[{"id": "house-1", "year": 1982, "chamber": "house", "date": "1982-07-13", "speaker": "Steve Eugene Paproski", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eral propaganda machine, running flat out to brainwash Canadians with massive amounts of taxpayers' money, to be exact $500 million, will stop at nothing to influence the media. If you do not play the Liberals' dirty game you do not get the advertising.\n1 have in my hand a letter from Ira Kissin, editor of the Toronto Jewish Press, an independent newspaper in Toronto. Mr. Kissin complains of discrimination against his newspaper when he did not receive certain government advertising. He gives examples of dubious practices of paying commissions to Liberal \"brokers\". He has recoiled from the slimy touch of the\nCanadian Media Corporation, yet another of those shadowy bodies set up to distribute Liberal propaganda and to car …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1982/07/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1982/07/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites a letter from Ira Kissin describing discrimination against his Jewish newspaper regarding government advertising, but presents this as evidence of Liberal advertising practices generally, not as hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "house-2", "year": 1982, "chamber": "house", "date": "1982-06-07", "speaker": "Steve Eugene Paproski", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, my supplementary question is directed to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism. I would like to know why he is discriminating against Mr. Kissin and his Jewish Press newspaper in Ontario by not paying his bill."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1982/06/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1982/06/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses the Minister of State for Multiculturalism of discriminating against a Jewish person and Jewish press by not paying a bill owed to them."}, {"id": "house-3", "year": 1945, "chamber": "house", "date": "1945-10-02", "speaker": "Stanley Howard Knowles", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… group. But we insist that the British government must carry out its pledge to re-open Palestine to Jewish immigration. The leader of this group, the hon. member for Rosetown-Biggar (Mr. Coldwell), to-day issued a press release in which he said in part:\nThe C.C.F. has officially stated its opposition to the unfair and discriminatory white paper. The permission for fifteen hundred Jews to enter Palestine monthly is pathetically inadequate for their needs. They must be allowed to enter their national homeland in larger numbers. Only in Palestine have they been permitted to build a progressive and cooperative society. Their record there, in terms of both social and economic justice, speaks for itself. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/10/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/10/02/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PROPOSALS WITH RESPECT TO DELIVERIES FROM DEALERS TO CONSUMERS — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS — BEVI8ED EDITION", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes a press release stating opposition to discriminatory policy and advocating for Jewish immigration rights, but presents this as a report of the C.C.F.'s position rather than the speaker condemning hostility toward Jews themselves."}, {"id": "house-4", "year": 1945, "chamber": "house", "date": "1945-10-19", "speaker": "Alistair McLeod Stewart", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ands must become even more encarnadined with the blood of the innocent and the guiltless.\nThe Jewish people were the first to suffer under fascism. What a tragic requiem indeed for them to be the last to suffer under the allies; what an epitaph that would be and what a shame to us! Let us remember that they were never attacked, they were never persecuted as citizens of Poland, or Germany or Roiimania; they were persecuted as Jews. If they are to be persecuted as Jews, then I say they must be rescued as Jews; and what place of rescue is there to-day in this most Christian world? Is there a Christian nation which would stretch out its hand to save them? Not even this Christian country. Therefore, there is only one source of aid, and that is Palestine. We have been told that the Arabs will object, perhaps even to the length …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/10/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/10/19/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OP DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the persecution of Jewish people and calls for their rescue, emphasizing the tragedy and injustice of their suffering without naming a specific party responsible for current persecution."}, {"id": "house-5", "year": 1945, "chamber": "house", "date": "1945-12-17", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ision of the supreme council at St. Remo in 1920, which placed all the Arab territory between the Mediterranean and Persia under mandate to Great Britain and France.\nIn 1922 the United States congress passed the following resolution:\nThat the United States favours the establishment in Palestine of .a national home for Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christians and all other nonJewish communities in Palestine shall be adequately protected.\nSince 1921, there have been from time to time serious troubles in Palestine which have resulted in the publishing of general white papers, the most important of which was issued in May, 1939. In …", "… from Jewish education, since the language in Jewish schools is Hebrew. And as to medical facilities, Arabs do not frequent Zionist hospitals. According to the latest report -to the league of nations, out of 12,000 patients admitted to Zionist hospitals, only four were Moslems; seven were Christians; nearly 12,000 were Jews.\n4.\tZionists claim that by industrialization Palestine can support a large Jewish population. Facts are that industry in Palestine is supported by charity and discriminatory tariffs. But the real issue cannot be settled on a material basis. The fundamental question is one of freedom. According to the Atlantic charter we agreed, first, to seek no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned and, second, to see sovereign rights and self-gov …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/12/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/12/17/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts, statistics, and claims about Palestine/Zionism without explicitly condemning or naming specific actors as responsible for hostility toward Jews. The passage presents information and arguments about territorial and governance issues."}, {"id": "house-6", "year": 1945, "chamber": "house", "date": "1945-12-17", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… riously the Zionist cause and support. The time to strike is therefore now.\nIn the \"Reader's Digest\" of May, 1944, Frederick C. Painton stated:\nThe Jewish agency people fear that the skilled refugee who make many of these products (exhibited m Tel Aviv) will return to their native lands when the war is over. The Czech Jews were being absorbed in their nation until the war-they knew no persecution. They look upon themselves as Czechs, not Jews, and want to go home. The Dutch diamond cutter intends to go home to Holland. Strangely enough, scores of the German Jews want to go back to Germany. This failure to sink roots deeply applies to American Jews; of 5,500 such in Palestine less than 100 have given up their American passports. The other Jews in Palestine …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/12/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/12/17/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a 1944 Reader's Digest article describing attitudes toward Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine, presenting the information without commentary or taking a position on whether the described situation represents hostility."}, {"id": "house-7", "year": 1945, "chamber": "house", "date": "1945-11-22", "speaker": "Fred Rose", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… out the Japanese problem, but I feel that some remarks on my part will be in order at this time. It is always dangerous when you start \"picking against\" one group. When it is suggested that some one group is different, and that the people of that group just cannot become Canadians, the next thing we may expect will be attacks upon another group, and'then upon another. Maybe the next time it will be the Italians, or perhaps the Jews. It so happens that I am unable to see what is supposed to make these people so terribly different. I cannot understand why they should be discriminated against as compared with Germans or Italians. Why are the Germans treated differently from the Japanese? Surely the Germans in this country, or at any rate some of them, were as active on behalf of nazi Germany as wTere the Japanese on behalf of Japan, yet nobody would suggest that the Germans should be deported. Is i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/11/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1945/11/22/", "party": "Labour Progressive", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "S2 COMMONS", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against groups including Jews, arguing against the logic of singling out one group as unable to become Canadian and warning of cascading attacks on other groups."}, {"id": "house-8", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-10-18", "speaker": "Judy Wasylycia-Leis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t memorial day. Many of us in the House have been touched in some way by the horrors of the Holocaust. For me it was a recent pilgrimage marking the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Holland and a visit to Camp Westerbork where the Dutch Jewish population was sent on route to the death camps.\nIn total, six million Jewish men, women and children perished as the result of a deliberate and planned state sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.\nThe bill proposes to establish a national, annual Holocaust memorial day to be called Yom haShoah. Why do we need this as a nation? It is because the terrible destruction and pain of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. It is because systematic violence, racism and hatred continue to occur. It is because as a parliament we must do everything to uphold human rights and value the diversity and multiculturalism of Canadian society. It is because this part of our history must never be allowed to repeat itself.\n(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/10/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/10/18/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg North Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust as deliberate persecution and annihilation, emphasizes it must never be forgotten, and advocates for a memorial day to uphold human rights and prevent recurrence, without naming specific contemporary actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-9", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-02-17", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I wish to share with my colleagues the concerns and aspirations that were expressed at the recent international conference on the Holocaust, held in Stockholm.\nFirst, the dangers of racist hate speech, which in Bosnia and Rwanda took us down the road to ethnic cleansing and genocide. As the Supreme Court of Canada put it in upholding the constitutionality of anti-hate legislation, “The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers, it began with words”.\nSecond, the danger of remaining silent, of indifference to evil, be it the killing fields of Sierra Leone, Chechnya or Burundi, “Dans ce temps-ci, qui s'excuse, s'accuse”.\nThird, the importance, as Sweden has demonstrated, of Holocaust and human rights education as an antidote to racism, xenophobia and hate.\nFourth, the struggle against impunity; of fidelity to the Nuremberg legacy of bringing war criminals to justice.\nFinally, the inspiration of a Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish non-Jew who saved 100,000 Jews in the Holocaust, who showed that one person can make a difference, that each one of us in our daily lives can mak …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/02/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/02/17/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes concerns and lessons from a Holocaust conference without accusing anyone specific of hostility toward Jews or taking a position on contemporary hostility."}, {"id": "house-10", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-05-02", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jews all over the world in concert with their fellow citizens commemorate crimes against humanity that are too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened; a genocidal racism in which as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel put it, “Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims”; where biology was inescapably destiny. Today we remember that the Holocaust is not an abstraction in which six million Jews and 11 million non-Jews were murdered, but where onto each person murdered there is a name, an identity.\nI would like to commend l'Assemblée nationale du Québec for unanimously ena …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/05/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/05/02/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Holocaust and genocidal racism against Jews, describing it as crimes against humanity that were terrible and should be remembered. The passage expresses moral opposition to historical hostility toward Jews without naming a specific contemporary actor as responsible."}, {"id": "house-11", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-03-24", "speaker": "Bill Blaikie", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hmir.\nReligious persecution and religiously motivated killings are to be abhorred wherever they occur. The world is an increasingly dangerous place for people of many faiths, depending on where they happen to be born or where they live. The Baha'is in Iran and the Christians in Sudan come quickly to mind, but Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and all other faiths each find themselves persecuted in various contexts. What I find most distressing is state sanctioned official persecution.\nThe NDP believes, as I am sure most Canadians do, that the 21st century is a time when religious discrimination and hatred should be put behind us forever."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/03/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/03/24/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg--Transcona", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg Transcona)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Okanagan Centre Constituency Association", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses that religious persecution and religiously motivated killings 'are to be abhorred' and states that religious discrimination and hatred should be eliminated, without naming specific perpetrators of hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-12", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-04-14", "speaker": "Maurice Vellacott", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ther countries. Israel, as one of the prime movers of this, had to back away and could not give its approval. I will cite at least one of its major concerns but it has other concerns as well.\nThe letter from Judge Eli Nathan states:\nMr. President, it causes me considerable pain, both personally as a victim of the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people, and on behalf of the Israeli delegation which I proudly head, to have to explain the negative vote which Israel has been unwillingly obliged to cast today with regard to the Statute of the International Criminal Court.\nIt is no secret that out of the embers of the Holocaust against the Jewish people—the greate …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/04/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2000/04/14/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Wanuskewin", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Iran", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a letter from Judge Eli Nathan expressing Israel's concerns about the ICC Statute, describing his background as a Holocaust victim. This is a citation of a position without the speaker themselves condemning hostility or naming/blaming specific actors for it."}, {"id": "house-13", "year": 1912, "chamber": "house", "date": "1912-03-11", "speaker": "William Folger Nickle", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nnot vary it one jot or tittle. I have told this House, and I have told the\n\nmember for St. Lawrence (Mr. Bickerdike) in private conversation, that I do not believe in test oaths. I believe the effect of this Bill will be that the scamp may have access to the professoriate of Queen's university, and the scholar may be excluded. I believe the man who has no principle may say he is a Christian, while the man of integrity, who may happen to be a Jew, will say, that even for the sake of the professorial chair, he will not abandon his religious convictions. When the men who have drafted this Bill tell me that I cannot change one jot or one tittle, I say it is unfair for the hon. gentleman (Mr. Bickerdike) to brand me as a persecutor of the Jews. The Jews of my own constituency know where I _stand in this matter. It is not a question of politics, it is a big question which touches Canada from one end to the other, and which the Presbyterian church feels, touches her to the very foundation. The men who control the destinies of the Presbyterian church maintain that Chris …", "… ner of this House, and as a young lawyer without power and without reputation, to set my judgment up as against the judgment of men who sit on the Bench in England and who occupy the Woolsack in Canada, and have represented this Canada of ours as Ministers of Justice in former parliaments? Why should I be branded as a persecutor of the Jews because I take this stand? It is not fair politics and I resent it. I do not want to read the member for St. Lawrence a lecture, but we have heard1 enough about the east as against the west, about Roman Catholic as against Protestant. Are v/e going to set Jew against Gentile in this country by striking at the very fou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1912/03/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1912/03/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the bill's unfair effect on Jewish candidates (excluding principled Jews while allowing unprincipled Christians), and resents being branded a persecutor of Jews for opposing it."}, {"id": "house-14", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-05-13", "speaker": "Arthur Graeme Slaght", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… cathedrals and churches at Rheims, Ypres and Albert. They were the special targets and were destroyed from the air, notwithstanding their classic and historic beauty, the result of centuries of art and culture, and the sacred shrines of worship dedicated to humanity and to her people by the Roman Catholic church. The hatred and venom of the Germany of 1914 have not been abated by the\n\nmadman of Germany of to-day. Of all the ruthless persecutions within Germany, except that of the Jewish race, the persecution of the Roman Catholic church has been the most cruel and venomous. Her sacred and holy orders have been ruthlessly disbanded and suppressed. The pulpits of her cathedrals have been silenced. Her priests, scholars and religious leaders have been arrested, persecuted and imprisoned. The youth program of that church has …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/05/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/05/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions persecution of the Jewish race in Germany as one example among persecutions (of Catholics), without condemning it, blaming anyone for enabling it, or taking any stance toward it—simply noting it as a comparative fact."}, {"id": "house-15", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-09-08", "speaker": "Robert James Manion", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… I do not believe there can be any neutrality for any part of the empire when some other part of the empire is at war. But in addition to that, we are fighting to-day for our conception of civilization. We are fighting for Christianity, in all its branches, because Christianity, Protestant and Catholic .alike, has been persecuted in Germany by\n\nHitler. We are fighting for religion, because Judaism and the Jews have been persecuted even more cruelly by Hitler. We are fighting for democracy, for liberty of person, liberty of speech and assembly, liberties which we in Canada enjoy. Hitler's philosophy is a tyrannical autocracy. He places the state above everything and treats the individual as nothing, as a soulless animal to be used and sacrificed …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/09/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/09/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly names Hitler as responsible for persecution of Jews, stating 'Judaism and the Jews have been persecuted even more cruelly by Hitler.'", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-16", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-01-24", "speaker": "Pierre Gauthier", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , while sympathizing with the foreigners, that the existing statutory restrictions on immigration should be maintained. The dominion has no intention of curtailing present restrictions, so long at least as we still have to cope with unemployment in this country.\nThe editor of Le Canada goes on:\nNo doubt the systematic persecution endured by the Jewish race in Germany and Austria is bound to move us to pity, but precisely, the dominion government does not want this problem to grow into a question of sentiment. Both wisdom and properly understood charity require the government to look first after the well-being of our Canadian population.\nThe attitude of the governme …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/01/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/01/24/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "LOAN TO UNITED KINGDOM — APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED — MARCH 6, 1946", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes an editorial describing persecution of Jews while stating the government's position on immigration restrictions, without the speaker taking a position on the persecution or the government's response to it."}, {"id": "house-17", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-01-24", "speaker": "Hervé-Edgar Brunelle", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… he entry of Jews, en masse or otherwise, into our country. I hasten to say that I have no brief against the Hebrew race; but since through all the ages they have been the cause, justly or unjustly, of great difficulties in various countries, I say we must take care. History repeats itself. I have deep sympathy for the Jews who are now being persecuted in certain countries of Europe; I think their situation is deplorable; but at the present time in our own country we have thousands of fellow citizens whose situation is also deplorable, and I believe that charity begins at home. I do not want one job in Canada to be taken by an immigrant, be he a Jew or otherwise, so …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/01/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/01/24/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges Jewish persecution as 'deplorable' but disputes that Canada should admit Jews, framing Jewish immigration as a problem based on historical stereotypes about Jews causing 'difficulties,' and arguing domestic needs take priority."}, {"id": "house-18", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-03-20", "speaker": "Robert James Manion", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… strong language he must have been outraged to a terrific extent. I did not hear him over the radio, but I am told by those who did that his language was more severe than would appear from the press reports.\nThese conquerors moved into Czechoslovakia, a freedom-loving country in the truest sense of the word. We see the Jews who have been living peacefully in that country immediately persecuted. Such action is shocking to all of us. It is shocking to the whole world to see Jews or any other people maltreated in this way.\nMr. Sumner Welles, with the approval of President Roosevelt, has referred to this display of wanton force. His language is even stronger than that used by Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Welles referred to \"acts of wanton lawlessness and arbitrary force.\" He also used the language \"thr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/03/20/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/03/20/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia as 'shocking to all of us' and 'shocking to the whole world,' expressing moral objection without naming specific individuals as perpetrators of the hostility."}, {"id": "house-19", "year": 1939, "chamber": "house", "date": "1939-03-14", "speaker": "Angus MacInnis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… deportation in Canada.\nI support the amendment also because of the conditions that exist in many parts of\nEurope to-day. We know there are a great many people who because of race or because of their political opinions find conditions in their own country intolerable. For instance, we know that in Germany people of the Jewish race are persecuted and driven out of the country; but there is another class of people in Germany who are persecuted, and who as a matter of fact are in a worse position than the Jews because they cannot leave the country. I refer to the Social Democrats. The Jew can make his case known, and if it is known that he is a Jew every effort is made to get rid of him; but the Social Democrat cannot admit that he is a Social Democrat because he would be immediately subjected to persecution. Because of that fact, he cannot make application to leave the country. So he has not the opportunity to leave.\nThere are people in Canada who have been here three or four or five years and who may be socialists in their political opinions. If we deport such people because they have become public charges, in the sense …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/03/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1939/03/14/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "QUESTION AS TO PRICES AND QUANTITIES SOLD SINCE AUGUST 1 — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes persecution of Jews in Germany as a factual situation ('we know that in Germany people of the Jewish race are persecuted') without condemning it, naming responsible parties, or taking a stance on the hostility itself. The passage uses this observation to support an argument about deportation policy."}, {"id": "house-20", "year": 1984, "chamber": "house", "date": "1984-12-10", "speaker": "Frederick John King", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I too bring to the attention of the House and the nation that today is one of significance to people of the world who acknowledge and value the rights of all individuals who collectively make up the human race. In this context, I make a statement on behalf of persecuted Hebrew teachers in the U.S.S.R.\nDecember 10 is the anniversary of the signing of the international Declaration of Human Rights to which the Soviet Union is a signatory. On this human rights day, nine Soviet Jews stand accused of the crime of teaching Hebrew. This basic human right to transmit one's own language and culture i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1984/12/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1984/12/10/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the situation of Soviet Jews accused of teaching Hebrew on Human Rights Day, presenting it as a factual account without explicitly condemning anyone, naming specific perpetrators, or taking an evaluative stance on the hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-21", "year": 1984, "chamber": "house", "date": "1984-06-18", "speaker": "David Orlikow", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nadian Security Intelligence Service would construe lawful church activities, for example in mission work, and/or lawful church and community activities, including development education, peace advocacy and human rights defence, as falling within these definitions, and hence to determine previously lawful activities as threats to the security of Canada.\nWhat is happening in the Middle East, Mr. Speaker? The Government of the State of Israel has encouraged the settlement of Jewish people on the West Bank. This has created a great deal of hostility on the part of the Arab people. Unfortunately there have been terrorist activities on both sides. As the Canadian Council of Churches has pointed out, there is no doubt that a security service and a different Solicitor General could decide that support for either side in the Middle East may lead to terrorist activitie …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1984/06/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1984/06/18/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE ACT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the situation in the Middle East including Israeli settlement policy and resulting Arab hostility, presenting factual circumstances without condemning the hostility toward Jews or naming/blaming specific actors for it."}, {"id": "house-22", "year": 1946, "chamber": "house", "date": "1946-07-24", "speaker": "Jean-François Pouliot", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ir own thoughts? I do not want to convey any of my thoughts to my colleagues; what I want them to do is to stop and think of the tremendous responsibilities of R. B. Bennett when he installed in the Bank of Canada and in the west block these men who have the power of life and death over all Canadian citizens.\nI am not bigoted; I am not against the Jews. I believe that the Jews who are Canadians should have the same rights as all others, but on the other hand I do not see why the Jew should have more rights than the Canadian. I cannot understand how it is that one\n\nIncome TFar Tax\nRasminsky, one of those who built up the bureaucratic structure, not long ago in a committee of the house refused to give information to members of parliament. He knew something that no one else knew with the exception o …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/07/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/07/24/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POSTAL SERVICE — CANADIAN FORCES OVERSEAS", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names Rasminsky and suggests he was installed by R. B. Bennett in positions of power, implying responsibility for alleged wrongdoing (refusing to give information to parliament). The speaker frames this as problematic based on Rasminsky's Jewish identity."}, {"id": "house-23", "year": 1946, "chamber": "house", "date": "1946-05-13", "speaker": "David Arnold Croll", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… o apply to the people in the neighbourhood of Runnymede store, who took it upon themselves to protest the employment of a Jewish war veteran as a clerk in the store. Complaint was not based upon discourtesy or inefficiency, which might have been a legitimate reason for objection, but simply because the young man was a Jew. It is a disgrace to the whole community that such barefaced prejudice should exhibit itself in this manner. It is the negation of everything that the word British should convey.\nCanadian Citizenship\n\nFurther down.\nThe least favourable aspect of this matter is that these prejudice-ridden people were depriving of his job a young man who had willingly risked his life in their defence, in t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/05/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/05/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker calls the prejudice a 'disgrace' and 'negation of everything that the word British should convey,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific individuals as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-24", "year": 1946, "chamber": "house", "date": "1946-05-13", "speaker": "Angus MacInnis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s the name. The hon. member for Spadina said that we need education in citizenship. We need education in more than that; we need education in tolerance and in human rights. Once we depart from dealing with man as man, there is nothing to indicate where we are to stop. It is a well known fact that Hitler began with the persecution of the Jews, but he ended up by depriving everybody in Germany of liberty. We have come pretty close to that in Canada. Until we get away from that and consider the rights of every human individual we are not going to protect those rights as they should be protected.\nThe principle of the amendment is something that I would suppor …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/05/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1946/05/13/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "QUESTION AS TO PRICES AND QUANTITIES SOLD SINCE AUGUST 1 — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to persecution and discrimination without naming specific responsible parties, invoking historical example of Nazi persecution of Jews to support argument for tolerance and human rights"}, {"id": "house-25", "year": 1959, "chamber": "house", "date": "1959-07-15", "speaker": "Leon David Crestohl", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… animals has reversed the stand taken by its president a few days ago against what he termed the \"inhumane\" methods of slaughtering cattle under the Jewish kosher rites.\nWhile the details behind its decision to reverse itself are as yet unknown to the public, the society has been well advised in retracting its earlier threat to lay a charge under the Criminal Code of Canada against the Jewish slaughterhouses here.\nMaking its retraction, it has, we hope, nipped a particularly nasty and prejudiced publicity campaign against a community whose regard for the lives and the proper treatment of animals dates back to a point where it is almost lost in antiquity. Never, in the long history of the world, has any group of civilized people had a finer record of kindness to animals-a principle which forms an integral part …", "… time to time-the latest having been by a commission of the British House of Lords within the last ten years have failed to uncover any evidence that the immediate and guaranteed method of completely severing an animal's jugular vein is not an acceptable means of ensuring a quick and merciful death.\nBy launching such a prejudiced campaign against the Jewish race and religion the SPCA has done a serious disservice to the Jewish people and to its own cause.\nUnfortunately, however, Mr. Speaker, in spite of this long record, historic and religious, where we were taught to prevent unkindness or cruelty to animals, which I have just recited and which has just been confirmed by a quite independent non-Jewish authority, I would like to say that the …", "… oard for devious antireligious campaigns, and in some countries ritual slaughter has been completely banned. The histories of those countries stand out as a blot on the escutcheon of modern civilization.\nI would like to read a paragraph from the Toronto Globe and Mail for July 14 last, headed \"Humane Killing Religious Threat, Rabbi Warns\". The article says:\nApproval of a measure requiring the humane slaughter of livestock in New Jersey could be the first step in depriving Jews of their religious freedom, a Rabbi warned today.\nRabbi Pichas Teitz, leader of the orthodox Jewish community of Elizabeth, made this assertion during a public hearing on a bill directing meat packers to use humane methods in killing livestock.\nHe said a study of Jewish history shows Jewish sufferings began with appro …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1959/07/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1959/07/15/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "SPEECH FROM THE THRONE — CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the SPCA's 'prejudiced publicity campaign' and 'prejudiced campaign against the Jewish race and religion' without naming specific individuals as responsible, focusing on condemning the discriminatory nature of the campaign itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-26", "year": 1943, "chamber": "house", "date": "1943-07-09", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["More than that, Mr. Chairman, I am perfectly willing to stand on my reputation in this house and out of the house, too, as a loyal citizen of Canada, and' I will challenge anybody in this house or out of\nit to finds one authentic quotation of mine in which I have showed in any way that I am either a Jew-baiter or in favour of Jew persecution. I will say more. I happen to be one of the few members of this house who, in September, 1939, demanded, in the name of this group, that Canada should wage total war against the German nazi gangsters. I could quote those views if necessary, but I think that is remembered by those who were present in the house.\tAs the …", "… ed total war against the nazi gangsters. I am not saying, \"I told you so.\" I am not making the statement in that sense; I am merely saying that actions speak louder than words. What was the attitude of those members, and especially the leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation who is now such a champion of the persecuted Jews? I quote from Hansard of September 9, 1939, at page 55 as follows:\nCanada should be prepared to defend her own shores, but her assistance overseas should be limited to economic aid and must not include conscription of man-power or the sending of any expeditionary force.\nI do not wish to rub that in at all; I am merely …", "… at the only thing wrong with that story was that he was not a Jew. My authority for saying that is the Dean of St. Paul's, who, I take it, is an eminent authority on the subject. I do not profess to be an authority at all.\nSupply-External Affairs\n\nThose who are so solicitous at the present time for the fortunes of the Jews in Europe are precisely those who opposed any preparation or rearmament against the growing threat of Hitler. I make that statement without fear of challenge. All minorities, including Jews, have enjoyed greater protection and justice and have received fairer treatment under British rule, under British crown, or even, if you like, under British imperialism than under any other control. I say that without fear of contradiction. But it is precisely those people who profess such sympathy for these wretched, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/09/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "Speaker defends against accusations of being a 'Jew-baiter' or favoring persecution, challenging anyone to find evidence. Also disputes others' credibility on Jewish persecution issues by highlighting their past opposition to war against Hitler."}, {"id": "house-27", "year": 1943, "chamber": "house", "date": "1943-07-12", "speaker": "Clarence Gillis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… re not able to go there.\nI cannot understand how any member of a government or any member of parliament can stand up and make the declarations that are made about serving humanity, about the better world which is to come when all this destruction and misery have ceased, and yet preclude the possibility of enabling the Jewish people who are being persecuted in nazi-occupied Europe to pass through the door , which their friends in Palestine have opened to them. Canada has said nothing on this matter, and she has the right to say something. I feel we have the right to protest this action on the part of the British government. They have no right to close that door to Palest …", "… ar is over Hitler will be brought to task and made to pay for his atrocities against the persecuted peoples of Europe. That is all very well as regards the nations who are recognized as such, who will have their representatives at the conference table to present their case for them. But that is not the position of the Jews, and no other class of people in Europe have suffered such severe persecution. Where Hitler has been able to enter and dominate they have lost all their worldy goods; their families have been destroyed or scattered, and they have suffered most inhuman treatment. But they will not be sitting around the conference table; and if the attitude of the united nations now towards rescuing them while th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the British government for closing the door to Palestine and failing to enable Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, characterizing this as insufficient action in response to persecution.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-28", "year": 1943, "chamber": "house", "date": "1943-07-12", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… n front against this most criminal war of human history. Strike a blow in this federal election to save Canada, to end the war, for peace.\nI am not criticising that. This is a free country, thank heaven, and everybody has a right to express his opinion. But I would ask this: Was Hitler a fascist in 1940? Was there any persecution of the Jews in Germany in 1940, or is it only since Hitler invaded Russia that he has become a fascist, and that the Jews have been persecuted?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/07/12/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "history", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker challenges the characterization of Hitler's actions, questioning whether calling him a fascist or alleging Jewish persecution in 1940 is accurate, implying these claims may be overstated or driven by political timing rather than fact."}, {"id": "house-29", "year": 1943, "chamber": "house", "date": "1943-02-26", "speaker": "", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["On the orders of the day:\nMr. DOUGLAS G. ROSS (St. Paul's): I have in my hand a clipping from the latest issue of the \"Canadian Jewish Review\" which contains a startling article about the treatment of Jews in North Africa. Will the Prime. Minister give an assurance to the house that Jewish people in North Africa are to be quickly freed from such persecution as characterized the Yichy regime in France?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/02/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1943/02/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes persecution of Jews in North Africa and references historical treatment under Vichy France, then requests government assurance, without accusing any specific current actor of causing the hostility."}, {"id": "house-30", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Chairman, it has been 70 years since Auschwitz was liberated. It is troubling to us all to see the amount of hate and xenophobia in many communities around the world aimed not only at the Jews but also at others, such as the Rohingyas in Burma; and it has been 30 years since the Golden Temple. As the member will know, if we look from place to place there appears to be a movement of hate almost institutionalized at different levels with different people.\n I am sure there is one word that the people watching tonight may not understand. It took me a while to understand it. I wrote it down because I thought I would raise it here. The word is pogrom, which is a violent riot aimed at massacre or persecuting a particular ethnic group or religious group. However, the definition adds “especially of Jews”. I found it striking that whoever put that dictionary together saw to it that the leading evidence of what a pogrom is was with respect to how the Jews have been treated. \nWhat does the current government see as its role in educating Canadians to prevent the growth and spread of this evil?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses that it is 'troubling to us all' to see 'hate and xenophobia' aimed at Jews and others, and refers to anti-Jewish violence as 'evil,' without naming specific individuals or entities as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-31", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ed which in many cases is absolutely overt. There is no attempt to mask using the buzzwords of the hate-mongers to mask their intentions to the point that on several university campuses across the country, Concordia 10 years ago and the university across the street from my riding, York University in Toronto, have seen Jewish students refuse to take part in student activities, the normal part of university years, simply because they are intimidated. Some of them even have gone so far as to remove any vestiges that would reveal their Jewish identity.\nIn today's incidents that we saw in Montreal, again this is the more overt manifestation, the vile graffiti, the intimidating bullets. Again, we need to hear voices raised in the community in Montreal tomorrow, which denounce today's events."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility described (intimidation of Jewish students, graffiti, bullets) and calls for community voices to 'denounce today's events,' without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-32", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Joe Oliver", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in Canadian history. \nOn the one hand, individually and collectively, and especially in the western democracies, the Jewish community is achieving unparalleled acceptance and an ability to contribute to society in the same way as other citizens in each of the countries in which they live. We see that in Canada, where Jewish institutions are strong and the Jewish community is able to participate at every level in every field of human endeavour. \nAs well, Israel, although threatened, has emerged as a strong cultural, scientific, military presence in the Middle East that can contribute to, and has contributed to, the advancement of health, education, and literature around the world.\nOn the other hand, we are seeing the emergence of an old hatred, a hatred that we all thought could not possibly re-emerge, a hatred that means Jewish people cannot safely walk through the streets of some of the most civilized capitals of the world if they are dressed identifiably as Jewish. They risk their physical lives, and the social and psychological oppression that they face on a daily basis in some of these capitals is quite chilling indeed.\nAt the same time, Israel's existence is now threatened by those who deny its very right to exist and who both deny the existence of the Holocaust and at the same time are determined to repeat it.\nWhat is the genesis of this hatred? What are the reasons, be they psychological, historical, theological, or political? What is the genesis of this hate, and what is the reason it has been perpetuated over the millennia? To the extent that we can reach children, we can deal with it and prevent it from spreading, yet we have not been successful in doing …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Finance, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Rise in anti-Semitism", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostility toward Jews (physical danger, psychological oppression, denial of Israel's right to exist) and expresses concern about this 'old hatred' re-emerging, without naming specific persons or groups as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-33", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tion. If we talk to seniors in a Tim Hortons, they will tell stories of things they have read on the Internet that they absolutely believe. Nobody can say why they believe those things. Hatred is one of the things. Xenophobia is another one of the things.\nThe communication factor that we have today plays a role in the hatred that is spewed out there, uncontrolled, against many different people, but particularly the Jewish people. It is unbelievable and it is sad.\nAgain I come back to the fact that we have hate laws. If hate is purveyed by anybody on the Internet, it should be addressed. The problem we get into when trying to track these things is that they use shadow locations, going through three different servers, to get that message out. There are some people who are very sophisticated in delivering these messages. \nWhat we are seeing …", "… Those videos, as horrific as they are, are professionally planned and orchestrated. The people who are purveying hate on the Internet are doing precisely the same thing.\nI think that is one of the keys to the explosion that is happening. In hard times, in Europe and in those capitals where people are rising up and the hatred is boiling again, people are unemployed and there is high youth unemployment. That winds up scapegoating many people. In the old stories, the Jews are the people with money and the Jews are the business people who are affecting capital around the world. All of those stories that have been perpetuated for generations bubble back up again, but in a different context."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/02/24/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred and xenophobia spewed against Jewish people, calling it 'unbelievable and sad,' and discusses hate laws without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-34", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-03-26", "speaker": "Chris Alexander", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e largest exoduses of humanity ever recorded.\nIn Iraq and Syria, we see Sunni and Shia being victims, especially when they are in minority positions on the territory of the other, on the territory of their armed enemies. We see Alawites and Ismailis suffering, having to protect themselves, vulnerable. We see Kurds and Jews being slaughtered in indiscriminately.\n These are only the cases where it is documented. There are very few journalists in Syria. It is increasingly difficult for journalists to cover what is happening in Iraq unless the ISIL media make a video and post it on YouTube. We know that the atrocities are on a much larger scale than we have even recorded so far …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/03/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/03/26/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ajax--Pickering", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Jews being slaughtered in Iraq and Syria as part of a factual enumeration of various groups suffering violence, without taking a position on the hostility or assigning blame."}, {"id": "house-35", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-03-26", "speaker": "Mark Strahl", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ack to the time of the first apostles are being systematically erased from the landscape. These Christians are among the last people on earth still using Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ. It is estimated that 100,000 Christians have been driven from their ancestral lands. Religious artifacts have also been desecrated, and ancient manuscripts dating to the first century have been destroyed by ISIL.\nIn a disturbing parallel to the Nazi practice of marking property owned by Jews, ISIL marked the homes of Christians in Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, with the Arabic letter “N” for Nazara, an early Islamic term for Christians. Once identified, Christians were given the choice to convert to radical Islam, pay a massive fine, or face death by the sword. Most chose to flee for their lives.\nCanon Andrew White, known as the vicar of Baghdad, has described the situation in Iraq as “the worst reality of religious persecution since the Holocaust.” \nAmnesty International investigator Donatella Rovera has said:\n The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq. \nWilliam Youmaran, president of the Assyrian American National Federa …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/03/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/03/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes persecution of Christians by ISIL, including marking of homes (compared to Nazi marking of Jewish property), forced conversions, and killings. It presents accounts from Canon Andrew White and Amnesty International without the speaker taking a position on the described events themselves."}, {"id": "house-36", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-04-02", "speaker": "Pat Martin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the federal caucus of the New Democratic Party, I wish to extend warmest wishes to members of the Jewish community as they gather to celebrate Passover with songs, wine, and a meal shared with family and friends.\n Families will gather to retell the powerful story of the exodus of the Jewish people out of slavery and celebrate the victory of freedom, faith, and hope over oppression, persecution, and hate.\n As families and friends gather together across the country at their Seder tables to share the story of their rich culture, faith, and traditions, it is also a time to reflect on the many blessings we have here in Canada and to remember those around the world who are still struggling to find the peace and security we …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2015/04/02/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker extends wishes and describes Passover celebration and its themes, but does not address any hostility toward Jews or take a position on any such hostility."}, {"id": "house-37", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-02-05", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… inese-Canadians. In fact, we just apologized for the head tax. \nWe know about the Asian exclusion act, we dealt with that. We know about the internment of Japanese Canadians during the second world war for which the government has apologized. We know about what happened to S.S. St. Louis and how it was turned away and Jews were sent to the gas chambers in Europe. We know about that.\nWe know that we used to have a racist immigration policy and it was because of that that we ultimately enacted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on April 17, 1982. We did that because we wanted to make sure that injustices of the past did not carry us forward into the future.\nA very important section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms relates to the l …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/02/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/02/05/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical instances of discrimination and persecution (S.S. St. Louis, Jews sent to gas chambers) as factual historical events without condemning the hostility itself or assigning blame to any current actor."}, {"id": "house-38", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-01", "speaker": "James Lunney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today we will take part in an act of solemn remembrance for the millions of victims who perished at the hands of the Nazi regime. \n Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass”, took place on November 9, 1938. This act of destruction gave official sanction to persecution, humiliation, deprivation and eventually the systemic and organized murder of nearly six million Jewish people.\nWhile the Nazi machine geared up, the nations of the world gathered in Evian, France to consider what actions might be taken. \nTragically, the conference took on its own measure of infamy in that it broke up early with no resolve to act at all. Hitler's spies returned to say, “You can do what you want with the Jews, no one wants them”.\nThat is precisely why we must gather and stand with our Jewish friends and survivors in the spirit of zakar, remembrance, and reaffirm our commitment to fight racism and hatred wherever it is found.\nAs the Prime Minister wrote after his recent visit to Auschwitz:\n We are witness here to the vestiges of unspeakable cruelty, horror and death. Let us never forget these things and work always to prevent their repetition."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/01/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility (Nazi persecution and murder of Jews, Kristallnacht) and calls for commitment to fight racism and hatred, without naming specific current actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-39", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-15", "speaker": "Ruby Dhalla", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… for this reason that I stand before the House today to once again ask for the government to apologize to the Indo-Canadian community and others impacted by the 1914 Komagata Maru injustice.\nThe Komagata Maru tragedy occurred at a time when our nation had immigration policies that were exclusionary, discriminatory and racist, policies that served to divide our nation and played on our nation's fears.\n It is these policies that resulted in the Chinese having a head tax imposed, 900 Jewish people being denied entry into Canada and the internment of over 700 men from the Italian community in the second world war. It is these injustices that will forever serve as a reminder of the struggle and the challenges that so many immigrants have encountered in their hope for a better future in Canada.\nWe fast forward to 2008 and realize th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (denial of entry to 900 Jewish people) as part of documenting Canada's discriminatory immigration policies, without condemning, naming responsible parties, or blaming anyone for the past actions."}, {"id": "house-40", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-14", "speaker": "James Rajotte", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in which the school is located. Many Muslim Canadians across the country may feel affronted by the attack.\nThe House may very well recall the situations with respect to attacks that happened at the United Talmud Torah elementary school in Montreal in 2004. Members may also remember the early Saturday morning fire bomb attack on an Orthodox Jewish school in 2006. These are only a couple of examples. \nUnfortunately, in my home city of Edmonton there have been incidents against educational institutions and houses of worship, which I know are outside the parameter of the bill. These are situations in which there is an attack of hatred, and it affects the entire co …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/05/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical incidents of attacks on Jewish schools and institutions without expressing condemnation, blame, or naming specific perpetrators responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-41", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-01-30", "speaker": "Pierre Poilievre", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, last week UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour welcomed the coming into force of the Arab charter, which calls for “rejecting all forms of racism and Zionism” and says that Zionism is “a violation of human rights” and poses “a threat” to world peace.\nEradicating Zionism would mean the eradication of the Jewish state. The Canadian government does not support Ms. Arbour in her endorsement of this goal. In fact, we call on Ms. Arbour to apologize, renounce the Arab charter and state unequivocally that Zionism is a perfectly legitimate movement.\nHere at home, the Liberal Party must make clear its own position on the Arab charte …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/01/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/01/30/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Louise Arbour and accuses her of endorsing a goal (eradicating Zionism) that the speaker equates with eradication of the Jewish state, framing this as hostile toward Jews. The speaker also implicitly names the Arab charter as responsible for anti-Jewish hostility by calling for rejection of Zionism."}, {"id": "house-42", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-03-07", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, when I spoke yesterday in the House of the danger of anti-Jewish terror, the targeting of Jews because they are Jews, we in the House did not know that at that moment, in a tragic irony, a murderous terrorist assault on a Jewish school in Jerusalem was taking place. Nor could we even fathom that, in an obscene declaration, Hamas would actually bless the terrorist attack and call for more, while thousands celebrated the killings in the streets. It reminded me of the words of Mideast scholar Fouad Ajami. At the time of the Passover massacre, yet another anti-Jewish terrorist attack, he wrote: \n [The suicide bomber] did not descend from the sky: He walked straight out of the culture of incitement.... He partook of the culture all around him--the glee that greets those brutal deeds of terror, the cult that rises around the martyrs and their families. \nThis culture of hate must end. This incitement must stop. For it is this Hamas sanctioned hate and incitement that leads to Hamas rockets targeting Jews in Sderot and Ashqelon and terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. We need a culture of peace, not a culture of hate."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/03/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/03/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to anti-Jewish terror, Hamas-sanctioned hate and incitement, and the culture of hate that enables violence against Jews, without naming specific individuals as perpetrators of the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-43", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, David Ahenakew was stripped of his Order of Canada for repeatedly making racist anti-immigrant statements and in particular, for stating that Jews are a disease, they currently control the media, and the Holocaust was justified because it was Hitler's way of preventing the Jewish control of Europe.\nNotwithstanding these facts, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations recently decided to reinstate Mr. Ahenakew as a senator within its organization, a position which is considered to be one of honour and leadership.\nThis is a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "community", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker attributes specific hostile statements directly to a named individual (David Ahenakew), including calling Jews 'a disease,' claiming they control media, and justifying the Holocaust."}, {"id": "house-44", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Ruby Dhalla", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… discretionary powers to pick and choose who comes to our nation. \nWe only need to be reminded of the injustices of the past, injustices like the Komagata Maru incident, or the time from 1885 to 1923 when there was a head tax for the Chinese, or the period from 1923 to 1945 where strict immigration rules prohibited the Jewish from entering our country.\nThose were not proud moments in our nation's history. We must not, as a nation, go back to the politics of exclusion, discrimination or racism. We must move forward as a country.\nAs a proud Canadian, a proud Sikh and a proud Indo-Canadian, I have seen and heard first-hand how the injustices of the Komagata Maru incident has left families around the world, including many in the Indo-Canadian community, with scars and with pain that can never be forg …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical discrimination against Jews (1923-1945 immigration restrictions) as an 'injustice' and 'not a proud moment,' and explicitly calls for rejecting 'politics of exclusion, discrimination or racism.'"}, {"id": "house-45", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… This act of racism occurred under the Conservative government of Sir Robert Borden.\nThis was one of the most notorious incidents in the history of the early 20th century of the exclusion laws in Canada and the United States that were designed to keep out people of Asian origin.\n Sadly, it was not the last of Canada's exclusionary practices. Members will recall the ship of the damned, the Jewish people who came to the shores of Canada, only to be turned away by a member of the government who said that one Jew was one Jew too many in this country. \nIn 1958 the Conservatives, under John Diefenbaker, moved to block the flow of Italian Canadians coming to Canada. The shadow of racism was still alive.\nOf course today, buried in the latest budget bill, Bill C-50, the Conservative government is moving to control immigration. It will control not only who gets into Canada but more importantly who does not get in, who is excluded in this immigration package that is coming forth.\nHowever, back to the sto …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/02/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker attributes hostility toward Jews to a named government member who said 'one Jew was one Jew too many in this country,' turning away Jewish refugees (the 'ship of the damned')."}, {"id": "house-46", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-16", "speaker": "Marlene Jennings", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… would like to congratulate my colleague for Châteauguay—Saint-Constant for her valiant effort in bringing this bill before the House. The objective of the bill is praiseworthy and necessary, particularly as we approach the fourth anniversary of the bombing of the United Talmud Torah elementary school in Montreal. Hate attacks against cultural communities in Canada continue. Allow me to provide an overview of certain recent incidents.\nIn September 2006, the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish school for boys in Outremont was firebombed a few hours after the end of the school day.\nIn January 2007, the Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens (JMC) school in the Saint-Laurent—Cartierville borough was vandalized. Twenty windows were broken and a school bus damaged. That was not the first time the school had been vandalized.\nIn June 2007, the Kitigan Zibi cultural ce …", "… n the right direction, but it is a small step.\nIn 2004 Canada's principal Jewish organizations estimated that it would take approximately $8 million to undertake minimum investments to upgrade the security of their infrastructures, schools and community centres. \nOfficials from the Taldos Yakov Yosef school, which was attacked in September 2006, had to launch an appeal to raise $150,000 for repairs and security enhancements to that private Orthodox Jewish school.\nIt was precisely because of my concern with these increased costs incurred by victims of crime, who through no fault of their own were having to fork the bill to ensure the security of their institutions, that in 2004 I wrote a letter to the then prime minister, to the then deputy prime minister, and to the th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes specific incidents of attacks and vandalism against Jewish schools and institutions, providing dates, locations, and details, without explicitly condemning the hostility or naming/blaming any responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-47", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-16", "speaker": "Mike Allen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ould apply when it could be proven that the act of mischief was motivated by prejudice or hate based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin or sexual orientation. \nI understand the rationale behind the proposal. It seeks to send a clear message to Canadians that we do not tolerate acts motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred. I noted the examples pointed out by my hon. colleague from the Bloc, who talked about the schools and the things that were done in Outremont to the Jewish school and the library.\nIn particular, it seems that the intention of the bill is to send a message to potential hatemongers that we do not tolerate acts that are directed toward institutions in Canada that are used by what is defined in subsection 318(4) of the Criminal Code as an “identifiable group”, or in other wo …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalism at a Jewish school and library in Outremont as examples of bias-motivated mischief, without condemning the acts, naming perpetrators, or taking a clear position on the hostility itself. The focus is on explaining the bill's intent rather than responding to the hostility."