goes out and we see that Hinduphobia missing in it, our community feels that hatred against the Hindu community has been ignored. We request the inclusion of Hi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 95, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/vijaykumar-jain-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "relays the justice committee's Sept 19 communication; his own point is Hinduphobia's omission", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the justice committee's September 19 communication on hate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Vijaykumar Jain (Director, Canadian Hindus for Harmony)", "role": "Director, Canadian Hindus for Harmony", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… led their symbol “swastika”. Their word was hakenkreuz or hooked cross, and we understand that in this bill the word is used as Nazi hakenkreuz , which is good. However, at the same time in this bill there is also the association of the word “swastika” with Nazi. Associating the word “swastika” with the Nazi symbol or anti-Semitism spurred misinformation and confuses Jain, Hindu and Buddhist learners about their scriptures. We have a deep concern about associating the word “swastika” with Nazis. We have approached many organizations and provincial governments to remove the word “swastika” from hate references. In my written submission, I have pr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 677, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/vijaykumar-jain-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "argues the word swastika is wrongly associated with Nazism and antisemitism", "trigger": "Bill C-9, specifically proposed paragraph 319(2.2)(b) and the word \"swastika\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-30", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Wade Chang", "role": "Burnaby Central, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Burnaby Central", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Thank you. My next question is for Mr. Shack. First of all, thank you so much for being here and for your continued focus on and fight against anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms. Jewish Canadians have faced a troubling rise in hate incidents. From your perspective, why are strong, clear laws like Bill C-9 so important for protecting Canadians?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 61, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/11/wade-chang-10/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 11, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "objects to threats against Jewish, Muslim and queer Canadians", "trigger": "Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-11-03", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Casey Babb (Director of the Promised Land Program and Strategic Adviser to Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism, Macdonald-Laurier Institute)", "role": "Director of the Promised Land Program and Strategic Adviser to Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism, Macdonald-Laurier Institute", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair and esteemed members of the committee, for inviting me to speak about the situation in Sudan. I'm honoured to be here today in my capacity as a director with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and as an adviser to both Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism and Secure Canada. Right now, as we gather here today, men, women and children throughout Sudan are wondering if they'll make it, if they can do it again, if they can survive another night, night 933 of what should be described as a genocide, Sudan's second in 20 years. Indeed, while there are numerous conflict zones …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 605, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/3/casey-babb-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["inspired", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "term appears only in the witness's organizational affiliation", "trigger": "the war and mass atrocities in Sudan, \"night 933 of what should be described as a genocide\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-11-03", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Fayçal El-Khoury", "role": "Fayçal El-Khoury (Laval—Les Îles, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Laval—Les Îles", "province": "QC", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… video conference. Welcome, France‑Isabelle Langlois. From Doctors Without Borders, we have Michael Lawson, humanitarian representative to Canada. Welcome, Michael Lawson. From the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, we have Casey Babb, director of the promised land program and strategic advisor to Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism. Welcome, Casey Babb. As an individual, we have Khalid Medani, associate professor of political science and chair of the African studies program at McGill University. Welcome, Khalid Medani. Also as an individual, we have Jon Unruh, professor and director of the department of geography, East Africa field studies semes …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 431, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/3/the-chair-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 3, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "chair reads out a witness's organizational title", "trigger": "the human rights situation in Sudan", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-11-03", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rechie Valdez", "role": "Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Streetsville", "province": "ON", "topic": "Status of Women", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. The member opposite is absolutely right. We are seeing troubling signs of a rise in hate, whether it's against the 2SLGBTQI+ community or through anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, and that is unacceptable. When it comes to the rise in hate against the 2SLGBTQI+ community, our government has long supported organizations that are driving inclusion, safety and empowerment across the country. When I spoke to them this past summer, I learned that our women and gender equality fundin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 235, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/status-of-women/45-1/12/rechie-valdez-39/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Status of Women", "committee_slug": "status-of-women", "meeting": 12, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "calls the rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia unacceptable", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-11-24", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Justin Beber", "role": "Chief Operating Officer, Brookfield Corporation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["I contacted him to have a discussion about the rise in hate incidents, particularly anti-Semitism, across Canada."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 17, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/18/justin-beber-135/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "reports contacting an official about the rise in antisemitic incidents", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-11-27", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… e menu that authoritarians can look at when they want to censor what Canadians say. I say this as someone who is very supportive of the arguments that have been put forward by members of the Jewish community in Canada, which are that there is a significant problem with hate and that Jews have been unfairly targeted by anti-Semitism, not just since October 7, but for decades and millennia. We have seen hate become a lot more brazen in this country since October 7. Many of the problems have been a failure by political leadership to deal with this. When you speak to people who are in this space—members of law enforcement—they will say that there is …", "… e the Liberals decided that they didn't want to send a strong message that we will not stand for child pornographers in this committee. There's Dr. David Haskell, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, where I had the privilege of teaching journalism very briefly, and Talia Klein Leighton with Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, again, an outstanding witness whom we did not get a chance to hear from. There were witnesses proposed by other parties as well. This is not just asserting the Conservative-offered witnesses' right to testify. There is Stephen Camp, formerly of the Edmonton police hate crimes unit; Michal Jacob, Office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism; the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police; the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police; and representatives of the RCMP hate crime unit. Again, you'd think that people who are going to be tasked with enforcing the provisions in Bill C-9 would be able to testify so that we understand the implications of the laws that we're proceeding with. There's Deborah Lyons. She is a representative of the Liberal government's efforts against anti-Semitism, and I don't believe any Jewish person in Canada would say that she has managed to rein in anti-Semitism or that the Liberal government has had a desire to do this. There's Mark Neufeld, formerly of the Calgary Police Service with the hate crimes unit. Again, that's someone you would think would be top of mind to hear from as members of the justice committee. There's Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg. He's the head clergy at Temple …", "… asily found time to come here if the committee had allowed time to hear from witnesses on Bill C-9 . There's Mohammed Hashim of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Another potential witness was a former justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, Rosalie Abella. I know that her late husband was a tremendous scholar of anti-Semitism in Canada. I'm not familiar with Brittan Hudson's work, but I believe they were on the witness list for a reason, and justice committee members would have been able to learn something, perhaps. There's The 519. I mentioned Dr. Benjamin Roebuck. 