}, {"id": "house-48", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-07", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, last week the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations made a decision to reinstate David Ahenakew to its senate, in spite of his despicable and hateful remarks about Jews. The Minister of Indian Affairs appropriately expressed disappointment with the federation's decision to reinstate Mr. Ahenakew and stated that the government would be reviewing its funding commitments with the federation. The minister said:\n The past comments by this person have been very hurtful and inappropriate an …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/04/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies David Ahenakew and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations as responsible for hostility toward Jews - Ahenakew for making 'despicable and hateful remarks about Jews' and the federation for reinstating him despite these remarks."}, {"id": "house-49", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-06-02", "speaker": "Olivia Chow", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… d open immigration policy that welcomes the skills, innovation and contributions of immigrants rather than a policy that reeks up the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Continuous Passage Act, which were designed to keep out immigrant groups.\nCanada has made many mistakes in the past, oftentimes because of discriminatory policies based on race, religion or nationality.\nIn 1939 we refused to allow the ocean liner S.S. St. Louis to dock on our shore, forcing 900 Jewish refugees to return to Germany, and many of the passengers did not survive. During World War II, Canada only accepted 5,000 Jewish refugees, one of the worst records among all refugee-receiving countries.\nLet us also not forget that from 1941 to 1945 Canada interned, displaced, dispossessed, and detained 23,000 Japanes …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/06/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/06/02/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Trinity--Spadina", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Trinity—Spadina, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Balanced Refugee Reform Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's historical refusal to admit Jewish refugees and poor record accepting them during WWII as mistakes based on discriminatory policies, without naming a specific contemporary person/party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-50", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-06-06", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… urselves from this very problematic and historically hateful process, but the NDP members now say that things have changed and they are supporting it. What has changed? \nIran, a country dedicated to the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world, is vice-chair. It recently denied observer status to a Canadian Jewish NGO. The organizers have re-invited all of the NGOs who participated in the most extreme and odious promotion of hatred at the last Durban conference.\nI say to the NDP members, shame on them for supporting this terrible disgrace."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2008/06/06/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies Iran as responsible for hostility toward Jews (dedicated to destroying 'the only Jewish country') and names the conference organizers as responsible for promoting hatred and re-inviting NGOs that engaged in 'extreme and odious promotion of hatred' at Durban."}, {"id": "house-51", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-12-07", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ism. We had superior races and inferior races. It did not only happen to the Ukrainians. As the member said, it also happened to Canadians of Japanese ancestry who suffered the same horrors during the second world war. We also know that as part of our history we had the Asian Exclusion Act and the Chinese Head Tax. We discriminated against all sorts of minorities. It was a fact of life at that time.\nHowever, I think it was the suffering of all those groups, including the Jews, who, during the second world war, when they were looking for refuge to escape Nazi Germany, were turned away. Given all the suffering in the past, we now have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The member talked about doing a more general kind of redress. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms recognizes that, which is …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/12/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/12/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews during WWII (being turned away while seeking refuge from Nazi Germany) as part of a broader historical account of various groups' suffering, without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing the hostility."}, {"id": "house-52", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-01", "speaker": "Pat O'Brien", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, like most Canadians of goodwill I am appalled by the recent hateful expressions of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment by a misguided handful of people here in Canada.\nRecently, several mosques and synagogues have been desecrated with hateful symbols and slogans. Sadly the phrase “Jesus Rules” has even been employed.\nIt is indeed upsetting for true Christians who understand the teachings of Jesus to see his holy name misused as a put down of Canadians who are members of any other faith, be it Islam or Judaism.\nSince 9/11 Canadian Arabs, especially Muslims, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "London—Fanshawe", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Pat O'Brien (London—Fanshawe, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Middle East", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses being 'appalled' by 'hateful expressions' and 'anti-Jewish sentiment' and describes desecrations as 'upsetting,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific persons or groups responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-53", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-20", "speaker": "Peter Stoffer", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… There was a poem written by Lorne Shirinian and Alan Whitehorn. I say this because this poem says a lot. I was born in Holland and my parents and oldest brother were liberated by Canadian sacrifices. At that time the Nazi regime of Germany did some terrible atrocities to the people of Europe and, for that matter, the Jewish people as well. We just had a day of remembrance for the Jewish holocaust.\nWhen groups of people are out there in the world today being harassed, slaughtered, killed or in any way defamed because of their nationality, religion, ethnicity or whatever, then we as parliamentarians in Canada must stand up against that.\nWe must remember the genocide for the following poem:\n\nWe must remember. Remember and learn. Remember and tell. But also remember and live.\n\nThe last line is the most important:\n\nAnd some da …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/20/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/20/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Sackville--Eastern Shore", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sackville—Eastern Shore, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to harassment, slaughter, killing, and defamation of people based on religion/ethnicity, stating parliamentarians 'must stand up against that,' without naming specific perpetrators of current hostility."}, {"id": "house-54", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-19", "speaker": "Marlene Catterall", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ians gathered in solidarity on our first national Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom ha-Shoah.\nI want to congratulate the member for Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier; the government House leader, the member for Brossard—La Prairie; members of the House from all parties; and senators who made it possible for the bill to establish Holocaust Memorial Day to pass unanimously and quickly.\nThe Jewish community is again under attack with the desecration of sacred places and even the burning of a school library. We are painfully reminded that the evil of hatred and the horrible acts it generates are not in the past. They can be turned against any group at any time and when they are we must speak out and say “never again”."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to attacks on Jewish community and desecration of sacred places, calling hatred 'evil' and affirming 'never again,' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-55", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-19", "speaker": "Bryon Wilfert", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday Canadians were able to commemorate our first national Holocaust Memorial Day. Yom ha-Shoah has been commemorated by communities and governments across Canada for many years, but was formally recognized as Holocaust Memorial Day by Parliament last year.\nAs members may know, “Shoah” is the Hebrew word for “whirlwind”, the whirlwind of hatred that swept six million Jews to their deaths under the Nazi sponsored policy of hatred and genocide during the second world war.\nYom ha-Shoah provides an opportunity for all Canadians to be educated on the universal lessons of human rights and to reaffirm our commitment to protect Canadians from those who would commit crimes of violence, racism and hate.\nIt is my hope that on Yom ha-Shoah, Canadians of all religious and cultural backgrounds would take a moment to recognize this day and reflect on what religious and racial hatred can do to an individual, a community and a country."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2004/04/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust and its commemoration, educating about historical hatred and genocide without taking a position on any current hostility or naming responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-56", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-10-03", "speaker": "Mélanie Joly", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the government is committed to building a more inclusive society, and the National Holocaust Monument commemorates the six million Jews, as well as the five million other victims, who were murdered during the Holocaust. It stands as a reminder of the dangers of hatred, racism, and intolerance, while affirming respect for human rights, dignity, and resilience. \nThe plaque has been removed and will be replaced with language that reflects the horrors experienced by the Jewish people."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/10/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/10/03/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Holocaust Monument, its purpose, and that a plaque will be replaced, without objecting to or condemning any specific hostility, and without accusing anyone of antisemitic actions."}, {"id": "house-57", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-10-03", "speaker": "Pierre Nantel", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nce, who arrived in New France in 1738 and declared her Jewish origins to the authorities, who were mainly from the Church.\nIt was not until Aaron Hart settled in Trois-Rivières in 1761 and the first synagogue in Montreal was founded on what is now known as the corner of Boulevard Saint-Laurent and Rue Notre-Dame that Jewish culture truly took root in Quebec.\nThe Jewish community also faced prejudices during the election of Ezekiel Hart, who was twice elected the member for Trois-Rivières, but barred from taking a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada because of his Jewish faith. The Jewish community would forever be part of Quebeckers' future when Louis-Joseph Papineau, one of the great figures of our h …", "… ich is just as heartbreaking and intimate; and then finally here in Ottawa, just steps from Parliament, where we finally inaugurated a monument in memory of the millions of Holocaust victims. We were the only country among the Second World War allies that did not yet have a monument to commemorate the suffering of the Jewish people, even though the Jewish community has deep roots in Canada.\nToday, we have a place to remember the genocidal violence of unimaginable proportions that took place during those years. The monument also serves as a reminder of our dark role in those events, since our government, here in Ottawa, chose to admit less than 5,000 Jewish refugees during that time and turned away many others, despite the horrors that were occurring in Europe. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/10/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/10/03/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical prejudices and discriminatory acts (barring Ezekiel Hart from taking his seat, Canada's limited acceptance of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust) without explicitly condemning or blaming anyone specific in the present moment. The passage presents these as historical facts being recounted."}, {"id": "house-58", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Don Davies", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I have two questions for my hon. colleague.\nFirst, he made mention today in question period and previously of the concept of an illegal refugee. I would like him to explain more about that. If refugees are fleeing for their lives, the definition of refugee being someone who has a well-founded fear of persecution or often the loss of his or her life, and I am thinking of, say, Jews leaving Nazi Germany in the dead of night and trying to make their way into Switzerland, if they make it to another country, and they are in between border points and try to cross the border to get to safety, I am having difficulty understanding why he terms that illegal. If I were a refugee fleeing for my life and be …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/21/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker references historical hostility toward Jews (Jews fleeing Nazi Germany) as an example to illustrate a point about refugee definitions, but does not condemn, name responsibility for, blame anyone regarding, or dispute characterizations of that hostility."}, {"id": "house-59", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-15", "speaker": "Frank Baylis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… My own family's history has been touched by the fight against systemic racism. More than 50 years ago, my mother, Gloria Leon Baylis, a young black immigrant from Barbados, was denied a job because of her skin colour, because of her race. When that happened, she did not throw a rock through a window at night or write graffiti on a wall. No, she took them to court. She found a young Jewish lawyer, who told her he would stand with her and take on the case. Remember that this was over 50 years ago, when such discrimination was commonplace and, quite frankly, accepted. \nHer case would take over 12 years to be settled, and when it was done and she won, the perpetrators were fined the measly sum of $25, some $25 for a 12-year case. However, the case was never about money. Her case would be the first in Canada to be fought and won against r …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a historical case of racial discrimination against their mother and mentions a Jewish lawyer who supported her, without making any claims about hostility toward Jews or taking a position on such hostility."}, {"id": "house-60", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Murray Rankin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… oved, and passed into law.\nCanada is thought of, at home and abroad, as an inclusive nation, a place that welcomes all people, regardless of culture, language, or religion, with equality and respect. It is a country where diversity is not just accepted but celebrated. We strive to make Canada a nation free from racial intolerance and xenophobia, but recent events remind us that we still have more work to do. \nHere in Ottawa, right here in the nation's capital, we have seen mosques, synagogues, and a Jewish community centre vandalized. We have seen discrimination in communities right across Canada, and in Quebec City this weekend, we saw where hatred can lead. \nIn Canada, racial and ethnic discrimination motivates about half of all police-reported hate crimes. Another quarter of these crimes are driven by prejudice towards religion, and that number, sadly, is rising. In just the last three years, hate crimes against Muslim Canadians have more than doubled. These s …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Victoria", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Victoria, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to vandalism of synagogues and Jewish community centers, discrimination against Jews, and hate crimes motivated by religious prejudice, without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-61", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Bill Blair", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ommitted out of bias, prejudice, or hate based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin. The maximum punishment for this offence is 10 years' imprisonment. Subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code was enacted as part of the Anti-terrorism Act of 2001, which was also known at that time as Bill C-36. \nToday, hate crime is restricted to property that is primarily used for religious worship, such as churches, mosques, and synagogues, and also includes cemeteries. However, during the committee hearings on Bill C-36, some witnesses, while approving of the creation of a specific hate crime of mischief, argued that the crime should be broader in scope, and if I may, I will cite some examples. \nDavid Matas, lead counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, in his testimony at that time, argued that sex should be added to the list of hate motivations and also that the crime should be expanded to cover schools, organizational buildings, and cemeteries.\nAs well, on November 6, 2001, before the same committee, Mr. Ed Morgan, who was at that time chair of the Ontario region of the Canadian Jewish Congress, testified that all religious property should be protected by the hate crime mischief offence. He said:\n Not just sanctuaries, not just synagogues or churches, but all religious structures, religious centres, religious schools, religious community centres, cemeteries—which are a particular target for hate crimes and desecration—ought to be covered as well. \nHe also argued at that time, and again I quote from his testimony:\n ...the grounds of group identification ought to be expanded to include, for example, hate crimes against groups identified by sexual orientation or gender. Gay-bashing is a hate crime, as would be an attac …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough Southwest", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of National Defence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Public Safety", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical testimony about hate crimes against Jewish property and institutions, citing witnesses and their arguments without taking a personal position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-62", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Chandra Arya", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. He stated:\n  First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —  Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—  Because I was not a Trade Unionist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.  Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.   \nBill C-305 would recognize that hate motivated by bias based on gender identity and sexual orientation would carry the same weight as crimes committed against religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin. The bill would expand it to include schools, day care centres, colleges or universities, community centres, seniors' residences, and cultural centres. The i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/02/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes the famous Niemöller poem about Nazi persecution including of Jews, and then describes Bill C-305's provisions regarding hate crimes. It presents information without taking a stance on hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it."}, {"id": "house-63", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "David Anderson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["moved:\n That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …", "… an express anything but our deepest condolences and our revulsion at what happened there. People were attacked while they were praying. Over a dozen people were shot, and several were killed. Therefore, our motion begins where it must, which is by recognizing them. \nOur motion moves on to condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities. What stands out here is the inclusiveness of this motion. Although it lists the half-dozen largest faith groups in Canada, it obviously includes all religious communities in Canada. There is no sense in excluding any of them. We know that this is important, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Cypress Hills--Grasslands", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — University of Regina", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states the motion 'condemn[s] all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities' without naming any specific person or group as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-64", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Arif Virani", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… use believe it is fundamentally important to name Islamaphobia for what it is.\nI want to read something to the member and ask him a question.\n Some have suggested Motion 103 signals out Canadian Muslims for special treatment. This is not true. The House of Commons has long had a tradition of passing motions denouncing discrimination and hatred against particular groups, especially religious minorities. For example, in recent years the House of Commons has adopted similar motions regarding Jews (February 22, 2015), Yazidis (October 25, 2016) and Egyptian Coptic Christians ( October 17, 2011). \nThat is a statement from the member for Wellington—Halton Hills. I want to ask my friend opposite about those comments, whether he agrees with the statement by the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, and why Islamaphob …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites a prior statement mentioning motions against discrimination toward Jews, including a specific motion from February 22, 2015, as a historical example without endorsing or condemning any hostility or taking a position on the matter itself."}, {"id": "house-65", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Gérard Deltell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , or fath. Terrorism is the worst side of society. It is an attack on all people and all religions.\nNo one religion is better than another. Every religion is equal. Unfortunately, yes, there are despicable people who deserve to be severely condemned. That is why our motion talks about condemning “all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. I am quoting the motion here because it is important, and words have meaning.\nThe motion then calls upon the House to instruct a parliamentary committee to find a way to eliminate all types of discrimination in Canada and to better reflect the enshrined rig …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, calling for condemnation of 'all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination' without naming specific persons or groups as responsible."}, {"id": "house-66", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mélanie Joly", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eard about their successes, their challenges, and their ambitions. It was really an uplifting conversation.\nI learned a great deal from this conversation and I was surrounded by people from different religious backgrounds.\nEveryone there condemned Islamophobia. No one was afraid to speak out against it. Even though as Jews, Sikhs, indigenous peoples, or black persons they are part of a minority, they stood behind the Muslim community. Having often been victims of discrimination themselves, they acknowledged that Islamophobia is a problem in Canada.\nThe same thing happened in my riding. In Ahuntsic-Cartierville, I had the opportunity to meet with several leaders from different religious backgrounds, including Armenians, Coptic Christians, Maronites, or even Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and at …", "… age my colleague across the way to support Motion No. 103.\nI would also like to seek unanimous consent for the following motion. That the motion be amended, first, by deleting the words “the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct” and substituting the following: “, in the opinion of the House, the government should, (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear, (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious d …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes people from various religious backgrounds, including Jews, condemning Islamophobia and standing against discrimination. The passage shows condemnation of hostility without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-67", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Jenny Kwan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… n was filmed hurling abusive and racial slurs. He said. “You [bleeping] Paki. Go back to [bleeping] India. You camel-rider.” The individual then clearly states, “White power” as part of the exchange. \nOther incidents include flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan being found outside homes in British Columbia. Spray painted swastikas were recently found on a rabbi's door at a synagogue in Ottawa. A racist rant was caught on film in transit in Toronto. Racist posters also went up in the University of Alberta targeting the Sikh community.\n Jewish Canadians are still the most targeted religious group in Canada though those types of attacks have dropped while attacks on Muslims have increased. Hate crimes against Muslim Canadians have more than doubled in three years, even as the total number of hate crimes has dropped, which is why Motion No. 103 is important and ought to be supported.\n No matter in which community hate and discrimination is being targeted, we have a duty to stand up against this kind of despicable be …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and discrimination against multiple communities (Jews, Muslims, Sikhs) as 'despicable' and calls for standing up against them, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-68", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Michelle Rempel", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… gan. All of these events have thrust adherents of Islam, as well as those who kill, torture, rape, and maim in state-sanctioned actions in the name of Islam, to the front of the world's mind.\nWe now turn to Islamophobia. As opposed to Motion No. 103, the motion before us today asks us to “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. In using these words, it respects the state's obligation to protect the rights of the faithful to practise their faith because it refers to individual adherence of faith. It does not ask Parliament to condemn the practice of speaking against any particular …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Nose Hill", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Calgary Nose Hill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Religious Freedom", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination against Jews as part of a list of religious communities affected by systemic racism and intolerance, citing the motion's language without taking a personal position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-69", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I certainly agree with many of the sentiments the member expressed in his speech. I do not know how he feels about commitment, but I hope he will commit to supporting our motion today, which clearly talks about discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, and Hindus. \nIt is interesting that he talked in his speech about discrimination against Sikhs and the importance of calling a problem by its name. Our motion calls a problem by its name by speaking very specifically about discrimination against individuals. Instead, when he talks about calling the problem by its name, he wants to use a word that is actually unclear and undefined. How is it strong …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a motion that addresses discrimination against Jews (among other groups) without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning responsibility for it. The focus is on reporting what the motion says rather than condemning hostility, naming perpetrators, or blaming inaction."}, {"id": "house-70", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Harold Albrecht", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… that everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:\n (a) freedom of conscience and religion; \n (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; \n (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and \n (d) freedom of association. \nWhether it be the most recent attack on Muslims in Quebec City, the drawing of hateful images on Jewish synagogues in Ottawa, or the persecution of Christians in many regions of the world, these acts of hatred toward one another need to be stopped, and it is up to us as elected officials to stand up to this destructive climate.\nIt has long been stated that freedom of religion is one of the most basic freedoms a society can give to its citizens. The United Nations has enshrined this freedom in its Declaration of Human Rights …", "… es from all parties.\nTherefore, let me remind all members, indeed all Canadians who are watching today, of the inclusive nature of the motion before us today. Today's motion reads:\n That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kitchener—Conestoga", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Kitchener—Conestoga, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Canadians", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly condemns hateful acts against Jewish synagogues and calls for stopping 'acts of hatred' without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-71", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Dianne Lynn Watts", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House to speak to this opposition motion, which states:\n That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …", "… se rights for all Canadians. It is important to highlight this, because there is a perception by many that Canada is immune, or has been immune, to the kinds of hate crimes and violence against religious groups that have been witnessed around the world. We saw tragically, only a few weeks ago in Quebec City, an act of violence that has changed us forever.\nI believe that Canada must always stand firmly behind the principles of religious freedom, be it the Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, or Hindu faith, or whatever faith or non-faith one chooses to follow. Violence against any religious group is an attack on the universal values all Canadians cherish and protect. We must continue to do all we can to safeguard the expression and practice of faith in Canada and around the world.\nThis issue is not new to the House. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion have been a priority for the Conservatives. Under our governme …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "South Surrey—White Rock", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "South Surrey—White Rock, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states the House should 'condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination' including against Jews, and affirms that 'violence against any religious group is an attack on universal values all Canadians cherish.'"}, {"id": "house-72", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Dianne Lynn Watts", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the member's comments and question are exactly what I was saying. If there is an issue in any of our communities, if there is hatred perpetrated upon the Islamic population, or if there is hatred perpetrated upon the Jewish population, it is incumbent upon all of us to deal with those issues. We look at our first nations, and it is absolutely correct.\nFrom a holistic perspective, we have to look at our communities in context and really have measures in place where we can assist those people who are vulnerable. In my community, 95 languag …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "South Surrey—White Rock", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "South Surrey—White Rock, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states it is 'incumbent upon all of us to deal with' hatred perpetrated upon the Jewish population, indicating objection to such hostility without naming any specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-73", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Todd Doherty", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… It is absolutely unacceptable, and I appreciate her sharing that.\nMy hon. colleague mentioned a former member of Parliament, Irwin Cotler, who suggested that the word “Islamophobia” be removed and substituted with “anti-Muslim”. \nWe see acts of racism and hate crimes throughout our country. Indeed, if members Google “hate crimes in Canada”, it comes up with attacks against Sikhs, attacks against first nations, and attacks against the Jewish community as well. \nDuring the summer, I went to Punjab, India, and visited the Golden Temple so that I could better understand that religion, and I am offended by the comments by government members that somehow we are racist, by putting forth this motion that mentions that we condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities. This is not a watered-down motion. It is simply capturing and standing up, as leaders, as we should all be doing. \nI believe our hon. NDP colleague mentioned that we should be standing together. How is this motion going to protect one person? As a matter of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate crimes against the Jewish community as part of documenting various forms of racism in Canada, without taking a position on the hostility itself or naming responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-74", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… afraid I must say that, given the attempts by some Liberal MPs to misrepresent both the content and the motivation of the motion, it is worth revisiting the text. The motion reads:\n That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and revisits the text of a motion that condemns discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, without themselves taking a position on hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone specific of it."}, {"id": "house-75", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… da. \n We battled a long time for the equality of women. The days when women were not allowed in nightclubs or had to use a separate entrance are long gone. That sort of discrimination cannot be permitted in Canada. \n Earlier in this Parliament we saw a motion concerning the BDS movement, which was allowed to encourage discrimination in Canada against the state of Israel, a Jewish state. This movement is contrary to our freedoms under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, because it has consequences for our Jewish Canadian friends and because it promotes discrimination. \n When I was in the business world, I travelled to many countries around the world, and it was clear that when I was in those countries, I had to obey their laws. The same principle holds in Canada, but I think we should do more to ensure that our laws are respected. \nMany parliamentarians have also expressed a desir …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the BDS movement as responsible for encouraging discrimination in Canada against Israel and against Jewish Canadians, characterizing it as contrary to Canadian freedoms."}, {"id": "house-76", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… sorry the member is experiencing these kinds of hate tweets and posts. When I was running my campaign, I also received a huge number of hate tweets and hate posts on Facebook, to the point that I had to shut down both my Facebook and Twitter accounts because I was being attacked for being a Christian.\nMy point is that hate crimes and these attacks are happening across different faiths. I talked in my speech about the BDS movement and its attack on Jewish people. That is why we brought our motion today, because I think that we have to up the love and down the hate in our country. If we are going to do a study, we should be studying across all the faiths that are represented. A member from the NDP talked about the discrimination that exists against aboriginals and the things that they believe. I think we need to broaden the discussion."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker argues against narrowing focus to antisemitism specifically, suggesting that labeling the BDS movement's actions as an 'attack on Jewish people' is part of a discussion that should be broadened to include hate against other groups, implicitly questioning whether the antisemitism framing is appropriately specific or overstated.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-77", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I appreciate hearing my colleague's thoughts on our motion as well as some of the larger context. \nLooking at the text of the motion, it says very clearly that we “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. Members have talked about the importance of calling out discrimination by name, and our motion very clearly does that. There is no ambiguity in our motion. That is one of the clear differences and one of those things that is particularly important.\n Also, the timeline allows us to move forward earlier and more quickly with the committee study. Our motion does not just suggest a committee …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states the motion explicitly condemns discrimination against Jews and other religious communities, directly objecting to the hostility described without naming a specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-78", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Luc Berthold", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to be very complete. This motion accurately reflects what we, as a society, think we should and should not do when it comes to hateful acts. My colleague's motion reads as follows:\n That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could... \nFor those who are not as familiar with the work of the House, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage is a committee of parliamentarians fro …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker presents a motion that explicitly states the House should 'condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-79", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Gérard Deltell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hey may follow different faiths, but they are driven by the same desire to understand others.\nTo come back to the member's question, I wonder if my colleague from Mégantic—L'Érable could explain how that member could say that we have ignored Islam, when the motion states, and I quote:\n ...condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; \nHow could the member have done such selective reading?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a motion that explicitly condemns discrimination against Jews along with other religious groups, objecting to the characterization that Islam was ignored.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-80", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ziad Aboultaif", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… en hostile, to those we do not know. We need to break down some barriers and get to know each other a little better. After all, religious discrimination is not directed at only one group. I am sure my Sikh and Hindu colleagues in the House could tell of how they have been at times met with suspicion, as members of the Jewish and Muslim communities could tell tales of discrimination suffered by their members in all parts of this country.\nHow widespread is religious discrimination in Canada? Can we as parliamentarians do more than just lead by example? That is what we are asking the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to find out. \nAllowing people to believe what they want and to practise that belief is a cornerstone of our society. Here in Canada we treat others with respect. That is the C …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/02/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Manning", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Manning, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to religious discrimination against Jews and other groups without naming specific responsible parties; frames it as a societal problem requiring parliamentary attention."}, {"id": "house-81", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-12-11", "speaker": "Kevin Sorenson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to happen. By November of this year, Liberal members on the justice committee agreed to allow section 176 of the Criminal Code to remain operable. \nThis was a victory for all faith communities in Canada. It was an important victory, because hate crimes with respect to religious communities happen all around the world.\nHate crimes are on the increase and, unfortunately it is the same here in Canada, whether it is the Jewish faith, Judaism, attacks on synagogues, the Christian faith, or the Muslim faith. \nBill C-51 was introduced by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada just days before the parliamentary recess, on June 6, 2017. Clause 14 of Bill C-51 proposed to repeal section 176 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which makes it a crime to unlawfully obstruct, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/12/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/12/11/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Battle River—Crowfoot", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate crimes and attacks on synagogues as factual occurrences ('happen all around the world', 'on the increase', 'here in Canada') without condemning them, naming perpetrators, or taking an evaluative stance on the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-82", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Michael Cooper", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nowledge my friend from Nepean for his hard work and his leadership in moving this legislation.\nBill C-305 seeks to amend section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code, which relates to mischief against religious property. Section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code makes it an offence for an individual to commit an act of mischief motivated by hate targeted at a place of worship such as a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple.\nIn addition to section 430(4.1), there is also a section of the Criminal Code that deals with mischief targeted toward general property. The reason section 430(4.1) was added to the Criminal Code to deal specifically with acts of mischief motivated by hate targeted at religious property was in recognition of the fact that such acts of mischief were different than acts of mischief to general property.\nTake, for example, someone who sprays graffiti on the back wall of a restaurant. In such a case, the victim is the owner of the restaurant. Take the example of someone who sprays hateful graffiti on the back wall of a mosque or synagogue. That is an act that targets an entire community. It affects an entire community and it victimizes an entire community.\nBill C-305 would amend section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code by expanding the categories of properties to not only include places of worship, but to include the likes of schools, community centres, a …", "… gious community centres or religious seniors facilities. We have seen many examples of hate crimes that have been perpetrated against schools and community centres.\nWe saw a few years back the horrific fire bombing of the United Talmud Torah School in Montreal. More recent in Ottawa a string of mischief incidents were motivated by hate, which targeted a mosque and two synagogues, but also targeted a Jewish learning centre as well as the Ottawa Muslim Association.\nBill C-305 is good legislation. Its objective is laudable. It was why I was proud to speak in strong support of the bill at second reading. It is why I am proud to speak in strong support of Bill C-305 at this stage of the legislative process.\nBill C-305, upon …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert--Edmonton", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostile acts (graffiti, firebombing, mischief incidents) against Jewish facilities and communities, characterizes them as 'horrific' and motivated by hate, and supports legislation to address such acts, without naming specific perpetrators.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-83", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s historical moment.\nAllow me first to set the bill in the context of recent past events. As has been mentioned recently in the House, in January of this year, six people were murdered in a Quebec City mosque, an event that shocked and appalled the nation. In Ottawa there has been a troubling spike in the incidents of hate graffiti on synagogues over the past several months. Such incidents should cause us as legislators to consider how we wish to confront and prevent the commission of hate crimes in our society.\nBill C-305 is an important response to strengthen the ability of the criminal law to adequately denounce and deter hate crimes. It proposes to expand the scope of the current hate-motivated mischief offence now found in subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code. That provision, entitled “Mischief relating to religious property”, currently prohibits mischief committed against buildings or structures primarily used for a religious purpose, such as a church, mosque, synagogue, or cemetery. The offence must be committed out of hatred, prejudice, or bias based on religion, race, colour, or national or ethnic origin.\nThe current provision carries a maximum punishment of 10 years of imprisonment when prosecuted by indictment and a maximum penalty of 18 months in jail when prosecuted by way of a summary conviction.\nThe Criminal Code presently has a sentencing pr …", "… ngs primarily used as educational institutions, including a school, day care centre, or college or university; used for administrative, social, cultural, or sports events or activities, including a town hall, community centre, playground, or arena; or used as a seniors residence. \nUpon passage of this bill, therefore, vandalism committed against a Jewish or Muslim community centre would be caught by the expanded hate crime mischief offence and not just vandalism committed against a synagogue or a mosque.\nI should note that a major concern for our government was expressed during the debate at second reading. The concern was that the definition of property that it proposed to add to the current offence was overly broad. The list of new properties caught by the bill appeared to be much broader than we believ …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate graffiti on synagogues as 'troubling' and presents Bill C-305 as an 'important response' to 'confront and prevent hate crimes,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-84", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. \nWith the goal of ensuring that we can complete debate within this hour, I will be very brief in my remarks. \nAs chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, I want to say how important this bill is. The member for Nepean took incidents in his own community of vandalism against community centres—a Jewish community centre, a Muslim community centre—and saw that there was an opening in the law, a hole in subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code creating offences for hate-motivated mischief. He saw that the law currently covered only churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious institutions. He said that it had to cover more. It had to cover community centres, schools, and seniors centres.\nOne of the reasons I wanted to speak was to highlight the co-operation of the member, all the witnesses, all the members of the standing committee, and the government. We have …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalism against a Jewish community centre and notes a gap in hate crime legislation, without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning blame."}, {"id": "house-85", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Chandra Arya", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… wish faith, the Muslim faith, Sikhs, Hindus, and Christian faiths. They were all supportive. LGBTQ groups have also been a strong supporter, and it is my hope that this bill will soon become law and bring some peace of mind. In particular, I would like to recognize the support I received from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which worked hard to generate support from various stakeholders.\nThe consequences of hate crimes are considerable. A manual issued by the Attorney General of Ontario lists the impact of hate crimes on individuals, target groups, vulnerable minority groups, and the community as a whole. It says, on the impact on the community as a whole:\n This, perhaps, is the greatest evil of hate crime. Hate crime can end up div …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/05/03/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes consequences of hate crimes generally and cites an official manual about their impact, without addressing any specific hostility toward Jews or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "house-86", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-21", "speaker": "Frank Baylis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… citizens who spread intolerance, or a global narrative that accuses a single group of causing all our problems, but we would be wrong. \n Each one of us must bear a small part of that blame, because we have all been caught in the trap of describing a human being as the other, distinct from ourselves. We have all heard intolerant speech without saying a word. We have all stood silent when a fellow citizen’s identity—gay, Black, Jewish or Muslim—was used as a weapon against them.\n By staying silent, we contributed to a climate that made this hate crime that occurred here possible. We cannot remain silent in the face of discrimination.\nMotion 103 asks the government to undertake a study to combat systemic racism and religious discrimination including lslamophobia.\nAccording to Statistics Canada, Jews are the people most targeted for their religion when it comes to hate crimes. Sadly, I have seen this first hand in my own riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard. A local synagogue, the Gutnick Mazal Jewish Centre, was defaced with hateful graffiti last summer. When that happened, I reached out to Rabbi Yarmush to let him know that our government and the whole of our community stood with him in condemning this cowardly act.\nThe year before, during my election campaign, as I was driving home at the end of a night I passed one of my posters that was defaced with a swastika. I did not have any clippers with me to take that poster down, so I called my campaign manager and asked him to take it down first thing the next morning. However, when he got there, the poster was already removed. That is when I first learned about this incredible young man, Corey Fleischer. Corey has made it part of his life's work to take down hateful graffiti in any form, whenever and wherever it shows up, in Montreal. Whether it is a synagogue, a mosque, or a church, people know they can call Corey Fleischer and he will show up and deal with it. My heart is warmed to know that this young man is out there.\nHowever, there is much more work to be done.\n When it comes to hate crimes, the rate of crimes against Muslims has more than doubled over the last three y …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker condemns hate crimes and discrimination against Jews, reaches out to rabbi after synagogue defacement, and praises efforts to remove hateful graffiti without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-87", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-21", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… h included discussion of the need to define Islamophobia. \n We support the motion's intended objective of combating anti-Muslim hate in Canada, which should be unanimously endorsed. However, we are concerned with the potential validation of any restriction placed on criticizing those manifestations of Islam that drive hatred and violence against Jews, Muslims and other Canadians... \n Following the anticipated adoption of the motion, critics and proponents alike must set their disagreement aside and ensure that any parliamentary initiative that follows is unifying. \nIt is not too late for the mover of the motion to do the right thing and amend it so we can have una …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/21/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hatred and violence against Jews, expressing concern that restrictions on criticism could enable such hostility. They support combating anti-Muslim hate while safeguarding against antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-88", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-07", "speaker": "Pam Damoff", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a simple genetic test to undermine her future access to employment and insurance, and she worried about her daughter and the effect it could have on her career and future. She reminded me that we live in Canada, a country where we celebrate our differences. We protect one another from race, colour, sex, and disability discrimination.\n In an article posted yesterday, representatives from Ovarian Cancer Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wrote:\n For a young woman taking her first steps in building a professional career, the “wrong” genetic test results can impose a new glass ceiling.... \nTomorrow is International Women's Day, and members of this House will have an opportunity to enhance women's health by allowing them to use genetic testing for early detection, monitoring, and intervention without the fear of being discriminated against.\nLast year I had the opportunity to speak with Rabbi Stephen Wise from the Shaarei-Beth El congregation in Oakville. He shared with me the prevalence of certain genetic diseases within the Jewish community. He said that Bill S-201 would save lives. In fact, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, a member of the Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness, which appeared …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/03/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes representatives from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and reports on genetic testing concerns, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-89", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-11-30", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today we commemorate Jewish Refugee Day. I specifically want to call everyone's attention to some forgotten refugees, the approximately 850,000 Jews who had to leave Arab countries and Iran due to religious persecution.\n Their families lived in these countries for many centuries, but in the years leading up to and following the establishment of Israel, anti-Jewish sentiment and violence dramatically increased.\nIn some of these countries, Jewish communities faced organized killings and systemic violence. Many countries stripped them of their property and revoked their citizenship. \nCountries that had Jewish communities in the hundreds of thousands today only have a handful of Jewish residents, and willingly or unwillingly, their Jewish communities found refuge in Israel and in western countries like Canada. \nI ask all my fellow members to join with me and those Jewish Canadians who found refuge from Arab lands and Iran i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/11/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2017/11/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes anti-Jewish sentiment, violence, organized killings, systemic violence, property confiscation, and revocation of citizenship without naming specific individuals as responsible, while commemorating the refugee experience."}, {"id": "house-90", "year": 1914, "chamber": "house", "date": "1914-03-12", "speaker": "Herménégilde Boulay", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… bers should be reduced materially, and quality be made to make up for the reduction in quantity. Our legislation should 103\nbe more exacting, and the regulations carried out in every respect as regards aliens coming from those countries whence thugs and tramps are despatched. It should at the same time provide for the exclusion of Jews, as well as of Chinamen and Hindus. Every immigrant should be required to show, previous to being admitted into Canada, a certificate from the municipal authorities of his country, and be the possessor of several hundred dollars at least in cash, whenever he seeks admittance in any other capacity than that of agricult …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1914/03/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1914/03/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes proposed immigration legislation that would exclude Jews, presented as one policy option among others, without explicitly condemning or endorsing the hostility inherent in such exclusion."}, {"id": "house-91", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-27", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the United Nations agency created to celebrate education, science, and history has embarrassed and disgraced itself yet again, allowing itself to be used as a tool for hate.\nAt the annual meeting of UNESCO's annual world heritage committee, a resolution was passed that effectively denies Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, and that ignores the importance of Jerusalem to the three monotheistic religions that share its history. \nAs the site of two biblical temples, Temple Mount is the holiest place in Judaism, as well as the Muslim holy site of the al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Haram al-Sharif. \nDenying the existence of the Jewish temples is only a blood libel step away from denying the existence of Jews. Canada must strongly protest and condemn this latest hateful manipulation of our shared history."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/27/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names UNESCO and its world heritage committee as responsible for the hostile act of passing a resolution that denies Jewish ties to Temple Mount, describing this as allowing itself to be 'used as a tool for hate' and 'hateful manipulation.'"}, {"id": "house-92", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-27", "speaker": "Nathan Cullen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… funding going to the kid who happens to be going to a school on reserve. In some places, that is an across-the-street situation. However, in rural and remote first nation communities, there is no across the street; there is only the first nation's school. \nWe say, and the Human Rights Tribunal has said, that these are racist and discriminatory policies, end of sentence. If this was against African Canadians, Jewish Canadians, or any other identified group of Canadians, we would all be up in arms asking how this could be possible. However, it is first nations kids, and that is the way it has been for 150 years of Liberal and Conservative governments. The Liberal government is looking to blame somebody, and saying that it is someh …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/27/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Skeena—Bulkley Valley", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Skeena—Bulkley Valley, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion--Government Spending", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jewish Canadians hypothetically as a comparison point to illustrate the severity of discrimination against First Nations children, but does not describe any actual hostility toward Jews or take a position on it."}, {"id": "house-93", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-17", "speaker": "Mélanie Joly", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s commitment to the National Holocaust Monument.\nIt will serve as a vital and sobering reminder to all Canadians of the tragedy of the Holocaust. It will honour those six million Jews and millions of others, including Roma, homosexuals, and disabled people, who lost their lives. We must never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and we must continue to fight the hatred and disregard of humankind."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/17/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred and calls for fighting it, without naming any specific person or group as responsible for current hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-94", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-26", "speaker": "Candice Bergen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in light of the motion that was just adopted by the House, and given that tomorrow is International Religious Freedom Day, I would like to seek the unanimous consent of the House for the following motion. I move:\n That, this House condemns all forms of persecution against all religious groups including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/10/26/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Portage—Lisgar", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Portage—Lisgar, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Office of Religious Freedom", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states 'this House condemns all forms of persecution against all religious groups including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims,' objecting to persecution without naming any specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-95", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-04", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… signatures on a petition urging the Quebec government to add education about the horrors of genocide to the school curriculum across the province.\nNext week, I will be accompanying the foundation to the Quebec National Assembly, where they will submit their petition. \nMy predecessor, Irwin Cotler, often said that the Holocaust did not begin in the concentration camps; it began with words, the ferocious anti-Jewish and racist lexicon of the Nazi regime.\nIt is essential that students across Canada be educated about all of the different genocides of human history in order to ensure it never again becomes a reality."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker references Holocaust horrors and anti-Jewish hatred as something to be prevented through education, opposing such hostility without naming specific current actors as responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-96", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-04", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… und programs and initiatives to alleviate religious persecution in various countries (toward which the majority of the Office's modest $5 million is allocated). While these projects do not always make headlines, we believe they laudably reflect a practical and effective role Canada can play in mitigating the plight of persecuted religious minorities around the world. \nThose are the words of Canada's Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim leaders speaking together. \nIn response on the letter, the minister told the House that they valued religious freedom, they just did not want it to be isolated. Comments like this suggest that unfortunately the minister is not even aware of what the office does. This office is not a silo of activity …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/04/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the minister for not being aware of what the office does and implies inadequate understanding/response to religious persecution, including antisemitism, despite the office's work on these issues."}, {"id": "house-97", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-19", "speaker": "Stéphane Dion", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this government is certainly determined to strengthen all the programs that will educate Canadians against racism and intolerance, and to have a more tolerant and open-minded country, especially regarding our Jewish community.\nThis being said, the attempt of the Conservatives to divide the House on this issue failed yesterday, and it will always fail as long as we have this government in place."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/19/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent--Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Content of Flyer", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses commitment to programs against racism and intolerance, emphasizing tolerance toward the Jewish community, without naming specific responsible parties for the hostility being addressed."}, {"id": "house-98", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "Tony Clement", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… iscourse that is uniquely reserved for pariah states, and apply this standard, uniquely and singularly, to the Middle East's only Liberal democracy and the world's only Jewish state.\n It is clear that the intent of those in favour of this movement is not to resolve the conflict but to single out Israel and contest the Jewish state's right to be treated with fairness.\nI would put it before this House that this BDS movement is actually a form of discrimination. In targeting all Israelis, BDS is a present-day blacklist and a form of discrimination, strictly based on national origin. Just like boycotts have targeted Jews throughout history, today BDS activists call on boycotting people who come from the Jewish state.\n I would stress that it is in no way pro-Palestinian; it is in fact anti-Israel. I would put it to my colleagues and members of this chamber that BDS actually undermines peace. It does nothing to bring the two sides together, to promote peace or improve the quality of life for Palestinian citizens. Indeed, BDS …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names the BDS movement as responsible for discrimination and hostility toward Jews, stating 'this BDS movement is actually a form of discrimination' and comparing it to historical boycotts that 'have targeted Jews throughout history.'"}, {"id": "house-99", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "David Sweet", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, although often in the House there is good deal of cordiality in saying “I appreciate the speech of my colleague”, I really do appreciate the speech of my colleague.\nIn 1939, Canada had a policy of “none is too many” regarding Jews. The St. Louis was turned away and it is a stain on our history. Those kinds of things happened because people said hateful things and nothing was ever said about that.\nI would like to ask the following of my colleague in regard to the broader conversation today and with respect, without any kind of partisanship or any effort to rail against another party, but simply to ask on this issue: when do we start saying no? When does the House beg …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Human Rights Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's 1939 Jewish refugee policy as 'a stain on our history' and references hateful speech without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-100", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ge of weapons, and incitement to violence against Israel in UNRWA-operated schools. B'nai Brith Canada says Canadian aid for Arab Palestinian welfare should go only to specific humanitarian programs and peaceful infrastructure projects. UN Watch has accused dozens of UNRWA staffers of using their official positions to incite Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks against Israeli Jews. \nMy Thornhill constituents ask: Why can the Liberals not find more appropriate ways of delivering humanitarian aid rather than simply handing it to terrorist sympathizers?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/02/18/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites claims from B'nai Brith Canada and UN Watch about UNRWA activities and staff, then poses a question. The speaker describes allegations without directly naming or blaming specific parties as responsible for hostility toward Jews, nor condemning hostility itself—instead reporting what organizations have said and asking about aid distribution.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-101", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-12-14", "speaker": "Omar Alghabra", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… h prejudice would erode the values on which our society is built. Our kids will stop believing us if we tell them that all they need to do is work hard and fair to accomplish anything they want, regardless of their background. We have a responsibility to set an example that we stand together, united against labels and hate.\nThink about this. What other country brings Jewish and Muslim politicians together to celebrate Christmas and declare solidarity against discrimination? The world is watching. We need to show the best of ourselves.\nOn that note, Mr. Speaker, I want to wish you, my colleagues, and all Canadians a peaceful and rewarding holiday season."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/12/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/12/14/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to prejudice and hate, emphasizing standing united against discrimination and labels, without naming specific perpetrators of hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-102", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-12-05", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… n Jewish community groups were supported by citizens across the religious spectrum in condemning a Green Party resolution to embed BDS as official party policy. \nThis weekend, the Green Party passed a rewritten so-called compromise resolution that is in fact its most anti-Israel position yet. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, CIJA, said that the resolution confirms that the Green Party has been co-opted by extreme activists who, in an obsessive campaign of prejudice against Israelis, threaten the party's own credibility and relevance in Canadian politics. \nEarlier this year, by a large majority, the House formally condemned the demonization of the state of Israel. I hope MPs will reaffirm that powerful statement today."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/12/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/12/05/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the Green Party and extreme activists as responsible for prejudice against Israelis and says the party has been 'co-opted' by those engaging in this hostility."}, {"id": "house-103", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-05", "speaker": "Jim Carr", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… and pride of place, as all of us in the House feel. We bring that pride of place to something that is greater than our own identities or the places in which we live: to the great country that is ours.\nI rise with gratitude because I am here due to the courage of my grandparents. They left Russia in 1906, escaping the pogroms of the czar, Jewish people who were not at home in the Pale of Settlement, who could not exercise freedom, who could not own property, who had no sense of opportunity for their children or grandchildren. They came to Canada, where there was a single relative to welcome them. They came with no English, no money, and really no prospects. W …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/05/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Refugees", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical pogroms and discriminatory restrictions against Jews in Russia without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on the hostility itself; they are recounting family history."}, {"id": "house-104", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-02", "speaker": "Ralph Goodale", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, our government celebrates Canadian diversity as a tremendous source of strength, and the Jewish community in Canada is an integral part of that. We will always stand firm against intolerance and hate, as we continue to build an open, inclusive society.\nWith respect to the admissibility of a particular individual, border security officers make those determinations on the basis of the facts at ports of entry in accordance to Canadian law.\nI would point out that past criminality is a factor that is certainly taken in …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states government 'will always stand firm against intolerance and hate' toward Jewish community and celebrates diversity, objecting to hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-105", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-04", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… pproaches. It is the day we remember the victims of the Holocaust; the men, women, and children who were executed in the fields of Ukraine; those who were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Treblinka; those assigned to slave labour who starved to death in Dachau. More than 6 million Jews and millions of non-Jews perished.\nMy predecessor, Irwin Cotler, often quoted the phrase, “Holocaust did not begin in the gas chamber, it began with words.” This is true. Words led to incitement to hatred, which led to pogroms and murder.\nWe must never remain silent in the face of incitement to hatred. The Holocaust took place over 70 years ago, and few survivors remain. It is our sacred duty to ensure that all Canadians know what happened.\nWe should never forget."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to incitement to hatred and silence in its face, warning against antisemitic hostility without naming specific current perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-106", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-04", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… In York Centre, which has one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors in Canada, remembrance ceremonies will be held in schools, synagogues, and community centres. Every year, we must continue to remember and reflect on one of history's darkest periods: the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews during the Second World War. \nEach and every one of us must consider the unfathomable suffering and loss of life, the deep-seeded hatred from which it took root, and the incredible strength, courage, and resilience of those who survived.\nOur remembrance is an act of rejection of the evil that fuelled an attempt to extinguish an entire people, an evil we all bear a collective responsibility to ensure is never forgotten."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/05/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses rejection of the hatred and evil directed at Jews during the Holocaust, framing remembrance as collective responsibility to prevent recurrence, without naming specific parties responsible for the historical atrocity."}, {"id": "house-107", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-09-22", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… very in the United States to achieve freedom in this country, sometimes with the scars of slavery on their backs. There were the Highland clearance Scots, who founded Cape Breton. There were the famine Irish, including some of my ancestors—and members can see that the Kenneys have recovered from the famine. There were Jewish victims of the pogroms before the Second World War, in the early 20th century, and the victims of the Shoah, who came after the Second World War. There were the eastern Europeans, the men in sheepskin coats who fled political oppression to pursue new opportunities in settling the Canadian Prairies; the Hungarians of 1958; the Czechs of 1968; and the Vietnamese of 1979. With the Chinese premier here today, we should also remember the Uyghurs and Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners and those who stood at Tiananmen Square. There are so many others rig …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/09/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/09/22/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Jewish victims of pogroms and the Shoah as part of a historical enumeration of persecuted groups who came to Canada, without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning responsibility."}, {"id": "house-108", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-01-27", "speaker": "Rachel Blaney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… must bear witness.\nAs Elie Wiesel said, today we bear witness to six million Jews, a third of the Jewish population, who were killed alongside countless others due to their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. As Canadians, we must bear witness and demonstrate action against racial, ethnic, and religious intolerance. Canada has been profoundly shaped by the 40,000 Holocaust survivors who settled in this country after the war. We must not forget this history. We must teach our children about the victims of the Holocaust and continue to fight all forms of discrimination. \nWe must never forget."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/01/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/01/27/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "North Island—Powell River", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "North Island—Powell River, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Committees of the House — Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Holocaust and discrimination without naming specific perpetrators; emphasizes bearing witness against intolerance and fighting discrimination.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-109", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… For example, a recent project gave $290,000 to the Aga Khan Foundation for development and distribution of children's books that promoted pluralism among school-aged children in Bangladesh. Working through a Muslim organization, this project also particularly is important to the atheist community, which faces growing persecution in Bangladesh. Non-Christian groups, in fact, Sikh, Jewish and Muslim leaders in Canada have taken the lead on calling for the renewal of this office. Earlier this year, representatives from these three communities sent a joint letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs pleading with him to do the right thing and to renew this office.\nA vast range of communities are represente …", "… s bear no responsibility whatsoever for colonization. They have as much right to live in peace and security as anyone else.\nWhen I talked to other non-Christian faith groups, strikingly they often raised the increasingly desperate plight of Christians as a matter of significant concern. CIJA, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, for example, has been vocal in support of the plight of persecuted Christians, and we should listen to what it has to say in this respect. This office does not focus uniquely on Christians but does not ignore them either.\nA fifth and final objection that I hear to the Office of Religious Freedom is that its work is in some way colonialist. A recent commentary piece in the Toronto Sta …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage mentions Jewish leaders and CIJA calling for religious freedom protections and supporting persecuted Christians, but does not describe, condemn, name, blame, or dispute any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-110", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Cheryl Hardcastle", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… is simple: politics.\nTo get a sense of what I mean, we only need look at the actual record of the Office of Religious Freedom.\n In an analysis of the ORF by Samane Hemmat, published in OpenCanada, Hemmat notes that, “Christian minorities have garnered almost twice as much of the attention...as compared with Muslim and Jewish communities”. This is not to suggest that Christians are not being persecuted in the Middle East, because they are. \nThis is why, during the previous Parliament, the NDP supported a study by the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the human rights violations against Egyptian Christians. We also supported the committee's all-party statement condemning this violence against Christians, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites an analysis showing Jewish communities received less attention from the Office of Religious Freedom compared to Christians, but does not condemn this disparity, blame anyone for it, or take a position on whether it constitutes hostility."}, {"id": "house-111", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Erin O'Toole", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tion or fundamentally change it within 150 days. That should concern Canadians. That should concern people who voted for this new government. \nIn fact, in Mr. Ignatieff's remarks in response to his support for the creation of this office, he mentioned, and many of my friends have mentioned, that these groups have been persecuted abroad, for years and in some cases centuries. He mentioned the Coptic Christians in Egypt. He mentioned members of the Bahá’i faith in Iran, Jews, and Christians. He mentioned China, where the rights of religious freedom are heavily restricted. Therefore, the previous Liberal leader supported the creation of this office, and it is sad that we have to bring a debate to the floor today. After just a few years, but in an exceptional mandate, Ambassador Bennett has …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/03/21/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews alongside other groups (Coptic Christians, Bahá'i, Christians in China) without taking a position on it, and references prior support for an office addressing such persecution."}, {"id": "house-112", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-06-09", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tranquillity of life, in this context, the relative potential tranquillity of Canadian international diplomatic relations.\nDuring our previous Conservative government we regularly put the pursuit of justice ahead of tranquillity in international relations. We stood for what was and is right. We stood for the rights of persecuted religious, ethnic, and linguistic minorities. We stood for the right of self-determination for any peaceful community. We stood for the right of the Jewish people to a safe and secure homeland. We stood for the right of the Russian people to know that human rights abusers from their country will not be able to travel to and invest in the west. We stood for the rights of Chinese Uighurs, Afghani Sikhs, Crimean Tatars, and yes, Yazidis, Christians, Kurds, Turkmen, Shia Mus …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/06/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/06/09/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes past government positions supporting Jewish rights and safety without addressing any hostility toward Jews or taking a stance on it."}, {"id": "house-113", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-28", "speaker": "Ralph Goodale", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the representations made by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, and others. There is no place in Canada for racist and hateful conduct like we have seen, sadly, in recent weeks.\n This morning, I announced a stronger security infrastructure program, which funds up to half of the cost of security projects for non-profit community institutions. The program is now more accessible and broader in scope to help protect Canada's diverse communities. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'racist and hateful conduct' targeting Jewish institutions without naming specific perpetrators, and announces protective measures in response."}, {"id": "house-114", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-22", "speaker": "Chandra Arya", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ker, I am pleased to rise today to speak to my private member's bill. Bill C-305 seeks to amend a subsection of the Criminal Code which deals with damages to property due to crime, motivated by hate, based on religion, race, colour or national or ethnic origin. The bill proposes to expand this to include motivation by hate based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Also, the subsection is primarily limited to places of worship like churches, mosques, synagogues and temples.\nThe proposed Bill C-305 seeks to expand this to include schools, day care centres, colleges, universities, community centres, seniors residences and cultural centres.\nRecently there were acts of hate crimes in Ottawa, motivated by hate based on religion and race. Synagogues, a Jewish community centre, a Rabbi's private home, mosques and a church were targeted.\nWhenever these things happen, it is important for each and every one of us to stand up united to condemn these acts.\nI am Hindu, and no Hindu temples in Ottawa were targeted in the recent hate crime wave. However, in times like this, we do need people from all differ …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/22/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'it is important for each and every one of us to stand up united to condemn these acts' referring to hate crimes targeting synagogues and Jewish community centre"}, {"id": "house-115", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-22", "speaker": "David Graham", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… our neighbourhoods, are hurtful, not only to their intended targets, but to our communities as a whole.\nIt is for this reason that the member for Nepean proposed Bill C-305. This bill seeks to amend section 430 (4.1) of the Criminal Code of Canada that to date only includes places of worship such as churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques as protected places against hate crimes.\nIn its current form, Bill C-305 seeks to expand this to include schools, day care centres, colleges or universities, community centres, and playgrounds. \nThe LGBTQ community is one of the most targeted groups when it comes to hate crimes. While Parliament has previously passed legislation to protect these groups, sec …", "… pport of this. We have heard from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the World Sikh Organization, the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations, the Canada-Indian Foundation, the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus, and so on and so forth. This is a wide breadth of support for a very important bill to address hate.\nWhere I grew up in rural Quebec, there used to be signs on places that said, “No dogs, no Jews”. Hatred is a real thing. It is a thing that has to be fought. It has to be fought against and protected from. I think this is a really nice step and I really encourage the member for Nepean to go forward with this, and I am looking forward to the second hour of debate."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2016/11/22/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Laurentides—Labelle", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Laurentides—Labelle, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Jewish Refugees", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical antisemitic discrimination ('No dogs, no Jews' signs) and current hate crimes as hurtful and real, stating hatred 'has to be fought' and 'protected from,' supporting legislation to address it without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-116", "year": 1948, "chamber": "house", "date": "1948-05-25", "speaker": "Thomas John Bentley", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eleased in London, according to his statement, and he gave the size in numbers and percentage of population in various countries of the communist party. In Canada, his figures indicate, there are 23,000, or one-fifth of one per cent- [DOT]2 per cent.\nI remember the early days of Hitler's regime when he was turning his hatred upon the people of the Jewish race and when he tried to make and finally succeeded in making the German people believe that the whole future of Germany was endangered by allowing this small section of the population to live. He made it stick so well that these people were almost eliminated.\nAt that time the Jewish population of greater Germany w'a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/05/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/05/25/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about Hitler's persecution of Jews without taking a position on the current situation or condemning/blaming anyone in the present context.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-117", "year": 1948, "chamber": "house", "date": "1948-05-03", "speaker": "Maurice Hartt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… he hope was not unfounded, that when the war once finished they should be able to get what was coming to them. We were badly disappointed; we are terribly bewildered. We did not know whom to blame and do not know where we are going. We say to you people now, for two thousand years we have been the butt of ridicule and persecution all over the world. Every moron, every pipsqueak, every sadist who wanted to get a sort of paroxysm by sublimation used the Jew as the butt of his efforts.\nWe Jews of the western hemisphere are satisfied with Christian neighbours. We may\nSupply-External Affairs\n\neventually become completely absorbed in the country and may cease to be Jews. We do not know the future. But those who are persecuted in the lands where their ancestors were and their families were destroyed, where the streets are still blood bespattered with that of Jewish mothers and children, are in a different position. For God's sake, for humanity's sake, let them go where they can have some peace."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/05/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/05/03/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "QUESTIONS — THE BUDGET — DEBATE ON ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the historical persecution of Jews ('butt of ridicule and persecution', 'every moron, every pipsqueak, every sadist') and calls for humanitarian response to those persecuted, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-118", "year": 1948, "chamber": "house", "date": "1948-04-29", "speaker": "Solon Earl Low", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ina said-and may I say I was much touched by the attitude China displayed-\"For many years we have had in the midst of China a thriving Jewish community that has been free to develop its culture as it wished, without molestation from us. They have contributed much to that community. We have given refuge to a great many Jews who were persecuted at the beginning of the Hitlerian regime. We are prepared\nto take our share of those people in the refugee camps; and we call upon all nations to declare themselves likewise.\"\nThere was too much tendency in the propaganda emanating from various sources in the world to treat the refugee problem as an exclusively Jewish …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/04/29/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "SPEECH FROM THE THRONE — CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes China's statement about their historical treatment of Jews and willingness to accept refugees, then notes propaganda tendencies regarding refugees, without taking a position condemning or blaming anyone for hostility."}, {"id": "house-119", "year": 1948, "chamber": "house", "date": "1948-04-30", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… yed in Ottawa.\"\nI shall leave my readers to figure out that statement for themselves. I believe the Arabs have done enough. They have received into their very small country of Palestine some 600.000 Jewish refugees; and if all the other countries had done a fraction as much toward giving sanctuary to these unfortunate Jews there would certainly be no Jewish problem today. Two wrongs do not make a right. Because the Jews have been persecuted-and no one denies it-is no reason why one small country should have to bear the brunt of that wrong. May I suggest that, instead of forcing one people to bear the whole burden of this problem, the united nations should use its influence to make the world a fit place for all people, Gentile or Jew.\nSupply-External Affa …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1948/04/30/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews and discusses displacement/refugee issues, presenting arguments about burden-sharing without condemning hostility toward Jews or naming any party as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-120", "year": 1993, "chamber": "house", "date": "1993-05-31", "speaker": "Mac Harb", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Parliament Hill to give fascist salutes and scream \"white power\". When they had finished they engaged in a riot with protesters at the foot of Parliament's lawn and then viciously beat people along the sidewalk on Elgin Street.\nThis neo-Nazi riot left a score of people in hospitals and it left many of my constituents, Jews, non-whites and others, terrified.\nThe government must show leadership in dealing with racism. There will no more wake-up calls. The time to act is now. In the past we have called on the minister responsible to introduce tough legislation that addresses the issue of hate crime and racism.\nToday, on behalf of my colleagues in the Liberal Party, I call on the government to introduce tough anti-hate legislation a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/05/31/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/05/31/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies neo-Nazis as responsible for the riot and terror against Jews and others, directly attributing the hostile acts to them.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-121", "year": 1993, "chamber": "house", "date": "1993-03-30", "speaker": "Shirley Maheu", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today I would like to congratulate members of Network Canada, an organization of Jewish young people who are here today to tell us about their fight against hate crimes and their concern about the growing number of groups that promote hate.\n\nAccording to Klanwatch, an organization dedicated to monitoring racist groups, there are 46 known hate groups in our country. In fact their operations are so prevalent in Canada that Klanwatch dedicated an entire issue of its magazine to hate activities in our country.\nMembers of the network know that groups like Wh …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/03/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/03/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate crimes and hate groups in Canada, citing Klanwatch statistics and noting Network Canada's concerns, without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning responsibility to any specific actor."}, {"id": "house-122", "year": 1993, "chamber": "house", "date": "1993-04-22", "speaker": "Barbara Greene", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago in the Warsaw ghetto courageous Jewish resistance fighters were in their third day of a desperate 27-day battle against overwhelming Nazi forces.\nThis weekend I will join my community in commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Armenian genocide which was the model for the Nazi holocaust.\nDon Valley North is home to many people who have experienced racist and/or religious violence. There are also many people who have risked their lives in wars combating these evils which humiliate, hurt and destroy so many innocent people.\nCanadians must remember and our children must be taught these horrendous lessons of the past. We must resolve to continue to fight for human rights and freedom from discrimin …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/04/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/04/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to racist and religious violence, Nazi atrocities, and genocide without naming specific current perpetrators; emphasizes need to remember and fight against such horrors", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-123", "year": 1993, "chamber": "house", "date": "1993-06-01", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… intolerance rear its ugly head once again in Canada.\nA white supremacist Toronto group called the Heritage Front travelled to Ottawa to recruit new members. While claiming it opposes violence its members marched arrogantly in the streets espousing hatred and shouting \"seig heir and \"white power\", which itself provoked violence. Innocent bystanders and people opposed to their presence were deliberately attacked.\nAlan Rose of the Canadian Jewish Congress said that the appearance of this Nazi group on Parliament Hill should \"shake up the politicians\". It has already shaken up citizens in our communities and today it should trouble us all.\nGovernment must act and act now if we are to have the cultural mosaic that is our true reality. We need stiffer penalties f …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/06/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1993/06/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the white supremacist group's hatred and violence without naming specific individuals as responsible; calls for government action against the intolerance described."}, {"id": "house-124", "year": 1969, "chamber": "house", "date": "1969-07-04", "speaker": "Robert Douglas George Stanbury", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Mr. Swyst-en, was a candidate in the constituency of Burrows in which the people are probably 80 per cent Slavic in their ethnic origin. This pamphlet reads:\nI'm completely against the official languages act which will ultimately make French compulsory for everybody. The official languages act is unconstitutional and discriminates against and disregards the rights of all ethnic groups other than English and French such as Ukrainian, Polish, German, Jewish, Czech, Slovak, Baltic groups, etc. No one language is superior to another.\nRight hon. John Diefenbaker stated just three weeks ago about the language bill, \"There is a\nJuly 4, 1969\n\nI cannot stress this point too strongly, Mr. Speaker. Members of the opposition have no effective power to obtain the report of the advi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/07/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/07/04/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a campaign pamphlet that mentions Jewish groups among those affected by language policy, but does not himself condemn, name a perpetrator, blame inaction, or dispute any hostility claim. He simply cites the pamphlet's content."}, {"id": "house-125", "year": 1969, "chamber": "house", "date": "1969-05-13", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e the next time he visits his constituency.\nMr. Speaker, all this to say that we want the right to live not only for ourselves but for the whole population. We want the hon. member for Matane to live also, as well as the Minister of Justice, and as Mrs. Russell said: \"If there had been more Creditistes in Germany, the Jews would probably still be alive.\"\nWe have nothing against anybody. We never attacked people who were alive or about to be born, and that is exactly our stand in respect of bill C-150 and above all in respect of the clause proposing to legalize abortion in Canada.\nThis mornng also, I received a letter not from Quebec or Ontario but from Nova Scotia, the province of which the Leader of the Opposition (M …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/05/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/05/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Mrs. Russell's historical statement about Jews and Nazi Germany as part of an argument about the right to life, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or condemning it."}, {"id": "house-126", "year": 1969, "chamber": "house", "date": "1969-01-29", "speaker": "André-Gilles Fortin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… uclear war weighs upon the world.\nMr. Speaker, as long as violence is the main weapon used to build peace, to guarantee the security and freedom of individuals and peoples, it is nothing but illusion to think that peace can some day become a reality.\nWe, of the Ralliement Creditiste, deplore such executions that beget hatred and stir limitless currents of violence.\nAccording to the latest news, 35 other prisoners, 13 of which are Jews, will be brought to trial accused of spying and sabotage. In other words, this is only the start of the ravages.\nMr. Speaker, I think that a peace settlement worked out through the United Nations will only be possible and durable inasmuch as the big powers will stop putting their own interests foremost and will be mor …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/01/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/01/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes executions and pending trials of prisoners, including specifying that 13 are Jews, without expressing judgment on the hostility toward Jews specifically or taking a position on whether the targeting is discriminatory."}, {"id": "house-127", "year": 1969, "chamber": "house", "date": "1969-11-17", "speaker": "Mark R. MacGuigan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ities have been affected. They have been among our largest cities, but only a limited number of cities have been affected and only a limited number of people have even seen hate propaganda. One of the special techniques of the purveyors of this horrible material is to send it to the members of the group which is being attacked-not to distribute it to the public at large but to seek out deliberately members of the Jewish or Negro community and to send the material to them.\nSome have thus argued that because of the limited distribution of these materials and because of the limited number of years over which distribution has occurred-although it is continuing and we have no reason to think it is going to stop-because of the limited numb …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/11/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/11/17/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE — AMENDMENT RESPECTING HATE PROPAGANDA", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate propaganda as 'horrible material' and documents the deliberate targeting of Jewish community members, objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-128", "year": 1969, "chamber": "house", "date": "1969-11-17", "speaker": "David Lewis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eath the skin and that it does not take very much to evoke some active expression of racial or religious prejudice.\nI forget exactly when, but some months ago one of the Toronto papers took a survey of school children at high schools and public schools in Toronto and found there was a disturbing and widespread form of racial prejudice against Negroes, Jews and other minority groups. So I suggest it is a mistake to assume that this kind of prejudice cannot exist in Canada. I am confident that under present circumstances in the world today\n\nI say this without reservation-Canada is one of the freest of communities and societies. Its society is less cursed with the kind of active and overt racial and religious prejudice that is existent in other societies. But it is …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/11/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1969/11/17/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Parliamentary Leader of the N.D.P.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE — AMENDMENT RESPECTING HATE PROPAGANDA", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a survey finding prejudice against Jews and other groups among Toronto school children, presenting it as factual information without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming anyone for inaction, or disputing the finding."}, {"id": "house-129", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-10-01", "speaker": "Marlene Jennings", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , race, colour, sex, language or sexual orientation. \nIt is unfortunate that hate crimes have been committed in this country at community centres, religious institutions and educational institutions. The purpose of the bill is to take action against these crimes and to ensure that all Canadians are protected from such violence. The Canadian Jewish Congress, for instance, is in great support of this legislation. \nI hope the bill will enjoy the support of my colleagues, as it does by my seconder, who I thank dearly, my colleague from Random—Burin—St. George's.\n (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/10/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/10/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes committed against communities including religious institutions, characterizing them as unfortunate and supporting legislation to protect against such violence."}, {"id": "house-130", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-05", "speaker": "Marlene Jennings", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… r the House itself. \nWe have heard the admission, the statement by the hon. member for Ahuntsic. In it she admits that: first, she did indeed distribute all this information by email to the members' personal Blackberry addresses; second, that some of the information and images contained in the material she distributed incited hatred toward a religious group, namely the Jews, and glorified certain organizations that have been declared legally by legislation passed in this House as terrorist organizations; and third, that she has been remiss in her duties as a member of Parliament. This breach of her duties is at risk, first of all, of being prejudicial to all other members but also—and ev …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/05/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the hon. member for Ahuntsic as responsible for distributing material that 'incited hatred toward a religious group, namely the Jews' and characterizes this as a breach of parliamentary duties."}, {"id": "house-131", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-24", "speaker": "Lois Brown", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, another day, another embarrassment for the opposition leader at the hands of his own dirty tricks specialist, Warren Kinsella.\nAccording to sources, Kinsella was fired yesterday from a committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress because of his misconduct. This comes just a week after Kinsella tried to bully TVOntario into cancelling a guest from a talk show, an outrageous attempt to interfere with the independence of a public broadcaster, and that is hard on the heels of catscam, Kinsella's anti-Chinese bigotry that grew into a diplomatic incident.\nIf Warren Kinsella were just another lobbyist, his poor judgment would be …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/24/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Newmarket—Aurora", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Newmarket—Aurora, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names Warren Kinsella and accuses him of 'misconduct' related to the Canadian Jewish Congress, establishing him as responsible for hostility toward Jews through his actions."}, {"id": "house-132", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-24", "speaker": "Jeff Watson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Arab Federation recently circulated videos from banned terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, called Israel a “racist state”, and attacked a member of the House because of his wife's involvement in the Jewish community.\nThe Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism has said that extreme groups like CAF should not expect to receive taxpayer subsidies, but the Liberal Party appears to disagree. The Liberal member of Parliament for Willowdale has said that taxpayers should fund extreme groups like CAF.\nWhat is …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/02/24/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Essex", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Essex, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) as responsible for hostility toward Jews, specifically: circulating videos from terrorist organizations, calling Israel a 'racist state,' and attacking an MP because of his wife's involvement in the Jewish community."}, {"id": "house-133", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-09-28", "speaker": "John Weston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on September 18, before taking the stage to address the United Nations with his racist hate-filled rant against the world, his continued blatant disregard for human rights and his complete dishonesty about his true nuclear intentions, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again denied the Holocaust, describing it as a myth.\nWhat is the government's position on the Iranian regime's continued bigotry towards the Jewish people and the denial of the Holocaust?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/09/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/09/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime as responsible for Holocaust denial and bigotry toward Jewish people, describing Ahmadinejad's statements as a 'racist hate-filled rant' and the regime's behavior as 'continued bigotry towards the Jewish people.'"}, {"id": "house-134", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-03-03", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canadians are free to express different views about the policies of foreign government but Israel Apartheid Week is not about that. It is about a systematic effort to delegitimize the democratic homeland of the Jewish people, a country born out of the Holocaust.\nWe find very troubling this resurgence of the old slander that Zionism is racism. That is the notion that lies at the heart of Israel Apartheid Week. \nJewish students at campuses across the country are subsequently feeling increasingly vulnerable. We condemn these efforts to single out and attack the Jewish people and their homeland in this terrible way."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/03/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/03/03/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'We condemn these efforts to single out and attack the Jewish people' and describes Israel Apartheid Week as troubling without attributing responsibility to a specific named party for initiating the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-135", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-03-30", "speaker": "Deepak Obhrai", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s obligations, both in law and in practice, and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities.\nThe situation of the Baha'is is a reflection of the troubling human rights situation in Iran.\nAs Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have noted that persecution of religious and ethnic minorities goes beyond the Baha'i and includes Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Christians, Jews, Sufis and Sunni Muslims.\nIran continues to execute more juvenile offenders than any other country. The rights of women and workers are suppressed and the Iranian authorities have gone to great lengths to limit freedom of expression and the media. There has also been a movement to intimidate academics and journalists …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/03/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2009/03/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Passage cites Amnesty International and human rights organizations documenting persecution of multiple groups including Jews, without taking a position or making accusations about specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-136", "year": 1968, "chamber": "house", "date": "1968-01-26", "speaker": "Ralph Bronson Cowan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ht rulings while he was on the bench, which have proven to be pinnacles in the field of law.\nThe one ruling for which Hon. Keiller MacKay is given the most credit related to the regulation which stated that no one could sell property if that property was registered in the municipality of East York as not to be sold to Jews. He struck that regulation from the books of Ontario and stated that it was discrimination. It certainly did not contribute to national unity. Now, I say that if this clause-\n[DOT] (12:20 p.m.)"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1968/01/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1968/01/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific regulation (restricting property sales to Jews in East York) as discriminatory and credits Hon. Keiller MacKay with striking it down as discrimination."}, {"id": "house-137", "year": 1971, "chamber": "house", "date": "1971-10-21", "speaker": "Pierre Elliott Trudeau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nce, were more or less in the same form as the statement he made to me, although he did not elaborate to me on statistics as he did, I believe, in the statement made to the committee of the House. However, it was generally couched in the same terms, namely, that he did not recognize that there were particular forms of discrimination against any of the Soviet people. He explained in what circumstances some Jews were not given the facilities to emigrate to Israel, but he stated that generally, and we concurred from the knowledge we have, there has been vastly increased emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel in the past little while, and I expressed the hope that this would continue.\nOn the problem of reunification of fami …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1971/10/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1971/10/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes what a Soviet official stated regarding discrimination against Jews and emigration policies, without expressing approval or criticism of the hostility described"}, {"id": "house-138", "year": 1971, "chamber": "house", "date": "1971-05-28", "speaker": "Stanley Howard Knowles", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… is in the communique. I hope he will not just give us a travelogue and tell us how much he enjoyed the friendliness and so on. I hope he will tell us whether there were any discussions about the Berlin wall, the problems relating to fisheries and whether there were discussions with Premier Kosygin about the trials and persecutions of Jewish citizens in the Soviet Union. In other words, let us deal with a few concrete things. I hope he may tell us what progress was made in terms of furthering disarmament and also in terms of what kind of contribution we might make, our two countries and any others, toward strengthening the United Nations as an instrument …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1971/05/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1971/05/28/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PROPOSALS WITH RESPECT TO DELIVERIES FROM DEALERS TO CONSUMERS — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS — BEVI8ED EDITION", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions 'trials and persecutions of Jewish citizens in the Soviet Union' as a topic that should have been discussed, but is describing/requesting information about what was discussed rather than condemning the hostility or naming/blaming anyone specific for it."}, {"id": "house-139", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-05-01", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, this week marked a day on the Jewish calendar designated Yom Hasoah Vehagvurah, the Holocaust remembrance day. It is a reminder of when, just after Passover in 1943, the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, sick and starving as they were, rose up against their Nazi oppressors, battling them for 42 days until the ghetto was liquidated.\nThe uprising remains a profound testimony to the strength of human spirit and the bravery of those fighters who were determined to die unconquered. This same strength of spirit was shared by six million Jews, including one million children, who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. This day also\nMay 1, 1992\n\ngives us another special moment to say of the Holocaust, of the Shoah and its legacy of hate \"never again\".\nAs we begin shaping a united Canada for the next 125 years, let us make the fight against racism, xenophobia and intolerance part of the Canadian fabric by sharing our many wonderful and diverse cultures, languages and traditions. In so doing, we can rekindle that sense of common purpose which will guide Canadians in that most noble of endeavours, building a strong, united, democratic Canada for all our children and grandchildren."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/05/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/05/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker commemorates Holocaust victims and affirms 'never again,' calling for fighting racism, xenophobia and intolerance as part of Canadian values, without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-140", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-05-05", "speaker": "Gérard (Gerry) Weiner", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nswer to that question is a resounding no.\nWhen this government came into office seven and a half years ago, it did so with a very clear vision of Canadian society, of both the challenges and the opportunities posed by Canada's increasing diversity, and of\nthe fact within Canadian history there have been traditions of racial discrimination toward aboriginal Canadians, Canadians of Japanese and other Asian origins, black Canadians, Jewish Canadians, and others.\n\nOur objective was and remains to ensure that Canada continues to grow and prosper for the greater benefit of all its citizens. Nevertheless the search for this prosperity demands more than economic measures. It requires eliminating the obstacles that can prevent equal opportunity and even keep …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/05/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/05/05/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Secretary of State of Canada; Minister of State (Multiculturalism and Citizenship)", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — ALLOTTED DAY, S. O. 81-REGIONALTENSIONS", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical racial discrimination toward Jewish Canadians as a factual matter within Canadian history without condemning it, naming perpetrators, or taking a position on it in this passage."}, {"id": "house-141", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-03-31", "speaker": "Bill Attewell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Nathan Abramowitz sent me a picture of a stamp being issued by the Iranian postal service to mark the UN International Day of the Child.\n\nMarch 31, 1992\n\nI was deeply disturbed by the stamp which pictures a young boy throwing a rock through a Jewish Star of David on an ocean-blue sheet of glass. This stamp exploits innocent children, using them to promote and incite violence and hatred toward Jews.\nIranian officials must recall this stamp and stop inciting violence against Jews.\nExternal Affairs officials have told the Iranian ambassador that Canada strongly objects to these stamps. We must continue to pressure Iranian officials to stop this intolerable anti-Jewish campaign, especially in the name of the world's children."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/31/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/31/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "HISTORIC EVENTS — COMMEMORATION OF HOLOCAUST'S ENDING", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names Iran/Iranian postal service and officials as responsible for creating and distributing a stamp that 'promotes and incite violence and hatred toward Jews'"}, {"id": "house-142", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-03-12", "speaker": "Gilles Duceppe", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ive paranoia and owe our emancipation to English Canada.\nAs a Quebecer, I cannot condone racist comments and a bunch of lies such as these. It is unacceptable. It is unfortunate that such an individual should call himself a Canadian. Mordecai Richler must be exposed and I hope that leaders in English Canada and in the Jewish community will join in denouncing this consummate racist with a totally decayed mind.\nMr. Richler is a racist of the worst kind who smears Quebec's reputation abroad by peddling one lie after another. If a Quebec nationalist were to write something like that about another nation or minority, I bet it would cause an uproar in Canada. Canadians must speak out. They either denounce his action or they are his accomplices."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies Mordecai Richler as responsible for racist hostility, calling him 'a racist of the worst kind' who makes racist comments and smears Quebec's reputation."}, {"id": "house-143", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-03-19", "speaker": "Barbara Greene", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on March 18 yet another terrorist attack was carried out by enemies of Israel, this time against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. More than 11 people were killed and over 130 wounded.\nTerrorist attacks such as this do not intimidate the Jewish people. They only serve to identify the perpetrators as inhuman cowards, consumed with blind sadistic malevolence.\nThe Jewish community and friends of the Jewish community once again feel the searing pain of racist acts of hate and once again experience a sense of revulsion and renewed solidarity against such acts and such people."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the terrorist attack and describes it as a racist act of hate, characterizing perpetrators as inhuman cowards, without naming specific individuals or groups responsible for the attack."}, {"id": "house-144", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-03-11", "speaker": "Bill Attewell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this Saturday marks Shabbat Zachor, a sabbath set aside by Jews around the world to remember the plight of all oppressed Jews.\nI believe very strongly that we must remember the struggles of the people who face daily discrimination because they are Jewish. Syrian Jews are in this intolerable situation.\nIt was at this time in 1974 that four young Syrian women were caught trying to escape Syria into Lebanon. Their raped and mutilated bodies were dumped in sacks in front of their parents' Damascus homes.\nJewish students from across Canada will be on Parliament Hill tomorrow lobbying to make us aware of the terrible plight of Syrian Jews.\nWe must support them and work together to ensure that Syrian officials stop this persecution. Syrian Jews\nmust no longer be denied important and basic human rights."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/03/11/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "HISTORIC EVENTS — COMMEMORATION OF HOLOCAUST'S ENDING", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination and persecution of Syrian Jews, describing it as 'intolerable' and calling for an end to it, without naming specific Syrian officials as the primary target."}, {"id": "house-145", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-04-29", "speaker": "Bill Attewell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hear the news that Selim and Eli Swed were released on Passover, a celebration of freedom for the Jewish people.\nThen on Monday, April 27, there was welcome news that Syria will end travel and personal and real estate property restrictions on Jews.\nAs chairman of the Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group for Syrian Jewry, I hope these developments signify the resolve of the Syrian government to end all discriminatory abuses of Syrian Jews."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/29/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "HISTORIC EVENTS — COMMEMORATION OF HOLOCAUST'S ENDING", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discriminatory restrictions on Syrian Jews and their removal without condemning the hostility itself or assigning blame; the focus is on reporting the positive policy changes."}, {"id": "house-146", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-04-30", "speaker": "Lyle Dean MacWilliam", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… those who died as a result of the Nazi firing squads and death camps. Within 12 years of Adolph Hitler coming to power over 6 million Jews from Germany, Poland and all over Europe were senselessly and brutally slaughtered.\nThey died not because they were soldiers on one side or the other, but simply because they were Jewish. Their deaths serve to remind us of the horror that can result from racial intolerance.\nRacism is not dead. It continues to rear its ugly head in many forms throughout Canada and around the world. Its sting is felt most by our visible minorities and those least able to defend themselves.\nToday, we must remember the past and work together to eliminate all forms of racism from our lives."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the historical hostility toward Jews (Holocaust) and condemns racism more broadly, calling for elimination of all forms of racism, without naming specific contemporary actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-147", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-04-28", "speaker": "Barbara Greene", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on April 24 and on Sunday, April 26, Canadians of Armenian heritage commemorated the 77th anniversaiy of the Armenian genocide.\nIn Canada, denial of the Jewish holocaust has been recognized in our courts as a violation of our hate laws.\nYet the Turkish government continues to deny this historical blot on its reputation for which the term genocide was coined in spite of the pictures, the testaments of survivors, and ample documentation.\nThe European Parliament has recognized this act of hatred. A UN subcommittee on the motion of Canadian Justice …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/04/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Turkish government as responsible for denying the Armenian genocide and describes this denial as 'an act of hatred,' attributing hostility toward a group (Armenians, not Jews) to a specific entity."}, {"id": "house-148", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-06-22", "speaker": "Dawn Black", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nternational community if we send refugees back the way we have seen recently, the way the Americans are doing with the Haitian refugees right now. Canada has had a shameful past in this regard. It is important for all of us to acknowledge that and to remember it.\nBefore and during World War II Canada refused entry to Jewish refugees from Europe who were attempting to escape from certain persecution and death.\nGovernment Orders\nThe Komagata Maru was a ship of predominantly Sikh passengers which sailed to Vancouver and arrived in 1914. They, like many Europeans, wanted to emigrate to Canada. The ship sat in the Vancouver harbour, denied docking, and Canadian officials would not even allow supplies of food and wate …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/06/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/06/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's refusal to accept Jewish refugees before and during WWII as a historical fact without explicitly condemning it or naming specific responsible parties in this passage.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-149", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-11-26", "speaker": "Ian Gardiner Waddell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s and the House know that the issue of freedom of speech versus restrictions on the dissemination of hate propaganda has really been at the centre of the two most notable cases, the Eckville, Alberta high school teacher, Jim Keegstra, and the recent case of Ernst Zundel. Zundel was originally convicted of distributing racist literature through the mail, publications that question whether the Nazis killed six million Jews in Europe during World War II.\nThese are not academic questions. Watch the news and see what is happening with the neo-Nazis in Germany coming back. I personally am a civil libertarian. I belong to the Civil Libertarian Association, Amnesty International and other associations. I really do not want to see Nazis back. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/11/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/11/26/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S.O. 21 — ANTI-SEMITISM FIRE BOMBING OF VANCOUVER SYNAGOGUE", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Zundel's conviction and the publications in question without taking a position on whether the hostility/denial is justified or unjustified. The speaker then expresses concern about neo-Nazis generally but does not specifically condemn, name, or blame anyone for the hostility described in the Zundel case."}, {"id": "house-150", "year": 1992, "chamber": "house", "date": "1992-11-24", "speaker": "Benno Friesen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ld have been applied to me when I was coming to Canada, I would not have been allowed into Canada. In 1992,1 have read the bill several times and sometimes it occurred to me that it would be easier if the clock were turned back to admit Nazis to this country, as we have done in some profusion, than to admit those they persecuted\".\n\nGovernment Orders\nIn 1987 he says not to do C-55 and in 1992 says that it would be easier for Nazis to come in than for Jews. Can we accept the credibility of witnesses who say things like that, first of all that are not accurate and second that do not happen? As I say, the old adage is if the prophet prophesizes and it does not happen, maybe we ought to examine his prophecy status.\nMore than that, I want to point out that for all of the do …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/11/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1992/11/24/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' PUBLIC BILLS — CRIMINAL CODE — AMENDMENT TO OUTLAW CHILD PORNOGRAPHY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker challenges the credibility and accuracy of a previous statement that characterized immigration policy as making it easier for Nazis to enter than Jews, questioning whether such claims should be accepted."}, {"id": "house-151", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-10-03", "speaker": "Paulina Ayala", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… y and the internment of Germans, Turks, Bulgarians and Japanese Canadians during the two world wars in the 20th century. The government's new approach recalls two other particularly ugly moments in Canadian history. In 1914, a Japanese plane carrying 400 passengers from India landed in Vancouver, but the refugees were denied entry to Canada and were deported to India. Twenty of them were killed upon their return.\nTwenty-five years later, a ship carrying over 900 Jews fleeing the Nazis was turned away, forcing the refugees back to Europe, where over a third of them would die in the Holocaust. \nThese communities, whether South Asian or Jewish, which are now considered pillars of Canadian society, have experienced their share of discrimination and stigmatization. It is inconceivable in 2011, when Canada is not at war or threatened by mass immigration, that the government would propose new measures that amount to profiling and discrimination. It is even less conceivable that these initiatives would be considered urgent, in contrast to Canada's values and com …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/10/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/10/03/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical incidents of discrimination against Jewish refugees (the St. Louis ship in 1939) and their consequences without explicitly condemning the hostility or naming/blaming any specific actor for it in this passage."}, {"id": "house-152", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , academics and lawyers, and in light of their testimony the subcommittee made a number of recommendations. In our assessment, we recognized that the regime has a long history of systemic and widespread violations of the human rights of its own people.\nThe abuses violate the population's right to life and freedom from discrimination based on religion. For example, the Baha'is, the Jews and the Christians in that country live a very quiet life, trying not to draw any attention to themselves at all, because there are huge penalties to be paid.\nThere is discrimination according to sex, language, sexual orientation and political opinion. Normally we talk about political parties where there is dissent, b …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination against Jews in a country as part of a factual assessment of human rights violations, without condemning it directly, naming responsible parties, or taking evaluative stance."}, {"id": "house-153", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ers of the Baha'i faith. Left unprotected by the Iranian legal system, the 300,000 members are singled out for particularly brutal persecution. Their homes are raided. They are publicly vilified and have no means of public recourse, creating what Suzanne Tamas of the Baha'i Community of Canada called “an atmosphere of prejudice, which allows the Iranian government to continue to persecute the Baha'is with impunity”.\nPeople of the Jewish faith remaining in Iran are also targeted for oppression, as are other minority communities such as Christians and Sunni Muslims. Minorities like the Kurds and the Baluchis are always under constant threat from the Iranian regime, so much so that Fakteh Zamani, president of the Association for Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran said judges would simply show …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes persecution of Jews in Iran as part of a broader statement about minority oppression, without condemning it, naming responsible parties, blaming anyone for weak responses, disputing the characterization, or using coded language."}, {"id": "house-154", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Mario Silva", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, I want to commend my hon. colleague on his excellent speech and the work he does in the committee.\n The member stated very clearly what is faced by a lot of the minority groups in Iran, whether it be the Baluchis, the Baha'is, or some of the minority Christian and Jewish communities, and how they are being persecuted by the Iranian government.\nOne community the member knows very well is the Baha'is which appeared before our committee. They documented the incredible persecution they face on a daily basis by that regime, without any access to the media, without any access to any type of state protection.