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It certainly has no moral authority to take a stand against anti-Semitism when the Liberals have been criticized by members of the Jewish community for allowing anti-Semitism from within the party. I remember when Irwin Cotler, a lion of Canadian politics and one of the most vocal advocates for Jewish rights and human rights in the world, argued that Mr. Anthony Housefather, who's been very engaged in the Bill C-9 study, should leave the Liberal caucus over his position on these critical i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 3553, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/13/andrew-lawton-19/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 13, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "affirms Jews are unfairly targeted by antisemitism while opposing Bill C-9 as the remedy", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the motion on witness testimony and the amendment deadline", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"hate that they have allowed to fester\"; \"a failure by political leadership\" (the Liberal government)", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-11-27", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… doesn't believe it was properly done. From the Hindu Canadian Foundation, we had concerns regarding the use of the word “swastika”, a word that appropriates a very sacred symbol for them, an ancient Sanskrit word, and concerns they have about things that resemble other things. We had also, from Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, a written submission on Bill C-9 by Talia Klein Leighton. She submitted this brief in which she talks about the “ever-growing crisis of antisemitism and antizionism.” She says these have “found amplification in schools”. In one of those three meetings when we were doing witness testimony, we had a witness here who represented the Canadian Teachers' Federation. I hadn't read a brief from the Canadian Teachers' Federation, so I didn't know at first why they wanted t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 3387, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/13/andrew-lawton-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 13, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "community organisations"], "act_why": "affirms Jews are unfairly targeted by antisemitism while opposing Bill C-9 as the remedy", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the motion on witness testimony and the amendment deadline", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"hate that they have allowed to fester\"; \"a failure by political leadership\" (the Liberal government)", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-12-01", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Richard Robertson", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… astic. However, we need to ensure that these youth aren't flying blind into a storm and that they are equipped with the tools to actively confront the misinformation and disinformation they're seeing. You asked about the connectivity with the Jewish community. Over the past two years, we've seen an increase of 124% in anti-Semitism. We're dealing with an endemic of online radicalization and a national crisis of anti-Semitism. In our 2024 audit, we pointed to the use of AI to disseminate hateful content. There were images of Holocaust survivors on roller coasters at concentration camps and images of Anne Frank using a ballpoint pen, which is a Holocaust conspiracy theory. All of these were generated in AI. Anti-Semitism, online radicalization, the misuse of social media and the nefarious acts of social media influencers are inseparable in today's society."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 419, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/17/richard-robertson-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "alarm at a 124% rise in antisemitism alongside online radicalization", "trigger": "B'nai Brith's 2024 audit (a 124% rise in anti-Semitism) and CSIS/RCMP findings on online radicalization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "individual"], "target_detail": "\"groups such as the Goyim Defense League, 764, the Maniac Murder Cult and terrorist organizations like Samidoun\" spreading content online; \"the gentleman who stabbed a woman at an Ottawa supermarket\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-01", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Richard Robertson (Director, Research and Advocacy, B'nai Brith Canada)", "role": "Director, Research and Advocacy, B'nai Brith Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… urable committee members, my name is Richard Robertson. I'm B'nai Brith Canada's director of research and advocacy. B'nai Brith Canada is Canada's oldest human rights organization and the voice of Canada's grassroots Jewish community. Our organization, which was established in 1875, is dedicated to eradicating racism, anti-Semitism and hatred in all of its forms, as well as championing the rights of the marginalized. The radicalization and indoctrination of Canadian youth online represents a dangerous threat to our national security and the continued vitality of communities across Canada. The spread of disinformation and misinformation online pr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 672, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/17/richard-robertson-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 17, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "organization dedicated to eradicating antisemitism; alarm at youth radicalization", "trigger": "the CSIS 2024 public report (July 2025) on youth radicalization and the 2011 RCMP report \"Youth Online and at Risk\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "\"disinformation and misinformation online propagated by influencers on social media\"; \"nefarious actors\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-03", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David Morin", "role": "Full Professor, UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism, Université de Sherbrooke, as an individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… rse. Again, I don’t want to name names, but some groups do have a storefront, are present on major social media platforms, while others are on much more alternative platforms, and they still reach a fairly significant, albeit targeted, audience. I’m not sure, if I named them, that it would necessarily resonate. As for antisemitism, as you know, it did not originate with the attacks of October 7. Antisemitism has been present in our societies for a long time, but this type of conflict indeed contributes to reactivating it. In my opinion, we should better regulate hate speech because—as the statistics show—hate speech against the Jewish community has significantly increased in recent years. It does not seem to be weakening. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 269, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/18/david-morin-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "describes and deplores rising hate speech directed at the Jewish community", "trigger": "\"the attacks of October 7, 2023\" and the situation in Gaza", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"radical Islamist groups in Canada and some prominent figures in Quebec\" (declines to name)", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-12-03", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… k forward to being able to review that. Thank you so much for sending that our way, Ms. Paul. My next question is going to Mr. Morin. I understand you've done quite a bit of research with regard to the radicalization of young people. Last month, the CSIS director, Dan Rogers, warned about hateful ideologies, including anti-Semitism. He said that young people are being radicalized in a dangerous way, and that this has been amplified since October 7. Can you explain what the link is between anti-Semitism and radicalization here in Canada, and what can be done about that?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 127, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/18/rachael-thomas-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "police and security"], "act_why": "relays the CSIS director's warning about antisemitism and asks the witness to explain", "trigger": "the CSIS director Dan Rogers' warning last month about hateful ideologies and youth radicalization", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-12-08", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Konrad von Finckenstein", "role": "Commissioner, Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["You know what the rules are and how this screen is established to prevent everything, etc. You're talking about a meeting with this Mr. Beber, etc. I understand from the Prime Minister and from Mr. Beber's testimony that this was about anti-Semitism—it had absolutely nothing to do with business—and that it was a personal visit, etc. Should it have taken place or not? That's for you to decide. If they just talked about anti-Semitism, it is clearly not—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 78, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/22/konrad-von-finckenstein-58/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "no use of the term; procedural answer about when to open an examination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-08", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Konrad von Finckenstein", "role": "Commissioner, Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["As Mr. Beber said, he was there not as representative of Brookfield, but in a personal capacity to speak about anti-Semitism. That's obviously his right, and he can do that. It's unfortunate that it was done with just the two of them in the office of the Prime Minister . I think it would have been better if they had met as a group to talk with the Prime Minister so that one couldn't make the inference that some people are making, which is t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 89, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/22/konrad-von-finckenstein-80/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 22, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "no use of the term; procedural answer about when to open an examination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Amarjeet Gill", "role": "Brampton West, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s. We all want to give our law enforcement officials and prosecutors the tools they need to keep Canadians safe. This is important. Soft-on-crime Liberal policies have created chaos in communities across Canada. Police have reported that since 2015, hate crimes in Canada have increased by 258%. Extortions are up 330%. Anti-Semitic hate crimes alone are up 416%. Hate crimes against South Asians have risen by almost 380%. In 2014 alone, Canada saw almost 5,000 police-reported hate crimes—the highest number on record. In Toronto alone, hate crimes jumped by 19% in a single year, with assault-related hate crimes rising by 42%. Addressing the issue …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 881, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/amarjeet-gill-21/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "legal"], "act_why": "cites a 416% rise in antisemitic hate crimes with alarm", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and Mr. Brock's subamendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"Soft-on-crime Liberal policies have created chaos in communities across Canada... Anti-Semitic hate crimes alone are up 416%\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… as a tragedy. I think all members of the committee will join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to all the people of Australia, and particularly to the Jewish community worldwide, which was deeply impacted by this tragedy. We saw what that shooting caused to happen in Australia, which is that a royal commission on anti-Semitism was set up and laws were passed by its Parliament on gun control and hate. In fact, one of those laws proposed by the Government of Australia and eventually adopted by Parliament was similar to things in our combatting hate bill. In Canada, we were being proactive. We were trying to pass laws that police say will give …", "… a criminal lawyer with more than 32 years of experience, and as the chair of the Canadian Jewish Law Association. Since October 7, 2023, we have worked directly with students, professionals, and community members—Jewish and non-Jewish—who have faced harassment, exclusion, and intimidation. We have also contributed to antisemitism training for police and are preparing similar work with judges. The pattern is consistent: When hateful conduct is excused or ignored, it escalates. Canadian law already draws a clear line between strong opinions—which are protected—and extreme hatred, which is not. The Supreme Court of Canada made this clear in Regin …", "… at the display of symbols of terrorist entities and will provide additional protections for our most vulnerable religious and educational institutions, including synagogues, schools and community centers. Bill C-9 is not the only answer to the rise in hate, but it is necessary to not only send a message that hate, and antisemitism will not be tolerated but will be prosecuted. I also write as a supporter of political campaigns, including the Conservatives in the last election, and I want to be clear that the real danger is not that religious freedom will be curtailed. The real danger is allowing false claims about religious freedom to obscure th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1711, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/anthony-housefather-55/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "education"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "mourns the Bondi Beach murders and reads an op-ed saying antisemitism will not be tolerated", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "\"a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia\" in which fifteen people at a Hanukkah celebration were murdered", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"demonstrations in Mr. Baber's riding in Toronto that are entirely unacceptable that target Jewish communities for absolutely no other reason than they are Jewish\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Burton Bailey", "role": "Red Deer, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Red Deer", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… rs denied to charge him. There is no evidence he was not charged because of the religious defence protection. What Charkaoui said is really illegal. There is no defence for advocating genocide under section 318 or public incitement under subsection 319(1). The defence only exists for the wilful promotion of hatred and anti-Semitism charges. The refusal to charge Charkaoui was yet another example of authorities taking enforcement—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 187, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/burton-bailey-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "charge_quote": "The refusal to charge Charkaoui was yet another example of authorities taking enforcement", "act_why": "charges the named imam Charkaoui with praying for the extermination of Jews", "trigger": "the Liberal-Bloc agreement to repeal paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b) through Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui, who in 2023 used a prayer to call for the extermination of Jews\"; \"The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois have made a deal\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David Bexte", "role": "Bow River, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bow River", "province": "AB", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… express this point quite poignantly. The Liberals and the Bloc want to tear these protections out by the roots. The Bloc justifies this change by referencing a single case. Montreal imam Adil Charkaoui, in 2023, used a prayer to call for the extermination of Jews. This is abhorrent. His statements were vile and deeply anti-Semitic. The simple truth is that what he said was already illegal. It was illegal under section 318 for advocating genocide and under subsection 319(1) for the public incitement of hatred. This is another example of the government failing to act and failing to execute on laws that already exist on the books for the protectio …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 798, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/david-bexte-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "opposes the remedy while accepting that genuine incitement must be prosecuted", "trigger": "the removal of the religious expression safeguard in section 319 through Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… mmon prosecution to begin with, with barely a few dozen since the 1990s. Of those, only about one in four end in convictions. The best known was of the late Jim Keegstra of Alberta— We mentioned the Keegstra decision numerous times during our study on Bill C-9 . —a high school teacher and small town mayor who promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories to his students, and whose conviction of this crime was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1990. Religion factored in his motivation. Keegstra once told a journalist: “I got onto this through the scripture. Here was a people who denied everything about Christ, yet they were called the chosen people. Th …", "… nt in Ontario. They were acquitted on appeal in a ruling that held “wilful” to mean something close to “intentional,” in contrast to other forms of guilty knowledge such as negligence or recklessness. Since then, notable cases include David Ahenakew, an Indigenous leader who was tried twice but ultimately cleared over antisemitic comments to a reporter; and the internet cases of Keith Francis William Noble of British Columbia, sentenced to four months in 2008 for promoting hatred of Blacks, Jews and gays; Reinhard Gustav Mueller of Alberta, sentenced to 16 months in 2004 for promoting hatred of Jews; and James Sears of Ontario, whose targets were Jews and women, sentenced to one year in 2019. What happened in the case where the religious defence failed? That was the prosecution of Mark Harding of Toronto, who was convicted in 1998 under 319(2) [of the code] for distributing pamphlets and phone messages that descr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 829, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/larry-brock-73/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "recounts hate-speech case law and quotes judgments involving antisemitic conduct", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the subamendment to Mr. Lawton's amendment on charter freedoms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"Jim Keegstra... who promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories to his students\"; David Ahenakew; Reinhard Gustav Mueller; James Sears; Mark Harding", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ote hatred of an identifiable group, according to Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code...is one of the few ways a Canadian can be sentenced to jail, up to two years, directly over what they write or say. But there are four absolute defences spelled out in the law. No one can be convicted of wilfully promoting hatred or antisemitism, for example, “if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.” This is what the new hate crime bill proposes to remove. The other defences include the truth of the statements in question, reasonable …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 817, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/larry-brock-71/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "recounts hate-speech case law and quotes judgments involving antisemitic conduct", "trigger": "Bill C-9 and the subamendment to Mr. Lawton's amendment on charter freedoms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"Jim Keegstra... who promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories to his students\"; David Ahenakew; Reinhard Gustav Mueller; James Sears; Mark Harding", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Melissa Lantsman", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… curtain and light candles under floorboards, which is dangerous but obviously what they would have had to do in the Soviet Union to be able to practise freely. I have to say that over the better part of the last two and a half years, we've seen, particularly in the community I represent and come from, an explosion of anti-Semitism. We've seen gunshots at schools. We've seen firebombings at businesses and protests on a weekly basis in residential neighbourhoods. This is what this is predicated on trying to solve. The problem is that Bill C-9 doesn't do any of that and wouldn't stop any of that. It is sad that trying to convince a community comin …", "… act from the absolutely vitriolic relationship that this government has created with the Jewish community and a long-standing democratic ally. That's why Bill C-9 was introduced. Particularly on this amendment, there is no reason that anybody should come here to fight on behalf of their community, fight the scourge of anti-Semitism in the community, fight what's going on in the streets and fight what's going on in schools, in universities, in every institution, in labour unions, in our university faculty clubs and in police forces themselves if they don't do it on the basis of something they believe in. Taking away the right to believe that is a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1607, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/melissa-lantsman-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "describes an explosion of antisemitism, gunshots at schools and firebombings with outrage", "trigger": "\"a secret deal between the Liberals and the Bloc\" to remove the religious defence in Bill C-9, and Mr. Lawton's amendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"the absolutely vitriolic relationship that this government has created with the Jewish community\"; \"protests on a weekly basis in residential neighbourhoods\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… s part of an effort to legislate against hate, a fight I support 100%. I think that is pretty much the same everywhere in the House of Commons. There is already a provision in the Criminal Code that proposes to combat hate, namely section 319. In a nutshell, it prohibits or considers it an offence to promote hatred or anti-Semitism, in subsections (2) and (2.1) respectively. However, there is a problem with one of the defences provided for in subsection (3) of section 319. It states: No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2) … (b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on …", "… e amended by adding the following after line 12 on page 2: (1.1) Paragraph 319(3)(b) of the Act is repealed. (1.2) Paragraph 319(3.1)(b) of the Act is repealed. These are the two provisions that allow for a religious defence for an offence of incitement to hatred, in the first case, and for an offence of incitement to anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial, in the second. Secondly, the amendment proposes that the bill be amended by replacing line 19 on page 2 with the following: journalism, education or art, that is not con‐ Line 17 of page 2 reads as follows: No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2.2) (a) if the display of the …", "… s forms, Islam or Judaism, is it stated that inciting hatred is a good thing. Unfortunately, not everyone reads these texts in the same way. It would be truly detrimental if, by passing Bill C‑9, we allowed religion or religious texts to be interpreted in such a way that they enable their adherents to incite hatred or anti-Semitism. I therefore propose that we adopt amendment BQ‑3 to remove from the Criminal Code the religious exceptions currently found in section 319 and those proposed to be added in Bill C‑9."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 798, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/rheal-fortin-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "backs the fight against hate and antisemitism; the term is otherwise statutory", "trigger": "amendment BQ-3 to Bill C-9 repealing paragraphs 319(3)(b) and 319(3.1)(b)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"preacher Adil Charkaoui, in front of an audience listening to him, prayed to Allah to identify the enemies of Gaza, to exterminate them\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… ,000 Persians, being killed in the last two weeks alone, it is horrifying. That brings me to the point I want to make. Too often, many in this building, while very well-intentioned.... I want to be very clear. I respect all of my colleagues, and I never impute any negative intention when it comes to combatting hate or anti-Semitism in particular, but regrettably, I have come to believe, in witnessing the events of the last couple of years, that when many use the phrase “never again”, they use it more as a platitude. They don't really mean it, and that allegation may apply to more than one of the recognized parties. Mr. Housefather was correct in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 773, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/roman-baber-52/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "Holocaust remembrance and outrage at weekly incitement in his riding", "trigger": "\"tomorrow, when we mark the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz\", International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "institution"], "target_detail": "\"a group of masked men and women\" at Sheppard and Bathurst who \"chant incitement to violence every week\"; the NCCM, \"an organization that has received... a considerable amount of money from this Liberal government\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-12-09", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Tamara Jansen", "role": "Cloverdale—Langley City, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Cloverdale—Langley City", "province": "BC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… sion and freedom of religion.” It's a line in the sand that says that on the face of the law itself, these charter rights still matter. The Bloc and the Liberals have justified their earlier amendment by pointing to the case of the Montreal imam. In 2023, he prayed for the extermination of Jews. What he said was vile, anti-Semitic and hateful, and it was already illegal. There's no religious defence for advocating genocide and there is no religious defence for the public incitement of hatred. The authorities could have charged him—should have charged him—but they failed to enforce the law, and that failure is now being used as an excuse to crim …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1957, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/14/tamara-jansen-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "no use of the term; procedural questions about an unredacted contract", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-02-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Lisa Hepfner", "role": "Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Lib.)", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Hamilton Mountain", "province": "ON", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Moving on, the final thing I want to mention to members is that we've been invited, I think by the Embassy of Israel, to meet with some anti-Semitism experts this afternoon. You've all been invited. I wanted to verify that you all have that invitation. They're meeting with us and members of the justice committee this afternoon. With us today for our final meeting on the effects of influencers and social media content on children and adolescents, we have six witness …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 225, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/21/the-chair-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 21, "speaker_type": "member", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2026-02-23", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Einat Wilf (Author and Teacher of Zionism, As an Individual)", "role": "Author and Teacher of Zionism, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… ent of Jews from the Soviet Union and from eastern Europe. All of these displacements have taken place under the ideology of anti-Zionism. All of these places have claimed, in real time, to have nothing against Jews and to only be against Zionists, but that was merely the respectable, updated way to push out Jews once anti-Semitism, in its 19th- and 20th-century racialized form, had been discredited by the Holocaust and World War II. The replacement, created by the Soviet Union after World War II, has allowed the Arab world, Iran, the Soviet Union and eastern Europe to displace en masse millions of