\nIn fact, the minister of int …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Explicitly states that the Iranian government is persecuting Jewish communities (along with other minorities), directly naming the responsible party for the hostility"}, {"id": "house-155", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Yasmin Ratansi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s to save humanity”. The Quran is very clear in what it states that Muslims should respect all religion and all people, people with religion and without religion, which is the cosmopolitan ethic.\n I hope this clarifies the principles that no Baha'i, no Hindu, no Ahmadiyyas or any other denominations, no Christians, no Jews, should be persecuted by the regime of Iran.\nWhen the west talks about Islam, it gets itself confused between the principles of Islam and the Sharia. The Sharia is man made. It is not God sanctioned. I hope that in the Iranian regime, some of the people are watching, because I would like to pose a question for them. How can these mullahs c …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/02/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that no Jews (among other groups) should be persecuted by Iran's regime, objecting to persecution without naming specific actors as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-156", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-09-23", "speaker": "Peggy Nash", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… . It is a very mixed income community. For many newcomers to Canada it is a first stopping-off point. Over the years, waves of immigrants have put down roots and created institutions in our community.\nEarlier today, I spoke about the 100th anniversary of the Knesseth Israel Shul in my riding. It is the oldest original synagogue in Toronto that is still in use today. Many of the original congregants of this shul came to Canada to escape the persecution that the Jewish community was facing in Europe and other parts of the world, while others came for economic reasons. In many cases, they came with little more than the ability to work hard, their ingenuity and their creativity. Although small, this magnificent institution is so beautiful. It adds glimmer to the heart of a community t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/09/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/09/23/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews in Europe that motivated immigration, but does not condemn, blame, name, or dispute anything—merely recounting historical context about why immigrants came to Canada."}, {"id": "house-157", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-03-22", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands, not only the forgotten exodus but also the forced exodus.\nFollowing the United Nations partition resolution of November 29, 1947, and over the following decades, approximately 850,000 Jews were uprooted and displaced from Arab countries.\nIn 1945, there were around 900,000 Jews living in the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000.\nIt has been documented that state-sanctioned repression and persecution in Arab countries targeted Jewish populations and led to the anti-Jewish pogroms. This is a story that must be acknowledged and must be repeated.\nAs my colleague from Mount Royal has said:\n Where there is no remembrance, there is no truth; where there is no truth, there will be no justice; where there is no justice, there will be no reconciliation; and where there is no reconciliation, there will …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/03/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/03/22/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical facts about Jewish displacement from Arab countries and documents persecution, but does not condemn it, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-158", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-06-14", "speaker": "Bob Rae", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ries. The question is not so much any more what are the rights of the state, vis-a-vis other states. The question much more is whether the rights of citizens in countries, who are being mistreated by their government, are important.\nThis afternoon, and I am sure the minister will be there, we will be commemorating the Holocaust. We will be reflecting on the fact that the world turned away from those who were being viciously discriminated against in Germany. We waited for a long time and then the interventions came in Poland. Then the interventions came in Russia and then in all of eastern Europe, and six million people were killed because they were Jews.\nAfter the second world war, we began to realize that we had to develop some sense of the rights of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/06/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2011/06/14/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about Holocaust discrimination and deaths without taking a position on contemporary hostility or accusing anyone present of responsibility."}, {"id": "house-159", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-05-06", "speaker": "Mark Adler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today Israel is celebrating Yom Ha'atzmaut, the 66th year of the state's independence.\nThe story of Israel is a great example to the world. It is a story of a people who have overcome great suffering, from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 to the Khmelnytsky massacres of 1648-1650 to the countless number of pogroms, all culminating just 70 years ago in the Shoah, when six million Jewish men, women, and children, including my father's entire family, were brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.\nBorn out of the ashes of the ghettos and concentration camps, Israel serves as a beacon of hope, and our government stands with Israel.\nJust this past January, our Prime Minister stood in the Isr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/05/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/05/06/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (Inquisition, massacres, pogroms, Holocaust) as historical facts and context, without condemning current hostility, naming current perpetrators, or taking a position on present-day incidents."}, {"id": "house-160", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-01-27", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ernational Holocaust memorial day and to commemorate the victims of the Shoah.\nLast week I had the honour of joining the Prime Minister on his historic tour and visit to the Middle East, where he laid a wreath at Yad Vashem in memory of the six million men, women and children brutally murdered simply because they were Jewish.\nI reflected again on the dangers of such hatred and the importance for us and future generations to draw lessons from this dark chapter of world history. I am proud that Canada has become a global leader in Holocaust education, culminating in a successful chairmanship year of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.\nI especially want to note the good work of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. I encourage everyone to visit the centre's Tour for Humanity mobile tolerance education centre here on the Hill. \nThrough remembrance and reflection about the tragedy of the Holocaust, we commit ourselves to fighting all forms of hatred and to fulfill our promise: “never again”."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/01/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/01/27/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker reflects on 'dangers of such hatred' and commits to 'fighting all forms of hatred' in response to Holocaust remembrance, without naming specific perpetrators of current hostility."}, {"id": "house-161", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-01-27", "speaker": "Carolyn Bennett", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… precedented evil of the Holocaust, including many Jewish Canadians; the importance of their stories; and the many who have endured unimaginable suffering with strength and courage. \nThis year marks the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and we pledge that never again will we be indifferent to the incitement of hate or silent in the face of evil.\n In spite of everything we have come to learn of the Holocaust, we as a society must never stop working to educate others and combat hatred and bigotry in all its forms. While this is a day for solemn remembrance, it is also a poignant opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to never again allow such horrors to occur."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/01/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/01/27/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred, bigotry, and indifference to hate incitement without naming specific perpetrators, pledging to combat these evils and prevent future atrocities."}, {"id": "house-162", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-04", "speaker": "Kevin Lamoureux", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… onals living in their respective countries. The United Nations is preparing, yet again, to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people on this 60th anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution, but will ignore the plight of Jewish refugees. \n Indeed, evidence contained in a recent report, Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: The Case for Rights And Redress, documents for the first time a pattern of state-sanctioned repression and persecution in Arab countries—including Nuremberg-like laws—that targeted Jews, and resulted in denationalization, forced expulsions, illegal sequestration of property, arbitrary arrest and detention and the like. \n These massive human rights violations were reflective of a collusive blueprint, as embodied in the Draft Law of the Political Committee of the League of Arab States. This is a story …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg North", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews (persecution, repression, discriminatory laws) and cites a report documenting these incidents, but does not condemn the hostility, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-163", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-04", "speaker": "Mark Adler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of State for Multiculturalism. Last week at the University of Windsor, an anti-Jewish referendum was held and it was a one-sided resolution to endorse the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. During the referendum campaign, acts of vandalism took place, which police have described as hate crimes intended to target and discriminate against Jewish students.\nWould the minister please inform the House as to the government's response to this racist referendum and these unacceptable crimes of hate?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/04/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific responsible parties: the University of Windsor (for holding the referendum), those who committed vandalism (described by police as hate crimes), and characterizes the referendum itself as 'anti-Jewish' and 'racist,' directly naming the acts and institutions involved in the hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-164", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-25", "speaker": "Mark Adler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… d movement of displaced United Empire Loyalists seeking refuge from the American Revolution. \nIt should come as no surprise that our country has had a long history and tradition of providing protection to those who need it. We were a haven for African Americans fleeing slavery before the American Civil War; for Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians fleeing oppression in the 1800s and the first decades of the 20th century; and for Hungarians, Czechs, Chinese, Tibetans, Vietnamese, Afghans, and others fleeing communist oppression in the middle of the last century. Later in the last century, and more recently, we have embraced refugees from South America, Africa, the Middle East and …", "… ecame part of a new diaspora that for the most part has not been fully embraced. Not surprisingly, most Jewish refugees do not wish to return to their country of origin, while some Palestinian refugees long for the places they or their ancestors left. This difference in outcomes does not, however, change the fact that Jewish refugees left their homes as a result of discrimination, intimidation, and fear. When they left, individual and communal properties were seized or confiscated without any compensation.\nJudaism is indigenous to the Middle East, with the biblical narrative unfolding from Mesopotamia to Egypt. Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities, both inside and outside Israel, have, or had …", "… underneath the dangling corpses. Ms. Shashoua said, “You can just imagine the sheer terror that dominated our daily existence after that horrid day”. Ms. Daoud reports still having nightmares about being back in Baghdad and reliving the anguish of those days.\nThe overall result of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and discrimination and intimidation practised against Jews in various countries in the region was summarized by Dr. Bensoussan in his testimony. He said, “...Jews who had been present in Arab Muslim countries for a thousand years were squeezed out in the span of one generation...”. \nDr. Urman informed the committee that nearly 650,000 Jews immigrated to Israel, while more than 200,000 Jews found safe haven in countries other than Israel, including Canada.\nRaising awareness of t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/03/25/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination, intimidation, and fear experienced by Jewish refugees, citing specific testimonies and historical facts, without condemning anyone or assigning blame to specific actors."}, {"id": "house-165", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-04-28", "speaker": "Carolyn Bennett", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Yom Hashoah is a day of profound reflection, not only for Jewish communities in Canada and around the world, but for all Canadians and all members of the human race.\n Holocaust Remembrance Day provides the global community with an opportunity to remember the unthinkable evil of the Holocaust, to reject the hatred and inhumanity that fuelled it, as well as the indifference that allowed it to happen. It is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that this dark moment in human history is never forgotten. \nToday, my Liberal colleague, the member for Mount Royal, is in Auschwitz to mark this solemn day of remembrance by lighting a memorial torch with the grandniece of Raoul Wallenberg, and to address the March of the Living. \nToday I urge all Canadians to recommit that we will never allow such horrors to be repeated. We will not hate. In the words of Holocaust survivor and Noble Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness”."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/04/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/04/28/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker rejects the hatred and inhumanity of the Holocaust and urges all Canadians to commit to preventing such horrors, without naming specific current perpetrators"}, {"id": "house-166", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-11-18", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, early this morning in Jerusalem, two Palestinian men wielding knives, axes and guns stormed a synagogue, killing four people and injuring eight, including one Canadian. This brutal attack is part of a recent escalation in terrorist violence. Indeed, on the day of the terrorist attack in this House, a terrorist attack killed a three-month-old baby in Jerusalem, and others since.\nMoreover, this escalation cannot be divorced from the incitement to hate and violence and the glorification of terror propagated by much of the Palestinian media and leadership, where Palestinian authority officials have praised terrorists as “heroic martyrs”, declared that Jerusalem needs blood to purify itself of Jews, while Hamas celebrated the attack and President Abbas' party's Facebook page today announced that candy was being distributed in celebration of it.\nI join with all hon. members in offering our heartfelt condolences to the victims of today's attack, while we call for an end to incitement, an end to the glorification of terror, an end to the terror itse …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/11/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/11/18/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Palestinian media, Palestinian leadership, Palestinian Authority officials, Hamas, and President Abbas' party as responsible for incitement to hate and violence against Jews, and for glorifying terrorism that killed Jews in a synagogue attack."}, {"id": "house-167", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-11-28", "speaker": "Mark Adler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, for 2,500 years Jews lived in Arab lands, but in the 20th century many Arab regimes expropriated the property of Jews, stripped them of their citizenship, and expelled, arrested, tortured, and murdered scores in some of the most vicious pogroms ever perpetrated against the Jewish people.\nSome 850,000 Jews were displaced. It is imperative that under international law, these people be determined to be refugees. Our own House of Commons standing committee on foreign affairs agrees. In its report from 2013, it recommended that:\n ...Canada officially recognize the experience of Jewish refugees who were displaced from states …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/11/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2014/11/28/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names Arab regimes as responsible for expropriation, stripping citizenship, expulsion, arrest, torture, and murder of Jews, characterizing these actions as 'vicious pogroms.'"}, {"id": "house-168", "year": 1919, "chamber": "house", "date": "1919-09-16", "speaker": "Samuel William Jacobs", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… practised extensively by the Poles in Vilna when they entered in triumph after having driven out the handful of Bolsheviki who held the town against them. The killed seem to have numbered about one hundred. The people beaten up and maltreated numbered many hundreds. Respectable citizens, among them the most respected Jews in the city, were taken out and stood against a wall and threatened\n\nI?und.red ,Jews have 1:166,1 journ I am quite willing to acquiesce in the\njailed and- are said to be starving to death and\t__\ndying of typhus. Their friends and relatives suogestlon.\nare not allowed to bring them food or medical help. Hundreds have been deported to Bialy-stock and Cracow and elsewhere, and are being held on the vague …", "… ish readers, who so trustingly paid for the half of the Westward Ho cargo of food which was to go to the starving population of Poland, that most of this cargo went to the Polish army. I may be violating a similar secret when I inform your Jewish readers that their half of this cargo could not be given to the starving Jews, because, in most centres, the authorities pointed out the very interesting fact that pogroms would result if Jews got food and Christians did not.\nThis is only a sample of what is happening daily in that country, and I would point out that these incidents have taken place since the 24th of June, when this Treaty was signed. To any one who is interested in the question, I would commend these articles which are appearing in the New …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1919/09/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1919/09/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of violence, mistreatment, jailing, deportation, and discrimination against Jews in Poland without explicitly condemning these acts or naming specific responsible parties"}, {"id": "house-169", "year": 1919, "chamber": "house", "date": "1919-06-26", "speaker": "Rodolphe Lemieux", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… revoked? It seems to me that this subsection is not broad enough, and perhaps my hon. friend, whilst considering the amendment of my hon. friend from North Waterloo (Mr. Euler), might be a little more definite as regards the powers in connection with these races. To speak a little more broadly, I wish to refer to the Jewish race. We all know that the Jews are a self-assertive race. In spite of all the persecutions to which they have been subjected for many centuries, they have maintained the characteristics ,of their race. They go all over the world and become citizens of the world. The Jew is a Jew, and although his name may perhaps suggest enemy nationality, yet he is a Jew.\nThere are German Jews, Austrian Jews, Russian Jews; …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1919/06/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1919/06/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes characteristics of Jewish people and their historical persecutions without condemning any hostility, naming perpetrators, or taking a clear evaluative stance on the discrimination itself."}, {"id": "house-170", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Steven Blaney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, we recently discovered that some Bloc members are supporting a conference that will be attended by the executive director of an NGO that sanctions hateful stereotypes about Jews.\nThe spokesperson for the Canadian Islamic Congress claims that all Israelis over 18 are legitimate targets for Palestinians. That organization will be represented at the conference. Those remarks are unacceptable.\nCan the Minister of Public Safety comment on the Maclean's magazine article that reports that the Bloc Q …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names the Bloc members as supporters of a conference featuring antisemitic content, and names the Canadian Islamic Congress as making hateful statements about Jews and being represented at the conference."}, {"id": "house-171", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in most other democracies that are signatories to the United Nations convention on refugees.\nHaving said that, what I found most disturbing and, frankly, demagogic in her speech was to draw a completely specious parallel with the tragic and unjust experience of the rejection of the St. Louis and other second world war Jewish refugees. In that case, Canada had a deliberate policy of none is too many, where we deliberately excluded Jewish immigrants as refugees. We had no refugee resettlement program and no asylum system per se.\nUnder the regime we propose in Bill C-49, people arriving in those circumstances would be able to enter our waters, disembark and have an asylum claim. Under the new system that we adopted this spring, they would almost certain …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Canada's historical deliberate policy of 'none is too many' as responsible for excluding Jewish refugees, naming a specific act of hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-172", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Ed Fast", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nd others who perished at the hands of the Nazis. Without understanding and firmly resolving to remember the lessons of our history, we are doomed to repeat the horrific chapters of our past.\nSadly, even Canada's history is stained by the memory of a callous government turning away the MS St. Louis, a ship filled with Jews desperately seeking a safe haven from hatred and bigotry. How many lives could have been saved had Canada done the right thing? \nQuite frankly, I still struggle to fully grasp the depravity of the Nazi genocide, but I do understand the Hebrew word “Zachor”, which means to remember. That is why this bill is so important. It ensures that we continue to remember the darkest ch …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/27/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Abbotsford", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Abbotsford, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical hostility toward Jews (Nazi genocide, MS St. Louis rejection) and calls for remembrance, without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-173", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-21", "speaker": "Bill Siksay", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ll just go over what the report indicated at that time.\nFifty-five per cent of those hate crime incidents were based on race or ethnicity, with folks from the black community and the South Asian community being the victims of those crimes most often. Twenty-eight per cent were based in religion, and the members of the Jewish community were most prominently affected in that case. Sixteen per cent were hate crimes based on sexual orientation.\nOf all of the hate crimes, those based on sexual orientation were by far the most violent. Seventy-five per cent of hate crimes based on sexual orientation that Statistics Canada looked at in that survey were violent crimes, as compared to 38% of hate crimes based on race being violent and 25% of those based on religion being violent.\nIt was a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/10/21/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby--Douglas", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is citing statistics from a report about hate crimes, including that members of the Jewish community were most affected by religion-based hate crimes, without taking a position on or condemning the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-174", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-12", "speaker": "Ken Dryden", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… loss, fathers, mothers, grandparents the children never had. Children, so full of learning, so full of possibilities, never the chance to live their lives. A next generation never born, and a next.\nThe incalculable loss to the Jewish people; the incalculable loss to all of us.\nFor us, never to forget the Jews and the Jewish people. But for us, too, never to forget how easy it is to push to one side any group of people, to separate, divide, cut off, then to demonize, hate and destroy.\nThe Holocaust happened then and there, but the Holocaust is a forever story for all of us.\nNever again, and always to remember."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses profound moral opposition to the Holocaust and its devastating impact on Jews, emphasizing remembrance and the principle of 'Never again' without naming specific perpetrators in this excerpt."}, {"id": "house-175", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-29", "speaker": "Don Davies", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… like to follow up on the issue of safe countries of origin.\nI note that Australia has recently adopted a similar program and has just designated Afghanistan and Sri Lanka to be safe countries. \nI know that the minister has spoken repeatedly about Hungary and its designating the Roma as not necessarily being victims of oppression. However, we all know that the Roma, during World War II, were specifically rounded up and gassed by the Nazi regime, along with Jews and communists, and they face systematic discrimination in Hungary, if not oppression.\nI wonder if the hon. colleague would care to comment on whether those countries would be considered safe, in his view."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/29/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Hungary and attributes to it the act of 'designating the Roma as not necessarily being victims of oppression' despite historical persecution of Roma alongside Jews, implying Hungary's policy stance is problematic regarding treatment of persecuted groups."}, {"id": "house-176", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-29", "speaker": "Don Davies", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… fe, which would bar certain privileges to refugees from those countries making claims. \nWe have also heard the minister, on repeated occasions, talk about the Roma in Hungary as not having legitimate claims because, in his opinion, Hungary is a safe country. We all know that gypsies and Roma were rounded up along with Jews and communists during World War II and sent to the gas chamber for one reason only, that they were Roma. Historic discrimination persists in central European countries against Roma to this day. Whether or not that amounts of oppression, there is no question about the fact that they experience systematic discrimination. My grandparents were born in Hungary, and I have a fair bit of knowledge about the Hungarian culture and the situation of Roma …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/04/29/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the minister for dismissing Roma claims by calling Hungary 'safe,' implying the minister is ignoring or underestimating systematic discrimination against Roma (and by historical parallel, Jews), thus responding too weakly to documented hostility and persecution.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-177", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-06-14", "speaker": "Megan Leslie", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… opulation. The city could have rejected these refugees because many of them were seriously ill and public health issues were not very well understood or well managed in Canada. The city of York welcomed these refugees and provided them with treatment and a place to call home.\nOnly a few decades later in the 1930s many Jewish refugees were sent away. They were refused entry for pretty dubious reasons, reasons that were rooted in discrimination, bigotry and apathy. Only 5,000 Jewish refugees were accepted. I would like members to think of the thousands of lives that could have been saved if we had opened our doors to more than that. To say this is a black mark on Canadian history is an understatement. The realities of the government decision were difficult to rationalize after the extent of the H …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/06/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/06/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the 1930s refusal of Jewish refugees, calling it rooted in discrimination and bigotry, and describes it as 'a black mark on Canadian history' without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-178", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-11-16", "speaker": "Andrew Kania", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ch and other religions. I would like to quote people who are not Roman Catholic to prove that point. \nIn October 2003, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement congratulating Pope John Paul II on entering his 25th year of the papacy and essentially complimenting him for his role in bridging the divide between the Jewish faith and the Roman Catholic church. Immediately after Pope John Paul II's death, the same Anti-Defamation League issued a statement that Pope John Paul II had revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations saying that “more change for the better took place in his 27-year papacy than in the nearly 2,000 years before”.\nThere are many other examples of his attempts to bridge with other faith communities. In terms of the Muslim community, Pope John Paul himself, when he was in Casablanca on August 19, 1985, during …", "… oeder, whose own country was long held under the oppressive forces of communism, said,“Pope John Paul II wrote history. By his efforts and through his impressive personality, he changed our world.\nFormer Israeli president Moshe Katsav said that the pope “bravely put an end to historic injustice by officially rejecting prejudices and accusations against Jews”.\nOn his death, he was honoured with one of the largest funerals in human history. What we are really talking about here is the people of Canada providing some respect, honour and memory for Pope John Paul II. We have done it before. For example, we granted honorary Canadian citizenship to the Dalai Lama.\n The America …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/11/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/11/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes the Anti-Defamation League and former Israeli president Moshe Katsav describing Pope John Paul II's positive actions toward Jews and rejection of prejudices against them, presenting these as factual statements without taking a personal stance for or against the characterization."}, {"id": "house-179", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-11-16", "speaker": "Scott Armstrong", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nships.\nIn his years as pope, he visited 129 countries and redefined the papacy for a modern age. Three of those trips were taken here to Canada. He was in fact the first pope to visit Canada, and one of his many gifts was his ability to reach out to people of other faiths and inspire reconciliation after centuries of hostility and suspicion.\nPope John Paul II was a man of action as well as a man of words. He was the first pope to enter a Jewish synagogue. He was the first pope to enter a mosque. He initiated and participated in many events and conferences and promoted a message of peace and harmony among different religions.\nIn October 1986, the pope convened and led a multifaith service involving leaders of the world's religions. During this conference he said:\n I wi …", "… insula in Antarctica that is named after Pope John Paul II for his contribution to world peace and understanding among people.\nWe are very fortunate that in this country Canadians of all faiths are encouraged to follow the religious practices of their own choosing. We are a country of many faiths. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and many others are free to celebrate their holy days without fear of persecution. Our calendar reflects many of these holidays. Days like Good Friday, Easter Monday and Christmas Day are statutory holidays. But in more recent years here in Canada, other faith holidays like the month of Ramadan, the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the festival of Diwali in the Sikh and Hi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/11/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2010/11/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes Pope John Paul II's actions promoting interfaith dialogue and reconciliation after 'centuries of hostility and suspicion' between religions, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-180", "year": 1991, "chamber": "house", "date": "1991-10-25", "speaker": "James Scott (Jim) Peterson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… made by other members. It is too bad that a bill was provoked and has to be brought forward to deal with this type of issue.\nI wonder whether through legislation dealing with the rules of conduct in this House we can really deal with the underlying causes of what is happening.\nI am going to be very personal. A lot of discrimination is based on just sheer ignorance. A lot of this ignorance is generational. It was only 45 years ago that we had signs in Toronto saying: \"No Jews or dogs allowed in parks\". It was only in the 1950s that the Supreme Court of the United States said that blacks could ride on buses.\nIn the United States we still do not have an equal rights amendment. In Canada today we get very upset when people bring different customs to Canada from foreign lands. Be they simple c …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/10/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/10/25/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Economic Development; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Science and Technology", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "HUMAN RIGHTS — U.S.S.R.-CALL FOR RELEASE OF ANATOLY SHCHARANSKY", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical incidents of discrimination against Jews (signs saying 'No Jews or dogs allowed') as examples of generational ignorance, without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on the current situation beyond noting discrimination exists."}, {"id": "house-181", "year": 1991, "chamber": "house", "date": "1991-10-10", "speaker": "Beryl Gaffney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, racism is on the rise in Canada. This week at a Canadian Jewish Congress conference, Ottawa police reported that an incredible 38 per cent of all youth crime in the city this summer was racist crime. Thirty-eight per cent. Violent race riots have also occurred in Montreal and Halifax.\nJust last weekend a revisionist who denied the holocaust tried to spread his lies just two blocks from this House. Closer to home, in this House yesterday a racist slur was uttered by a member of Parliament. What a fine role model for Canadians.\nSix months ago I asked the Prime Minister what the government was doing to stop the spread of racism in Canada. He spoke eloquently but did not offer specifics. We do not need platitudes. We need action.\nI will ask again; what does this gover …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/10/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/10/10/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes various manifestations of racism and hostility (youth crime statistics, violent riots, Holocaust denial, racist slurs) without naming specific perpetrators as responsible, and calls for government action against 'the spread of racism.'"}, {"id": "house-182", "year": 1991, "chamber": "house", "date": "1991-05-23", "speaker": "Shirley Maheu", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, is the Solicitor General aware that video games, which puts the player in the role of concentration camp manager and which dehumanizes Jews and Turks, have been available in Germany and Austria for over a year. According to some news reports, it is possible that\nthese racist video games, which amount to hate propaganda, originate in Canada.\nDoes the minister intend to investigate the possibility that these games originate here and take action to limit their distribution.\n\nThe German police has said that the demand for, and availability of, these racist games has increased over the past ye …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/05/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/05/23/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Canada as a possible originating source of video games that dehumanize Jews and asks if the minister will investigate whether 'these games originate here,' directly attributing responsibility for the hostile content to a specific location/entity."}, {"id": "house-183", "year": 1991, "chamber": "house", "date": "1991-01-17", "speaker": "Charles Henry (Chuck) Cook", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["I would love to comment on that because the hon. member has a rather coloured picture of the history of that time. However, remember this: Israel was a peaceful country, and the Jewish state when it was formed was attacked by all of its Arab neighbours. They fought them off, established lines-"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/01/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/01/17/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical facts about Israel's formation and Arab attacks without addressing any hostility toward Jews or taking a position on discrimination/prejudice."}, {"id": "house-184", "year": 1991, "chamber": "house", "date": "1991-03-13", "speaker": "David Charles Dingwall", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, the most positive outcome to the recent war in the gulf would, of course, be a lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours. When we consider that Jews, Muslims and Christians have lived side by side in the Middle East for thousands of years, such a peace is long past due. Until now, the deep rifts of hatred and misunderstanding have often led to horrible abuses. For example, Jews, living in Syria since before Roman times, see their most basic rights denied.\nIn the past we have had difficult and unpleasant relationships with Syria, but during the gulf war Syria was our ally; Syria was Israel's ally. This very fact of fighting on the same side has created an opening for new understanding between …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/03/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1991/03/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the situation of Jews in Syria having rights denied and mentions 'deep rifts of hatred and misunderstanding' and 'horrible abuses' without condemning these conditions, blaming anyone for them, or taking an evaluative position. The passage is primarily descriptive of the situation and context."}, {"id": "house-185", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-03-21", "speaker": "William Warren Allmand", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… mination. However, there are many other kinds of discrimination which are just as odious-religious, ethnic, linguistic, sexual and the discrimination against the handicapped. Recently in Canada we saw the terrible experiences of the Zundel trial and the Keegstra case in the west in which\n\nMarch 21, 1985\nElimination of Racial Discrimination\ndiscrimination was expressed against our Jewish brothers. Together we must bring in amendments to the Criminal Code with respect to hate literature. Also, during the last election campaign I noticed a backlash against some of our immigrant groups in Canada, especially the Asian and black people. I am afraid that there are still issues of linguistic discrimination for minorities in the Province of Quebec, and francophone minorities in other parts of the …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/03/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes discrimination against Jews as 'terrible' and calls for Criminal Code amendments against hate literature, without naming specific individuals as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-186", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-30", "speaker": "Bill Attewell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday, April 29, an independent adjudicator appointed by the Immigration Department ordered that Ernst Zundel be stripped of his landed immigrant status and be deported. 1 applaud this decision which follows his conviction on February 28 of wilfully spreading hate propaganda which declared that the Nazi murder of six million Jews was a Jewish hoax. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail on March 25, making his deportation under current law almost mandatory.\nIt is interesting to note that the West German Parliament recently passed a law making it a crime to deny that the Nazis murdered millions of innocent people in the Second World War.\n\nApril 30, 1985\nCana …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "HISTORIC EVENTS — COMMEMORATION OF HOLOCAUST'S ENDING", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker applauds the deportation decision and describes Zundel's conviction for spreading hate propaganda denying the Holocaust, objecting to this hostility toward Jews without naming a specific person/party as responsible for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-187", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-30", "speaker": "Svend Johannes Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… that that individual in question had chosen to come to Canada.\nA Mr. Juozas Kisielaitis of Massachusetts came to Canada to escape his day of reckoning in the United States, following the investigation by the Office of Special Investigations. Government evidence showed clearly that this individual assisted the Nazis in persecuting Jews while he served in the Schutz-mannschaft, a military battalion in his native Lithuania. Apparently this individual concealed his service in the Schutz-mannschaft when he entered the United States and when he entered Canada.\n\nApril 30, 1985\nOral Questions\nI would hope that our Government would recognize that Canada sho …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS-PUBLIC BILLS — CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACT — AMENDMENTS TO PROHIBIT DISCR1MINATION ON GROUND OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes allegations of Nazi collaboration and persecution of Jews without taking a position on the hostility itself or making judgments about current actors."}, {"id": "house-188", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-30", "speaker": "Svend Johannes Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Employment and Immigration. Yesterday in Washington the United States Justice Department announced that Mr. Juozas Kisielaitis, who was a member of a Nazi battalion, the Schutzmannschaft, which murdered and persecuted Jews in Lithuania, has sought refuge in Canada and, indeed, has returned to Canada. Will the Minister confirm that Juozas Kisielaitis originally entered Canada in 1948 after World War II without disclosing his involvement in the Schutzmannschaft? And what action will the Minister take to ensure that this war criminal is no …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/30/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS-PUBLIC BILLS — CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACT — AMENDMENTS TO PROHIBIT DISCR1MINATION ON GROUND OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Directly identifies Juozas Kisielaitis and his specific Nazi battalion (Schutzmannschaft) as responsible for murdering and persecuting Jews in Lithuania, making him responsible for the hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-189", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-29", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ifferent.\nWe are reminded today of the violence, both past and present, which is a menace to all societies in which bigotry and hatred are allowed to spread unchecked to the detriment of all. Action must be undertaken in the name of human compassion, justice, and memory, so that no group will be allowed to suffer from racial discrimination.\nToday members of the Canadian Jewish community, and others dedicated to peace and tolerance, are gathered in testament to survival and continuity. We will remember and commemorate those who suffered, and celebrate in an expression of solidarity, determination, and hope for all Canadians so that the lesson of the Holocaust will always be remembered. Like …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to bigotry, hatred, and racial discrimination without naming specific responsible parties, emphasizing need for action against these harms."}, {"id": "house-190", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-02", "speaker": "Abram Ernest Epp", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s taking place only underscores the fact that, while we want to defend liberty, when that liberty impinges on other persons, denies their freedom to be full-fledged citizens in our country and reduces them to some lower state of life, that liberty ends.\nThe broad reality of the Nazi era goes far beyond the fact of the Holocaust. Nazism represented racism within the state policy. It was not just the destruction of the Jews in those horrifying numbers. It was focused on other peoples of a lower state of life as well. The Slavic peoples of eastern Europe were to be reduced to the rule of the Arian master race as the German armies pressed eastward and established a great imperial domain on the Eurasian continent. That endeavour of the Nazi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical Nazi racism and destruction of Jews as historical fact without taking a position on contemporary hostility or condemning specific current actors."}, {"id": "house-191", "year": 1985, "chamber": "house", "date": "1985-04-02", "speaker": "Roland de Corneille", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… that takes place, or the battered wives or children who are abused. Rather, we must deal with the causes of violence.\nWe must ask ourselves about the way in which the communication systems convey violence, particularly the manner of permitting into this country hate literature or pornography which enhances, spreads or incites a form of violence. Rape is a form of violence, as is child abuse, murder and terrorism. Denying the dangers of the Holocaust and its existence is indeed to deny the greatest and most horrible violence we have known in this century.\nRight at this time, because our Bills still are not adequate and our protection is not adequate, hate literature and denials of the Nazi Holocaust can enter and cross our borders at will. I wish to bring to the attention of the House the horrors that existed for those who would deny that the Holocaust took\nCustoms Tariff\nplace. It was not just this deformed mentality that has been entertaining, if you will, those who enjoy that kind of entertainment in a hard hat and in a courtroom. Others in this country who are perhaps more serious individuals are also hateful and have also spread the idea that the Holocaust did not take place. I remember someone from Quebec who ran for the Tory Party who was espousing that view. He ran in Terrebonne. He espoused the view that the Holocaust never took place, that the Jews in fact torpedoed their own ships to create martyrs in the last war. That came from the mentality of a Canadian, not o …", "… are those pathetic minds who think that the Holocaust never took place for one reason or another, I wish to point out that I recently attended a rally at Queen's Park in Toronto. The rally was held in order to allow the German Consul General, Dr. Ernst-Gunther Koch, to be able to give a message from Germany about the Holocaust to counter this hate literature, this hatred being distributed throughout the country to cast doubt upon the integrity of the Jewish people and their honesty in saying that the Holocaust took place. These are the words of Dr. Koch:\nI thank you very much for your invitation to be with you this afternoon. This gives me-as the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany-an opportunity to draw your attention to the following facts:\nThe conviction of my Government as well as the attitude of the German people with regard to the genocide of the Jews during the National Socialist Regime-\nThat was the Nazi regime.\n-are based on the fact that it was the declared goal of the national socialist policy to persecute and annihilate the Jewish population in Germany and Europe for racial reasons.\nAs a consequence of this criminal policy, millions of Jews were killed, and the Jews were afflicted with terrible pain and grief.\nThese facts are absolutely evident for my Government. They are confirmed by the consistent results of research of all competent historians as well as by the sentences pronounced by German courts and by witnesses and defendants in these procedures. The great majority of Germ …", "… vernments since the chancellorship of Konrad Adenauer in 1949. My Government considers it an undeniable fact that a large number of Jews were gassed in concentration camps. German courts have regarded the claim that there were no gas-chambers in concentration camps established by the Nazi regime for the mass murder of Jews and other people as defamation and have instituted criminal proceedings in such cases.\nThe Federal and Land Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany have been endeavouring for decades to redress the crimes of the Nazi Regime. The Bundesrat and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany have repeatedly stated that redress for the crimes …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1985/04/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names a specific Canadian candidate from Quebec who ran for the Tory Party in Terrebonne as responsible for spreading Holocaust denial and antisemitic claims about Jews torpedoing ships."}, {"id": "house-192", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-12-12", "speaker": "Jim Karygiannis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… y don't we open our door to accept some of the refugees?”\nI wish I could answer Motaz's question, but I cannot. Maybe the minister can. Canada has a long history of opening its doors to refugees. \nIn recent history, we have opened our doors to: 12,000 Czech refugees after the Prague Spring; 13,000 Chileans fleeing the persecution and the authoritarian rule of General Pinochet; 20,000 Soviet Jewish refugees who were being denied the right to express and practise their religion; 4,420 Ugandan Asian refugees following Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda; 60,000 Vietnamese boat people; 5,000 Bosnian Muslims who were victims of the Yugoslavian civil war, which was characterized by ethnic cleansing and genocid …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/12/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/12/12/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough—Agincourt", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Scarborough—Agincourt, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Points of Order — Comments by Member for Oak Ridges--Markham", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's historical acceptance of Soviet Jewish refugees who were denied religious freedom, presenting it as a factual example of Canada's refugee record without taking a position on contemporary hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-193", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-12-04", "speaker": "James Lunney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this past week, the UN voted 138-9 in a symbolic gesture recognizing the state of Palestine. It was 65 years to the day since the celebrated UN vote on partition that gave rise to the modern state of Israel. Having accepted partition, the tiny nation was attacked by five surrounding armies. \nTo this day, the Palestinian charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, formed during what it likes to call the Al-Nakba, the disaster.\nHamas official Osama Hamdan stated that, “A Palestinian state without an armed struggle against Israel is an illusion”. Nevertheless, Hamas welcomed the statehood bid “because it reflected the international community's readiness to fix what it corr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/12/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/12/04/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical events, UN votes, Palestinian charter language, and a Hamas official's statement without explicitly condemning the hostility or naming/blaming specific actors for it."}, {"id": "house-194", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "James Bezan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… is in Iran have suffered a systematic relentless campaign of persecution. Over 200 Baha'is have been killed, hundreds more imprisoned and the Baha'is in Iran face social, economic and cultural restrictions. Iranian authorities continue to undermine the rights of freedom of religion through the persistent and pervasive persecution of religious minorities, such as Baha'is, Christians, Jews, Sufis and Sunni Muslims. \nMembers from all sides of the House will come together this evening to participate in an important and timely debate on the human rights situation in Iran. We continue to urge Iran to uphold its international obligations to allow for freedom of religion and to respect the fundamental rights …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Selkirk--Interlake", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Selkirk—Interlake, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes persecution of Jews and other religious minorities in Iran and urges Iran to uphold rights and freedom of religion, objecting to the hostility without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-195", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in the sponsorship of terrorism abroad, so it exports human rights abuses. \nFinally, and perhaps most significant of all, there is the incitement to genocide and the overt stated goal of the Iranian regime, the Ahmadinejad regime, of wiping Israel off the face of the earth by killing as many Israeli citizens, as many Jews, as possible.\nLet me go through some of these things now systematically. \nI will start with religious persecution. With good reason we have heard about the terrible persecution of the Baha'i in Iran. The Baha'i religion began in Iran and has had its home there for a long time, although Baha'is exist worldwide. The Baha'i religion is a post-Koranic religion. On the basis of it being post-Koranic the minimal legal and constitutiona …", "… weapons. It seeks to develop a delivery mechanism through missiles in order to destroy Israel.\nTo give a sense of just how absurd, but also how dangerous, this really is, let me just read a bit about what has been said by the Iranian regime. Israel is referred to as a “cancerous tumour”. We have heard that an Iranian attack on Israel would seek to kill as many as five million Jews. The estimate was that if Israel responded by dropping its own nuclear weapons, Iran might lose as many as 15 million people but that would be, as representatives of the regime put it, a small price to pay, a small sacrifice, because there are a billion Muslims in the world.\nThis kind of grotesque rhetoric obviously h …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes Iranian regime rhetoric calling for genocide of Jews and describes it as 'grotesque' and 'absurd' and 'dangerous,' objecting to this hostility without naming a specific responsible party as the actor (Iran's regime statements are cited as evidence of the hostility being condemned).", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-196", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… social pariahs to be shunned by the regime. \nThe propaganda is shocking in its volume and vehemence. Its scope and sophistication is calculated to stir up and antagonize the whole population, to stir them in a way that has only happened one other time in history, which was very similar to this. It happened against the Jews in Germany.\nAfter 30 years of hate propaganda, the Baha'is have become a kind of all purpose scapegoat, a smear of convenience, which the Iranian government uses against any individual or group it disapproves of as though the mere mention of the word Baha'i conjures up the most lurid forms of immorality that one can imagine.\nOf course, with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, the situation has only worsened.\nA …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names the Iranian government as responsible for hate propaganda against Baha'is, drawing a historical parallel to antisemitic propaganda in Nazi Germany to illustrate the severity and pattern of the hostility."}, {"id": "house-197", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Stephen Woodworth", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… d the executions, mutilations and torture that go on. I will be speaking about that myself in a few moments. \nI would like to ask my colleague across the way about a new initiative of the Canadian government, the office of religious freedom. What we find around the world is that much persecution is driven by religious prejudice. In Iran, of course, the Baha'i are suffering persecution. In China, it is the Falun Dafa, and in other places, Christians. In the Middle East, Jews are often subject to persecution. I wonder if the member opposite would be able to endorse, join in and support the new initiative by the government, the office for religious freedom? I understand it will have high-ranking ambassadorial status to investigate and speak out against religious persecution around the world."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions that 'in the Middle East, Jews are often subject to persecution' as part of a list of examples of religious persecution globally, without condemning it directly or naming specific responsible parties—simply stating it as a fact to support the case for an Office of Religious Freedom."}, {"id": "house-198", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Russ Hiebert", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… death by hanging. That sentence has been upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court. \nUnfortunately, this is not an isolated case. As we have heard in testimony before our subcommittee, despite the fact that the Iranian constitution recognizes and protects the nation's pre-Islamic religious minorities, including Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, in practice these groups face discrimination and persecution.\nChristians are subject to harassment and close surveillance by police. The government has a policy of prohibiting proselytizing and monitors the activities of many churches, acts to close churches and arrests Christian converts. Members of some congregations are required to carry membership cards that must be provided to police on request, and church off …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination and persecution faced by religious minorities including Jews in Iran without naming specific perpetrators or taking a position beyond stating the factual situation."}, {"id": "house-199", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-17", "speaker": "Don Davies", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… how Roma refugees would be negatively affected by having EU countries designated as safe. She spoke about how disheartening and insulting it was to hear our Minister of Citizenship refer to them as bogus and she explained why he was wrong.\nI want to pause there and say that we are all very intimately familiar with the persecution, the genocide, against the Jewish people in World War II. What is less commented upon is the fact that Roma, along with the disabled, were also targeted for their ethnicity, rounded up, tortured, medically experimented upon, detained in concentration camps and murdered simply because they were Roma.\nThis is not just any ethnic group. It is an ethnic g …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/05/17/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Roma and Jews during WWII without taking a position on current hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-200", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-09-24", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… may not have a criminal record abroad, but who may actually be coming here to incite hatred and violence, or to incite terrorism. \nI will give the example of two British nationals, I believe, named Abdur Raheem Green and Hamza Tzortzis. Last year, they came to Canada even though they had a horrible record of promoting hatred against women, homosexuals, gays and lesbians, Jews and certain other minorities. A number of Canadians were afraid that the men intended to come to Canada to incite hatred, violence and perhaps even terrorism. Under current laws such persons cannot be prevented from entering Canada. For example, in some countries, it is not a crime to promote hatred against Jews or homosexuals.\nThis bill would give the minister the discretion, with certain limits, to prevent certain foreign nationals from entering Canada if they plan to promote violence, even though it is not a crime in their country of origin. \nThis is something we will have to study in more detail when the bill is before th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/09/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/09/24/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes individuals with 'a horrible record of promoting hatred against...Jews' and notes that current laws prevent entry based on such records. The focus is on explaining the legislative gap and proposing a solution, not condemning the hatred itself or assigning blame to specific actors for allowing it."}, {"id": "house-201", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-03-29", "speaker": "Mark Adler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… anti-Israel bias is, sadly, alive and well at the United Nations.\n Last week we saw, yet again, Israel being singled out by members of the United Nations Human Rights Council in a simplistic and one-sided resolution.\nI call on members from all parties to join me in expressing extreme disappointment with this continued hate-on for the Jewish state. There is no shortage of pressing human rights matters that the UNHRC should be addressing. \nThese types of actions are counterproductive to the efforts of negotiating a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Our government believes that status issues must be negotiated between the two parties, not the …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/03/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/03/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses 'extreme disappointment' with UN actions characterized as biased against Israel/Jewish state, without naming specific individuals as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-202", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-03-06", "speaker": "Don Davies", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… safe. Right now the far-right government of Hungary is currently passing laws before its parliament to have the power to pass laws in 24 hours, with 6 minutes of debate accorded to the opposition parties. It is amending the constitution. There is the situation of the Roma in Europe. Everyone knows in World War II that Jews were rounded up because of their faith and ethnicity. Roma were rounded up because of their ethnicity as were disabled and communists. These were historically discriminated against, including Roma. There is a long history of established discrimination against Roma, and those people come from Hungary. They come from the Czech Republic, from Romania, from countries that are members of the EU in some cases and those people have a right to make their claim.\nThe minister has thrown out the pa …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/03/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/03/06/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination against Roma and Jews without condemning, naming a specific actor as responsible, blaming weak responses, or disputing claims of discrimination."}, {"id": "house-203", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-04-23", "speaker": "Brian Masse", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today many of my colleagues and I will walk with a Canadian Holocaust survivor on this national Holocaust Remembrance Day.\nI shared in the same honour last Thursday, remembering with Windsor's Jewish community at our local ceremony. The Holocaust refers to a specific genocide event, the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.\nJews were the primary targets and victims—six million were murdered—but targets also included gypsies, the handicapped and Polish citizens because of racial, ethnic and national reasons. Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi …", "… indifference and to shatter the conspiracy of silence. As an international community, we must stand together and act to prevent future genocide, not stand idly by and intervene when it is too late.\nToday, by reflecting on this annihilation, we break that silence and honour the memory of the victims.\nAs Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, said:\n ...I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endured suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/04/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/04/23/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Windsor West", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Brian Masse (Windsor West, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust and its victims, quotes Elie Wiesel, and calls for remembrance and action against future genocide, but does not identify or condemn any specific contemporary hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-204", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-04-04", "speaker": "Thomas Mulcair", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… y that saw far too many.\nOn Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day, we are all called to contemplate the truth of the genocide: the brutal murder of six million Jews simply because they were Jewish, of six million women, men and children, in addition to the millions who were displaced and hunted just because they were Jewish. \nToday, we remember, but we also must remember to act against intolerance, racism and hatred of any kind."