Jews; to strip them of their dignity, their hom …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 525, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/12/einat-wilf-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 12, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "both", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "that was merely the respectable, updated way to push out Jews once anti-Semitism, in its 19th- and 20th-century racialized form, had been discredited by the Holocaust and World War II", "act_why": "charges anti-Zionism, and Canada's planned measures, with being the vehicle for displacing Jews", "canada_role": "legislating", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"the Arab world, Iran, the Soviet Union and eastern Europe\"; \"Canada is now planning to [demonize and criminalize Zionism] under the guise of anti-Palestinian racism\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2026-02-23", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Patricia Lattanzio", "role": "Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["… nothing in subsection 319(2.1) of the Criminal Code shall be construed as prohibiting a person from communicating a statement on a matter of public interest, including an educational, religious, political or scientific statement made in the course of a discussion, publication or debate, if they do not wilfully promote antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust. Mr. Chair, I just want to give a bit of context with regard to this clause. Over the course of the past few months, we've heard concern from faith communities, legal experts and civil society about the removal of the former religious exemption in the Criminal Code. T …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 712, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/18/patricia-lattanzio-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 18, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "clergy"], "act_why": "reads the amendment's statutory wording on promoting antisemitism into the record", "trigger": "the \"for greater certainty\" clarification amendment to Bill C-9 following the removal of the religious exemption", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-02-25", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rhéal Fortin", "role": "Rivière-du-Nord, BQ", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Rivière-du-Nord", "province": "QC", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Merci, monsieur le président. Je crois que M. Lawton ou M. Baber disait qu'il fallait être à l'intérieur du tunnel du discours d'intérêt public, mais il ne s'agit pas du vrai tunnel. Le vrai tunnel est la fomentation de la haine. Si personne ne fomentait la haine ou l'antisémitisme, comme l'interdit l'article 319 du Code criminel, on n'aurait pas besoin de la clause d'interprétation. Je suis d'accord avec M. Housefather, qui vient de dire que la clause d'interprétation a été proposée par nos collègues libéraux pour essayer de faire taire les craintes que certains citoyens pouvaient avoir à cause …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 956, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/19/rheal-fortin-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 19, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "treats the fomenting of hatred and antisemitism as the real problem the clause addresses", "trigger": "the interpretation clause proposed for Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Mike Fegelman", "role": "Executive Director, HonestReporting Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… ptes aux puissants, pas d'être leurs porte-parole. C'est pourtant ce qu’ils font en propageant de la pure désinformation anti-israélienne et en se faisant les publicistes non rémunérés d'un immense réseau d'acteurs extrémistes au Canada. Cette couverture médiatique contribue directement à la flambée des crimes haineux antisémites. Dépeindre Israël comme un État voyou et génocidaire et réduire au silence les opposants, c'est faire des Juifs canadiens des cibles. L'incessante diabolisation d'Israël et, par le fait même, des Juifs a conduit à des attaques sans précédent contre la communauté juive. Les rassemblements de terroristes se tiennent rég …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 879, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/26/mike-fegelman-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 26, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "all while far too many elected leaders and law enforcement ignore this cancer in our midst", "act_why": "charges the CBC and named outlets with demonization that drives anti-Jewish hate crimes", "trigger": "October 7 and the Israel-Hamas war, and the Canadian media coverage that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"the worst offenders in anti-Israel media bias in Canada—whether the CBC, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star or others\"; \"pro-Palestinian activists\"", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Mike Fegelman", "role": "Executive Director, HonestReporting Canada", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["I'd like to recount a couple of examples of CBC bias that we've come across. The first was on February 16. CBC/Radio Canada's correspondent Elisa Serret, who was later suspended, uttered an anti-Semitic trope on air when claiming that “the Israelis, in fact the Jews, finance a lot of American politics” and control a “big machine”. It's a clear-cut anti-Semitic trope. CBC continues to use reporters who have expressed radical anti-Israel views. They have a journalist named Sara Jabakhanji who, in 2021, signed an open letter boldly proclaiming that there should be more pro-Palestinian coverage. That's just at the CBC. I would refer you to my colleague Amanda Eskenasi, who can …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/26/mike-fegelman-8/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 26, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "all while far too many elected leaders and law enforcement ignore this cancer in our midst", "act_why": "charges the CBC and named outlets with demonization that drives anti-Jewish hate crimes", "trigger": "October 7 and the Israel-Hamas war, and the Canadian media coverage that followed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"the worst offenders in anti-Israel media bias in Canada—whether the CBC, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star or others\"; \"pro-Palestinian activists\"", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2026-03-12", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Michael Cooper", "role": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River", "province": "AB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to direct my questions to Professor Geist. Since October 7, there has been a massive increase in anti-Semitic hate and violence in Canada. Just yesterday, you wrote a column on this topic, entitled “Words Are Not Enough”. You note: [Since October 7], Canadian Jewish communities...have faced relentless antisemitic incidents: schools hit with gunfire, synagogues firebombed, community centres and old-age homes vandalized, hospitals protested, summer camps threatened, Jewish students and campus groups vilified, and Jewish-owned businesses boycotted. You go on to say: These repeated incidents have become as much a part...of being J …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 149, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/25/michael-cooper-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "quotes the witness's article to press that leaders must call out antisemitism", "trigger": "the Bondi Beach massacre and the witness's article written right after it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"too often leaders avoid references to antisemitism or couch it with an 'all hate matters' message\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-12", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Michael Cooper", "role": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River", "province": "AB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["In another piece that you wrote, right after the Bondi Beach massacre, you stated that “too often leaders avoid references to antisemitism or couch it with an 'all hate matters' message”. Can you elaborate on why it is so important for leaders to call out anti-Semitism, full stop, without conflating anti-Semitism with other forms of hate, as condemnable as those other forms of hate may be?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/25/michael-cooper-2/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "quotes the witness's article to press that leaders must call out antisemitism", "trigger": "the Bondi Beach massacre and the witness's article written right after it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"too often leaders avoid references to antisemitism or couch it with an 'all hate matters' message\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-12", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Michael Cooper", "role": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert—Sturgeon River", "province": "AB", "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… in which it did an analysis on CBC coverage. What B'nai Brith found was a vast gap in terms of bias targeted toward Israel. References to things such as Israeli civilians were being virtually airbrushed from CBC's coverage since October 7. The conclusion of the report is that, in fact, CBC has contributed to fuelling anti-Semitic hate in Canada. Do you share B'nai Brith's conclusion and the concerns it has raised?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 92, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/25/michael-cooper-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "academics"], "act_why": "quotes the witness's article to press that leaders must call out antisemitism", "trigger": "the Bondi Beach massacre and the witness's article written right after it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"too often leaders avoid references to antisemitism or couch it with an 'all hate matters' message\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-12", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Michael Geist", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["To be clear, of course all hate does matter, but in this instance, when you look at the data, the amount of anti-Semitism and the violence that's accompanied it far outstrips the targeting of any other groups. It is a very small group in Canada. Too often, we see people who are not willing to call it out or, frankly, are not stepping up at all. I give enormous respect to the ministers and MPs who appeared yesterday in terms of trying to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 220, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/25/michael-geist-5/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "alarm at the scale of antisemitic violence and at the silence around it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"we see people who are not willing to call it out or, frankly, are not stepping up at all\"; \"the MPs who don't have large Jewish constituencies\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-12", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual)", "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… happen on any issue that becomes politicized, which leads to smears or falsehoods designed to undermine or chill that participation. Some of this may just be life in the political arena, but far worse is the hate that certain issues invariably spark. For example, I've been vocal on the issue of the relentless rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. That includes a Globe and Mail piece this week reflecting on the recent synagogue shootings in Toronto. I mention this because whenever I raise the issue, I face an immediate torrent of hate. Some of this comes in direct emails, and some of this is in social media replies that speak of false flags, Holocaus …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 804, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/25/michael-geist-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 25, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "describes the relentless rise of antisemitism and the torrent of hate he receives", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"Internet platforms that have pledged to address the issue of awful but lawful speech\"; those sending \"an immediate torrent of hate... false flags, Holocaust denial\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-23", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Doran", "role": "Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["We're seeing, especially after October 7, a convergence in the propaganda of the Chinese, the Russians and the Iranians with respect to the American alliance system. I focus mainly on the Middle East, but I think you'll find that the use of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli themes is enormously productive for the Chinese, Russians and the Iranians in several ways. First of all, they depict the American alliance system as a colonialist and genocidal system. If Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza, if it's an apartheid state, well, then the United States, which is Israel' …", "… true even on our own campuses here in the United States. Our domestic cohesion is affected by the strength of these ideologies. What you find is that the Chinese, Russians and the Iranians are engaging in their own messaging campaigns, but they're also using web-based propaganda tools to boost the signal of homegrown anti-Semites in the United States and elsewhere."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 312, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/14/dr-michael-doran-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "the use of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli themes is enormously productive for the Chinese, Russians and the Iranians", "act_why": "charges Chinese, Russian and Iranian actors with deploying antisemitism as propaganda", "trigger": "October 7 and the convergence of Chinese, Russian and Iranian propaganda on Israel and the American alliance system", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "\"the Chinese, Russians and the Iranians\"; \"homegrown anti-Semites in the United States and elsewhere\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2026-03-23", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Tzvi Kahn", "role": "Research Fellow and Senior Editor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["First and foremost, we need to recognize that when Canada speaks, the world listens. Canada has been a long-standing leader on human rights and transnational repression. We need to speak with one voice about anti-Semitism and about dissidents who have been targeted. There are numerous ways we can do that. Canada has already done a great deal by sanctioning the IRGC, as has the United States. In this respect, we have a common bond. I would urge Canada to continue these kinds of efforts for targeted dissidents, to sanction those who woul …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 125, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/14/tzvi-kahn-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 14, "speaker_type": "witness", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "act_why": "urges Canada to speak with one voice about antisemitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Iranian transnational repression targeting dissidents abroad", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iran/the IRGC — \"Canada has already done a great deal by sanctioning the IRGC\"; dissidents targeted by transnational repression", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-25", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "James Bezan", "role": "Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman", "province": "MB", "topic": "National Defence", "passages": ["So, now, knowing that he made this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question, do you regret calling that “a principled decision” without knowing the facts beforehand?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 24, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/45-1/29/james-bezan-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "National Defence", "committee_slug": "national-defence", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "knowing that he made this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question", "act_why": "charges an individual with having put an antisemitic conspiracy-theory question", "trigger": "an \"anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question\" put by the individual under discussion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"knowing that he made this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-25", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "James Bezan", "role": "Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman", "province": "MB", "topic": "National Defence", "passages": ["I hope that you issue an apology, because the Jewish community in Canada and the United States is definitely upset; the “principled decision” comment does not fly. Even if you said, “I suppose”, you were essentially suggesting that this individual, who was dwelling in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, is someone who made a principled decision. I don't think that connects very well. It's a reflection on making comments without knowing all the details first, so I hope that you withdraw those comments. Minister, you also talked about the security of our men and women in the armed forces, first and …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 248, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/national-defence/45-1/29/james-bezan-7/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "National Defence", "committee_slug": "national-defence", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "knowing that he made this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question", "act_why": "charges an individual with having put an antisemitic conspiracy-theory question", "trigger": "an \"anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question\" put by the individual under discussion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"knowing that he made this anti-Semitic conspiracy theory question\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-20", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Zaha Hassan (Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, As an Individual)", "role": "Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, As an Individual", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "passages": ["… he adoption of anti-boycott laws in 27 U.S. states and also by Congress and the U.K. government; the filing of 50 lawsuits against activists and their organizations around the world; the crackdown on campus activists; and the growing adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, definition for anti-Semitism. How did these networks do this? The ministry's so-called Global Coalition for Israel campaigned for the widespread adoption of IHRA's expansive definition of anti-Semitism, which equated legitimate criticism of Israeli policies or critique of political Zionism with hate speech. As a lawyer involved with the legal network for Israel stated, “If we permit administrators on university campuses, representatives on Capitol Hill, and the general public to perceive the situation as merely a po …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 723, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/international-human-rights/45-1/16/zaha-hassan-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "committee_slug": "international-human-rights", "meeting": 16, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "argues the IHRA definition equates legitimate criticism of Israel with hate speech", "trigger": "coordinated efforts by the Israeli government, through its Ministry of Strategic Affairs mandated in 2015, to suppress pro-Palestinian advocacy in North America", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David Salvo (Managing Director, Transatlantic Policy and Programming, Institute for Strategic Dialogue)", "role": "Managing Director, Transatlantic Policy and Programming, Institute for Strategic Dialogue", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… nditions for many of these threats to metastasize is itself becoming more complex and conducive to facilitating real-world harms. ISD's digital analysis shows how crises off-line can translate into Canadian communities' being directly targeted online. A major world event such as the Israel-Hamas war produces spikes of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Violent incidents such as the tragic school shooting in Tumbler Ridge spark a dramatic rise of online hate speech, in this case targeting the LGBTQ community. My organization's study of anti-South Asian hate online in Canada found that between 2023 and 2024, such activity increased by 1,350%. This fo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 729, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/29/david-salvo-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "presents spikes in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as real-world harms to counter", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Josh Dehaas (Interim Litigation Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation)", "role": "Interim Litigation Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Procedure and House Affairs", "passages": ["… Facebook and Instagram. The result is that organizations like my own can't post op-eds or quality news stories, but dangerous demagogues can spread fact-free commentary and AI-generated slop. Second, governments should repeal subsection 319(2.1) of the Criminal Code, which threatens imprisonment for the promotion of “antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust”. Parliament should resist calls to ban condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system. Of course, this type of speech can cause pain, but punishing speech because it causes emotional pain is unconstitutional. As Justice Beverley Mc …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 768, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/house-affairs/45-1/29/josh-dehaas-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Procedure and House Affairs", "committee_slug": "house-affairs", "meeting": 29, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "platform regulation"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "quotes the s.319(2.1) anti-Semitism offence while opposing that remedy, not the label", "trigger": "Bill C-9, the online harms act, the Online News Act and s. 319(2.1) of the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Amir Epstein", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Tafsik Organization", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["… . There are a lot of things happening. When people are seeing information that is specifically trying to demonize and demoralize a people who are at war for their rights and their existence, it's going to shape people's attitudes and it's going to shape people's perception. This has led to the drastic explosion of the anti-Semitism, hate and violence that we see on the streets, with restaurants and community centres being shot at. The police have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to maintain the anti-Semitic rallies that we see, the pro-Hamas rallies that we see. This has an effect on people who are watching, as it would on anyone. If you are seeing just one narrative of “bad guy over here, good guy over here”, it's going to cause anger and frustration, as it would in anyone. This is what we're seeing from the CBC and man …", "… is doing. We don't see people attacking North Koreans because of their dictator. The only people in Canada who are responsible for a foreign government thousands of miles away are in the Jewish community, and we see it with the constant violence on the streets and everywhere. This is lending itself to the increase of anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 312, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/34/amir-epstein-4/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "This is how they work as a mouthpiece for terror.", "act_why": "charges the broadcaster with acting as a mouthpiece for a group seeking to annihilate the Jewish state", "trigger": "the CBC's use of casualty information provided by the Hamas health ministry", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media"], "target_detail": "This is how they work as a mouthpiece for terror", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Amir Epstein", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Tafsik Organization", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Ils doivent s'appuyer sur des sources qui ne sont pas liées à des organisations terroristes ou antisémites biaisées, ainsi que sur des renseignements provenant de plus d'une partie. Israël fournit beaucoup d'information et mène de nombreuses enquêtes. Ils diffusent les informations que la CBC ne diffuse pas... ou qu'elle diffuse en déformant les faits d'une manière qui, d'une certaine façon, continue de dénigrer la communa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "fr", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 152, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/34/amir-epstein-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "This is how they work as a mouthpiece for terror.", "act_why": "duplicate; same charge against the broadcaster relaying Hamas sources", "trigger": "the CBC's use of casualty information provided by the Hamas health ministry", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media"], "target_detail": "This is how they work as a mouthpiece for terror", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Amir Epstein (Chief Executive Officer, Tafsik Organization)", "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Tafsik Organization", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Thank you. My name is Amir Epstein. I am the chief executive officer of Tafsik Organization, one of the fastest-growing Jewish organizations in Canada. The explosion of anti-Semitism we are witnessing across Canada today is not an accident. It is not spontaneous and it is not happening in isolation. It is being fed, shaped and normalized by the information Canadians consume every single day. This includes our schools and our universities, and it absolutely includes the CBC, our main national publi …", "… owever, the damage was already done. Millions of Canadians will forever believe the lie that Israel had bombed that hospital. When those narratives portray the only Jewish state—and by extension Jews in Canada—as uniquely immoral or violent, they reinforce deep-rooted and dangerous patterns of hate. This is how modern anti-Semitism operates—in the form of anti-Zionism—and it is repackaged through the language of politics and activism. However, the structure remains the same: the singling out, the demonization and the application of double standards. Classic anti-Semitism has largely been associated with the far right, including the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists, relying on blood libels and tropes that Jews control governments and manipulate society to justify hatred of the Jewish community. Today, anti-Zionism has become a modern vehicle for the same hatred. It emerges from seg …", "… r ancestral homeland, just as every culture in the world should. Anyone claiming to speak as a Jew while denying that right is detached from Jewish history and reality. When the CBC platforms those voices, it reinforces false narratives about Israel and the Jewish people, contributing to a climate of hostility, rising anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. A publicly funded broadcaster must reflect reality, not shape it selectively. This is not about silencing criticism of Israel, as its government can and should be scrutinized. However, scrutiny must be grounded in facts and applied consistently to every nation. The CBC helps shape how millions of Canadians understand the world, and in this case, it is contributing to an environment in which anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are increasingly normalized. This is about whether Jewish Canadians can live openly and safely, whether students can walk on campuses without fear, whether families can attend synagogue without security or whether children feel safe wearing a Star of David without being suspended for anti-Palestinian …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 857, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/34/amir-epstein-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "It is being fed, shaped and normalized by the information Canadians consume every single day.", "act_why": "charges the CBC, and names Olivia Chow, with feeding and normalizing anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the reporting on the al Ahli hospital explosion in Gaza in 2023", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "university"], "target_detail": "the CBC... acting as a conduit for narratives that are designed to promote hate; this includes our schools and our universities", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Rachael