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/04/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/04/04/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Outremont", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Outremont, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hatred and intolerance toward Jews described in the Holocaust context, calling to 'act against intolerance, racism and hatred of any kind' without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-205", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-06-01", "speaker": "Joyce Murray", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… al in confronting the scourge of discrimination that transgendered people continue to face in our society and might also guide educational efforts in the broader community. \nWe know well that having clarity and being able to measure and compile statistics has been essential in Canada's efforts to reduce other forms of discrimination against Jews, against people who are other-abled and in many other cases. What we do not measure, we cannot have objectives to improve. When we do not have objectives, we will be unlikely to achieve that goal.\nI am proud that in 1996, guided by the principles of equality, justice and the fundamental need to protect vulnerable grou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/06/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/06/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Quadra", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Quadra, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions discrimination against Jews as a historical example of something Canada has measured and tracked to reduce discrimination, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific hostility."}, {"id": "house-206", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-11-08", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise on the eve of the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when, in 1938, Nazi troops stormed Jewish neighbourhoods in Germany, vandalizing Jewish homes and businesses, desecrating synagogues and cemeteries, arresting some 30,000 Jews, murdering others and burning books, as a precursor to burning people and the atrocities to come.\nWe commemorate Kristallnacht on the eve also of Remembrance Day when we honour the brave men and women who fought for Canada and for freedom, including those instrumental in defeating the Third Reich.\n This week is also Holocaust Education Week, wherein the lessons of the Holocaust are transmitted to generations of Canadians will resonate globally with Canada as incoming chair of the International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance and Education.\nThe lessons of the Holocaust are universal. We remember the dangers associated with cultures of hate and the importance of speaking out against injustice.\nTonight, I will attend a commemoration of Kristallnacht and, on Sunday, Remembrance Day ceremonies in my riding. As we remember the horrors of the past, let us ensure that the world will never experience such horrors again.\n Lest we forget."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/11/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2012/11/08/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility described (Nazi persecution of Jews during Kristallnacht) and emphasizes the importance of speaking out against injustice and hate, without naming current perpetrators of hostility."}, {"id": "house-207", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-02-23", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… vitations I have accepted, along with members of the New Democratic party, to go to Washington or elsewhere.\nI strongly protest against the innuendos of such a statement because it could cast doubts on my objectivity with respect to that tragic conflict.\nAs a matter of fact, I rose in the past against the spreading of hate propaganda against the Jews as is shown in the official report of the House of Commons' debates of June 1 and 14, 1967, at pages 824 and 1514.\nI raise a strong protest against such insinuations which could make any invitation any member of Parliament could receive in future subject to criticism. In my opinion, Mr. Speaker, my question of privile …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/02/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/02/23/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS REPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY TASK FORCE", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker references their past opposition to 'spreading of hate propaganda against the Jews' and protests insinuations that might discourage such stands, demonstrating objection to hostility toward Jews without naming a specific actor as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-208", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-06", "speaker": "David Orlikow", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… of whole communities?\nThis is a fact of history which I think most Canadians know. Need I remind Members of Parliament of what happened in Europe during World War II when Hitler decided that certain people who were not members of the master race should be, and they were, exterminated? At that time millions of people, Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, were murdered in gas ovens, were shot and were burnt simply because of their racial origin. These are facts of life. That hatred lingers on.\nWho would have believed that in a communist country-I have spoken about my dislike of and opposition to communism many times both inside and outside this chamber-racism would exist? Not many of us, as anti-communist as we were, really believed that the communists with all their faults could be guilty of\n\n\nracism; yet the 2,000 Jews who went back to Poland after World War II are now leaving. They are being forced out for one simple reason-because they are Jews. Racism exists in communist Poland as it existed before and during World War II in fascist Poland.\nAre we so free of racism in Canada? Who is there in this chamber, particularly those who come from western Canada, who has not heard or read expressions about Canadian Indians or Canadian Metis which would put to shame some of the worst material published in the United States about black Americans? These are facts with which we have to live, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/06/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE ACT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical and contemporary hostility toward Jews (Nazi extermination, forced emigration from Poland) and racism generally, without naming specific current perpetrators responsible for these acts."}, {"id": "house-209", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-08", "speaker": "Cliff Downey", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t is properly administered but in the light of the damage it will do if it is improperly administered. I say that there is a great deal of legislation that goes through that should be considered in this light.\nI can well understand the strong feelings of some members of minority groups, notably members of the Canadian Jewish community who back this measure. They have suffered much from organized hate campaigns, and even today I suppose they continue at times to suffer some embarrassment and harassment. I deplore this as much as any Canadian but I do not believe that a legislative measure such as the one we have before us will end this persecution, and it could well bring about for other minority groups the very op …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'I deplore this as much as any Canadian' in reference to the harassment and persecution of the Jewish community, objecting to it without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-210", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-07", "speaker": "Colin David Gibson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… oups from the vile abuse of verbal pollution expressed in the form of hatred.\nWhy? Because minorities need protection, and the Canadian standard of fair play for all demands it. That is why, Mr. Speaker. We can all recall the events which occurred prior to and during the Second World War when, by use of expressions of hatred, hatred led to genocide, and millions of innocent people of the Jewish faith were slaughtered in Europe.\nI suggest that hatred breeds contempt, and that the result in society is a form of social class distinction which is abhorrent to all Canadians. The scars created by expressions of hatred based on discrimination against colour, race or creed, in many cases last forever. The soul and the spirit of Canadians require a standard of conduct whi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred and verbal abuse targeting minorities including Jews, calling it 'vile' and 'abhorrent,' and referencing historical consequences without accusing any specific actor of current hostility."}, {"id": "house-211", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-07", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hey just sound off.\nThe workers are fed up with such leaders. They want to be treated like human beings and not as numbers or as people cynically exploited by sinister exploiters, which is what some Canadian labour leaders are at the present time.\nThere are many examples of that situation. But the cause of all this is hate propaganda. Some Canadians have said that they had no money because the Jewish people were hoarding. Maybe we should advise those who are not Jewish to do the same.\nWhile going through the Montreal phone directory yesterday or the day before yesterday, I came across the name of The Hebrew Free Loan Organization. This is a body that has the legal competence to grant interest-free loans to Jewish people, in order to promote mutual help. Should a Jew wish to go into …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate propaganda blaming Jewish people for economic problems, cites an example of the Hebrew Free Loan Organization, but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame enablers, or dispute the characterization of hostility."}, {"id": "house-212", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-09", "speaker": "Rémi Paul", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… l. The words used are \"if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest...\" and so on. I have studied this. I believe it was the hon. member for York-Simcoe (Mr. Roberts) who drew attention to the point earlier. I suspect Heinrich Himmler could have defended himself under this provision for his verbal attacks on the Jewish community in Germany. However, I shall not thresh this old straw again.\nI should like to turn briefly to the genocide provisions. Some hon. members may say: How can anyone in any circumstances tolerate a society in which people can defend genocide? It is my own feeling that the handful of idiots in Canada who would ad …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Heinrich Himmler as responsible for 'verbal attacks on the Jewish community in Germany' and uses this as an example of hostility that should not be defended under the legal provision being discussed."}, {"id": "house-213", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-09", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… r was speaking about hatred. There are people who are full of hatred in Canada and in all other countries. The hon. member for York South told us that he was a member of a minority group, but I think he feels well respected in Canada. In a country where he would belong to the majority group and which is called Israel, hatred is also to be found. When we hear about the skirmishes and the wars now taking place between Arabs and Jews and between Lebanese and Jews, we surely can say that hatred does exist there also.\nHatred was prevalent in the Congo a few years ago, and in Biafra fairly recently.\nPeople kill one another precisely because they have lost their sense of values and respect. When we note what is going on in Viet Nam, it is not really edifying. Every evening on television, we can see films showing us small children, mothers a …", "… C-3 is introduced with these words: Now, for the sake of freedom, this bill to eradicate hate publicity or propaganda must be passed. That is the illogical gesture of a legislator, of a government reluctant to assume responsibilities.\nIn the name of liberty, rebels are accepted, and warned: Be careful. If you nurture hatred, you will be arrested and thrown into jail for four or five years.\nI will give an example. I am not referring to a Jew from Israel or to a Russian from the USSR, or to the American, Carmichael, or to Castro. I will just take an example in the city of Montreal, 110 miles from Ottawa.\nA man by the name of Michel Chartrand was on parliament hill this afternoon, accompanied by a group of some 100 people whom he was haranguing in front of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes hatred existing between Arabs and Jews in general terms as part of a broader discussion of hatred in various global conflicts, without condemning, naming responsibility, or taking a clear position on it."}, {"id": "house-214", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-09", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e government has even more serious and obvious responsibilities since it is in charge of the nation's business. However, all political parties and all members of parliament also have their own responsibilities. Their first responsibility is to tell the truth, to be honest and to propose solutions that will not promote hatred, but will allow individuals\nApril 9, 1970\n\nto understand each other better, whatever their origin might be, French, English, Jewish, Ukrainian or Polish.\nThe day people feel at home in Canada, individuals, fathers and mothers of families, then we will be prepared to defend our interests. And if all are ready to defend their interests, we shall have in Canada a true association of human beings instead of racism, religious feud and struggle between …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hatred and racism directed at various groups including Jewish people, advocating instead for honesty, understanding, and an end to 'religious feud' without naming any specific party or actor as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-215", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-09", "speaker": "Ian Grant Wahn", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nted in 1965 to study hate propaganda changed my views, and in the last Parliament I introduced a private member's bill designed to achieve the same purposes as this bill that we are considering.\nThe fact is that a great deal of propaganda is continually being directed against minority groups in Canada, usually Black, Jewish or Catholic. I myself have received hate propaganda and I am quite sure that most members from urban ridings have. For that reason I believe it is important that a bill such as this should be passed, and with a large majority, as a ringing declaration that this Parliament condemns all attempts to stir up hatred against any of the large number of minority groups which f …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'this Parliament condemns all attempts to stir up hatred' against minority groups including Jews, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-216", "year": 1970, "chamber": "house", "date": "1970-04-09", "speaker": "James Alexander Jerome", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… find totally inconsistent and inexplicable. He quoted Daniel Webster's words, \"I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it\". Are we to understand that Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is saying they are prepared to fight to the death for the right of people in this country to hate Jews, Catholics, Protestants or any other group of people? Is that their position?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1970/04/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses the Opposition of endorsing the right to hate Jews (and other groups), framing their position as supporting hatred toward Jewish people."}, {"id": "house-217", "year": 1983, "chamber": "house", "date": "1983-10-17", "speaker": "David Kilgour", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… everywhere is well understood around the world, expressed concern about conditions in some places can only be unconvincing.\nDealing with Central America, for example, it seems to me that Ottawa should not approve the requested $15 million aid package to Nicaragua unless and until the Sandinistas cease their systematic attacks on Jewish Nicaraguans. Our Government has refused to reinstate aid for El Salvador and Guatemala on human rights considerations, and the same considerations should apply to Managua as well. Basic rights, Madam Speaker, should not be divisible on the basis of geography."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/10/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/10/17/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S.O. 21 — HUMAN RIGHTS — U.S.S.R.-DENIAL OF EMIGRATION TO JEWS", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the Sandinistas as responsible for 'systematic attacks on Jewish Nicaraguans' and uses this as a basis for calling on the Canadian government to condition aid on ceasing these attacks."}, {"id": "house-218", "year": 1983, "chamber": "house", "date": "1983-12-09", "speaker": "Flora Isabel MacDonald", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… own families. In their poverty and oppression they rebel. That rebellion leads to their persecution and imprisonment, and loss of their human rights. We see it, Sir, in totalitarian states of the right and the left; the genocide of Indian communities in Guatemala, the murder of members of the Baha'i faith in Iran, the persecution of Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union, the torture of political prisoners in Uruguay.\nHowever, as we protest tjie violation of human rights elsewhere in the world, Mr. Speaker, let us be exceedingly mindful that our country is not without blemish. A Donald Marshall who is denied restitution after 1 f years of wrongful impris …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/12/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/12/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker lists persecution of Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union as one example among several human rights violations globally, describing the situation factually without condemning it, naming perpetrators, or taking an evaluative stance."}, {"id": "house-219", "year": 1983, "chamber": "house", "date": "1983-11-28", "speaker": "James Sydney Clark Fleming", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tions in Canada of a serious problem involving the hate of some Canadians for other Canadians based simply on race. Canada today is a major source of hate literature, distributed around the world as well as here in Canada. That material has been brought to the attention of various Members of Parliament by the Canadian Jewish Congress. In our newspapers, almost daily, there are examples of incidents of racism against Canadians, largely those who are visibly obvious to the larger society which is white. This country can only work if governments take the lead in breaking down barriers in education, in helping people understand each other better in order to get along as Canadians, and also in changing laws that now aid and ab …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/11/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1983/11/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "media", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate literature and racism incidents without naming specific perpetrators or taking a stance on how authorities are responding to it. They state facts about the problem and what has been brought to MPs' attention."}, {"id": "house-220", "year": 1937, "chamber": "house", "date": "1937-04-08", "speaker": "Samuel Factor", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ted to the secretary-general of the League of Nations, a memorandum submitted to the conscience of Christendom, by the Hon. James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner for German refugees. Mr. McDonald, as hon. members are aware, had been chosen by the League of Nations to investigate and deal with the problem of nazi persecution of Jewish and other liberals. He is, I need not mention, a forthright gentleman of Scottish extraction, as everyone knows who had occasion to meet him when he was in Canada a couple of years ago. I wish I had time to read the entire letter, but I will not impose upon.the house. I will give only a few paragraphs, and I should li …", "… ire situation is essential. The legislation and administrative and party action against \"non-Aryans\" were steadily intensified, and culminated in the autumn of 1935 when a series of new laws and decrees initiated a fresh wave of repression and persecution of a character which was not envisaged in 1933.\nThe intensified persecution in Germany threatens the pauperization or exile of hundreds of thousands of Germans-men. women and children-not only Jews but also the \"nonAryan \" Christians treated as Jews, and Protestants and Catholics who in obedience to their faith and conscience dare to resist the absolute will of the national socialist state. Apart from all questions of principle and of religious persecution, one portentious fact confronts the community of states. More than half a million persons against whom no charge can be made except that they are not what the national socialists choose to regard as \"Nordic\" are being crushed. They cannot escape oppression by any act of their own free will, for what has been called \"the membership of non-Aryan race\" cannot be changed or kept in abeyance.\nRelentlessly the Jews and \"non-Aryans\" are excluded from all public offices, from the exercise of the liberal professions, and from any part in the cultural and intellectual life of Germany. Ostracized from social relations with \"Aryans,\" they are subjected to every kind of humiliation. Neither sex nor age exempts them from discrimination. Even the Jewish and \"non-Aryan\" children do not escape cruel forms of segregation and persecution. In Party publications, directly sponsored by the government, \"Aryan\" children are stirred to hate the Jews\n\n2738\tCOMMONS\nCanada-Germany Trade Agreement\nand the Christian \"non-Aryans,\" to spy upon them and to attack them, and to incite their own parents to extirpate the Jews altogether.\nI shall not take time to read more. I think hon. members are quite aware of the terrible conditions prevailing in Germany. I do want, however, to read the last paragraph of Mr. McDonald's letter:\nI feel hound to conclude this letter on a personal note. Prior to my appointment as high commissioner for refug …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1937/04/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1937/04/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and cites a memorandum from James G. McDonald describing Nazi persecution of Jews and non-Aryans without offering personal condemnation or accusation beyond presenting McDonald's documented findings."}, {"id": "house-221", "year": 1973, "chamber": "house", "date": "1973-10-16", "speaker": "Ralph Wesley Stewart", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ut I have enough objectivity to want to know if that right to exist on the part of Israel should exclude the right of the Palestinians to their homeland, and indeed if it should mean that we must condone the acquisition by Israel of a piece of Syria, a piece of Jordan and a piece of Egypt, as well as the creation of a racist state throughout all of Palestine where no one but Jews can exist as first-class citizens.\nI have said that Canada has taken a one-sided view because it does not know both sides of the story. It is not possible for any of us here to make any kind of judgment unless we understand the problem itself. We cannot go into all the history here, but a knowledge of 50 years of hist …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1973/10/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1973/10/16/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses Israel of creating 'a racist state throughout all of Palestine where no one but Jews can exist as first-class citizens,' explicitly naming Israel as responsible for discriminatory treatment of non-Jews."}, {"id": "house-222", "year": 1973, "chamber": "house", "date": "1973-12-07", "speaker": "Ronald George Atkey", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… of the non-French or nonAnglo aspects of our history which has been considered worthy of full-scale commemoration is the Batoche Rectory in Saskatchewan, the headquarters of the Metis during the great northwest rebellion of 1885 at Duck Lake. The neglect of the contribution of such groups as the Italians, Ukrainians, Jews, Scandinavians and Germans to our heritage not only misrepresents our history but also exacerbates the sense of exclusion felt by these people.\nMore important, however, these types of projects claim millions of dollars in capital and operating expenses, leaving little if any financial support for smaller buildings which may not be of national historical importance yet which are worthy of preservation to a particular community or neighbou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1973/12/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1973/12/07/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS — PARTICIPATION BY CANADIAN CONTINGENT IN MIDDLE EAST PEACEKEEPING FORCE", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the neglect of Jewish contributions to Canadian heritage and notes this misrepresents history and exacerbates exclusion, without naming specific parties responsible."}, {"id": "house-223", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-04-17", "speaker": "David Lewis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["I should like to direct a question to the Minister of Manpower and Immigration. Has the minister received a confidential report from the Jewish labour committee alleging that some officials in some manpower offices have accepted requests involving racial and other discrimination? Will the minister indicate to the house whether he has had time to study the report, and what steps he is taking to deal with the situation revealed in it?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/04/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/04/17/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Parliamentary Leader of the N.D.P.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE — AMENDMENT RESPECTING HATE PROPAGANDA", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes receiving a report about discrimination allegations without taking a position on the hostility itself, and asks factual questions about whether the minister has reviewed it and what steps are being taken.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-224", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-14", "speaker": "Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on June 1 the hon. member for Saint-Denis (Mr. Prud'homme) put a question to the Solicitor General of Canada (Mr. Pennell) on hate propaganda against the Jews being distributed through the Canadian mails by a Montreal association.\nIn reply to this question, Mr. Speaker, I may say that my department has concluded its investigation on the purported use of the mails by L'Alerte de l'Occident, P.O. Box 185, Postal Station \"R\", Montreal, to distribute hate literature. Our counse …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes an investigation into hate propaganda against Jews without stating a position on the matter or naming responsibility; they are recounting what their department concluded regarding the alleged distribution of hate literature."}, {"id": "house-225", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-06", "speaker": "Colin Cameron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e two peoples of the world who of all people have been persecuted, exploited, oppressed, victims of discrimination and of imperialism by the so-called Christian world of today are at each other's throats largely as a result of the machinations and broken pledges of the western civilization. On the one hand we have the Jews, dispersed and persecuted, discriminated against by virtually every country of the so-called Christian world, many of whom finally were consigned to the horrors of Belsen and Buchenwald. On the other hand, we have the Arabs, victims of the imperial colonial designs of half of Europe who were forced to dance to the degrading tune of their masters. Both are living indictments of the immorality, bigotry, greed and cynicism of our boasted western civilization. It is neither the Arabs nor the Jews who today stand in the dock but rather Christendom itself.\n\n[DOT] (4:00 p.m.)\nMemory tends to fade quite easily, and there will be many even in this house who are too young to remember those dark days when news began to seep out of nazi Germany revealing horrors that were almost unbelievable. At that time we did not b …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to persecution and discrimination against Jews throughout history, including Nazi atrocities, without naming specific current actors responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-226", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-06", "speaker": "Colin Cameron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… all the papers and magazines by all the\nJune 6, 1967\n\npolitical commentators. I may say I had some grave misgivings as to the wisdom of the establishment of the state of Israel, and in the light of events since perhaps those misgivings were not ill-founded. Nevertheless, I knew deep down in my heart that had I been a Jew 20 years ago I would have been in their ranks. I would have said to myself, after all these years, after all these centuries during which my people have been persecuted, humiliated and degraded, by God, the time has come when I am going to develop some place on this globe where I and my children can stand on our feet with dignity as befits human beings. Yes, I am quite sure that is the way I would have thought and acted.\nNow we come to the ultimate tragedy of the Jewish people and th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges historical persecution, humiliation, and degradation of Jewish people and expresses empathy for their desire for dignity and self-determination, implicitly condemning the hostility they faced."}, {"id": "house-227", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-06", "speaker": "Colin Cameron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a million people from the slums of London, Manchester or Liverpool? You and I know what we would do. We would say we could not do it, that it was impossible. Yet Canada is a fairly wealthy country and fairly well developed. We would do almost nothing. I might say that when we did have an opportunity to offer asylum to Jewish people fleeing from persecution we turned them from our doors.\nPart of the tragedy of the human condition is that we can never go back and undo the crimes and follies of yesterday. We have to go on from where we are. I think in this regard, at a time when President Nasser's name is anathema in the ears of many people of the western world, a time whe …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Canada's historical refusal to offer asylum to Jewish people fleeing persecution, calling it a 'crime' and 'folly' without naming a specific person or party as responsible."}, {"id": "house-228", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-06", "speaker": "Horace Andrew (Bud) Olson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I was about to deal with that. As a matter of fact I liked both sermons, but I am also in some disagreement with both. Concerning the sermon delivered by the hon. member for Nanaimo-Cowi-chan-The Islands respecting the persecution, discrimination and other inhuman treatment meted out to the Jews and Arabs over the generations, I should like to say that I was to a large measure in agreement with what he said in so far as the history of the matter is concerned. I must say, however, that I was also a little disturbed by his conclusion and where he laid the blame for the perpetuation of this problem, because I he …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/06/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker expresses disagreement with another member's conclusion about where blame should be laid for perpetuation of persecution and discrimination against Jews, implying the other member misattributed responsibility."}, {"id": "house-229", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-01", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Solicitor General of Canada.\n\nIn view of the fact that an association known under the name of L'Alerte de l'Oc-cident is now using the Canadian mail, or the royal mail of Canada, as you wish, P.O. box 185, station R, Montreal, to distribute hate literature against the Jews-which literature is liable to create social disorder in this troubled period in the Middle East-and since some hon. members have received that literature-"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/01/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS REPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY TASK FORCE", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes an association distributing hate literature against Jews through the mail, stating facts about the organization and the material without explicitly condemning it, naming responsible parties as perpetrators, or blaming anyone for failing to respond."}, {"id": "house-230", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-08", "speaker": "Lester Bowles Pearson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the settlement.\nThose are the five or six elements of a political solution that I venture to put before the committee. Whether they could be successfully worked out in a political settlement I do not know because there is an issue which goes even deeper than any of the ones I have mentioned, the issue of deep fear and hostility on both sides, the Arab side and the Jewish side. Until that fear is removed somehow I do not think there will be peace in that area. Yet if it could be removed and at least a mutual acceptance on both sides could be built up, there is no doubt in my mind that the Arab states would be among the first and most important beneficiaries of that change through the h …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Secretary of State for External Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "ANTI-SEMITISM INQUIRY AS TO RECENT SIGNS OF GROWTH IN EASTERN EUROPE", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the existence of deep fear and hostility between Arab and Jewish sides as a barrier to peace, without condemning, naming responsible parties, or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-231", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-08", "speaker": "Gérard Laprise", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… take into consideration the state of misery these people have been living in as a result of this partition.\nI would like here to quote from an editorial published in Le Devoir today, June 8, signed by Jean-Marc Leger who precisely emphasizes the point I just raised, that it is not so much the Arabs themselves who are attacking the Jewish people than the Arab states which are attacking the Israeli state, because of this partition. Here is what Mr. Jean-Marc Leger wrote: s (8:40 p.m.)\nThe various events which have been the immediate cause of the conflict are in fact only of secondary importance with regard to the only real problem: is peaceful coexistence possible between Israel and the Arab states? …", "… he Arabs are not anti-Jewish. Semites themselves, they have had for centuries proper, sometimes friendly, relations with hundreds of thousands of Jews living among them in north Africa and in the Near East. It is only with the advent of the sionist movement to create Israel that the Arabs took a stand, not against the Jews, but against a state which they considered to be the result of spoliation and imperialism.\nI fully agree with the editorial writer of Le Devoir that such hate, unlike what is noted in certain conflicts, is more an affair between states than between men.\nMr. Chairman, we, in the Ralliement Creditiste, are in favour of an immediate cease fire, as happened in the last few hours, and we urge the Canadian government to continue its representations to the United Nations, so that …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and endorses an editorial arguing that Arabs are 'not anti-Jewish' and that the conflict is between states, not between peoples, thereby disputing characterizations of Arab hostility as directed against Jews themselves."}, {"id": "house-232", "year": 1967, "chamber": "house", "date": "1967-06-08", "speaker": "Horace Andrew (Bud) Olson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… such an agreement cannot be reached it should become the responsibility of an international commission. We think this is an essential step which should be taken at once.\nI said I would be brief, and I will conclude by suggesting to the members of this committee that it is a well known fact that throughout the ages the Jewish people have suffered terrible persecution in all parts of the world.\n\n\nIt should also be acknowledged and recognized that the Arabs gave up some land which they had occupied for centuries to provide at least a measure of settlement. I suggest that this partial settlement, whereby land was provided for the present state of Israel was a great relief to the conscience of the whole world because of the persecution of the Jewish people over the centuries. I think that because of that we owe a great debt to the Arabs and especially to the refugees.\n[DOT] (9:10 p.m.)\nI suggest that long term aid for the rehabilitation of refugees as well as to enhance the living standards of the area cannot be postponed again. The United Nations was able to buy …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1967/06/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical persecution of Jewish people and current situation without condemning, naming, or blaming any specific actor for hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-233", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-12-09", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… rred to as the never again treaty, to prevent and protect against this most unthinkable and unspeakable of crimes.\nRegrettably, and incredibly, genocide became the paradigmatic form of armed conflict in the 1990s, including the advocacy and perpetration of genocide in the Balkans and Rwanda.\nThe enduring lesson of the Holocaust is that Nazism succeeded not only because of the industry of death but because of the ideology of hate. It was this teaching of contempt, this demonizing of the other, this is where it all began.\nFifty years later we have witnessed an appalling trafficking in state sanctioned hate, which led us down the road to the unthinkable, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the unspeakable, the preventable genocide in Rwanda, and the demonizing, once again, of the Jews.\nWhat is needed at this point is a strategy of prevention, a culture of human rights in place of a culture of hate; a culture of respect in place of a culture of contempt, of respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, and the equal dignity of all persons everywhere."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/12/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/12/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the demonizing of Jews and the ideology of hate without naming specific perpetrators, framing it as part of a broader pattern of hatred and genocide that needs prevention through human rights culture."}, {"id": "house-234", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-05-21", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, as we all know, the Internet is continuing its exponential growth and its impact on all facets of our economic and social activities.\nThe Simon Wiesenthal Centre is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. It is providing a crucial contribution to our knowledge of Internet use through its evaluation of hi-tech hate with its Digital Hate 2002 program. Digital Hate 2002 examines all varieties of the online content of hate. This includes games that promote racism to the online recruitment and validation of suicide bombings.\nResearchers at Canada's Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies have contributed by tracking the significant and troubling contributions of Canadian origin to this worldwide phenomenon.\nI urge all members of the House as well as all other Canadians to familiarize themselves with this unique and vital tool in the fight against the promotion of hatred, terror and racism on t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/05/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/05/21/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Digital Hate 2002 program and its findings about online hate content without taking a position on specific hostility toward Jews or naming responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-235", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-18", "speaker": "Larry Spencer", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… oo far. I believe that is stretching the term educational too far. I believe it is stretching artistic merit too far. I would ask the judge, and I would ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether there would be, for instance, any artistic merit in a sign being carried by a demonstrator on the front lawn of parliament that promoted hate toward, let us say, Muslims, Jews, parliamentarians? If the sign being carried promoted the aspect of killing, hating, wounding or abusing other members of society would the judge say that it was such a beautiful sign, done in such magnificent colours, that it was the most beautiful, colourful sign he or she had ever seen, and that it had such artisti …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate speech and discrimination toward Jews (and Muslims and parliamentarians) without naming who is responsible for such hatred or accusing a specific entity of promoting it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-236", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-08", "speaker": "Alexa McDonough", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the point is that prayer alone is not enough, that goodwill is not enough. What is happening here at home is also totally unacceptable: the harassment of Canadian Arabs and Canadian Jews, attacks on their mosques and their synagogues, the religious institutions of their communities.\nI want to ask the minister a very direct question. Has the Canadian government invited representatives of the Canadian Islamic and the Canadian Jewish communities to come together in an attempt to launch dialogue, to increase understanding, to build bridges and to work …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/08/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Halifax", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Public Safety Act, 2002", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes harassment of Canadian Jews, attacks on synagogues as 'totally unacceptable' without naming specific perpetrators, then calls for dialogue and bridge-building"}, {"id": "house-237", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-19", "speaker": "Mac Harb", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in the aftermath of September 11, Canadians banded together to implore their fellow citizens to refrain from committing acts of violence against members of the Muslim community. Six months later, I am saddened that I must rise again to condemn recent acts of hatred against members of both the Muslim and Jewish communities across Canada and in my own riding.\nThese deplorable acts undermine our national values of tolerance and understanding. Canada is known throughout the world as a place where people of diverse backgrounds coexist peacefully and indeed are enriched by the varied cultures which surround them.\nCanadians must s …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/19/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'I must rise again to condemn recent acts of hatred against members of both the Muslim and Jewish communities' and calls these acts 'deplorable' that 'undermine our national values.'"}, {"id": "house-238", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-19", "speaker": "Marlene Catterall", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today with profound sadness to condemn recent acts of vandalism and hatred against Jews in Ottawa. Hate messages on Temple Israel, on a community centre and on a shopping mall reflect an ugly side of our community that we must not tolerate.\nWhether it is the desecration of a synagogue, a mosque, a church or a temple we must speak out against the hatred that motivates the cowardly goons who perpetrate such crimes. It is a short step from a spray can of paint to the intimidation of children, the persecution of whole segments of our society or even more violent ways of expressing hatred.\nSuch actions are a betrayal of our most cherished value of pride in the diversity …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'I rise today with profound sadness to condemn recent acts of vandalism and hatred against Jews' and states 'we must not tolerate' such actions, without naming specific perpetrators or blaming others for enabling it."}, {"id": "house-239", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-12", "speaker": "Mac Harb", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… people to live in harmony, safety and security. The continuation of violence and terror can only result in the loss of more innocent lives.\nWe are fortunate in Canada to live in a society that protects the rights of individuals to live without discrimination based on religion or place of origin. I deplore the acts of hate against Muslim institutions after September 11. I also deplore the recent acts of hate against the Jewish community centre and temple in my community. These types of acts are meant to undermine our Canadian values.\nI call on all community and spiritual leaders and on our law enforcement officers to be proactive and vigilant. I join with my colleagues in calling for an immediate ceasefire and a resumption of peace talks in …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/12/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly deplores hate acts against Jewish institutions and characterizes them as undermining Canadian values, without naming specific perpetrators or groups responsible."}, {"id": "house-240", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Bill Graham", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… re have been firings across the blue line. We have asked Lebanon and Syria to recognize the dangers of the situation and exercise maximum restraint.\nThe situation in the Middle East naturally raises intense emotions here at home. However none in the House can ignore the despicable actions of those who have seen fit to desecrate Jewish sites in our country recently. As we reflected the other day on Holocaust Memorial Day, any manifestation of this type of hatred is unacceptable to us in Canada. I know hon. members will join me in deploring and condemning unequivocally these callous and un-Canadian acts.\nI have the privilege of being in touch with both the Jewish and Palestinian communities in Canada as well as many of our own NGOs to discuss the situation in the Middle East. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Rosedale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Graham", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker unequivocally deplores and condemns the desecration of Jewish sites and describes such actions as despicable and unacceptable, without naming specific individuals or groups responsible."}, {"id": "house-241", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Alexa McDonough", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… g visited upon innocent children, women and men in the Middle East.\nWe are witnessing a terrifying escalating spiral of attack and retaliation, a vortex of violence that draws its destructive strength from events of today, of last week, of the last century, and indeed of previous millennia.\nWho are the victims of this violence? Let me say clearly at the outset, there is no gain in judging history by the body count. Our sisters and brothers in the Middle East, be they Jewish, Muslim or Christian, whatever their ethnicity or nationality do not deserve to live their lives under threat or lose their lives to violence, whether that threat comes from Apache helicopters and military tanks, from fanatics with explosives strapped to their bodies or from talk of peace being achievable only by one side exterminating the other.\nPeace requires courage. In recent memory we have seen that courage in the heavy price paid by those who have dared to take a stand fo …", "… n terrorists struck in the United States. This has also played out in smaller ways in cities and towns across our country.\nNew Democrats have persistently called for recognition of despicable acts of hatred directed at visible minorities. We have called on the government to address the environment that is resulting in attacks against houses of worship for example. In the immediate aftermath of September 11, a mosque was firebombed in Montreal. This week we learned of arson at a synagogue in Saskatoon.\nThere is another family that must be heard in this crisis. That is the family of nations. In the international community today there is almost total consensus on urgent immediate steps that must be taken to move from death and destruction to dialogue and genuine human development.\nIn the words of Anna Li …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Halifax", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Public Safety Act, 2002", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to attacks on houses of worship including the synagogue arson in Saskatoon, calling such acts 'despicable acts of hatred' without naming a specific actor as responsible"}, {"id": "house-242", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Svend Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… speaking out. I want to pay tribute tonight to those who in Israel and in the occupied territories have given me hope. I speak here of Canadians like Kevin Neish who is there in solidarity in a refugee camp in Bethlehem, volunteers from Oxfam Quebec, or those that I met with in Tel Aviv, 15,000 Israeli people, mainly Jews, rallying on Saturday night against Sharon's war.\nThe war widows, who for the first time have spoken out, said “No more”. They said “In these days of blood, violence and destruction, when women from both sides are widowed and children are orphaned, we call for an end to the cycle of bereavement. The control over another people is leading to unnecessary casualties on both sides and endangering our lives and the moral fabric of Israeli society”. They talked of the control.\nWe must r …", "… must immediately withdraw. There must be emergency humanitarian relief. We have to consider, if the situation deteriorates, the possibility of re-evaluating our relations, both economic and diplomatic, with Israel.\nI know my time is limited. I want to conclude by saying that certainly we in Canada condemn any acts of racism, of violence, the attack on a synagogue in Saskatoon for example.\nI have been accused of taking sides in this tragic dispute. I want to say yes, I plead guilty. I have taken sides. I take the side of life over death. I take the side of peace over war. I take the side of the oppressed over the oppressor. I take the side of justice over dehumanization and tyr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby--Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway, N.D.P.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'we in Canada condemn any acts of racism, of violence, the attack on a synagogue in Saskatoon' - directly condemning hostility toward Jews without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-243", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Joe Comartin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ian administration and some of the other Arab governments in the Middle East. She also reflected on the outright discrimination and the attacks that she has faced at times.\nThat is a bit of a microcosm of what happens in Canada. I have seen it happen in the last few weeks to those of us who have spoken out against the violence on both sides and then have been attacked by the other side. That is not acceptable in Canada.\nTherefore, I try to reach out this evening to both the Jewish and Arab communities in Canada to tell them to strive for what is best in Canada as far as democratic discourse. Both those communities have a responsibility in Canada to provide leadership but also to reach out with a sense of co-operation to the other community to try to take a message back to the Middle East, back …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Windsor--Tecumseh", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Windsor—Tecumseh, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination and attacks against someone (implied to be Jewish based on context), stating 'That is not acceptable in Canada' and calling for responsible democratic discourse."}, {"id": "house-244", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "James Lunney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… over, the day on which Jewish people gather to celebrate their deliverance from bondage in Egypt, as we read in the Bible, a suicide bomber blew them up. These are horrible things to contemplate.\nI did not hear it tonight but it was also shocking to hear on the news just recently that during passover the ancient blood libel was still being perpetrated by some haters of Israel. Some Jewish members in the House tonight talked how they gather in their homes with their families during passover to remember events and to celebrate the season. I find it outrageous that others would portray this celebration as one where Jewish people actually kill the children of Christians or Muslims and drink their blood. It is outrageous to think that this kind of blood libel is still being spread, as it has been recently in the press, by some who have chosen to make enemies and will not be placated. This kind of hatred is hard to understand.\nWe heard reference to many of the leaders involved in this dispute, which has gone on for so many years, and references to Mr. Sharon, the prime mini …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to suicide bombing targeting Jews during Passover, calls blood libel 'outrageous' and 'horrible,' and describes the hatred as difficult to understand, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-245", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "John McKay", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… efing, sounded exactly the same. Then at some mysterious point the briefing went 180 degrees in the opposite direction. One wondered whether they were talking about the same conflict.\nTwo issues seem to preclude peace in the short and medium term. The first is the persistent indoctrination of Palestinian children that Jews are inherently evil. We were provided with documentation that showed Jews in a racist light. It was part of the school curriculum. It is pretty hard to see how peace will emerge from systemic hatred where children are taught to hate.\nThe second issue was Jewish settlements on disputed lands. There can be no more visible symbol of one's impotence than living in a refugee camp in a valley and looking up at one's ancestral home being bulldozed and replaced by a modern subdivision and occupied by people from California or wherever.\nThe settlers we talked to were not interested i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — International Cooperation", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names Palestinian authorities/system as responsible for 'persistent indoctrination of Palestinian children that Jews are inherently evil' and describes this as 'systemic hatred' in school curriculum."}, {"id": "house-246", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Stéphane Bergeron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… er in their own country, provided, of course, that they have the right permit. This is why most Palestinians cannot visit Islam's third holy site, Haram as-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, in Jerusalem, while tourists from around the world can visit it freely.\nI also saw Israel, a constitutional state, a modern democracy, discriminate against its own citizens. While military service is mandatory for Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, with a few exceptions, are officially prohibited.\nI was also disheartened to see that a people who have faced so many challenges in building their own state could turn such a blind eye to the most basic aspirations and misfortunes of the Palestinians. If there is one people that should understand bette …", "… acabre round of attacks with a vengeance, thus setting themselves up for increasingly brutal military reprisals. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”, said Moses. This seems to have become “eyes for an eye, and teeth for a tooth”.\nIsrael's customary promptness in protesting vigorously any Palestinian terrorist attack contrasts sharply with the apparent indifference and apathy shown by the Israeli authorities following a bomb attack by an extremist Jewish group in the yard of an Arab school in East Jerusalem. What was the Jewish state's response in this case? “Anti-terrorist terrorism”, coldly concluded the Israeli authorities. Israel has imperturbably pursued its punitive operations in the occupied territories.\nBut the worst thing of all in this whole business is that Israel's policy has the effect of violating, one after another, all the pr …", "… y to counter this wave of intolerance that seemed to associate Islam and Arab communities with terrorism, a simple but inappropriate association that had to be denounced.\nSimilarly, some people seem to want to transpose in our communities the conflict that exists in the Middle East. We were dumbfounded as we witnessed hate motivated acts against the Jewish community and we must denounce these acts with the same energy.\nTherefore, we must expect this government to take measures to prevent, as much as possible, similar acts from being committed in our communities.\nIn these circumstances, I will conclude by saying that only an unconditional return to the negotiating table …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montarville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Montarville, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Situation in the Middle East", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker denounces 'hate motivated acts against the Jewish community' and states 'we must denounce these' without naming specific perpetrators or accusing a particular party of responsibility for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-247", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… he Middle East. This conflict has spanned some six decades and taken or destroyed the lives of many thousands of mostly innocent people from both communities, people who are simply trying to live normal lives in very abnormal circumstances.\nThere are some commonly accepted reasons that explain how the ongoing cycle of violence began and why it continues today. From the perspective of the Israelis, for whom the spectre of the Holocaust and hostile Arab armies bent on their destruction lies within living memory, this conflict represents a struggle to survive.\nDespite their military power they still feel isolated, vulnerable and surrounded by a sea of enemies. Terrorist attacks on Israel harden the hearts of those who want peace now and strengthen the …", "… g to defuse the Suez crisis. Ironically, Hungary is free and at peace while the Middle East conflict once again threatens world peace.\nIt is ironic that I who was a ten year old Hungarian boy at the time of the Hungarian revolution and the Suez crisis in 1956, one who became one of 200,000 refugees, one who lived in a Jewish refugee camp in Austria, now as a Canadian member of parliament partake in this debate on a Middle East crisis that once again threatens the peace of the world.\nI fully support the idea that there should be an immediate resolution to the Middle East conflict and note that Canada has publicly called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian controlled areas viewing these actions as helpful to the peace process. We have also called f …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the conflict, its origins, and perspectives from both sides without condemning hostility toward Jews or naming/blaming specific parties for it. The passage presents context and positions neutrally."}, {"id": "house-248", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-11", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… an extremely negative reaction for suggesting that civilian casualties regardless of their cause were equally reprehensible. In other words, making no distinction between civilians tragically killed as bystanders in the course of defensive military operations and civilians deliberately targeted and killed in terrorist attacks.\nUnderstandably, members of the Canadian Jewish community, people who know personally many of those innocent Israeli civilians under daily threat from suicide bombers, snipers and rocket attacks, were extremely upset by these remarks. Only a few days later there was a vivid illustration of the folly of the minister's remarks. On the evening of March 9, as Israelis came out onto the streets after the Sabbath, yet another horrifying suicide attack killed 11 Israelis in a Jerusalem cafe one block from the prime …", "… have endorsed. It is led by the United States. That has not been criticized by the government as moral equivalence.\nIn closing, I would like to quote Frank Dimant of B'nai Brith Canada when he said last week:\n\nIt is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a double standard in the war on terror. When Americans are attacked, Canada supports and even participates in an unremitting campaign to eradicate the terror.... When Jews are attacked, when every day brings another suicide bomber--"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/04/11/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker attributes responsibility for hostile treatment of Israel/Jews to the minister by name, saying the minister made remarks that applied 'moral equivalence' and failed to distinguish between terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians and defensive military operations."}, {"id": "house-249", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-06-11", "speaker": "Raymonde Folco", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ns in our City and throughout Canada in the recent past and we consider any such act to be an assault upon all of us.\nWe urge that all people manifest a tangible and meaningful respect for each other, and to eject and repel any attempts to vilification of other individuals or groups.\n\nRecently, Canadians of Muslim and Jewish faiths were the target of racist acts and events. This is an important initiative by the religious leaders of three communities as a show of trust and solidarity toward their fellow citizens."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/06/11/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Laval West", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Raymonde Folco (Laval West, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Racism", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to racist acts and vilification targeting Jewish people, calling such acts 'an assault upon all of us' without naming specific perpetrators or parties responsible."}, {"id": "house-250", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-11-07", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… be one of those 20%. The practice we had in the country at that time was that if one was injured fighting overseas for Canada, then came back to this country and required relief and hospitalization, one could be deported. Surely we all recognize that this history has to be addressed.\nDuring the second world war we had racist policies. The SS St. Louis , a ship full of Jews, travelled from Cuba to South America and past the coast of the United States and Canada. They were seeking refuge for almost 1,000 Jews who were fleeing wartorn Europe and persecution in Germany. What did we do? We turned them all down: the Americans, Cubans, South Americans and Canadians. We forced that ship to go back to Europe where many of those Jews perished in the gas chambers.\nI bring that up because we also had a policy of “none is too many” for the Jews at the turn of the second world war. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/11/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2002/11/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's rejection of Jewish refugees and discriminatory immigration policies as historical wrongs that 'have to be addressed,' conveying disapproval without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "house-251", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-12-06", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… iscrimination in Canada. First nations are an example. It was not until the sixties and seventies that they were allowed to even vote, to have the franchise. We know what happened to Canadians of Chinese and Asian origin. We know about the people from the Ukraine, people who were interned. We know what happened to the Jews and the policy of none was too many. We had a blatant racist immigration policy. \nIt was all these things put together that resulted in Canada's recognition of the fact that we are a collection of minorities. There is no majority in our country. It was at that time when there was the realization that if one minority's right could be attacked one day, another minority's right co …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/12/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/12/06/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews ('what happened to the Jews and the policy of none was too many') as part of listing Canada's past discriminatory policies, without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming anyone for inaction, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "house-252", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-05-19", "speaker": "Karen Redman", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canadians are shocked and appalled to hear reports today that indicate Iran is about to pass a law requiring non-Muslims to wear coloured badges identifying their religious beliefs. Jews would have to sew yellow strips of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges. This kind of state-run bigotry is both disgusting and frightening to Canadians and all citizens of the world who believe in tolerance and religious freedom.\nWhat steps is the government taking to protest the actions of this rogue state?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/05/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/05/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names Iran as the responsible party for the hostile action (passing a law requiring Jews to wear identifying badges), calling it 'state-run bigotry' and a 'rogue state.'"}, {"id": "house-253", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-11-02", "speaker": "Rob Nicholson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e Ukraine in the early 1930s, killing over seven million people. Stalin systematically killed kulak farmers in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Over one million of them were killed. There was the near complete ethnic cleansing of the population of the Crimean Tartars by murder and exile to Siberia. There were the multiple pogroms targeting Jews.\nTo use that term I think is unfortunate and I would ask the hon. member to withdraw that term and apologize, both to the Minister of Agriculture and to all the victims of that terrible time."