Thomas", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["Mr. Epstein, I'm curious about this recent data that was published within the last few days. It gives updates with regard to anti-Semitism in Canada, and according to that data, in 2025, the number of anti-Semitic incidents hit a record high, the most our country has ever seen. Today you've given testimony to suggest that media coverage plays a role in terms of how Canadians perceive the Jewish population here in Canada and how Canadians behave towards that group of people. I'm wondering if you can expand on the important role …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 118, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/34/rachael-thomas-9/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 34, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites record-high incident data and asks the witness to expand", "trigger": "this recent data that was published within the last few days... in 2025, the number of anti-Semitic incidents hit a record high", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-05", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kerry Diotte", "role": "Edmonton Griesbach, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Griesbach", "province": "AB", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "passages": ["He also said that this contributes to anti-Semitism in Canada in a very real way, and we know that anti-Semitism has gone through the roof. Does it concern you that the CBC would contribute to anti-Semitism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 36, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/canadian-heritage/45-1/36/kerry-diotte-3/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Canadian Heritage", "committee_slug": "canadian-heritage", "meeting": 36, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays Epstein's testimony about CBC reporting and asks for a reaction", "trigger": "the CBC's report that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, which was in fact a misfire from within Gaza", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["media"], "target_detail": "the CBC... rushed to judgment and reported propaganda from Hamas", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2026-05-25", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["Attorney General, your government and you yourself often talk about the need to combat anti-Semitism. I represent one of the most Jewish ridings in the country. Since the passage of Bill C-9 in the House of Commons, there have been at least five shootings at Toronto synagogues. Shootings at a place of worship are already illegal, but we don't have an absence-of-law problem; unfortunately, we have a law enforcement pr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/30/roman-baber-11/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "fragment objecting to the breadth of a Bill C-22 definition; term not engaged", "trigger": "Bill C-22, the digital safety / online harms act, and its definition", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-25", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Sean Fraser", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "passages": ["I don't think it's appropriate to suggest that any one political actor is responsible for anti-Semitism or is fomenting anti-Semitism in this country. I would forcefully disagree that the Prime Minister is among any Canadians who would be on a list of those seeking to do so. My own view is that it is a complex but very important social issue. Everyone, regardless of which god you pray to, deserves to have the opportunity to practise their faith freely in this country. The answer to your question is no. We don't want to dismiss the extraordinary importance of anti-Semitism and the need to do more, both in advancing new laws and by increasing the ability of law enforcement to do the work that they've been tasked with for years."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/justice/45-1/30/sean-fraser-36/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Justice and Human Rights", "committee_slug": "justice", "meeting": 30, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "rejects the suggestion that the Prime Minister or any political actor foments anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["… one who was visibly Jewish, wearing a kippah. This was roundly denounced by the mayor of Montreal and your Quebec counterpart, as well as you, Mr. Minister. Can you talk to us about why that type of action is unacceptable in Canadian society and about some of the things the government is doing to deal with the rampant anti-Semitism that has swept this country and the western world?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 100, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/45-1/39/anthony-housefather-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 39, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural point of order about a contempt allegation; term not engaged", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Gary Anandasangaree", "role": "Minister of Public Safety", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park", "province": "ON", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Housefather, for that question. Look, I've come to and met with your community a number of times. I've had the opportunity to meet with Jewish communities in many parts of this country, including in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg and Vancouver. The level of anti-Semitism is at its height. I wish we were under different circumstances. It is quite worrisome. We've been working with the law enforcement agencies, including ITAC, to ensure that appropriate updates are done, if required, on the security threat levels. That is essential. At the same time, we are investing in communities. In …", "… and so on, which is something the previous program did not allow. Having said that, Bill C-9 is an important tool that is going through the Senate right now. Again, it responds to some of the current issues being faced, whether it be impeding places of worship or community centres. This issue is serious. The issue of anti-Semitism is serious. It's hate-motivated. Oftentimes, it's in the backdrop of other world incidents that are taking place. As a government, we absolutely will stand with the Jewish community to ensure their safety and security. This is the resolve of the Prime Minister . This is the resolve of our government, but more work nee …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 376, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/public-safety/45-1/39/gary-anandasangaree-57/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Public Safety and National Security", "committee_slug": "public-safety", "meeting": 39, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["security", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "minister calls the level of anti-Semitism unacceptable and at its height", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-15", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Dylan Hanley", "role": "Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… these measures, again, it's risk mitigation. There's no way to get to zero risk. I think that, for us, we believe that the previous regime was the right balance. Again, these are structured, transparent and non-partisan programs. We're not advocating for funding, generally. This year, in the face of a massive wave of anti-Semitism, was an exception to that rule. We think it's a bit of a solution in search of a problem."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/48/dylan-hanley-12/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "witness", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "fragment about travel and wars; the term is not engaged", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-15", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Linda Lapointe", "role": "Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Lib.", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Rivière-des-Mille-Îles", "province": "QC", "topic": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "passages": ["… ganization that represents the interests of various Jewish communities. My understanding was that these communities are not homogeneous and that the Jewish community in my riding is very Orthodox. You welcomed the recent government announcement on the Canada community security program in light of the troubling rise of anti-Semitism. I should point out that Boisbriand has not experienced that over the past five years. That said, given that members of the Tosh community have a distinctive style of dressing, the people of Boisbriand have always been fairly apprehensive about them, even though they don't cause any problems and they keep to their community. We have seen a rise in anti-Semitism across Canada over the past few years, and so I would imagine that your organization has had significant opportunities to engage directly with the Minister of Public Safety and with departmental officials to express concern and to advocate for programs, such as the Canada community security program. With that in mind, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 337, "url": "https://openparliament.ca/committees/ethics/45-1/48/linda-lapointe-1/", "url_official": null, "source": "openparliament", "committee": "Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics", "committee_slug": "ethics", "meeting": 48, "speaker_type": "member", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["funding", "security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "side": "government", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "calls the rise of anti-Semitism troubling while asking about lobbying transparency", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}]