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/11/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2006/11/02/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Niagara Falls", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "history", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker objects to calling something a 'pogrom' (characterizing hostility toward Jews) and asks for withdrawal of that term, arguing its use is 'unfortunate.'"}, {"id": "house-254", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-02-13", "speaker": "Norman Jaques", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["He represents those political Zionists who propagate hatred such as I have witnessed of Americans against the British in order to enforce their claims for the setting up of a Jewish state in Palestine. The best defence for Canada and for world peace would be to present a united front against the forces of totalitarianism."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/02/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/02/13/", "party": "Social Credit", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "WAR APPROPRIATION BILL — DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly identifies 'political Zionists' as propagating hatred and connects them to enforcing claims for a Jewish state in Palestine, making a specific group responsible for the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-255", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-02-04", "speaker": "Alistair McLeod Stewart", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… our designed to break the labour market. What I ask for as a policy, and what I would agree with to a considerable extent, are the submissions made by both labour congresses. But above all, let me remind the minister again that any policy which brands an immigrant from the Ukraine or Poland- as non-preferred and which discriminates against him, or any policy which excludes Jews because of their religion, should be immediately rescinded in the name of democracy and in the name of decency."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/02/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/02/04/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OP DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to policies that discriminate against Jews because of their religion, calling for such policies to be 'immediately rescinded in the name of democracy and in the name of decency' without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-256", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-05-19", "speaker": "Eugène Marquis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to true freedom?\nTherefore, it is necessary to distinguish as between freedom of worship and the antisocial and anti-religious propaganda of certain sects whose tracts are filled with libels and blasphemies. Those anarchists demand freedom of religion but at the same time they defy the divine and human laws and spread hatred against the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religions. Far from being advocates of true liberty, they are the fanatical partisans of licence and anarchy. I do not agree \nwith the hon. member for Lake Centre (Mr. Hiefenbaker) and the hon. member for Winnipeg North Centre (Mr. Knowles)-what a strange combination-in regard to the meaning of freedom of worship.\nJeh …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies 'certain sects' and 'anarchists' as responsible for spreading hatred against Jewish religions, libels, and blasphemies."}, {"id": "house-257", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-05-05", "speaker": "James Allison Glen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ar the mandate was extended to include additional displaced persons; persons who, as a result of the action of the nazi or fascist regimes, were deported from or obliged to leave their country of nationality or former residence for forced labour or other causes; persons who have resided in Germany or Austria, being of Jewish origin, or foreigners or stateless persons victims of nazi persecution. The mandate does not include nationals of enemy countries, volkdeutsche, prisoners of war in allied hands, war criminals, traitors, persons who have assisted enemy forces, and those who fled into Germany to avoid falling into allied hands.\nThe hon. gentleman asked, why not set up immigration offices in Germany, Austr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/05/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical displacement and persecution of Jews by Nazi and fascist regimes without taking a position on the hostility itself - it simply states factual criteria for displaced persons mandates."}, {"id": "house-258", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-05-15", "speaker": "Alistair McLeod Stewart", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… he publication in Vers Demain, organ of the Social Credit party in this province, of that spurious calumny of the Jews known as the \"Protocols of Zion.\" This fantastic forgery, long known to all serious students as false, contains all sorts of nonsensical \"revelations\" of non-existent \"plots.\" It is a vulgar and crude libel of our Jewish brethern which is capable of causing great harm among prejudiced or uncritical readers.\nBut still the attention of the executive of Quebec is centred on the Witnesses of\n\nHuman Rights\nJehovah. Here I should like to quote from the remarks of Mr. Justice Jackson in the Supreme Court of the United States when the case of the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses came before that court. He sai …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/05/15/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OP DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker calls the Protocols a 'spurious calumny,' 'fantastic forgery,' 'vulgar and crude libel' and warns it can cause harm, without naming a specific person/party as responsible but objecting to the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-259", "year": 1947, "chamber": "house", "date": "1947-06-05", "speaker": "", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in my hand a copy of the Ottawa Citizen of this morning, which contains under the heading, \"Charges R.C.M.P. With Inciting to Break Law,\" a report of a meeting that was held by the Ottawa Civil Liberties Association in this city last night, at which the hon. member for Spadina (Mr. Croll) is reported to have discussed racial prejudice. In the course of his discussion he is reported to have said:\nThere had been a number of discriminatory acts against Jews, Negroes, Japanese and Chinese in Canada recently. \"These were isolated incidents but they point to a trend that is working against our fundamental freedoms.\"\nThese acts occurred all across Canada, even in Alberta which has a bill of rights containing \"all the rights one could possibly think of.\" \"There they have anot …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/06/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1947/06/05/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a newspaper report of another person's (Mr. Croll's) discussion of discriminatory acts against Jews and other groups, presenting the information without expressing personal condemnation, blame, or dispute."}, {"id": "house-260", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-12-04", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Hanukkah, la Fête de la Liberté, la Fête des lumières, la Fête de l'espoir, is important not only for the Jewish people but has universal resonance.\nFirst, Hanukkah signifies the importance of religious liberty in general and freedom from religious persecution in particular, for the oppressors of the day sought not only to discriminate against Jews but to extinguish the Jewish religion.\nSecond, Hanukkah, as the festival of lights, is the victory of the forces of light over the forces of darkness, of the rights of minorities everywhere, indeed, peoples everywhere, to live in peace and dignity.\nThird, Hanukkah is a holiday of hope, that those who persevere in the struggle for human rights wil …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/12/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/12/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews (discrimination and attempted extinguishment of Jewish religion) as context for explaining Hanukkah's significance, without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on contemporary hostility."}, {"id": "house-261", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-05-16", "speaker": "Pierre Lemieux", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have a petition, initiated by the Calgary Jewish Community Council, that I would like to table in the House. There are over 300 signatures on it.\nIt concerns Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government. They have campaigned to delegitimize the State of Israel by among other means Holocaust denial and to incite citizens of Iran and other countries to hate Israeli Jewish citizens. The Iranian government has also given substantial material support, funding and training to organizations recognized by Canada as terrorist organizations for the purpose of terrorizing and killing Israelis.\nThe Government of Iran and its President Ahmadinejad have publicly and repeatedly called for the destr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/05/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/05/16/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Glengarry--Prescott--Russell", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions — Iran", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian government as responsible for hostility toward Jews, specifically through Holocaust denial, incitement to hate Israeli Jewish citizens, and support for terrorist organizations targeting Israelis."}, {"id": "house-262", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-03-27", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to express my disappointment, disappointment because the government forgot Canada's most vulnerable communities in its budget.\nSome Canadian communities face a disproportionate risk of being attacked by terrorist organizations or racist groups. For example, every synagogue, community centre, Jewish school and community festival requires continual security presence. Mosques and gurdwaras have been targeted. \nThe financial implications of this unprecedented level of security are great and the federal government's first priority is to protect Canadians. Members on our side have called on the government to establish …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/03/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/03/27/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses disappointment at government failure to address security needs of Jewish communities facing terrorist and racist attacks, without naming specific perpetrators but objecting to the hostile threat environment.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-263", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-04-19", "speaker": "Omar Alghabra", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on all parliamentarians to join me in condemning all forms of hate speech. Unfortunately, occasionally we see hate and intolerance rear its ugly head among us. \nOn April 4 a small explosion outside a Jewish community centre in Montreal sent a chill as many Canadians celebrated Passover. Last week Professor Muriel Walker of McMaster University had hateful and racist slurs painted on her office door because she promoted understanding about Muslim Canadians. These acts of cowardice and hate disgust all Canadians. \nAs we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the charter, I am proud that our laws and institutions stand firm against hate. Today my colleague from Etobicoke Centre will be t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/04/19/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly condemns hate speech and calls on parliamentarians to join in condemning it; describes the explosion outside the Jewish community centre as an act of hate and cowardice that 'disgust all Canadians'"}, {"id": "house-264", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-04-30", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… at if there were a dispute with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that the decision should be made by Parliament.\nThat is a dangerous statement to make when we look at the history of this country and its abuse of minority rights. We have had many abuses, and the member referred to a number of them, such as the Asian Exclusion Act, the Chinese head tax, the internment of Ukrainians, the policy of none-is-too-many for the Jews and a racial discrimination policy for immigration. \nThe point is that the Constitution of Canada is very clear. It says that the Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada and any law that is inconsistent with the provision of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency is of no force or effect. That is section 52 of the Co …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/04/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker cites 'the policy of none-is-too-many for the Jews' as a historical example of abuse of minority rights, without expressing approval or disapproval of that policy itself. The passage describes the historical incident without evaluating the hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-265", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-11-19", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… serving with the Canadian armed forces during the second world war while another uncle was interned and in detention during the second world war. I can tell members that my colleague was highly emotional about it. \nOf course, we had the internment of Japanese Canadians. We had the policy of “none is too many” for the Jews. We had the turning away of SS St. Louis. We had a racist immigration policy until 1977.\nSo when I talk about the importance of this debate and what the charter represents, it is important to look at the history. It is because of all those injustices that I believe the Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into play and was enacted by the House.\n It was a recognition that Cana …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/11/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2007/11/19/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's historical hostility toward Jews ('none is too many' policy, SS St. Louis rejection) as injustices without naming specific individuals/parties responsible, and frames the Charter as a corrective response to these wrongs.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-266", "year": 1965, "chamber": "house", "date": "1965-05-11", "speaker": "Harold Edward Winch", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Yesterday I asked the acting, and the acting, acting, acting Postmaster General a question relative to the distribution from Vancouver, B.C. and Gooderham,\nMay 11, 1965\n\nInquiries of the Ministry Ontario, post offices of hate literature, and in particular anti-Jewish pamphlets and literature. The Prime Minister was kind enough finally to state that the matter would be investigated. However, Sir, in the past 24 hours Members of the House of Commons have received through the mail, from the same address in Vancouver, hate literature more vicious, more damning, more anti-Canadian than even that which I was able to produce for the Postmaster General yesterday afternoon.\nIn view of the fact that this abuse is now being extended to Members of the House of Commons, who are receiving most vicious hate literature attacking the Jewish people, I would ask whether we can have a reply from the Postmaster General, who I know has already been looking into it this morning, and whether this abuse of mailing privileges will be stopped. I would ask the Postmaster General whether there is any way in which the Government can bring to a halt this un-Canadian, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/05/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/05/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific source (an address in Vancouver) responsible for distributing anti-Jewish hate literature and pamphlets, and calls for the Postmaster General to stop this abuse of mailing privileges."}, {"id": "house-267", "year": 1965, "chamber": "house", "date": "1965-05-11", "speaker": "Harold Edward Winch", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… mons get this type of literature about one of the most respected men in Canada-I repeat, one of the most respected men in Canada- and I refer to Rabbi Feinberg of Toronto, which says:\nThe Red Rabbi.\nThe startling story of Abraham Feinberg, arch anti-Christian, master pro-Communist and leading \"ban the bomber\".\nThe Red Rabbi is a sensational new booklet by David Stanley, unmasking Canada's number one fellow traveller and Jewish racist.\nDevastating revelations. Red subversion uncovered. Damning facts exposed. The whole ugly truth.\nIf that is not sufficient evidence, plus the newspaper which says that some of the greatest men in the world are conspiring for the establishment of Red dictatorship, just how much more is required before action can be tak …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/05/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/05/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hostile literature describing a respected Jewish rabbi with inflammatory language ('Red Rabbi,' 'Jewish racist,' 'arch anti-Christian'), calling it evidence requiring action without naming who produced it as responsible."}, {"id": "house-268", "year": 1965, "chamber": "house", "date": "1965-04-06", "speaker": "Robert Norman Thompson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… those of the C.B.C., he wonders whether or not the policy makers of this continent are Walter Lippmann and James M. Minifie, with a few echoes being carried on this side of the border by the leader of the New Democratic party, the hon. member for Burnaby-Coquitlam (Mr. Douglas).\nWhy do we not hear complaints about the persecution of the Jews in Russia? Why do not the peace marchers protest the murder of tens of thousands of Viet Nam villagers by the Viet Cong? Why have we not heard protests through the news media about the tens of thousands of Congolese villagers who have been murdered by rebel forces which receive the encouragement of communist nations? …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/04/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1965/04/06/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker raises rhetorical questions about lack of media coverage of persecution of Jews in Russia, but does not condemn the persecution itself, name responsible parties, or take a clear position on the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-269", "year": 1961, "chamber": "house", "date": "1961-09-12", "speaker": "Richard Albert Bell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["May X ask the leave of the committee to revert to clause 33. The members of the committee will remember at the meeting of Friday, April 21, that there was presented to us a letter from the Canadian Jewish Congress in which they asked that there be inserted in the Civil Service Act a non-discrimination clause. That matter has had some consideration especially as to where, if such a clause were to be placed in the act, it should be placed. The advice of the draftsman is that if such a clause is to be inserted that it be inserted in clause 33.\nThe committee accepted an amendment in these words:\nThe commission may in r …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1961/09/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1961/09/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a letter from the Canadian Jewish Congress requesting a non-discrimination clause and explains where it should be placed, without taking a position on the hostility itself or attributing responsibility to anyone."}, {"id": "house-270", "year": 1961, "chamber": "house", "date": "1961-01-23", "speaker": "Grant Campbell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… 5, our French Canadians in 1759, our United Empire Loyalists in 1776, all went through the traumatic experience of defeat. These are the original and perhaps most significant groups that make up the mosaic of Canada. The others who came to Canada in later years were refugees in one sense or another from famine, war or persecution. The Irish came and later the Jewish people and then came others from many countries in Europe especially in the years following the last two wars. They came to our shores in search of peace, freedom and security.\nThis is the one thing we have in common, the one thing all Canadians share. Born of this is something else we all share, the determination tha …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1961/01/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1961/01/23/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Jewish people coming to Canada as refugees from persecution, but does not comment on, condemn, or take a position regarding that persecution."}, {"id": "house-271", "year": 1953, "chamber": "house", "date": "1953-02-12", "speaker": "Donald Methuen Fleming", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… at what we see unfolding today is a world plan. Lightning may be striking in different parts of the world, but when the lightning of communism strikes today it is part of a world-wide plan, whether it be armed aggression in Korea; armed aggression in Indo-China, Burma, Malaya; the cold war in other parts of the world; persecution of Jewish leaders in the European countries behind the iron curtain, or the severing of diplomatic relations with the state of Israel with a view to stirring up trouble in the Arab world. These are all facets of the unfolding world plan of aggression directed from the Kremlin.\nOf course the advantage of a single direction of a …", "… n average of about 45 to 50 of these police from the eastern side of Berlin are escaping every day over to the western sector, quite apart from that stream of escapees that is going on all the time, and now in increasing volume, from eastern Berlin and eastern Germany into the western sector of Berlin as the communist persecution of the Jewish population becomes daily more acute. When they reach western Berlin of course their only means of escaping further to western Germany-for after all Berlin is a hundred miles or more from the nearest point of the western zones of occupation in Germany-is by air.\nSir, may I say something of France. Whatever else may be …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/02/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/02/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes persecution of Jewish leaders and population to communist regimes ('persecution of Jewish leaders in the European countries behind the iron curtain' and 'communist persecution of the Jewish population'), naming communism and the Kremlin as responsible for this hostility."}, {"id": "house-272", "year": 1953, "chamber": "house", "date": "1953-02-13", "speaker": "William Joseph Browne", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… n on that? I am sorry he cannot give us the answer at this time.\nHowever, I think we can point out that there is a feud between the Arab states and Israel. Which side are we on? Are we with the Arab states or are we with Israel? During the past month or so Soviet Russia has left no doubt where it stands because of its persecution of the Jews, even to the extent of arresting nine Jewish doctors in Russia and accusing them of having poisoned leaders of the Soviet government. Then there is the persecution of Jews in the satellite countries, and now we have the breaking of diplomatic relations. There is a feud between the Arab nations and Israel and Russia hopes to profit thereby and gain the support of the Moslem world.\nI do not know where we are going to get support in the Moslem world. From the accounts I get the English do …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/02/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/02/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Soviet Russia as responsible for persecution of Jews, specifically citing arrests of Jewish doctors and accusing them of poisoning. Also names satellite countries as persecuting Jews."}, {"id": "house-273", "year": 1953, "chamber": "house", "date": "1953-04-13", "speaker": "Angus MacInnis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… with a high school principal. He said, \"We have no / difficulty at all with the race question in this7 school. There is no feeling in the matter on the part of the pupils. It is only after they have been in the universities and are approaching graduation, and are beginning to look for jobs, that they notice someone is Jewish, that someone else is Japanese or someone else is of some other nationality.\" The feeling of prejudice, the intolerance between one racial group and another, is the result of ignorance and a lack of understanding of our common origin, intensified by! economic circumstances.\n\n\nI believe I should know as much as anyone about racial prejudice, because I suppose no people in the world were more intolerant not only of other races but of dif …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/04/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1953/04/13/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "QUESTION AS TO PRICES AND QUANTITIES SOLD SINCE AUGUST 1 — EXTERNAL AFFAIRS", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a principal's account of prejudice and then offers an analytical explanation about the origins of racial prejudice (ignorance, lack of understanding, economic circumstances) without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any specific instance or actor regarding hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-274", "year": 1940, "chamber": "house", "date": "1940-11-21", "speaker": "", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tling successes in Europe which he has achieved during the past few months. Those two weapons are ruthlessness and treachery.\nFirst, there was ruthlessness, deliberately planned to create fear and to turn the blood of strong men into water. Cast your mind back, Mr. Speaker, to what he did in his own country, the cruel persecution of the Jews in Germany, the persecution and devastation of the Catholic church and all its orders and institutions, the murder of Dollfus, the purge or \"blood bath\" as it was called on June 30, 1934, when he murdered 1,200 of his former friends through his gestapo, one of them being Roehm, his chief of staff, the man who had built up the force of storm troo …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1940/11/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1940/11/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical events including persecution of Jews in Germany without taking a position on the hostility itself; presenting facts as part of a broader catalog of atrocities by a foreign leader."}, {"id": "house-275", "year": 1940, "chamber": "house", "date": "1940-11-26", "speaker": "Douglas Charles Abbott", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ous results of inflationary finance is the fact that those who have to bear the heaviest burden are impoverished, and quite naturally as a result they entertain serious and dangerous feelings\n\nof grievance. I do not think it is unfair to say that the rise of the nazi regime in Germany was due, in part at least, to the violent hatred engendered among large classes of the population against the Jews who were alleged to have been the profiteers of the German inflationary period. It is interesting in passing to note that the nazis are using an inflationary technique in the occupied countries of Europe. Instead of carrying on the outright theft of foodstuffs and raw materials which they find in these countries, they …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1940/11/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1940/11/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical Nazi hostility toward Jews as resulting from economic grievance during German inflation, presenting this as a causal explanation without condemning the hostility itself or taking a clear moral position on it."}, {"id": "house-276", "year": 1928, "chamber": "house", "date": "1928-05-31", "speaker": "Milton Neil Campbell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ir programs. Perhaps if certain adjustments had been made by the * department these complaints would have been entirely eliminated.\nThere has been discrimination against a certain religious sect. I am not holding a brief for the Bible students' association; I would be just as ready to take the stand I am taking if the discrimination was being made against the Roman Catholic church, the Anglican church, a Jewish synagogue, the Baptist or United church, or any other religious body. If I were a member of the Bible students' association I think I would rather welcome the action of the government. The minister and his colleagues know very well that intolerance and oppression are the very things which have lifted the Christian church up. Pe …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/31/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/31/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against religious groups including Jewish synagogues, stating they would oppose such discrimination regardless of which religious body it targets. No specific actor is named as responsible."}, {"id": "house-277", "year": 1928, "chamber": "house", "date": "1928-05-29", "speaker": "Hugh Guthrie", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["I have another matter to bring to the notice of the Prime Minister. Complaints have been received by the leader of the opposition and no doubt by the Prime Minister himself from various cities in Canada where there is a more or less extensive Jewish population, asking that something be done in regard to the alleged persecution of the Jewish people in Roumania and, I think, in other eastern European states. The writers of these letters inquire why something cannot be done by Canada's representative on the League of Nations. I would ask the Prime Minister if this matter has been brought to his attention and if any steps have been taken to mitigate the trou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes complaints received about persecution of Jewish people in Romania and Eastern Europe, and asks if the Prime Minister has been informed and what steps have been taken, without condemning, blaming, or naming specific parties as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-278", "year": 1928, "chamber": "house", "date": "1928-05-29", "speaker": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["I understand\nthat the principle laid down by the League of Nations in matters of the kind is that the\nSupply-League of Nations\n\nminority adversely affected should themselves, make -representations to the league. I understand that in this particular matter of the alleged persecution of the Jews in Roumania, the minority have made representations to the league, and that the matter is at the present time before the council of the league. As my hon. friend knows, Canada is represented on the council of the league, and I am sure that the circumstance will occasion an extra interest on Canada's part in the matter …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/05/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the situation of alleged persecution of Jews in Romania and the procedural steps taken (minority representations to League of Nations, matter before council) without expressing condemnation, blame, or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-279", "year": 1928, "chamber": "house", "date": "1928-04-24", "speaker": "Mr. CHURCH:", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["1.\tHas Canada at present a table of precedence? If so, what is it?\n2.\tHas the table at page 661, 1928 Parliamentary Guide, not been abolished in view of\nCanada's new status, and will, a new table be. issued?\n3.\tWhy is the United Church of Canada, excluded from existing table, also the Jewish church, under clause 13, page 662, Parliamentary Guide, 1928?\n4.\tAre not such tables contrary to resolution, of the House of Commons, 1919, abolishing titles in Canada, and in view of the fact that, the existing table was adopted in a despatch, from Downing street, dated December 29, 1893; are members of the House of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/04/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1928/04/24/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is asking factual questions about whether Jewish organizations are excluded from a table of precedence, without condemning, blaming, or naming specific actors as responsible for the exclusion."}, {"id": "house-280", "year": 1952, "chamber": "house", "date": "1952-05-21", "speaker": "David Arnold Croll", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eloped their technique which was use particularly against racial and religious groups, til-Jews, and against the national linguistic group, the Poles.\nThe crime of genocide is not new; it has been practised under different names since the destruction of Carthage by the Romans. Throughout the middle ages there were the Jewish pogroms, the mass killings in various countries of Europe. In the last century, the mass killings of Armenians and again in this century the persecution of the Armenians in the Ottoman empire were horrible examples.\nGenocide Convention\nIndividuals, groups, yes, nations, and Canada amongst them, were often aroused to protest against these massacres, but nothing more was done about it. It was the systematic brutalities practised by the nazis that shocked the conscience …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/05/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/05/21/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical instances of hostility toward Jews (pogroms, mass killings) as examples of genocide without taking a position on any current situation or actor's responsibility."}, {"id": "house-281", "year": 1952, "chamber": "house", "date": "1952-03-25", "speaker": "Joseph-Arthur Bradette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… in 1941-during world war\nII\tat a meeting of protest held by my fine Jewish people with regard to the horrible holocaust that these people had suffered in Germany. I spoke at that meeting at which I was invited to be present; and this is what I told them. I said that as a Christian and a Catholic, when I hear there is persecution that happens in any section of the world-whether it is against the Jewish people or any other race or nationality, or against the Protestant or the Catholic faith-then I know that if persecution is unchecked it is bound to spread like a virus, a violent epidemic, and that there is something going wrong; and I am duty bound to protest because the primary tenet of your\n\nfaith, of my faith and of all faiths, is charity. The moment that persecution of religion is rampant, charity no longer exists.\nWhat happened i …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/03/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/03/25/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "EXTERNAL AFFAIRS — REFERENCE OF ESTIMATES OF DEPARTMENT TO STANDING COMMITTEE", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to persecution of Jewish people and states duty to protest against such hostility, framing it as incompatible with religious charity, without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-282", "year": 1952, "chamber": "house", "date": "1952-03-24", "speaker": "Pierre Gauthier", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , special rates on railways for the benefit of large families, and these rates include the children as well as the fathers and mothers. They believe what they have said, and1 they are being logical.\nIf we want a bill of rights, then we should study it carefully. I have made reference to other countries which have used discriminatory methods. I have noted that within the last month or two there has been in Sweden indication of a democratic gesture. In that country Catholics and Jews did not have the right to hold positions in the government, but I believe within the last while that process has been changed whereby Catholics and Jews are now entitled to hold government positions. This is quite an improvement.\nThen the federal constitution of Switzerland does not permit Jesuits to conduct normal ac …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/03/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/03/24/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "LOAN TO UNITED KINGDOM — APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED — MARCH 6, 1946", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discriminatory policies against Jews in Sweden and Switzerland without condemning, blaming, or naming specific actors as responsible; presents it as factual information about other countries' legal practices."}, {"id": "house-283", "year": 1952, "chamber": "house", "date": "1952-06-10", "speaker": "Alistair McLeod Stewart", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Middle East. Unfortunately a reference to race is used all too often in the Hitlerian sense; and as it is used in the bill I hope it is used in the sense that there is a Caucasian, a Mongol or a Negroid race. I doubt if that is so.\nDuring the thirties it was used in an even unhappier sense, when there was a deliberate exclusion against certain groups such as Ukrainians, Jewish, and Polish immigrants.\nImmigration Act\nWe regarded them as second-class citizens. Fortunately that is not so today, and we are glad of it.\nI agree that it is right and proper for Canada to decide who should come to this country; but we have used these racial concepts viciously in the past. The immigrants who have com …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/06/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1952/06/10/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OP DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to past discriminatory use of racial concepts against Jewish immigrants, calling it 'vicious' and expressing gladness that such practices no longer occur, without naming specific responsible parties.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-284", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-10-25", "speaker": "Margaret Anne Mitchell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e victims of discrimination and violence in schools and universities. Many job applicants were rejected and humiliated, and promotions were rare.\nThe percentage of native people in prisons far exceeds their proportion in the general population. Blacks complained about being easy targets for bullets of police officers. Racist pins and bumper stickers were circulated freely. Jewish graves were singled out for desecration.\nIn addressing a seminar on the rights of the child, John Turvey, a street worker in my riding, said: \"Seventy per cent of the kids I see on the streets in the downtown eastside of Vancouver are aboriginal. They make up 5 per cent of the general population. We are a racist culture.\"\nThe federal government cannot maint …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/25/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S. O. 31 — MULTICULTURALISM", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes various discriminatory acts including Jewish grave desecrations without taking a position, condemning, or assigning responsibility for these actions."}, {"id": "house-285", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-10-31", "speaker": "Barbara Greene", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I agree with the criticism of the Israeli police by the recent commission of inquiry into the tragic events in Old Jerusalem.\nIsraeli security forces should not have trusted Islamic religious authorities who were notified that a fringe Jewish group would not be allowed to enter Temple Mount. Muslims proceeded to defile this holy site with an illegal, planned attack on Jewish worshippers. Rioters were incited over loudspeakers to slaughter the Jews.\nIsraeli police showed great restraint in not using live ammunition against the stone throwers as they attacked police and then thousands of praying Jews at the Western Wall. The police officers who had been forced to retreat re-entered the Temple Mount to rescue officers and to prevent the thousands of rioters from seizing weapons and ammunition in the police station. Only then did they use live ammunition in life threatening situations.\nWhen will Palestinians and Mus …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/31/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/31/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Palestinian and Muslim authorities/rioters as responsible for hostility toward Jews, specifically describing defiling holy sites, planned attacks on Jewish worshippers, and incitement to violence against Jews."}, {"id": "house-286", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-10-26", "speaker": "Beryl Gaffney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eaker, David Irving is speaking across Canada and will be in Ottawa at the Ottawa Congress Centre next month. He is spreading a message that the holocaust was a fabrication.\nDavid Irving testified on behalf of Ernst Zundel that Nazi Germany had no official policy on the extermination of Jews and he doubted six million Jews were systematically killed.\nSuch holocaust denial is offensive to all Jews and to anyone who supports fundamental human rights and is bound to engender hostility towards some Canadians. Therefore, I especially question the appropriateness of providing Mr. Irving with a platform in a building owned by the government and operated at public expense.\nI do not know whether Mr. Irving is a racist, but in my estimation he is certainly not an historian, and does not deserve our attent …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/10/26/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names David Irving and describes his specific acts (spreading holocaust denial, testifying that Nazi Germany had no official extermination policy) as offensive and bound to engender hostility toward Jews"}, {"id": "house-287", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-18", "speaker": "Jean-Marc Robitaille", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I welcome this opportunity to express before the House the indignation felt by all of us today after the desecration of the Jewish community's cemetery yesterday in Sainte-Foy, near Quebec City.\nI am sure I express the general feeling in this country, Madam Speaker, when most strenuously I condemn these outrageous and inhuman acts. Those responsible have violated values that are fundamental to this country, and I am referring to respect for human rights and tolerance.\nThe fact that these racist acts were committed in Quebec certainly does not mean, Madam Speaker, that the Jewish community is not held in high esteem.\nThis is, without a doubt, an isolated incident that all Quebecers and Canadians unanimously condemn.\nIn concluding, Madam Speaker, I propose that all members of this House express their solidarity with the people affected by this incident as well as their sympathy with the entire …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'I condemn these outrageous and inhuman acts' and describes them as violations of fundamental values, without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "house-288", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-18", "speaker": "Benno Friesen", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I too want to join others and speak out against the desecration of the Jewish cemetery yesterday at St. Foy.\nIt is difficult for decent Canadians anywhere to understand vandalism of any kind. When it is desecration of a cemetery it is particularly revolting, and when that desecration is pointed at any particular ethnic community it strikes fear in the hearts of all Canadians.\nThe Jewish community has been singled out. We have to understand and believe it is not just a cemetery that has been desecrated. It is also pointed at the living community. The Jewish people have suffered enough humiliation, fear, persecution and death in their lifetime.\nIt is time for us to build bridges of kindness and understanding. It is time for us to realize that when this is directed at the Jewish community, it is also directed at other minority groups.\nI call upon all Canadians to build bridges of understanding and caring for all people and, in this case, particularly for the Jewish community."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/18/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' PUBLIC BILLS — CRIMINAL CODE — AMENDMENT TO OUTLAW CHILD PORNOGRAPHY", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the cemetery desecration and calls it 'revolting' and directed at the Jewish community, without naming specific perpetrators or accusing them of responsibility."}, {"id": "house-289", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-04", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… at the application of fairness, justice and equality, under the law.\nAs a member of the small task force, section 15, on equality for all, I can remember even looking at it as far back as that time, in the history of my place in this House. The measure means a very great deal to me as a\n\nMay 4, 1990\nGovernment Orders\nJewish woman, to the Jewish community and, in particular to those who have had to have a sense of discomfort, discrimination and bias, and also that very unpleasant sense that you are placed in a position of extortion in order to receive what is your due and what is your right under Canadian law. That is the key, it is under Canadian law. We are facilitating a divorce procedure which, in the Jewish traditional law, can only be undertaken as …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes experiences of discrimination and bias faced by Jewish people and references unfair treatment, but does not condemn it, name a specific responsible party, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute the characterization. She is recounting these experiences in the context of supporting legal measures for equality."}, {"id": "house-290", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-11", "speaker": "Margaret Anne Mitchell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… is worsening. I wonder if he would elaborate on that.\nI know, from the point of view of racism and discrimination, that we have had increasing concerns over the last year. There have been quite a number of incidents of this nature. There was concern expressed today in Statements Pursuant to S. O. 31 about some of the attacks on Jews in various parts of the world.\nHere in Canada, we had such a strong protest against allowing Sikhs to enter the RCMP. They have a religious symbol which is very important to them, which is their turban. We had racist pins being circulated and other paraphernalia from Alberta. We had a number of very tragic, long-term …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/11/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S. O. 31 — MULTICULTURALISM", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of attacks on Jews and other discrimination cases as factual observations ('There was concern expressed', 'We had such a strong protest') without condemning, blaming, or naming specific responsible parties for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-291", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-22", "speaker": "John Paul Manley", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I wish to express my feelings of outrage and deep dismay at the desecration of the Ottawa Jewish Community Cemetery in my constituency of Ottawa South last week.\nThe vandals who perpetrated this crime must be brought to justice under the law. They have brought violence to our community, causing many innocent families both grief and fear, and in the end every one of us has been victimized.\nWhat is equally worrisome is the increase in incidents of hatred and intolerance against Jewish people worldwide. In this century, the world learned a terrible lesson about what can happen when hatred is permitted to overflow into the streets. We cannot indulge in passive acquiescence when this kind of directed racism occurs in our communities or elsewhere.\nWhile we cannot make laws to change what is in people's minds and hearts, we can, as leaders and citizens, denounce in the strongest possible language such acts …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses 'outrage and deep dismay' at the desecration, calls for vandals to be brought to justice, and urges denunciation of such acts in strongest language, without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "house-292", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-22", "speaker": "Derek Vincent Lee", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Solicitor General. Over the past several days there have been three distinct acts of desecration and vandalism to cemeteries of Canadians of the Jewish faith. Over the same period other similar acts of desecration have occurred in Europe. These acts are an affront to all Canadians and manifest an intolerance and a hate that is unacceptable in our society.\nWill the Solicitor General tell the House what steps he will take to assist local law enforcement to respond to these shameful acts?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the vandalism and desecration acts, calling them 'shameful,' 'an affront,' and manifestations of 'intolerance and hate that is unacceptable,' without naming a specific person or group responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-293", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-29", "speaker": "Gérard (Gerry) Weiner", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… they are biological, that a black person is inherently different than a white person, or an East Asian.\nOf course, there are profound consequences to accepting that there is more than one race in the human species. When we accept this notion we tend to reinforce claims of biological superiority or inferiority. We make discrimination intellectually feasible. We make it seem rational.\nThere was never an Aryan race, only a German people living alongside a Jewish people, both members of the human race. Yet we know where this erroneous belief in two separate races eventually led.\nForty years later, in the nation known as South Africa, there is no white race living in the same territory inhabited by members of the black race-only black and white South Africans, equally members o …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Secretary of State of Canada; Minister of State (Multiculturalism and Citizenship)", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — ALLOTTED DAY, S. O. 81-REGIONALTENSIONS", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical antisemitic beliefs (the 'Aryan race' concept) and their consequences without explicitly condemning or naming a specific actor responsible for the hostility in this passage."}, {"id": "house-294", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-29", "speaker": "Margaret Anne Mitchell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… think more about the racist attitudes that are all too prevalent today.\nOn March 21 I said:\nHistory shows that racism has been a sickness in Canadian society and is a cancer that is growing. In 1914 East Indians on the Komagata Maru, who were British subjects seeking refuge, were turned away at the Port of Vancouver.\nJews were refused sanctuary on our eastern shores in 1939 and many died in concentration camps. In 1885 racist legislation imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants, followed in 1923 by an Immigration Act to exclude Chinese immigration altogether, and men who had built our railroads were isolated and deprived of rights.\nThey were deprived of having their families in Canada.\nBlacks who settled in Nova Scotia-\n\nMay 29, 1990\nGover …", "… ard Philippe Rushton's racist theories. There were frequent complaints about stereotyping in the media. There were ongoing protests against turbans in the RCMP and racist pins circulated from Alberta. And skinheads continued to recruit young people to facism.\nOnly this month we were deeply saddened and sickened at the desecration of Jewish graves and all that this symbolizes.\nFortunately, most Canadians abhor such racist acts that are, of course, perpetuated by a very small minority. We may abhor inside ourselves and within our circles of friends and family, but not enough Canadians express this abhorrence publicly.\nI would like to come back to Bill C-63, which is to establish the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. As I said earlier, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S. O. 31 — MULTICULTURALISM", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the desecration of Jewish graves and describes it as deeply saddening and sickening, calling such racist acts abhorrent without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-295", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-29", "speaker": "Rey D. Pagtakhan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Canada is one of the luckiest nations in the world. If we recall and imagine the African populations struggling to survive, of the Latin American and Asian countries threatened by civil wars, we in Canada as a nation are really lucky. But we must not forget that there continues to be concern. Recently we have seen the racist themes,\nGovernment Orders\nthe desecration of Jewish tombstones. All these are symbols or manifestations that show that we still have a lot of work to do.\nRacism, as a sociologist defines it, \"is the manifestation of one group's effort in a society to free itself from a feeling of inadequacy by casting another in an inferior light\".\nHow does this happen? By prejudice, by having a set of negative attitudes in which another group is held unwanted, despite the absence of legitima …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — SYRIAN JEWS", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to racist themes and desecration of Jewish tombstones as problematic manifestations requiring work to address, without naming a specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-296", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-29", "speaker": "Beryl Gaffney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… uman being deserves. Unfortunately there are people in this world and in this great country of ours who are intolerant to minorities and who harbour racist discriminatory sentiments.\nWe see evidence of this almost daily now. Just last week I was one of many people who attended a rally in my riding of Nepean condemning vandals who attacked the Ottawa Jewish Community Cemetery, knocking over headstones and spray-painting swastikas and Nazi slogans on graves. I pointed out that Canadians everywhere joined together to voice our disgust about the barbaric action by a few individuals filled with hate.\nUnfortunately, because of individuals like these who advocate intolerance, we are forced to stand in this House today to debate the establishment of …", "… minate racism and intolerance, we must begin to take down barriers to minorities. The government has a responsibility to be a leader in this respect and it has yet to take on that role.\nI support the creation of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation because any and all steps to end racism must be taken. The hatred of racism must be extinguished. We can do this only through educating Canadians. Racism is not hereditary or innate. No man or woman has ever been born a hater of Jews, Sikhs, blacks, Chinese, or of any religion or race. It is not natural to hate, and every measure must be taken to show all Canadians that racism will not be tolerated in this great land. If the establishment of the Canadian race relations foundation can help to do this, then let us get on with establishing the foundation and putting an end to racism in Canada."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker attends rally condemning vandalism of Jewish cemetery, voices disgust at the hateful action, and calls for measures to end racism and intolerance without naming specific responsible parties beyond 'a few individuals filled with hate.'"}, {"id": "house-297", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-05-29", "speaker": "Ron Fisher", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a letter from the president of the Saskatoon Cambodian Society.\nI refer to these letters just to give you, Madam Speaker, some idea of the variety of people who have expressed concern about this matter and the variety of people who have taken up Canadian citizenship.\nGovernment Orders\nI have two letters here from the Jewish community in Saskatoon who express as well their concern about the withdrawal of funds from the heritage language program. In the context of racism, the Jewish Centre in Saskatoon, of which the synagogue is a part, was desecrated recently. This demonstrates the depth of the problems that we are experiencing in Canada and the kinds of things which have to be worked on and alleviated.\nI have referred to the cutting of funding to the heritage language program. In spite of listening to the minister making his statement on the introduction of the l …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/05/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a desecration of the Jewish Centre/synagogue as evidence of racism problems in Canada, but does not condemn it, name a responsible party, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. The passage simply cites the incident to illustrate broader concerns about racism and funding cuts."}, {"id": "house-298", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-01-25", "speaker": "Godfrey Stanley (Stan) Wilbee", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question today is for the Secretary of State for External Affairs. In 1984-85 thousands of Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel to escape the persecution and famine in that country but, unfortunately, thousands more were left behind. Of these, 1,500 were children, many of whose families had been transferred to Israel.\nIn light of Canada's good relations with Ethiopia over the years and in light of the fact that there is evidence that the famine is recurring, what is Ca …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/01/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/01/25/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Ethiopian Jews and current humanitarian concerns without condemning anyone, naming perpetrators, or taking a position on the hostility itself"}, {"id": "house-299", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-04-11", "speaker": "Al Johnson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… niversal message of hope and peace that so many religions and cultures focus on at this time of the year.\nIt is important for us in our multicultural tradition to recognize that this is not only the season when some of\nus who are Christian celebrate the resurrection and hope of Easter, but it is also the time when our Jewish friends celebrate the hope and freedom from persecution that is represented by the Passover.\nSimilarly, on Friday the Sikh community will be celebrating Baisakhi. We join with them as they share their traditions of individual equality, community sharing, and peace.\nOur Moslem friends will soon be celebrating the end of Ramadan.\nWhatever our religious or cultural tradition, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/04/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/04/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Passover as commemorating 'freedom from persecution' without taking a position on any hostility or discrimination; this is factual religious observation."}, {"id": "house-300", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-11-05", "speaker": "Shirley Maheu", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ll be put without debate or amendment. The motion would be seconded by the member for Vancouver East and reads as follows:\nThat this House rejects any attempt to use our country as a platform from which to disseminate knowingly misleading, inaccurate and false statements about the Holocaust and Nazi prosecution of the Jews and other people before and during the Second World War and that this House deplores utterly and categorically all those who wish to spread a message of racial discrimination and hatred on the basis of colour, religion, ethnicity or culture."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/05/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The passage rejects and deplores statements and messages of hatred directed at Jews and others, objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-301", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-11-28", "speaker": "Marlene Catterall", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t guide the Arab nations and guide Iraq. We are not prepared to deal with them because we do not give them any credibility.\nHorrible crimes have been committed against our own humanity when we fail to give value to each and every life on this planet. Hitler was able to perpetrate the Holocaust based on the belief that Jews were not quite human. Atrocities happened in Vietnam based on the views that people with yellow skin and slanted eyes were not quite human. Violence against women and children continues because we are able to convince ourselves that they are not quite human.\nThe UN was formed with the determination to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Surely we have progressed in our evolution as human beings beyond where we believe that only brute force is the …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the dehumanization that enabled the Holocaust and hostility toward Jews, characterizing such views as moral failures without naming a specific actor responsible for current hostility."}, {"id": "house-302", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-11-01", "speaker": "Daniel James Macdonnell Heap", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canadians condemn another racist attack on Jews in Canada.\nLast Friday evening, when the Jewish Sabbath had begun, a group of teenagers attacked seven Hasidic Jewish men in Outremont. The men wore traditional long coats and fur trimmed hats. They were plainly Jews going about their religion in a district where 2,500 orthodox Jews live. Hasidic Jews are known for their non-violent way of life. The teenagers, boys and girls from the south shore district, punched and kicked the men, broke the glasses of one and took his shtreimel, his traditional hat. There is no report of money being demanded or taken.\nConsidering that the Ku Klux Klan recently set up a chapter in the area, one must agree with P …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/01/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states 'Canadians condemn another racist attack on Jews in Canada' and describes the violent attack without naming or blaming specific individuals or groups for enabling it, just reporting the incident and expressing condemnation of it."}, {"id": "house-303", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-11-01", "speaker": "Jean-Pierre Hogue", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["As was pointed out in the House on a previous occasion, Mr. Speaker, last Friday on the eve of the Sabbath, nine Hassidic Jews were attacked near their homes in Outremont. Apparently their aggressors are members of a gang of youths from outside the island of Montreal.\nMr. Speaker, it really does not matter whether this attack or any similar premeditated or unpremeditated act of aggression is directed against members of the Orthodox Jewish community or any other group in our society. Outremont residents and hon. members alike deplore and unreservedly condemn these acts and their perpetrators. We ask that the full weight of the law be brought to bear by the authorities.\nMr. Speaker, the cultural diversity of the residents of Outremont is a source of weal …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/01/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states that residents 'deplore and unreservedly condemn these acts and their perpetrators' without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible for the attack itself."}, {"id": "house-304", "year": 1990, "chamber": "house", "date": "1990-11-06", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, while freedom of expression is one of the values we cherish most in Canada, it also permits us to challenge the views of those with whom we disagree.\nI therefore express deep concern about British author David Irving's tour of Canada. His claims that the Holocaust has been exaggerated only distorts history, minimizes the atrocities of the Nazi regime, and sows the seeds of hatred. We know only too well that the promotion of hatred against identifiable minorities leads to acts of violence, as we witness daily around the world.\nIrving reportedly said in Ottawa last night that Hitler never knew what was going on, that no gas chambers were used to kill Jews, and that gas chambers seen today at Aus …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1990/11/06/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies David Irving and his specific statements as responsible for distorting history, minimizing Nazi atrocities, and sowing hatred; characterizes his claims about the Holocaust as promoting hatred against Jews"}, {"id": "house-305", "year": 1960, "chamber": "house", "date": "1960-02-19", "speaker": "William Murray Smith", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ho say otherwise should answer it for me. This bill hits at racial discrimination, and any of us in this great country of ours who say that racial discrimination does not exist is not being sincere. I think it will always exist as long as you have human beings making up the intelligent population of the world. We have racial discrimination in this country\n1276\tHOUSE OF\nCanada Fair Employment Practices Act so far as those of the Jewish faith are concerned. We have it so far as displaced persons are concerned. We have it so far as new Canadians are concerned. We have it in all aspects and in all areas of this country.\nI should like to say once more that I am very sorry I was not able to hear the remarks of the hon. member for Skeena. All we have to d …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1960/02/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1960/02/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker states facts about discrimination against Jewish people in Canada without condemning it, naming perpetrators, blaming anyone, or disputing whether it exists. They are describing the situation as part of a broader discussion of racial discrimination."}, {"id": "house-306", "year": 1979, "chamber": "house", "date": "1979-10-15", "speaker": "Roland de Corneille", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… which our constitution and our Supreme Court state this Parliament, the Parliament of Canada, is expected to exercise. Some dialogue!\nMr. Speaker, let me say that I think I know something about dialogue. The dialogue that has come about through ecumenism has been the greatest event in this century. Religious wars and hatreds have given way to respectful dialogue between Catholics, Protestants and Jews. The ancient walls of\n\ncontempt have fallen away through dialogue. And all this has been premised upon the concept that in dialogue you call people into being rather than to cease to be. It is right, and one thing to call the provinces into being. That the Fathers of Confederation more than did. But it is another thin …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/10/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/10/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical dialogue between Catholics, Protestants and Jews that reduced religious hatred, without taking a position on any current hostility or making accusations", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-307", "year": 1979, "chamber": "house", "date": "1979-10-25", "speaker": "Robert Phillip Kaplan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… I do not believed he asked the Prime Minister of Israel or the President of Egypt about that. It has nothing to do with issues between parties in the Middle East. It has everything to do with the civil liberties of Canadians.\nThe tertiary effect of the Arab boycott would require companies complying with the boycott to discriminate against their employees, customers and suppliers on the ground that they were Jewish. I look forward to hearing the support of all members for the protection of civil liberties on something as fundamental as that.\nSince, there are others who wish to speak on the bill, I should like only to remind members that in its present form this is a reporting bill. It is not a bill which requires trade not\nOctob …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/10/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/10/25/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Arab boycott's requirement that companies discriminate against people based on Jewish identity, framing it as a civil liberties violation without naming specific responsible parties.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-308", "year": 1979, "chamber": "house", "date": "1979-01-30", "speaker": "Robert Phillip Kaplan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… that it agree not to trade with Israel. This is an effort to create an international restraint of trade which would apply to the detriment of our economy, it is not in the national interest of, nor is it acceptable to Canada. The other dimension of the Arab boycott which is even more unacceptable is that it calls for discrimination within our own boundaries because the boycott requires that a company wanting to do business with Arab countries must give undertaking that Zionist firms, Jews or firms owned by Jews in our country will not be given any participation in those contracts and that the company will not hire Jews here.\nClearly, this is unacceptable in Canada, and the Prime Minister (Mr. Trudeau) was the first to say so when he was asked about it in this House in May, 1975. At that time he said th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/01/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/01/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly calls the boycott's discriminatory requirements toward Jews 'unacceptable' and states it is 'clearly unacceptable in Canada,' objecting to the hostility without naming a specific responsible party beyond the Arab boycott itself."}, {"id": "house-309", "year": 1979, "chamber": "house", "date": "1979-03-22", "speaker": "Rob Parker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in view of statements made yesterday by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (Mr. Horner) on a Toronto radio program to the effect that Saudi Arabia does not discriminate against Israel and Arab nations generally do not discriminate against Canadian Jews, and in view of a quotation attributed to the Minister of National Defence (Mr. Danson) in yesterday's Globe and Mail that Bill C-32 of this House has more substance than Ontario's anti-boycott legislation, I move, seconded by the hon. member for Hamilton-Wentworth (Mr' Scott):\t'\nThat members of the House take up a collection to teach these two …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/03/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1979/03/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker attributes specific statements to named ministers (Horner and Danson) that the speaker implies are problematic regarding discrimination against Jews and Israel, directly identifying these officials as responsible for making these particular statements."}, {"id": "house-310", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-03-25", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Over its eight decades it has become a model community advocacy organization, blending its efforts on behalf of the Jewish community of Canada seamlessly with its outstanding contributions on issues of national scope and significance. Internationally its vigorous promotion of global human rights and the elimination of racism and discrimination everywhere complement its efforts on behalf of the State of Israel and Jews around the world.\nTo CJC, I say happy anniversary. It has earned our admiration. Yashar koach . May it go from strength to strength."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/03/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/03/25/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes the Canadian Jewish Congress's advocacy work against discrimination and racism without taking a position on any specific instance of hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of such hostility."}, {"id": "house-311", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-04-12", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to our veterans for fighting so bravely in a war that we are proud to have fought. We defeated fascism and in the aftermath of war, we built a more just society in Canada itself, one that respects basic human rights and freedoms.\nThis year our soldiers are fighting again to defeat a fascist mentality that feeds ethnic hatred. We fought before to defeat those who hated and killed Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and newspaper editors who would not agree.\nWhat we hear from Belgrade today is all too familiar, all too dangerous. In September 1996 I observed elections in Bosnia in the historic city of Mostar. I saw too many fresh flowers on gravesites. My interpreter, Igor, showed me the grave of his best f …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/04/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/04/12/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews historically (in WWII) and references current ethnic hatred in Belgrade/Bosnia without attributing responsibility to any specific named actor or taking a condemning stance on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-312", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-06-04", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… this unique institution.\nRed and gold colours encircle the crest representing its members Sephardic Jewish origin from Spain and Portugal. Four columns in silver symbolize the four different locations they have occupied since 1768. The 10 commandments crested by a red maple leaf on the crown reflects Canada, where the Jewish population found haven and security from war and discrimination.\nThis synagogue has evolved over the years. Today it is multicultural and multilingual, with members coming from the Middle East and Europe.\nThe congregation, led by Rabbi Howard Joseph, has had many distinguished community and civic leaders who have contributed to our society's growth and development, including a Montreal police chi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/06/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1999/06/04/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes the synagogue's history and mentions that Jewish populations 'found haven and security from war and discrimination' but does not take a position condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any hostility—it simply reports historical context."}, {"id": "house-313", "year": 1989, "chamber": "house", "date": "1989-06-27", "speaker": "Some Hon. Members:", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… image to Mecca?\nWe have reach a new crossroads. We are experiencing a period of unrest in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. We deeply regret the bloodshed on both sides as we strive to maintain law and order. We have had to overcome repeated onslaughts in the past, and I have no doubt that we will overcome the present wave of violence which in our eyes poses a threat to the basis of our society and to the peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in the land of Israel. We dare not underestimate the feelings expressed in the unrest, nor should we sanguinely expect it simply to fade away. Irrational and self-destroying persistence has tragically marked previous Arab attacks on Israel. Hatred and violence have led only to bereavement and disaster withou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1989/06/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1989/06/27/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO S.O. 21 — HISTORIC EVENTS — COMMEMORATION OF FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF VE DAY", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes unrest, bloodshed, violence, and attacks without accusing any specific party of hostility toward Jews or taking a moral stance against such hostility. The passage presents a situation involving conflict between Jews and Arabs without characterizing anyone's actions as antisemitic or hostile toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "house-314", "year": 1977, "chamber": "house", "date": "1977-02-24", "speaker": "Mr.   Sean@", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is also directed to the Secretary of State for External Affairs whom 1 commend for his courage in taking up with Soviet authorities the persecution of Jews within that system who wish to emigrate to Israel. Since the outrage of persecution is continuing, I should like to ask the minister whether he has made any representation to the Soviet authorities on behalf of Aleksandr Feldman, a prisoner of conscience, who is being held in a labour camp on bogus charges simply because of a courageous observance of his faith. This man is reported to be in ill-healt …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1977/02/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1977/02/24/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Soviet authorities as responsible for persecution of Jews who wish to emigrate, and names the Soviet system as continuing this persecution. The speaker specifically identifies that Aleksandr Feldman is 'being held in a labour camp on bogus charges simply because of a courageous observance of his faith,' directly attributing his imprisonment to hostility toward his Jewish faith."}, {"id": "house-315", "year": 1977, "chamber": "house", "date": "1977-02-11", "speaker": "Stanley Ronald Basford", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… tection that they are entitled to feel under the law. I might say in passing that the introduction of this bill seems to have attracted the attention of those hatemongers who use the telephone in this way, in that they have at least been diverted from the dirt they have disseminated about black people or people of the Jewish faith and have now instead directed their messages of hate to Roy McMurtry and myself-so at least we have provided protection for two minorities.\nFebruary 11, 1977\n\nThe bill also contains measures to combat sexism and sex role stereotyping at the workplace. About 30 recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women would be wholly or partially implemented or made …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1977/02/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1977/02/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatemongers' messages of hate directed at people of Jewish faith, characterizing such messages as 'dirt' and 'hate,' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-316", "year": 1901, "chamber": "house", "date": "1901-02-28", "speaker": "William Roche", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… interest. The interest for two years ate up the principal, and if there were any mortgage attached to the loan, the Jew got the property. That condition continued until the Jews had secured a very large portion of the real estate in those countries. It, therefore, became an object for all those who were debtors of the Jews, or those who hated the Jews, to unite in those frightful persecutions which took place in the Dark Ages so called. Now, Sir, I think there is something of the spirit of that persecution in this Bill. Perhaps the hon. gentleman himself or some of his friends have suffered from the exactions of the Jews in the province of Quebec. In that happy portion of the Dominion whence I come, and from which the hon. leader of the opposition comes, the great difficulty there is to obtain a reliable person to whom to lend any money. In fact, if one bank obtains a good loan all the directors and the manager and the clerks of the r …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1901/02/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1901/02/28/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews and suggests current grievances against Jewish lenders, without explicitly condemning the hostility or clearly naming/blaming specific actors for it."}, {"id": "house-317", "year": 1980, "chamber": "house", "date": "1980-10-15", "speaker": "Roland de Corneille", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… f the grave danger of the growth of terrorism and of our becoming callous to these concerns. I therefore move, seconded by the hon. member for Burlington (Mr. Kempling):\nThat this House condemns any and all acts of terrorism anywhere in the world, and especially at this time the several recent and outrageous terrorist attacks on Jews in France; that this House conveys its deep sympathy to these innocent victims and to their relatives, and expresses support for the French government in its determination to protect French Jews and urges that all security forces immediately co-operate internationally in an all-out effort to protect Jews from any furt …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1980/10/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1980/10/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states 'this House condemns any and all acts of terrorism' and specifically references 'terrorist attacks on Jews in France' as outrageous, without naming or blaming any specific perpetrator or group for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-318", "year": 1980, "chamber": "house", "date": "1980-04-17", "speaker": "Bryce Stuart Mackasey", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… rmony and with total freedom and access to all opportunities in either of the two official languages in this country. Many of the doors that were locked to French-speaking Canadians in the sixties in the business community were also out of bounds to the Irish\nApril 17, 1980\n\nCanadian, the new Canadian or people of the Jewish faith. Prejudice is all-embracing at times.\nThis is why the dedicated separatist is now focusing on economics as a reason for independence. Without control of economics you do not control power. Some of the politicians in Quebec, like some of the politicians in other provinces and like some of the politicians in the federal House, lus …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1980/04/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1980/04/17/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states 'Prejudice is all-embracing at times' in context of describing discrimination against people of Jewish faith, expressing disapproval of this prejudice without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-319", "year": 1998, "chamber": "house", "date": "1998-03-19", "speaker": "Nelson Riis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. On March 21, United Nations international day for the elimination of racism, a white supremacist meeting in Oliver, British Columbia, will try to solicit support for an Internet provider who has become an electronic news-stand for publications fostering hate against aboriginals, new Canadians, francophones, the Jewish community and other groups.\nRacist groups are flaunting the law by using the Internet. What is the government doing to ensure that Canada does not become an electronic safe haven for hate mongers?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1998/03/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1998/03/19/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Kamloops", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Nelson Riis (Kamloops, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Racism", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hate against the Jewish community and other groups being spread via internet, and questions what the government is doing to prevent this, without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-320", "year": 1963, "chamber": "house", "date": "1963-12-09", "speaker": "Mr. Fairweather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Has the government reviewed the ruling of the income tax appeal board published on November 28, 1963 which held that an award of compensation to Phillip Koller, as a persecuted Jewish person, by the district board of compensation of West Germany is subject to Canadian income tax and, if so. is any legislative or other action contemplated to nullify the effect of said ruling?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/12/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/12/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a tax ruling affecting compensation to a Jewish person without expressing approval or disapproval of the ruling itself, and asks whether the government has reviewed it and taken action."}, {"id": "house-321", "year": 1963, "chamber": "house", "date": "1963-11-29", "speaker": "Mr.  R. Gordon L. Fairweather@Royal", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… wish to direct a question to the Minister of National Revenue. Will the minister exercise that side of his nature favouring equity and arrange, by legislation or otherwise, to nullify the effect of the ruling of the tax appeal board published yesterday, which held that an award of compensation to Phillip Koller, as a persecuted Jewish person, by the district board of compensation of West Germany is subject to Canadian income tax?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/11/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/11/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to a tax ruling that subjects Holocaust reparations payments to Jews to Canadian income tax, framing this as inequitable without naming the tax appeal board as intentionally hostile."}, {"id": "house-322", "year": 1963, "chamber": "house", "date": "1963-11-19", "speaker": "John George Diefenbaker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I should like to direct a question to the right hon. Prime Minister in connection with representations made by the Jewish labour committee of Canada and the Canadian Labour Congress regarding shocking treatment of three million Soviet Jews who have been subjected to increasing discrimination and persecution. Have any representations been made to the government in this connection, and has the Prime Minister or Secretary of State for External Affairs brought to the attention of the Soviet ambassador a situation that is becoming more difficult and trying with the passing months?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/11/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1963/11/19/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Leader of the Official Opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination and persecution of Soviet Jews and asks whether representations have been made, without himself condemning or taking a position on the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-323", "year": 1944, "chamber": "house", "date": "1944-02-02", "speaker": "Pierre Gauthier", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t other nationalities are permitted to do so.\nWhen Paul Masse advocated in the constituency of Cartier the union of French Canadians who form 55 per cent of the population, not according to the spurious lists prepared by the Liberal enumerator, but according to a true census of the population, was he appealing to race prejudice? For twenty-five years the constituency of Cartier has been represented by a Jewish' member, Conservative, Union Nationale, or Liberal. The majority in that constituency is not Jewish but French Canadian, why, then, should it be a crime and an appeal to race prejudice to ask for the election of a French Canadian? Was Lazarus Phillips more entitled than we were to ask his fellow Jews in the Jewish Eagle, to unite and vote for a Jew because otherwise twenty-five years would elapse before the constituency of Cartier could be won back? They have the right to ask their people to unite, but we, French Canadians, have no such right; we appeal to race prejudice, we hinder Canadian unity. The former leader of the oppos …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/02/02/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "LOAN TO UNITED KINGDOM — APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED — MARCH 6, 1946", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker argues that calling their appeal to French Canadian unity 'race prejudice' is wrong or overstated, while defending their right to make ethnic appeals by pointing to similar appeals made by Jewish candidates to Jewish voters."}, {"id": "house-324", "year": 1944, "chamber": "house", "date": "1944-08-12", "speaker": "Arthur Wentworth Roebuck", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… our declaration, with its promise of a national 'home for the Jewish people, was originally intended to apply to the whole of historic Palestine, including Palestine east of the Jordan, or Trans-Jordan as it is known to-day.\nIn September, 1922, however, the League of Nations, at the instance of the British government, excluded Trans-Jordan from this area. More than two-thirds of the territory originally designated as the Jewish national home was thus closed to Jewish settlement.\nFurther partition of Palestine proposed in 1937 by the Palestine royal commission recommended the establishment of a Jewish state on an area of about one-fifth of Palestine west of the Jordan. The remainder, apart from a small British enclave, together with Trans-Jordan was to become an Arab state. In parl …", "… rces, and also from the Polish government in exile. We know it, too, because the Pope sent a message to Admiral Horthy, Hungarian regent and head of the Hungarian state, protesting and pleading that deportations cease.\nMr. Hull, Secretary of State for the United States, as late as July 14, 1944, stated that the entire Jewish community in Hungary faced extermination. He threatened punishment to the state of Hungary if it persisted in violation of the most elementary of human rights. Partly as a result of what was said by Mr. Hull, partly because of what was said by His Holiness the Pope, and to no small degree because of the menacing Russian army near the borders of Hungary, a message has been …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/08/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/08/12/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical exclusions from Jewish settlement territory and partition proposals without taking a position on whether these constitute hostility toward Jews or condemning them."}, {"id": "house-325", "year": 1944, "chamber": "house", "date": "1944-08-12", "speaker": "Daniel (Dan) McIvor", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to the Jews I have known during the depression because I never saw a Hebrew on relief.\nSupply-External Affairs\n\nAs a boy I read the story of Gideon, and I still pride myself in thinking that the strategy of that great general, Gideon, who outflanked all the multitude of the Midianites, was of a high order. So that the Hebrews even of that day led the world in military strategy.\nOnly the other day I read again the story of Esther. And when I think of Haman, and his prejudice against the Jews, I think how like Hitler he was blinded, so that he made a scaffold on which to hang Mordecai. Mordecai was able to show that their cause was just, and on that gallows Haman was hanged. I am sure there is no Jew in Germany to-day who would change places with Hitler, because Hitler started out to execute the Jews, and …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/08/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1944/08/12/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "REFERENCE TO REPORT IN THE "CANADIAN — TRIBUNE" — PAMPHLET "KNOW YOUR ENEMY"", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Hitler's hostility toward Jews, comparing it unfavorably to Haman's prejudice and expressing certainty that Jews would not want to be in Hitler's position due to his persecution of them."}, {"id": "house-326", "year": 1986, "chamber": "house", "date": "1986-06-13", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… be the time to recall the Holocaust. For what the world saw, the world then said \"Never Again\".\nI would suspect that of all the issues that engulf the Jewish condition, the one that perhaps hurts and pains the most, the one that resonates in the hearts and minds of each and every one of us, the one that represents an assault on the memory and dignity of every one of us, is the ugly spectre of the Holocaust denial. One compelling truth is clear and that is Auschwitz. I believe the Holocaust is beyond vocabulary, and language mocks reality. There are things in my Jewish history that are too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened. However, there is a lesson to be learned from it. I think we must learn that lesson. We must stand tall and firm as Canadians in active remembrance, with fidelity to memory and fidelty to truth. The Holocaust must stand for more. It must be a lesson to all of mankind. If ever there was a lesson to be learned, it is that one. When racism rears its ugly head, it is time to stand up and be counted.\nIt is not because the members of the Commonwealth of Nations cannot find common ground that we as Canadians do not find our place or time to speak out. When we assault and live with assaults on human rights and allow ourselves to continue in deafening silence …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1986/06/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1986/06/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Holocaust denial and racism as 'ugly spectres' and 'assaults' on memory and dignity, calling for standing firm against such hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-327", "year": 1950, "chamber": "house", "date": "1950-03-30", "speaker": "John Decore", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… and identified by their friends. Many of those whose photographs I have seen had been bestially mutilated by the communists.\nGregory Aronson in his book called \"The Jewish Problem in Soviet Russia\" summarized by Clare Boothe Luce before the House of Representatives, July 6, 1945, says:\nApproximately 50 per cent of the Jews who, before the revolution, had engaged in trade or in the professions, were physically exterminated. Partially this extermination was direct and violent; partially it was by the means made familiar to the world in German slave camps-the control of wages and of food and the forcing of labour to a point\n\nExternal Affairs\nwhich prevented those marked for liquidation from obtaining enough food for their bodies . . . Likewise the cost of survival included the abandonment by Jews of their moral principles, their religious beliefs and practices.\nFrom Dr. Watson Kirkconnell I again quote:\nIn other words, Hitler massacred those who were racially Jews; Stalin massacred those who were spiritually Jews. In Soviet Russia only the apostate Jew could survive, the atheist who had renounced morality and religion as bourgeois prejudices, the recreant who had spit on his Jewish faith and had become a rootless revolutionary. Not a single Jewish newspaper remains in Russia today.\nAnother group that has been exterminated is the Greek community of the Kerch peninsula. The entire population, men, women and children, were shipped to perish in an Arctic slave camp and Russian colonists took their place.\nA further instance: The Russians in the second world war bega …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1950/03/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1950/03/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker presents allegations about communist persecution of Jews through citations of books and other sources (Aronson, Kirkconnell, Luce) without taking a personal stance condemning or accusing anyone, simply relaying claims about historical events."}, {"id": "house-328", "year": 1934, "chamber": "house", "date": "1934-06-30", "speaker": "Samuel William Jacobs", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… on-Christian in this house to-day, to tell Christian people what Christianity should be. Particularly is that so in regard to the Prime Minister, a man who has always represented the very best type of Christianity, a man whom I have admired for many years because of his talents, his wide and broad views respecting the Jewish people and the persecutions they have suffered, notwithstanding the views of some of his camp followers who sit behind him'. What surprises me is that the Prime\n\nDominion Franchise Act\nMinister should have allowed a piece of legislation of this kind to come before the house."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker praises the Prime Minister's views on Jewish persecution but criticizes him for allowing discriminatory legislation, implying he failed to prevent or stop it despite his known good principles.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-329", "year": 1934, "chamber": "house", "date": "1934-06-30", "speaker": "Samuel Gobeil", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… was simply stating that if they were so anxious to render service to their race and their creed, there were many other fields of activity which were more important, so far as race and creed were concerned, than the question under discussion at that time. That reference was only incidental, and I do not consider that I attacked the Jewish people in any way. I simply referred to the condition as in my opinion not being one which should exist in the province of Quebec, which the premier is so proud of stating is the only Catholic province in the dominion. There were only two members\nof the Jewish race elected to the legislature yet both were appointed ch …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker defends their previous statement by arguing they did not attack Jewish people and that their reference was only incidental, disputing characterization of their words as hostile toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-330", "year": 1934, "chamber": "house", "date": "1934-06-30", "speaker": "Samuel Gobeil", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… been for the attack made upon me by my hon. friend. I want to take a minute or two to answer. I should like to remind my hon. friend that the motion of censure against the hon. member for Compton was never moved in the legislature. It never came and I do not think it ever will come. In closing, let me say that I never attacked the Jewish race. I am pleased to assure them that they have the right to live, just as has any other citizen of Canada. I simply stated that I did not think it was proper, or that I thought it to be a little out of place, that such a situation should exist in the provincial legislature of Quebec.\nMr. CAMERON R. McINTOSH (North B …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1934/06/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "Speaker denies attacking the Jewish race and reframes their previous statement as not improper, disputing characterization of their remarks as hostile toward Jews"}, {"id": "house-331", "year": 1949, "chamber": "house", "date": "1949-03-28", "speaker": "Joseph-Arthur Bradette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Archbishop Stepinac, and what happened only a few weeks ago to Cardinal Mindszenty. And as a Roman Catholic I deplore deeply what happened to those twelve fine ministers of Protestant churches in Bulgaria, whom we all know were not guilty of treason. When we hear of the persecution of any church, we must remember that persecution is a dangerous and cancerous growth, one that is very easily started and almost impossible to stop.\nIn 1938 in the town of Timmins I was invited by the Jewish population in that\n208B\n\nNorth Atlantic Treaty\nsection of the country to attend a meeting of protest against the persecution of Jews in Germany at that time. It was a vast rally. Present were Protestant ministers and leaders in all walks of life in the Porcupine district, including Catholic priests. When the time came for me to say a few words I said, \"My friends, every Christian, every Canadian worthy of the name must of necessity deplore the persecution of Jewish people in Germany. But, to me, it goes still deeper than that; because one persecution leads to another.\"\nThis is true, because we know that even in Germany not only the Jews were persecuted. No; they were not satisfied with that. They persecuted the Lutheran church, the Catholic church, and the other Protestant churches in Germany.\nLet me clarify my statement by saying that during the insurrection in Spain six thousand priests were killed by communists. There is not one Canadian man or woman who will assert that that was a right thing to do. It was a horrible …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1949/03/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1949/03/28/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "EXTERNAL AFFAIRS — REFERENCE OF ESTIMATES OF DEPARTMENT TO STANDING COMMITTEE", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'every Christian, every Canadian worthy of the name must of necessity deplore the persecution of Jewish people in Germany' without naming specific perpetrators or parties as responsible"}, {"id": "house-332", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-02-15", "speaker": "Barry Campbell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak to Motion No. 310 which urges branches of the Royal Canadian Legion which do not permit Jews and Sikhs to wear religious head dress in their branches to reconsider this discriminatory practice.\nAs my hon. colleague for Windsor-St. Clair suggests in her motion, all members of the legion must have access to legion facilities without having to choose between their legion affiliation and their religious belief.\nAs most of us know, the Royal Canadian Legion does excellent work among other worthy things …", "… men and women who fought in the various branches of the Armed Forces.\nHowever, the non partisan nature of the Legion has been put in question by the unfortunate incident where Sikh veterans were denied access to Legion facilities for refusing to take off their turbans. In trying to deal with subsequent allegations of racism, the Dominion Command of the Canadian Legion put forth a resolution to amend the rule concerning the wearing of the Jewish kipa and the Sikh turban inside Legion facilities. It read in part as follows:\n\nOnce a person who is required to wear a head-dress for (the Jewish and Sikh) faiths has been accepted as a Legion member, they are to be authorized admission to all areas of that branch that are opened to the general membership or invited …", "… anslation]\nIn an effort to appease the strong public outcry against the proposed motion being rejected, the Dominion Command urged Legion branches to reconsider their decision. I am pleased to report to this House that almost 90 per cent of the branches have now passed motions recognizing the important contribution of Jewish and Sikh servicemen in the world wars and, consequently, repealed their discriminatory policy on religious head-dress. Unfortunately, another 10 per cent did not.\nIt is important to state once again that Canadians of various religious backgrounds, including Jews and Sikhs, have in the past served and continue to serve with great distinction in Canadian and other Commonwealth forces. Their faith did not …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/02/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/02/15/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "community", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Royal Canadian Legion branches as responsible for discriminatory practices against Jews and Sikhs regarding religious headwear in their facilities", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-333", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-07", "speaker": "Ron Irwin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the member for Saint-Jean out there working hard.\nHowever, we have a fundamental difference. We just went through the referendum. Last week we heard the guru of the Bloc. I thought he was gone but he just stepped to the back of the bus. He was quoted in the Globe and Mail . What did Mr. Pierre Bourgault say? It is the Jews, the Italians and the Greeks who vote in an ethnic block who are the racists, not us. They only have one objective, to obstruct things. They are saying these Jews, Italians and Greeks, because they want to be Canadians, are obstructionists. If we multiply that by about fivefold we have an idea of the Cree, the Montagnais, the Attikamekw and the Micmac and their feeling of alienation within the province of Quebec.\nWe have to have a uniform philosophy. As much as I appreciate wha …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker attributes a hostile statement characterizing Jews (along with Italians and Greeks) as racists and obstructionists to Pierre Bourgault, naming him as responsible for expressing this hostility."}, {"id": "house-334", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-07", "speaker": "John Cannis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I was appalled the other day to read in Le journal de Montréal how Pierre Bourgault, a staunch separatist and confidant of Mr. Parizeau, branded a group of Canadians as racists.\nIt seems after a Canadian victory on October 30 the separatist had to blame somebody. Therefore Mr. Bourgault stated: \"The Jews, Italians and Greeks are racists\". Mr. Bourgault further states: \"We are not asking them to be sovereignists, we are asking them to be Quebecers\". They are proud Quebecers and they are also proud Canadians.\nThe separatists have now been completely unmasked and their hidden agenda is secret no longer.\nHe further made reference to the member for Boura …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes a hostile statement toward Jews to Pierre Bourgault by name, quoting him as saying 'The Jews, Italians and Greeks are racists' and characterizing this as blaming and branding."}, {"id": "house-335", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-13", "speaker": "Sergio Marchi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… it continues today, after the referendum was fought and won by Canada.\nIt continued this week when elements of that separatist movement suggested ethnic communities in Quebec were enemies of Quebec. It was articulated by Pierre Bourgault, who had the audacity and the courage to suggest that those Greeks, Italians and Jews were racist because they voted for Canada.\nThe separatists across the way and those beside them who participate in the politics of division would want to stratify our province of Quebec, our nation of Canada into different classes of people. They would want us to talk about them and us.\nI find it exceedingly ironic that the separ …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/12/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names Pierre Bourgault and identifies him as responsible for suggesting Jews were racist, attributing this hostile characterization to him specifically."}, {"id": "house-336", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-03", "speaker": "Sarkis Assadourian", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t it never says not to be forgiven. Forgiveness has to come when those who committed the crime ask for forgiveness. They also should be ready to be forgiven because forgiveness is the nature of human\nbeings. We cannot forget because if we forget we are condemned to repeat it.\nWe all know very well what happened to the Jewish population in World War II beginning in 1939. Adolf Hitler had many excuses, but as far as I am concerned there is no good reason to commit violence or genocide in any shape or form. This cannot be comprehended by an ordinary person. There is no reason to commit, especially in this case, crimes against humanity.\nThe world was silent. It stood silent while six million Jews were slaughtered. Nobody said a word until the war was over. Why did we have to wait until th …", "… man so we can educate the younger generation that crimes against humanity must be punished. There is no escape when a crime is committed, be it a small or a large crime.\nEven today violence is taking place in the Middle East. Yesterday a three-year old child was killed for no reason. Who will stand up and condemn this violence against innocent people?\nIn 1939 when Adolf Hitler was giving his orders to SS units to slaughter the Jewish population, he said: \"Who remembers the extermination of the Armenian people today?\" That was on August 9, 1939. Today is April 3, 1995 and I hope and pray the House will remember the message of Adolf Hitler was wrong in 1939. A continuation of this cannot be tolerated.\nMany ministers of the government and members of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/03/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical violence against Jews and current violence, stating 'there is no good reason to commit violence or genocide' and calling for condemnation of such acts, without naming specific current perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-337", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-03", "speaker": "Keith Martin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… flicts; it is the innocent men, women and children who are slaughtered indiscriminately and are defenceless. Once we do get involved, it is costly both in terms of our dollars and in terms of our people who we put in harm's way.\nFurthermore, the groundwork for future carnage has been laid, for in these civil conflicts hatreds will be branded into the psyches of generations to come. Children are told by their parents to hate Muslims, to hate Jews, to hate Chechens, to hate Tutsis, to hate Hindus, Tamils, Croats, and the list goes on. They in turn tell their children who tell their children and the cycle repeats itself with deadly efficiency. Memories are long for these carnages and hatred dies a difficult death.\nThere were in fact over 120 conflicts in the world. In the future we can see the pots boili …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/03/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Keith Martin (Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hatreds being taught across generations, including hatred toward Jews, as part of a broader pattern of conflict cycles, without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any specific instance."}, {"id": "house-338", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-27", "speaker": "Art Eggleton", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ing the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Europe on June 4, 1994 when we remembered the sacrifices of thousands of our countrymen on the beaches of Normandy. Today we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.\nWhile we mark the end of a tragic time in human history, we must recognize we have all come a long way.\nThe Nazi holocaust victimized all of humanity. It showed how blind nationalism, racism and bigotry can be.\nThe Nazi Holocaust victimized all of humanity. It showed how blind nationalism, racism and bigotry, a violation of the very basic democratic principles on which our society is based, can lead to incomprehensible suffering and violence.\nThe names of the death camps liberated half a century ago ring out as sacred prayers: Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz-Birkenau. These places have become holy ground. We must remember them because they symbolize what humanity is capable of and remind us of our obligation not only to millions of men, women and children who fell victim to tyranny but to future generations around the world.\nCanada remembers the suffering of Europe. We remember the deaths of six million Jews and the victimization of millions of other innocent people persecuted because of their religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or political views.\nCanada remembers the selfless sacrifice of thousands of our soldiers who offered their lives for freedom, democracy and for a better future for us today. We honour all of their memories by ensuring we remember why they died. We honour the …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/27/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Art Eggleton (York Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Toronto Jewish Community", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Nazi Holocaust and its horrors (nationalism, racism, bigotry, suffering, violence) in clearly disapproving terms, emphasizing the violation of democratic principles and the obligation to remember victims. No specific named actor beyond the Nazis is identified as responsible; the condemnation is general and memorial in nature."}, {"id": "house-339", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-26", "speaker": "Preston Manning", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… iversary of the allied liberation of the concentration camps in Europe.\nYom Hashoah is a day to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust. It is a day to make a pledge for the future: never again. It is a day to rededicate ourselves to the sacred principle that all people are born equal regardless of race or creed.\nWhen racist extremism flourished in Nazi Germany, the Jewish people were targeted for death and six million were murdered. Millions of others were also killed. When the rights of some are attacked on the grounds of race or religion, ultimately the rights and freedoms of all are undermined.\nOn behalf of the Reform Party, I solemnly vow that we shall honour the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust by remaining vigilant against those who would divide us by promoting hatred and discrimination."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/04/26/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred and discrimination, vows vigilance against those promoting division based on race/religion, without naming specific perpetrators of current hostility"}, {"id": "house-340", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-13", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e House about hate crime I really am amazed. This is the year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of the second world war. We are all proud of the contributions that Canadian soldiers made.\nLet us think back to what happened during the second world war. Everybody seems to forget. Let us talk about some of the hate crimes that occurred during that war. The horrors that the Jews suffered are well known. First they lost their property, their jobs, their civil rights. Then they were taken to the gas chambers. When the war came to an end six million Jews had died in the holocaust.\nI cannot for the life of me understand how this year when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of victory in the second world war we could have such flippant attitudes in the House about hate crimes. It is just amazing.\nWe have all heard about the Spirit of St. Louis that went from port to port looking for refuge for Jews. They were turned away at port after port and were sent back to their deaths. Nobody wanted to know or to believe this was happening.\nA few short months ago we remembered the 80th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenians when 2.5 million people died. They died because of hate. Finally we seem to have some good news coming our way. Members of the IRA are putting down their arms. What is the basis of that conflict? It is a religious conflict-hatred.\nTake a look at the present situation in Yugoslavia. What do we have there? It is not some minor disagreement. A holocaust is\noccurring right now and it is based on hate. There are also the Hutus and the Tutsi in Rwanda. It goes on and on.\nRecently I attended a NATO conference in Budapest in eastern Europe. The major problem discussed in the civilian affairs committee related to the treatment of minorities and avoiding the examples of history. How do you do that? It is done by recogni …", "… ile they were trying to speak. I am referring to members of the Reform Party. They have been a major disappointment on this issue to me personally.\nI come from the community of Kitchener-Waterloo where neo-Nazis have made their presence felt. They have marched in front of European Sound. They have spewed forward their hate propaganda. One of the Jewish activists in my community, Mona Zetner, had her house burned down. She had to go into hiding.\nAs a person who came to this country as a refugee having grown up in war torn Europe, I can appreciate what hatred has done. I would suggest to members of the House that perhaps they might think about that, look around at the …", "… The Urban Alliance on Race Relations support the bill.\nI say this to my colleagues in the Reform Party because they often ask for the police officers' stance. The chief of police for Ottawa says: \"As chief of police, I strongly support this legislative change that will allow my officers to effectively work to counter hate crimes in our community. I urge the quick passage of Bill C-41\".\nThe Canadian Jewish Congress, a community so much more than many others knows the effect of hate and hate crimes, supports the bill. The list goes on and on.\nLet me end with the support that comes from the Canadian Federation of Municipalities. At its March meeting held in Ottawa, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' national board of directors endorsed a resolution concerning violence arising from hatred over race, religi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'flippant attitudes in the House about hate crimes' and expresses amazement/dismay at the hostility toward Jews described (Holocaust, St. Louis ship), without naming specific individuals as responsible for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-341", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-13", "speaker": "Peter Milliken", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… dge consider certain aggravating circumstances. One of those aggravating circumstances is stated to be evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on a number of factors. What could possibly be wrong with that?\nI can understand an argument that says we should have equality of treatment. An assault is an assault is an assault. If somebody gets bumped on the head whether it is because the person is out to beat him up because he is black, gay, Catholic,\nJewish, or whatever, okay, maybe that should not be treated differently. I understand that argument and that appears to be the argument Reform Party members are advancing although they are doing it in the most cumbersome fashion imaginable. They are putting all kinds of other things in the bill.\nIf that is the only argument, …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kingston and the Islands", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Privilege — Alleged Misuse of Intraparliamentary Internet--Speaker's Ruling", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes an argument about hate crime sentencing without endorsing or condemning the inclusion of bias motivation as an aggravating factor. They present the Reform Party's position neutrally while discussing the logic of treating bias-motivated crimes the same as other crimes."}, {"id": "house-342", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-19", "speaker": "Nic Leblanc", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , but we cannot ignore the fact that these weapons are used and have been used in the past and that they kill adults and children who are innocent of any involvement in wars or conflicts.\nThese weapons could also be used against groups who are against a given religion, for instance.\nA whole congregation of Christians, Jews or Muslims can be destroyed with these weapons. They are not just used to wage war but also to defend all kinds of ideologies and, in the process to attack innocent people. That is why today I again want to take a few moments to condemn these horrifying weapons.\nThese weapons can make people chronically ill. People are attacked physically, and their health may suffer for the rest of their lives. They are very dangerous in that respect as well. These weapons can also cont …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jews as a potential target group of weapons in a hypothetical scenario ('could also be used against groups'), but is discussing weapons generally and their dangers, not describing actual hostility toward Jews or taking a position on such hostility."}, {"id": "house-343", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-15", "speaker": "Lee Morrison", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for York-Simcoe seems to suffer from the same misapprehension as her colleagues in that she believes Bill C-41 is a bill with only one clause. We hear nothing except the so-called hate clause over and over again.\nThe member from Thunder Bay-Atikokan wants to play on that field. I will join her there.\nMy mythical Jewish gentleman wanders into a bad section of town and is beaten half to death by someone who does not know he is Jewish in order to steal his wallet. On another occasion he suffers the same type of treatment from someone who knows he is Jewish and decides that for his daily kicks he will beat up on Jews. As an afterthought …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/06/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hypothetical scenarios of violence against a Jewish person to illustrate a legal or policy point about Bill C-41, without condemning the violence, naming specific perpetrators, or taking a clear position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-344", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-11-30", "speaker": "Osvaldo Nunez", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hip and Immigration. Anatoli Delets and his family came to Canada from the former Soviet Union in 1992. Their refugee claim has been turned down and this family, despite having integrated well into Quebec society, will soon be deported to Moldavia. There is every reason to believe that they will be subject to the same persecution as they were before they left that country, for Mrs. Delets is Jewish and is not considered a Moldavian under that country's laws.\nHow can the minister explain that, instead of exercising his discretionary powers to allow the Delets to become permanent residents, he has allowed employees of his department to arrest Mr. Delets and place him in a detention centre awaiting deportation, whi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/11/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1995/11/30/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Bourassa", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Hate Propaganda Via Electronic Highway", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies the minister and his department's employees as responsible for allowing persecution of a Jewish person by denying refugee status and ordering deportation to a country where she faces persecution based on her religion."}, {"id": "house-345", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-10-29", "speaker": "Hon. Jim Carr (Minister of International Trade Diversification, Lib.)", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t, we horrifically saw why when on Saturday, 11 worshippers were killed in Pittsburgh only because they were Jewish.\n Jewish people have been in Canada since 1759 and now our community of more than 350,000 continues to contribute impressively to our national mosaic. My grandparents came to Canada in 1906, escaping the pogroms of the tsar. They were persecuted only because they were Jewish. That is yet another reason to underline the importance of security to the State of Israel.\n I have visited Israel many times and made my first trip as Canada's Minister of International Trade Diversification in August. Canada and Israel have forged a partnership that continues to deepen with each passing year. Streng …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/10/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/10/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Refugees", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Pittsburgh shooting targeting Jewish worshippers as a factual incident without condemning it directly or naming/blaming specific parties for the hostility. The passage reports the event and contextualizes Jewish history in Canada."}, {"id": "house-346", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-10-29", "speaker": "Peter Kent", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, it is an honour to speak to Bill C-85, an act that would amend and strengthen a free trade agreement between Canada and the only democracy in the Middle East. I speak with particularly passionate solidarity with Jews in Israel, around the world and in my riding of Thornhill tonight because this debate is taking place in the shadow of the hate-driven outrage in Pittsburgh on the weekend. I will speak more directly of that in a few moments.\nFirst, I will speak to Bill C-85. Canada's original formal free trade agreement with Israel came into force in 1997. Negotiations to update it began under Prime Minister Harper in 2014. The legislation we have before us t …", "… es that should improve the economic and social environment for an eventual negotiated peace agreement, which would see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in a peaceful co-existence that has, for most of the past century, been obstructed by tyrants and terrorists who would rather continue the futile, tragic, hateful obsession with eliminating the State of Israel and the Jewish population with it.\nI have been to Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the neighbouring countries of the Levant many times over the years. My first visit was to have been in June 1967, as a journalist assigned to cover the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. However, that conflict was so short, six days, and Israel so decisively defea …", "… the Palestinian intifadas, the Gaza war and, until today, Iran's proxy-sponsoring of continued terrorist rocketing and attempted terrorist infiltration from Gaza. In fact, this past weekend, we saw dozens of rockets fired from Gaza by Islamic Jihad on orders from Iran's Quds Force, coincidentally only hours before the hate-driven, deadliest attack on a Jewish community in North America at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue. Most of the rockets from Gaza were intercepted, shot down by Israel's Iron Dome defence system. Israel responded with air strikes against 80 sites across Gaza.\nIn North America, in my home riding of Thornhill and across Canada, as across the United States, there have been heartfelt condolences offered to victims of the weekend atrocity, and today, to the victims of the Pittsburgh murder, declarations of unity against hate and plans for multi-faith vigils. Nonetheless, this weekend's events are a terrible reminder that Israel and Jewish communities in the diaspora remain under constant threat from individuals and organizations that would destroy it and destroy them.\nThis brings me to happier recollections of visits to Israel as a member of Parliament and as a minister, as a member of Prime Minister Harper's historic visit to Israel and his powerful restatement of Canada's commitment to Israel, through fire …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/10/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/10/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses 'passionate solidarity with Jews' and calls the Pittsburgh synagogue attack 'hate-driven' and 'deadliest attack on a Jewish community in North America,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-347", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-02-09", "speaker": "Pierre Paul-Hus", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… It is incredible that a prime minister would make such a comment. Not only is it absurd, but it is completely irresponsible.\nMany of these people have returned to Canada with terrorist training, which is based on hatred for everything that is contrary to their views. These terrorists have committed unthinkable acts of violence. They have shot homosexuals, raped women and young girls, and killed Christians, Jews, and members of other faiths. \nToday, the Prime Minister not only believes that these animals can be integrated into our society, but that they can be a powerful voice. Does the Prime Minister mean that they are a powerful voice for radicalization? Does he perhaps mean that they are a powerful voice for turning back t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/02/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/02/09/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes violence against Jews as part of a broader list of terrorist atrocities (killing Christians, Jews, and members of other faiths) without taking a position on whether this constitutes hostility toward Jews specifically, or on how to respond to it."}, {"id": "house-348", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-02-09", "speaker": "Kelly McCauley", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… le goes on to cite an official Saudi report that stated that the Saudis have donated millions in Canada, including for the Salaheddin centre, which runs “a mosque and private elementary school where the Khadr family and other...radicals linked to [Al Qaeda] belong, and where the organization's website preaches against Jews and Christians.”\nHere is a delightful statement from that website, which is funded with help from the Saudis:\n Why do we hate the Jews? We hate them for the sake of our Lord, we hate them for the sake of Allaah because they slandered Allaah and they killed and slandered His Prophets. \nHere we have Saudi funding coming into Canada promoting hate.\nI want to chat more about the Saudis for a moment. Saudi attacks in Yemen have led to over 4,000 civilian casualties, hitting homes, hospitals, and school …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/02/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/02/09/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton West", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton West, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the Salaheddin centre (funded by Saudis) and its website as responsible for preaching against Jews, then quotes hateful anti-Jewish content from that website and states 'Saudi funding coming into Canada promoting hate.'"}, {"id": "house-349", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-12-11", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on this 70th anniversary of the UN adoption of the genocide convention, we live in a world where this most atrocious of crimes still exists. This House has recently recognized that Yazidis and Rohingyas were victims of genocide, but even in our own land we are seeing increases in hate crimes targeting the Jewish, Muslim and black communities. Concerns and fear have increased. Action is needed. Genocide must be taught in our schools.\n I want to congratulate the Foundation for Genocide Education, founder Heidi Berger, and members Lucy Shapiro and Marcy Bruck, who convinced the Quebec education ministry to create a genocide teac …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/12/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/12/11/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to increases in hate crimes targeting Jewish communities without naming specific perpetrators, and calls for action against these harms."}, {"id": "house-350", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-12-05", "speaker": "Rob Nicholson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… Jewish people and the celebration of Hanukkah. The word “Hanukkah” is Hebrew for dedication. The holiday commemorates the festival of lights, when one day's supply of olive oil miraculously lasted for eight days during the dedication of the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem.\n Last Sunday, I was honoured to be asked by Rabbi Zaltzman to light the first candle on the menorah in Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls. At a time when people of faith are being persecuted around the world, celebrating our heritage and religions is critical. I would like to thank Rabbi Zaltzman, from Chabad in the Niagara region, for putting together this event each year.\n As the word Hanukkah denotes dedication, may we dedicate ourselves to ensuring religious freedom in Canada and around the world. I would like to take this opportunity to wish a happy Hanukkah to my colleagues in this House and acr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/12/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/12/05/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Niagara Falls", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Hanukkah celebration and their participation in lighting the menorah, mentions religious persecution generally, but does not describe any specific hostility toward Jews or take a position on it."}, {"id": "house-351", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-05-09", "speaker": "Michael Levitt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in 1939, the MS St. Louis was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany seeking to escape persecution. To Canada's everlasting shame, the government of the day refused to provide that sanctuary. The refugees returned to Europe, where many were killed in the Holocaust. Since being elected, I have worked alongside my colleagues for our government to recognize that tragic event. Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced what our government will do to recognize the wrongs of the past.\nCan he share this with the members of the House?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/05/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/05/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Canada's 1939 refusal to accept Jewish refugees as a wrong and shame, without naming specific individuals responsible for that historical decision.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-352", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-01-29", "speaker": "Scott Reid", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ere have been discussions among the parties, and I hope you will find the unanimous consent of the House for the following motion that the House recognize that acts of violence and bigotry directed against religious believers, such as the June 23, 1985, bombing of Air India flights 182 and 301; the September 15, 2001, firebombing of the Hindu Samaj Temple and the Hamilton Mountain Mosque; the April 5, 2004, firebombing of Montreal's United Talmud Torah Jewish school; and the January 29, 2017, murder of Muslims at the Quebec City Islamic cultural centre, are inimical to a free, peaceful, and plural society, and declare January 29 of every year as a national day of solidarity with victims of anti-religious bigotry and violence."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/01/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/01/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to acts of violence and bigotry directed against religious believers, including the firebombing of a Jewish school, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-353", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-01-29", "speaker": "Guy Caron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… lmost 250 hate crimes were reported in 2017. That is almost one every day, just in Montreal. Furthermore, we know that a large number of hate crimes go unreported. \nSilence is a common refuge for those who are tired of hate. Because hate is becoming so prevalent in our society, too many are tuning out, but this is how hate prevails and why we, as parliamentarians, have a special responsibility to speak out.\nHate has always found a target. In the past, it was the Irish, Jews or Italians; today, it is Muslims or Arabs. Who knows which group will be targeted tomorrow? History is watching us.\nI am a white man, and as a white man I do not know what it is like to face racism. I will never be the victim of xenophobic acts, but some of my neighbours, friends, constituents, fellow MPs, and staff …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/01/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/01/29/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Rimouski-Neigette--Témiscouata--Les Basques", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Public Safety", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and hate prevalence generally, including historical and current targeting of Jews among other groups, without naming any specific person or entity as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-354", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-21", "speaker": "Jenny Kwan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, March 21 is the day for the elimination of racial discrimination.\n The fight against racism and discrimination is re-emerging as one of the defining struggles of our generation. From systemic racism experienced by the first peoples, to hate incidents like the horrific attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, to the series of bomb threats at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, we have all felt the rising tide. Last March, as a Canadian of Chinese heritage, I was told by racists to go back to my country.\n From 2014 to 2016, hate crimes in Canada have been on the rise, increasing from 1,295 reported hate crimes to 1,409. We must work hard to send a strong and clear message that we stand firm and united against racism. We must find the courage to speak up and speak out against hate, even if it …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/21/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes bomb threats at Jewish Community Centre as part of 'rising tide' of hate and discrimination, calling for standing 'firm and united against racism' and speaking out against hate, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-355", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-27", "speaker": "Dan Albas", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e House. In this Parliament, I will recall the passionate words from the member for Mount Royal who spoke against the BDS movement. In my view it was a proud moment in the House when 229 members of Parliament on both sides opposed and condemned the BDS movement. The BDS movement serves as a reminder that those who are Jewish still face challenges here in Canada to this very day. In fact, we know of the groups most frequently targeted for hate crimes in Canada the Jewish population is among them. I know all members of this place are concerned about that. \nDoes the bill fix that? No, it does not. However, the bill serves as an important reminder. Here in Canada, we have always known it is our diversity that makes us unique, but despite that diversity, we all have a common love for this …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/27/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that 229 MPs 'opposed and condemned the BDS movement' and expresses concern about hate crimes against Jewish people, without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-356", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-29", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Lord Reading Law Society on its 70th anniversary.\n Lord Reading, which was created in 1948, was founded with the mandate of lobbying for fair representation of Jewish attorneys within the Quebec Bar and on the bench following decades of discrimination. As discrimination against Jewish attorneys was gradually eradicated, Lord Reading turned its attention to fighting for the rights of all minorities, including Quebec's English-speaking attorneys and judges. \nI would ask all my colleagues to help me honour this terrific organization. Its president David Ettedgui, vice-president Inna Nekhim, as well as …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/03/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jewish attorneys without condemning it directly or assigning responsibility to any specific actor; they are reporting on the context for why the organization was founded."}, {"id": "house-357", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-13", "speaker": "Justin Trudeau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , which are then used to attack a woman's right to choose. We believe that public funds should never be used to actively fight against the rights of Canadians, and we will ensure that no money from the Canada summer jobs program is re-funded to organizations that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that use hate against other Canadians of any type, whether they be women, Jewish community groups, or LGBTQ—"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/13/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Papineau", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Prime Minister, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Human Rights", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate directed at Jewish community groups without naming a specific person, party, or organization as responsible for it. The statement expresses opposition to 'hate against...Jewish community groups' as part of broader concern about Charter violations."}, {"id": "house-358", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["moved:\n That the House: (a) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; (b) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; (c) call on the government to (i) immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations, (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently detained in Iran, including Mar …", "… selves into the councils of the world.\nI moved a motion today specifically about Canada's foreign policy towards Iran. This motion calls for a a clear condemnation of the Iranian regime's aggression throughout the Middle East, including the sponsorship of terrorism, and specifically its support for Hamas during recent violent clashes on the Israel border. It calls for a clear condemnation of the Iranian regime's advocacy for a second Holocaust; that is, for the complete destruction of the world's only Jewish state. It calls for a response from the Canadian government to the actions of Iran, the total abandonment of its plan to negotiate the restoration of diplomatic relations with Iran, for aggressive and consistent advocacy for Canadians imprisoned in Iran …", "… ent when it fails to properly support our close allies. \nAside from the supreme leader's tweet, the Iranian role in these events should be eminently clear. The Palestinian ambassador to France has specifically identified the role of Iran in fomenting and supporting these protests in Gaza. \nIran and Hamas seek a second holocaust. My grandmother was a survivor of the first Holocaust, and she instilled in us the necessary sensibility towards those who threaten violence against the Jewish people. It is a sensibility rooted in that historic memory. When people say they are trying to kill us, believe that they mean it and stop them before it is too late. Never expect critics around the world to have the same commitment to our security that we do. Israel will not wait until it is too late to respond to Ir …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as responsible for 'calling for genocide against the Jewish people' and characterizes Iran and Hamas as seeking 'a second holocaust.'"}, {"id": "house-359", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Erin O'Toole", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… s pushing the government on that. Boeing has said it will not sell any type of aircraft to the regime, at a time when more global attention is being paid to Iran, as it should be, because the international community has to condemn the actions of the regime. Just last week, the supreme leader called for genocide on the Jewish people. The Iranians have tried to normalize their positions of hate. We have to be very careful that in this rush, as the Prime Minister naively said in his first few months as the Prime Minister, of responsible engagement with the Iranian regime, we are not somehow normalizing that regime.\nI would point my friend the parliamentary secretary, who is listening to this debate, to the co …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states the international community 'has to condemn the actions of the regime' in reference to the supreme leader's call for genocide against Jewish people, expressing opposition to this hostility without naming a specific person as responsible."}, {"id": "house-360", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Frank Baylis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I enjoyed two points made by my colleague. First, he did a very good job of stating the difference between the regime and the people of Iran. I congratulate him in saying that the regime is responsible for the activity that is happening. We all know the regime has intolerable behaviour toward Jewish people and disseminate hate. However, he also touched on another religious minority, the Baha’í . I would like him to expand on what the regime is doing toward Baha’í and how that is unacceptable behaviour as well."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'the regime is responsible for the activity' and describes its 'intolerable behaviour toward Jewish people and disseminate hate,' directly naming the Iranian regime as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-361", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-07", "speaker": "Glen Motz", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ain, it erodes public safety and hurt honest, hard-working, law-abiding Canadians. \nWe heard very clearly from members of the Jewish community that they were very concerned about eliminating the promotion of terrorism provision as set out in Bill C-59. In 2017, for the third year in a row, there were record numbers of hate crimes against the Jewish community, yet the Liberals would eliminate a Criminal Code provision for making promoting and advocating terrorism illegal. With increased hate crimes, they would allow ISIS to call for violence, and lone-wolf attacks on YouTube and other videos, while continuing to be immune from prosecution.\n I know Canadians do not support this. Canadians do not want to see Canada be the new home of radical terrorism and ISIS terrorists. However, right now, with no prosecution of …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/06/07/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly states that Liberals would eliminate a Criminal Code provision, thereby allowing terrorism promotion that endangers the Jewish community experiencing record hate crimes."}, {"id": "house-362", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-30", "speaker": "Marco Mendicino", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today on Jewish Refugee Day, I wish to commemorate the nearly one million Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Iran and other Arab countries due to religious persecution. These Jewish families were devastated as they were forced into exile and forced to experience injustices, the most egregious human rights violations, systemic violence and even genocide. Fortunately, some were able to flee to Israel, Europe, South America, and even here in Canada where their vibrant communities today exemplify their strength and resilience.\n While the community continues to thrive, we remember these refugees and their lived experiences, as many suffer similar injustices around the world today. On this day, let us reflect and recognize the persecution and the sacrifices of these Jewish refugees and what they had to endure. Let us also celebrate their accomplishments and resilience, all of which are a testament to the strength of this community."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the religious persecution, human rights violations, systemic violence and genocide experienced by Jewish refugees, without naming specific perpetrators responsible for these acts.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-363", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-07", "speaker": "Bob Bratina", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Remembrance Day this year falls in the dark shadow of the recent attack on Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Hateful impulses arise mostly from ignorance and the failure to understand, for instance, how Jews fought side by side with their fellow Canadians and Americans to ensure our freedom. \nIn my city of Hamilton, some of the leading Jewish citizens were veterans, people like businessmen and philanthropists Irving Zucker and Norm Levitt, and prominent lawyer David Goldberg, who flew Spitfires against Germany and earned …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hateful attack on the synagogue and describes hateful impulses negatively, without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-364", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-07", "speaker": "Joël Godin", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… oud to do so.\nToday is a very special day. Earlier in the House, we spared a very special thought for those of the Jewish faith. We reflected about them, apologized, and acknowledged the fact that they, as a people, experienced one of the greatest human tragedies and are still standing. I have a lot of respect for the Jewish people.\nUnfortunately, on October 27, a synagogue in Pittsburgh was attacked. That is unacceptable. It reminds me of the massacre at the mosque in Sainte-Foy, where people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time fell victim to barbaric acts. These types of attacks are unacceptable in a civilized society. The government needs to put measures in place to eliminate as much as possible these …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2018/11/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states the Pittsburgh synagogue attack is 'unacceptable' and calls such attacks 'barbaric,' objecting to the hostility without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-365", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-02-03", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ing himself and his party in the cloak of human rights on the marriage issue, suggesting that support for traditional marriage reflects hostility to basic rights, but Canadian political history tells a totally different story.\nIt was the Liberal Party that imposed the infamous head tax on Chinese immigrants; created a racist immigration system with the Exclusion Act; interred all Japanese Canadians; rejected Jewish refugees before and during the war; imposed martial law in 1970; permitted Ernst Zundel to run for its party leadership in 1968; eliminated constitutionally guaranteed rights for confessional education; and preached moral equivalence during the cold war and in China today.\nIt was Conservative governments that introduc …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/02/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/02/03/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names the Liberal Party as responsible for rejecting Jewish refugees before and during the war, listing this among their historical wrongdoings."}, {"id": "house-366", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-18", "speaker": "Rahim Jaffer", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… opinion has deliberately taken steps to hurt the ethnic communities and individuals of those communities since becoming the immigration minister. I will give some examples.\nOn March 13, he warned members of the Sikh community in Toronto not to criticize the Liberal government. He said, “Keep it inside the family”. He attacked the Jewish publisher of the Western Standard magazine for publishing a satirical poster comparing the Liberal Party to criminals. He then went on to accuse the Conservative Party of being Ku Klux Klan related. He made deliberate comments about an MP from Newton—North Delta who happens to be a Conservative MP and Sikh. Then, last …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that the immigration minister 'attacked the Jewish publisher' for publishing a satirical poster, naming a specific act directed at a Jewish individual."}, {"id": "house-367", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-04", "speaker": "Richard Marceau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in the recent past, the justice minister's predecessors, who were from the same party, did not hesitate to lodge complaints before the judicial council. That happened in 1996, when Justice Bienvenue made discriminatory comments against women and Jews, and again in 1999, when the current Deputy Prime Minister ordered an investigation into Justice Flahiff's behaviour.\nHow can the Minister of Justice conclude that Justice Robert should not be reprimanded for his comments, considering that his predecessors at the Department of Justice showed much more courage than him …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/04/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that Justice Bienvenue 'made discriminatory comments against women and Jews,' naming a specific person and a specific act characterized as discriminatory toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-368", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-17", "speaker": "Richard Marceau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Justice's predecessors wasted no time filing a complaint when judges made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews. Today, the sovereignists are being targeted, and the minister is still refusing to file a complaint.\nIs the minister saying that he would have done nothing and remained silent before discriminatory remarks against women and Jews at the time, which would explain his own discrimination against sovereignists today?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/05/17/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "The speaker criticizes the Minister of Justice for not filing a complaint about discriminatory remarks (against sovereignists), contrasting this with predecessors who promptly filed complaints about discriminatory remarks against women and Jews. The minister is accused of responding too weakly/failing to act."}, {"id": "house-369", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "Mark Warawa", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… government has traditionally relied on the legal definition of marriage, which until recently applied exclusively to opposite sex couples. The provinces are responsible for the solemnization of marriage, which includes licensing and registration.\nBill C-38 is not about human rights. It is about the Liberal government attacking religious rights. Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and other faith based organizations are all vulnerable to activist attacks in the courts and human rights tribunals.\nCanada's judicial courts and human rights tribunals have a near perfect record of finding against religious freedom rights, that are under attack by activists. We saw this in Oshawa where the civil courts ruled that a Catholic school had discriminated against the rights of Mar …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes concerns about religious rights and mentions Jews among faith communities vulnerable to court/tribunal attacks, but does not describe any specific hostility toward Jews, does not name responsible parties for anti-Jewish acts, and does not take a position on whether such hostility exists or is justified."}, {"id": "house-370", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "John Godfrey", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nce and understanding for other people in Canadian society. This has been a great evolving and continuing national project extending human rights over the past years. There was a time, and we can remember it, when people who spoke French in this country, people who were Roman Catholics in this country, people who were Jews, blacks, and women were discriminated against. We have, as part of our increased understanding of what it is to be Canadian, extended rights to those people.\nEven if we pass this bill, as I hope we do, our work will not be done in the field of extending human rights. There are rights for disabled people which have to be dealt with. There are rights for ch …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes past discrimination against Jews as a historical fact while discussing Canada's progress on human rights, without condemning the discrimination itself or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "house-371", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "Marlene Catterall", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ns of Ukrainian origin during the first world war. We imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants and then excluded them entirely. We interned Canadians of Italian origin during World War II. These are times we can only look back on with dismay and wonder that they seemed okay at the time.\nWhen Canada closed its doors to Jews fleeing persecution and almost certain death in Nazi Germany, this was surely one of our darkest moments, yet it appears that these actions were considered okay at the time.\nWe have discriminated based on race. We have discriminated based on ethnicity. We have discriminated based on religion. There was even a time when Roman Catholic marriages were not considered legal in Canada. Jewish marriages were not considered legal. It was considered okay that women were persons under the law in matters of pains and penalties, but not in matters of rights and privileges.\nWhat a debt of gratitude we owe to five brave and determined women who challenged the prevailing opinion and the law of the time to establish …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/03/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's refusal to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany as 'one of our darkest moments' and expresses dismay at historical discrimination, without naming specific individuals or parties responsible for these historical policies."}, {"id": "house-372", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-04-19", "speaker": "Mark Warawa", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… slapped by the Supreme Court.\nIf the Prime Minister really wanted to protect religious freedoms, he would have drafted amendments to the Income Tax Act on charitable status. Before tabling Bill C-38 he had the time to make those changes, but he chose not to.\nBill C-38 is not about human rights, but about the Liberals attacking religious rights. Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and other faith based organizations are all vulnerable to activist attacks in the courts and human rights tribunals.\nCanada's judicial courts and human rights tribunals have a near perfect record of finding against religious rights. We have seen this in Oshawa, where a Catholic school was charged with discrimination for not allowing Marc Hall's boyfriend into the graduation dance. In greater …", "… , and is now the Bishop of Calgary, is being brought before the Human Rights Commission for his defence of marriage. Who is next? Teachers in faith based schools will have to resign or be forced to lecture against their religious beliefs.\nMembers of the Liberal government are describing religious institutions as being discriminatory and have argued already that their charitable tax status should be revoked. This would cause the closure of churches, synagogues, mosques and any faith based organization that disagrees with the Liberal government.\nThe attacks have just started. Marriage is a historic religious union that predates government. From time immemorial it has been a union of one man and one woman. It is more than just two people uniting. It is God being part of it in joining the union according to His will.\nThe government should not change the traditional definit …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/04/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/04/19/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes situations affecting Jewish organizations and religious freedoms without condemning hostility toward Jews specifically, nor naming or blaming anyone for anti-Jewish sentiment. The passage reports concerns about religious institutions generally being vulnerable to legal challenges.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-373", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-06-03", "speaker": "Richard Marceau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ion.\nMy first comment has to do with the importance for the minister of maintaining the integrity of the judiciary, as he has said himself in his speech. This is why he decided against lodging a complaint in Michel Robert's case. However, his predecessor lodged one in 1996 in the case of Justice Bienvenue who had made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews. The then Minister of Justice is now Deputy Prime Minister.\nMy second comment has to do with the representation of minorities in the judiciary. Going back to the point made by the Minister of Justice and the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, if this is so important, can the minister tell us how many judges are bi …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/06/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2005/06/03/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Justice Bienvenue by name and states that he 'had made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews,' directly attributing the hostile act to a specific person."}, {"id": "house-374", "year": 1976, "chamber": "house", "date": "1976-10-19", "speaker": "David Michael Collenette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… encouragement of French immersion courses in English-speaking provinces.\n\nMr. Speaker, many English-speaking Canadians born in Canada forget too easily what a minority group is up against. Simply ask a newly-arrived immigrant in Toronto if it is easy to be accepted by the majority. Put the same question to some of our Jewish friends. The answer will be a loud No. New Canadians must suffer hardships by reason of their language and cultural differences; they face discrimination by reason of colour or religion.\nGenerally speaking, immigrants accept those hardships. They feel it is the price to be paid for acceptance in this country. But the same does not apply to French-speaking Canadians. They are more than a minority, they are part of a minority ranking as an equal partner in this Canadian …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/10/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/10/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination faced by Jewish people and other minorities without condemning it, blaming anyone for it, or taking an evaluative stance—simply stating it as fact in the context of discussing minority experiences in Canada."}, {"id": "house-375", "year": 1976, "chamber": "house", "date": "1976-10-18", "speaker": "Douglas Roche", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ncy.\nThe UN is making progress in solving the deeply human problems of world development. But at this very moment countless people are about to give up on the United Nations. That is why I said at the outset that there is a crisis of the United Nations. It is being subverted by those who are more strongly motivated by racial hatred than by the peaceful development of mankind. Anti-Jewish hatred nearly wrecked the Habitat conference in Vancouver last June. The very existence of UNESCO is threatened by the adamant refusal of the Arab-Communist bloc to allow Israel to join it. Prominent scientists and academics have called for an end to anti-Israel discrimination or face the possible collapse of UNESCO.\nAll people at the UN must find ways to stop the spread of racism in the conferences and resolutions that give th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/10/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/10/18/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies 'those who are more strongly motivated by racial hatred' and 'the Arab-Communist bloc' as responsible for anti-Jewish hatred and anti-Israel discrimination at the UN and UNESCO."}, {"id": "house-376", "year": 1976, "chamber": "house", "date": "1976-02-19", "speaker": "Simma Holt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… wife and three year old baby. He will never find them. They probably died of starvation outside Phnom Penh.\nThe free press goes, and so does freedom. The slightest interference with regard to content or the control of content, and any kind of dictatorship with regard to what can be written, published and heard, are a threat to our freedom.\nThe condition of the press in Russia is well known. My parents recall the silent press that would not help the Jewish people. Today medicine is used by the state to imprison and destroy. Insane asylums are used as a device of torture and punishment. There is no freedom of religion, free right of movement, or job opportunity.\nThe Jews throughout history have been the barometer of lost freedoms, and no place more exemplified this in twentieth century history than did Germany and Russia. Once the persecution begins for them it spreads to others first\n\nFebruary 19, 1976\nNon-Canadian Publications\nalong religious and political lines, and then indiscriminately. It was said by Heinrich Heine in 1834 that since the Exodus, I presume from slavery in Egypt, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Perhaps I feel differently about this bill than some here because I have a different heritage.\nThis legislation, drafted to set a percentage on content by regulation and with no recourse to the courts for a test of its legality, is designed in the name of nationalism. I still say freedom itself, and the struct …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/02/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/02/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical persecution of Jewish people and uses them as an example of threats to freedom, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for current actions.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-377", "year": 1976, "chamber": "house", "date": "1976-06-29", "speaker": "Thomas Charles Cossitt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… regard to copies of certain internal documents of the international service of the CBC which have come into my possession and which indicate, among other things, an attempt by the Department of External Affairs to influence and censor CBC Russian language broadcasts critical of the Communist system on such matters as persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union; and a direct attempt by the Department of External Affairs to silence comments by CBC Russian language commentator Dr. F. Yaroshevsky of 30 Judith Drive, Toronto, as outlined in a series of questions on today's Order Paper. I would therefore move, seconded by the hon. member for Winnipeg South Cen …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/06/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/06/29/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "ORAL QUESTION PERIOD — POST OFFICE — SUGGESTED BANNING OF HATE LITERATURE COMING FROM UNITED STATES", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the Department of External Affairs as responsible for attempting to censor and silence CBC broadcasts about persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union"}, {"id": "house-378", "year": 1976, "chamber": "house", "date": "1976-06-29", "speaker": "Thomas Charles Cossitt", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… to him.\nI will direct my supplementary question to the Secretary of State responsible for the CBC. Is the minister prepared to explain to the House why CBC radio international personnel have been forbidden to give background information on the news or to comment on any political or economic matters, and especially why persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union has been specifically censored from certain broadcasts at the request of the Department of External Affairs?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/06/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1976/06/29/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "ORAL QUESTION PERIOD — POST OFFICE — SUGGESTED BANNING OF HATE LITERATURE COMING FROM UNITED STATES", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific institutions (CBC radio international, Department of External Affairs) as responsible for censoring information about persecution of Jews, stating it was 'specifically censored...at the request of the Department of External Affairs.'"}, {"id": "house-379", "year": 1942, "chamber": "house", "date": "1942-07-07", "speaker": "Vincent Dupuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… conquer the nations of\n\nthe world. I have seen with my own eyes and have read letters from Hitler and Mussolini to their agents in this country and in the United States, advising them to be skilful, to use all their tact and their refinements, to insinuate themselves into high social circles in order there to stir up prejudices-the English against the French, the French against the English, Catholic against Protestant, Protestant against Catholic, and everybody against the Jews. That is the order they have given to their agents. And, mind you, notwithstanding the great and important work done by our Royal Canadian Mounted Police, one of the best police corps in the world, there are still in this country German agents who are doing that work to hamper our war effort. And we are to-day, with t …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1942/07/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1942/07/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker specifically names Hitler and Mussolini as responsible for orders to stir up prejudices against Jews, citing letters from these leaders to their agents directing this hostility."}, {"id": "house-380", "year": 1942, "chamber": "house", "date": "1942-07-31", "speaker": "Major James William Coldwell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nt of one issue there appeared three symbols described as the trinity destroying the country-the Jewish .symbol, the symbol of the Roman Catholic church, and the symbol of the Masonic order.\nI believe I have that copy in my files. This man is still writing to people saying that the root of the cause of this war is the Jewish problem. He is raising race prejudice and hatred. If you listen to Vichy and nazi broadcasts you will find that that is precisely what they are saying in French, in an effort to indicate that this country is something other than we believe it to be. That man has been in the employ of the government."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1942/07/31/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1942/07/31/", "party": "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH — CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies a specific person employed by the government as responsible for raising race prejudice and hatred against Jews, and for promoting antisemitic propaganda similar to Nazi and Vichy broadcasts."}, {"id": "house-381", "year": 1997, "chamber": "house", "date": "1997-11-17", "speaker": "Stéphane Dion", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… peak French. Attention must not be paid to a minority within a minority to a point where the growth of society as a whole is paralyzed.\nOther groups told the committee that the guarantees accorded under section 93 to Catholics and Protestants are at odds with Quebec's modern pluralistic society. Representatives of the Jewish and Arab communities in particular have pointed out that this section contains a form of discrimination. This point too warrants consideration.\nBy passing the amendment proposed by Quebec's National Assembly, Parliament will permit an open and full debate on the whole question, which is what the Quebec minister of education promised, in fact, when she appeared before the committee.\nIn quite another vein, members of Queb …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1997/11/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1997/11/17/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent--Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Content of Flyer", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes what Jewish community representatives told the committee about discrimination in section 93, without personally condemning, naming specific responsible parties, blaming anyone for inaction, or disputing the claim."}, {"id": "house-382", "year": 1956, "chamber": "house", "date": "1956-04-11", "speaker": "Charles Edward Rea", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… y can go home from time to time in order to find out what is going on in their ridings and, as an hon. member says, settle their claims as well.\nI should like to say one or two things about the shipment of arms to Israel. I am and always have been in favour of the shipment of arms to Israel, because this would put the Jews in a position to defend themselves if they were attacked. I think you will agree that Egypt's actions in recent days have shown this to be a fact. I cannot understand why more definite action was not taken sooner by the United Nations which created the state of Israel, because everyone realized that trouble was bound to occur; but nothing seemed to be done until the fightin …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1956/04/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1956/04/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the situation involving arms shipment to Israel and mentions Egypt's actions, but does not explicitly condemn hostility toward Jews, name responsible parties for such hostility, blame enablers, or dispute claims of antisemitism. The passage discusses Israel's defensive needs rather than taking a position on hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "house-383", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-10-24", "speaker": "Warren Allmand", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the minister of finance, Mr. Landry, which attacked the ethnic minorities in Quebec for their votes in the referendum and the interpretation of the poll results. These were statements which terribly upset the ethnic minorities in Quebec. There were recent statements which were even more extreme from Mr. Villeneuve who attacked the Jewish community in Quebec and said that they would get theirs once independence was brought about.\nDo these kinds of statements encourage employers to come to Montreal: extremism in language policy; proposals to bring back the language police, which has even been attacked by part of the sovereignist community in Quebec and …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/10/24/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/10/24/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Mr. Villeneuve as responsible for attacking the Jewish community, attributing a specific hostile statement to him about what would happen to Jews after independence."}, {"id": "house-384", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Julian Reed", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews during the years when it was not a very popular thing to do. How ludicrous it seems that there was the same kind of fear at that time as has been expressed by some members of this House today. On Sunnyside Beach in Toronto there were signs which read: No dogs or Jews allowed. He became part of that movement which brought society a little further forward and brought to an end that open discrimination against Jews in Toronto.\nThis bill, this particular amendment to the human rights act simply adds one more step in the progress of a country that is looked upon as being generous, tolerant and appreciative of the other person. It is right and fitting that we should support this and not succumb to the fear that is being generated s …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical discrimination ('No dogs or Jews allowed' signs) and current expressions of fear/hostility toward Jews, framing support for human rights protections as progress against such discrimination."}, {"id": "house-385", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Barry Campbell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… arty noted for its defence of human rights and its advocacy on behalf of minorities. I am proud that the day has arrived where we are debating this measure which is long overdue.\nThe bill does not take anything away from anyone else. It does not create special status but it responds to a reality. Gays and lesbians are discriminated against in our society because of what they are.\nI guess as a Jew I have a special sensitivity to other minorities because of my people's history. The Jewish people have known discrimination, persecution and worse in this century and throughout the centuries, too often simply because of who they are or what they are perceived to be. I attach great significance to what we are doing here today. I think Jews have a special responsibility to stand up in support of a human rights measure such as this.\nI am very pleased that the two principal organizations which speak for the Jewish community, namely B'nai Brith Canada with its fine record in defence of human rights with the fine work of the League of Human Rights and the Canadian Jewish Congress with its fine work as well in this field. They both stand strongly behind the government's efforts in amending the human rights act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.\nThere are other parallels perhaps to the experience of the Jewish people that may be missed by some of my colleagues.\nPerhaps some of us have a special sensitivity, but I get concerned when I hear people in this great country-our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our acquaintances-referred to in ways that make them seem as outsiders. Those kinds of words have a dehumanizing effect …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker draws on historical Jewish experiences with discrimination and persecution to support a human rights bill, but does not identify or condemn any specific current hostility toward Jews in the passage."}, {"id": "house-386", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ened to Canadians with Japanese ancestry during the second world war is well known. They were uprooted, put in camps, dispersed outside British Columbia, and their properties were confiscated.\nIn my community of Kitchener-Waterloo there is no question there were problems involving the German population. There was also discrimination against Italians during the second world war.\nJews were discriminated against in this century and previous centuries. The Spirit of St. Louis , a boat carrying hundreds of Jews, was denied access to free ports. The people on it, mostly women and children, ended up being killed.\nI came to this country as a refugee in 1957 from Hungary. I am painfully aware of what is happening in Europe, the former Yugoslavia and other countries right now. In those other countries there are problems with mino …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/07/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews (the St. Louis incident, past discrimination) and current problems in Europe without explicitly condemning or blaming anyone specific for these hostilities."}, {"id": "house-387", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-08", "speaker": "Brenda Chamberlain", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… fficials, must take a stand and say we do not tolerate bigotry. We cannot accept that some Canadians, our sons, daughters, mothers, daughters, co-workers, employees and friends, are denied goods and services, are overlooked for promotion, are ignored or, worse, beaten because of who they are. The only thing we must be intolerant of is intolerance against others.\nThis amendment has the support of such national organizations as the Canadian Jewish Congress, the YWCA, the Canadian Bankers Association, the Canadian Bar Association and the Anglican Church of Canada.\nI know there is concern about this legislation. Much of this concern has resulted from the importance of marriage and family. I know there are individuals who enjoy stretching the facts. These same peo …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/08/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to denial of goods/services, overlooked promotions, and violence against people based on identity (implicitly including Jews, given context of Canadian Jewish Congress support), without naming specific persons or parties responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-388", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-09", "speaker": "Gordon Kirkby", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ian.\nI have heard it suggested that this bill provides special rights. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bill C-33 will not give special rights to anyone. If an individual is discriminated against on the basis of colour, whether black or white, they are protected by human rights legislation. If an individual is discriminated against on the ground of religion, be they Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or some other religion, they are protected by human rights legislation. Similarly, if an individual is discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation, be they heterosexual or homosexual, human rights legislation offers protection.\nProtection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation at the federal level means that a person who has been fired by an air carrier or a railway company or was denied service by a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/05/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker affirms that discrimination against Jews (listed among religions) should be protected against by human rights legislation, objecting to the notion that such protections constitute 'special rights.'"}, {"id": "house-389", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-09-23", "speaker": "Eleni Bakopanos", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the separatist movement has long been associated with groups and individuals who promote segregation, racism and intolerance.\nIn today's Gazette , Raymond Villeneuve, president of the Mouvement du libération nationale du Québec openly attacked the Jewish community of Quebec. He stated: ``If there is trouble after Quebec becomes independent, nationalists will remember who was against them''.\nI appeal directly to the leader of the official opposition to publicly and strongly condemn these racist and violent comments, which have no place in our society.\nSeparatists want …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/09/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/09/23/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Raymond Villeneuve and the Mouvement du libération nationale du Québec as responsible for hostile statements attacking the Jewish community, citing a specific quote."}, {"id": "house-390", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-23", "speaker": "Hedy Fry", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… uld like to see us acknowledge a tragic systemic massacre and degradation of the Armenian people which began in 1915 under the Ottoman empire and recognize the day April 24 as a day to mourn for those who suffered. Yet on April 15 we also mark the holocaust as a day to remember with sorrow the slaughter of millions of Jews and on April 27 we celebrate the death of apartheid, the triumph of freedom over the decades of legislated racism, bigotry and murder of black South Africans.\nThis amendment seeks to remember all of these peoples and more. It proposes to set a week to mourn man's inhumanity to man, all the women who for millennia have been raped in the name of power, all the children who have been orphaned in the struggle for freedom, all those who have b …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/23/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes commemorative dates for various historical atrocities including the Holocaust without taking a position on hostility toward Jews; presents information about remembrance proposals."}, {"id": "house-391", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Geoff Regan", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… lar category we cannot treat them as less than human.\nFor example, there have been times in the past when people who were black or of other races were treated as less than human. Society said it was all right to do that. Even the courts said it was all right to do that. We are saying to the courts, by saying we cannot discriminate on the ground of race, that is not right any more, we cannot do that.\nThere was a time when Jews were treated as less than human. People of other religions were treated as less than human. We are saying that is not permissible.\nThere were times when children were treated as less than children. Society said it was all right. The courts said it was all right. However, the Canadian Human Rights Act states we cannot …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical treatment of Jews as less than human and states it is 'not permissible,' without naming specific perpetrators or assigning blame for enabling it."}, {"id": "house-392", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Barry Campbell", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a life of service to his people and his faith.\nCanadian Jews have made an enormous contribution to this country. Canadians have stood by Israel during its darkest moments and continue to work with Israel in the search for peace in the Middle East.\nRabbi Lau will be aware of the attempted bombing yesterday at Calgary's Jewish Centre. Happily, no one was seriously injured. I hope that when Rabbi Lau returns to Israel it will be with the knowledge that all Canadians condemn violent and hateful acts."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'all Canadians condemn violent and hateful acts' in reference to the attempted bombing at the Jewish Centre"}, {"id": "house-393", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Jan Brown", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… wish Centre. On behalf of all of my colleagues I would like to extend our support for the intended victims of the bombing.\nThankfully I have received assurances from the centre that everyone is all right and that the centre is continuing today in its place of prominence in the Calgary community. Members of the Calgary Jewish community should be applauded for their perseverance and their refusal to be intimidated by these bigoted acts of violence.\nAt this point in time the police have no information regarding the motivation for the crime. I only hope that calm will prevail in the city. I call on Calgarians and Canadians to reserve their judgments until such time as it is known exactly who is responsible for this heinous attack on a valued community organizatio …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/04/30/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the bombing and describes it as 'bigoted acts of violence' and a 'heinous attack' without naming or blaming any specific person or group for committing it."}, {"id": "house-394", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-06-04", "speaker": "Osvaldo Nunez", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the many francophone journalists who were incensed by the minister's remarks, and the personal show of support I received, I also have the support of the Parti Quebecois, the Quebec NDP, the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, the Black Coalition of Quebec, the FTQ, the CSN, B'Nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Spanish Canadian Congress, to name just a few.\nFar from withdrawing his discriminatory comments on all new Canadians and new Quebecers, the minister added to them.\nIn such a context, I see no other alternative for him but to resign. As for me, I will keep on striving to find another country, Quebec."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/06/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/06/04/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Bourassa", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Hate Propaganda Via Electronic Highway", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies 'the minister' as responsible for making 'discriminatory comments' and calls for his resignation, directly attributing hostile conduct to a named official."}, {"id": "house-395", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-11-05", "speaker": "Gilles Duceppe", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… r. Roux is not able to carry out his duties as lieutenant-governor of Quebec in a dignified manner.\nWe believe that, having worn the swastika and taken part in a demonstration whose stated purpose was to wreck the offices of The Gazette , during which endeavour damage was done to businesses belonging to members of the Jewish community, Quebec's lieutenant-governor, Jean-Louis Roux, cannot carry out his duties as representative of Her Majesty the Queen without prejudice to the people of Quebec.\nIn particular, the lieutenant-governor has expressed no regret for over 50 years, having made no public apology to Quebecers, Canadians and the Jewish community.\nI would therefore ask that you consider favourably my request for an emergency debate."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/11/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1996/11/05/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Directly identifies Jean-Louis Roux as responsible for specific hostile acts: wearing a swastika and participating in a demonstration to wreck offices during which Jewish businesses were damaged."}, {"id": "house-396", "year": 1903, "chamber": "house", "date": "1903-07-14", "speaker": "Thomas Simpson Sproule", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… on, and if we make a proper discrimination among those whom we allow to come here, the results cannot fail to be beneficial to Canada. We should never set apart so many townships for this colony and so many for that, so many for the Barr colony, or the Doukhobor colony, or the Galician colony, or the colony of Russian Jews. In my judgment that is wrong, and we will live to regret it. There is too much discrimination against our own Canadians. If we try to get people in from the United States, what do we do ? In the first place, we pay an agent a commission Mr. SPROULE.\nto bring them here. Suppose that agent goes over there and tries to bring in a family composed of ten individuals. There is a father and five sons. We pay him $3 a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1903/07/14/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1903/07/14/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies 'the colony of Russian Jews' as a problematic group that should not be set apart in separate townships, characterizing this policy as discriminatory and wrong, thus attributing responsibility for harmful treatment to the immigration policy itself regarding Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-397", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-02-02", "speaker": "Nelson Andrew Riis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ecided to use our naval gunboats to force that ship to return to a port in India. Those Sikh immigrants were forced to return to their homeland against their wishes and their will.\nThe Kamagata Maru incident, as it is now referred to, is a very dark mark on our history. There are others. As an example, a ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany and other parts of Europe came to Canada and\nthe Canadian Government forced it to return to Europe. We did not want to welcome those refugees at the time. The federal government of the day thought this was inappropriate and forced the boat to return to Europe. I am afraid to say that sources tell us th …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "N.D.P. House Leader", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE, IMMIGRATION ACT, 1976 AND CITIZENSHIP ACT MEASURE TO AMEND", "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes forcing Jewish refugees back to Europe as 'a very dark mark on our history' and expresses regret ('I am afraid to say'), objecting to the historical treatment without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-398", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-02-02", "speaker": "Simon Leendert de Jong", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ship St. Louis which, with around 900 European Jews trying to escape what they knew was coming in Europe, set forth to find a safe haven across the Atlantic. They were turned back by numerous countries, including Canada. They returned to Europe and very few of those 900 European Jews survived. They were caught in the Holocaust and died in Nazi concentration camps. That situation was something that we as Canadians could have prevented, except that our political prejudices and fears at the time entered into the picture and we denied people access to Canada.\nIt is not with total pride that we as Canadians can look at our record. We have to recognize that we have made mistakes in the past, mistakes that have cost people's lives, people who otherwise would have made a tremendous contributi …", "… the day which turned back the boatload of European Jews.\nThe Government called us back last summer in order to deal with Bill C-84 and this great national emergency as the Government described the situation. The Bill has too many overtones of what the Government did in 1938 when it turned back the boatload of European Jews. There are too many overtones of racial and political prejudices here.\nWhat we are debating today is the Government's response to the Senate. I know you are aware, Mr. Speaker, that I have no great love for that institution called the Senate. I think a non-elected body of essentially politically motivated people, a body consisting of political appointees, should not have the power …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Canada's historical turning away of the St. Louis and characterizes it as resulting from 'political prejudices and fears' that cost lives. Also condemns current government bill for having 'overtones of racial and political prejudices' similar to 1938 actions.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-399", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-02-02", "speaker": "Nelson Andrew Riis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… 2, 1988\nImmigration Act, 1976\nWhat would have happened if the native people of Canada had a similar immigration policy as this after they came to North America via the land bridge tens of thousands of years ago? I suspect that many of us would not be here today.\nI vividly recall two events in our recent past. In 1939, Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe came to Montreal on the ship St. Louis, where the immigration authorities of the day, with the support of the Government of the day, turned the ship back to Europe. Evidence indicates that most of those people on that ship died at the hands of the Nazis. That was a black day in our history which we never wan …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/02/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "N.D.P. House Leader", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE, IMMIGRATION ACT, 1976 AND CITIZENSHIP ACT MEASURE TO AMEND", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes the 1939 St. Louis incident as 'a black day in our history which we never wan[t to repeat]', objecting to the historical exclusion of Jewish refugees without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-400", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-02-01", "speaker": "Marion Dewar", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ruary 1, 1988\nImmigration Act, 1976\nwe would look at securing the people who were on the boats and giving them an adequate opportunity to prove whether or not they were refugees.\nWith this Bill as it stands, we are right back to the kind of situation that existed in 1939 where, to our disgrace, we turned a boatload of Jewish refugees back to Europe at a time when they were being so badly persecuted. The result was that many of them ended up in concentration camps where they were killed. That is the kind of thing we are leaving ourselves open to now if we do not amend this legislation. Certainly there have been judges right across this country, and around the world, who have looked at this Bill and are very conce …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/02/01/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the historical hostility (turning away Jewish refugees in 1939) and warns the current bill could enable similar discrimination, without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-401", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-01-27", "speaker": "Iain Francis Angus", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ta Maru on our West Coast. They docked at Vancouver, were quarantined by the Canadian Government, and eventually sent back. When that boat got back to India, its original departure point, some of those Sikh refugees were killed by the British police.\nSome 30 years later another boatload arrived. That one contained 900 Jewish refugees from Europe who attempted to enter Canada as a means of providing themselves with a safe place to live, one free not only from persecution but from death. I was ashamed last summer when I visited the memorial to the Holocaust in Israel to see the photographs of the people on the St. Louis that we as Canadians-and I emphasize \"we as Canadians\" because we tolerated the decision of our Government; it was our Government-turned away from our shores. We said to these human beings, \"We don't want you\". They eventually lost their lives to Nazism. …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/01/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/01/27/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses shame about Canada's rejection of Jewish refugees and describes the decision as turning away people facing persecution and death, without naming a specific responsible party beyond 'our Government' in collective terms."}, {"id": "house-402", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-04-27", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… f the Holocaust, that blot on the collective memory of mankind, this state has settled Jewish refugees from over 75 nations of the world, renewed the land, planted trees, built roads, housing, industry, set up hospitals and health services, and put in place a modern democracy founded on the basic values of traditional Jewish culture, respect for learning, justice and charity.\nYet even with these successes no nation is whole without peace. This fledgling state has withstood assaults from its Arab neighbours, and survived continuous hostility and a condition of quasi-war ever since it was born.\nSince its founding days Israel has fought five wars for survival, and its citizens still face an ongoing difficult security situation.\nWhile the present unrest concerns us all, we must not give up hope. We …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/04/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/04/27/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Israel and its citizens without condemning antisemitism specifically, nor naming, blaming, or disputing anything related to hostility toward Jews. The passage reports on historical events and security situations."}, {"id": "house-403", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-04-15", "speaker": "Svend Johannes Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Attorney General of New Brunswick recently said that while Malcolm Ross' writings, which speak of a global Jewish conspiracy and deny the Holocaust, almost certainly constitute hate literature, he says the existing law is effectively useless. His Conservative predecessor said the same thing.\nI am asking this Minister of Justice if he is prepared to make the same commitment made by his predecessor to amend these laws which are simply not enforceable right now? Will he take that important step?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/04/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/04/15/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS-PUBLIC BILLS — CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACT — AMENDMENTS TO PROHIBIT DISCR1MINATION ON GROUND OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Malcolm Ross and attributes to him specific hostile acts: writings that speak of a global Jewish conspiracy and deny the Holocaust, characterized as hate literature."}, {"id": "house-404", "year": 1988, "chamber": "house", "date": "1988-06-17", "speaker": "Sheila Maureen Copps", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… took over the portfolio of Employment and Immigration. I thought she would return with legislation which would exclude the possibility of turning a boat away. I would have thought that she would have done that because in a period of war this country, not Vancouver, not Toronto, not a specific community, responded in a racist way by turning away a ship full of Jewish refugees who were seeking solace here. Eventually that ship was sent back and those people went to their deaths. That is a tragedy that should hang on the consciences of all Canadians, because that decision was made by a Government representing the people of Canada. We have made mistakes, and that one was a deadly and …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/06/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1988/06/17/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to and expresses moral disapproval of Canada's historical decision to turn away Jewish refugees during WWII, calling it 'racist' and 'a tragedy,' without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-405", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-09", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, one of the most odious promoters of hatred and bigotry in North America, Fred Phelps, has announced that he plans to spread his disgusting message here on Parliament Hill on October 13.\nMr. Phelps reserves his worst messages of hatred for homosexuals but he has a long list of those he dislikes: Catholics, Jews, anybody with whom he disagrees.\nThis Mr. Phelps promotes ideas which are not welcome in Canada. His abuse of freedom of expression is a mockery to that right which we all treasure. Mr. Phelps pretends to hold his positions based on religious conviction but he makes a mockery of religious conviction.\nOn behalf of all …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/09/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names Fred Phelps as a promoter of hatred and bigotry who includes Jews among those he dislikes, directly attributing hostility toward Jews to this named individual."}, {"id": "house-406", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-22", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… imously to create a national day of remembrance of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Memorial Day will ensure that Canadians always remember that six million Jews lost their lives.\nIn 1939, Canada joined the second world war. Over one million Canadians served in uniform, fighting against the Nazi army, fighting against the persecution of innocent people. The Canadian people were shocked by the horrors of the Holocaust and, to this day, we stand up against intolerance and small-mindedness, both at home and in missions abroad.\nNext April on Yom Hashoah, the annual day of the Holocaust, Canadians will commemorate the millions of lives lost and reaffirm our nation's commitment to tolerance and justice."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/22/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses opposition to intolerance and persecution, commits to standing against it, and establishes commemorative measures to remember Holocaust victims"}, {"id": "house-407", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-29", "speaker": "Irwin Cotler", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ker, the unanimous adoption by the House of a bill to memorialize the Holocaust is an historic moment in the life of this Parliament and this country.\nIt will provide an enduring remembrance and a reminder of horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, and of the universal meaning of the Holocaust, including: the dangers of a state sanctioned culture of hate; the dangers of silence and indifference in the face of evil; the complicity of the elites, la trahison des clercs; the importance of Holocaust and human rights education as an antidote to racism and hate; the moral legal imperative of bringing war criminals to justice; and the demonstration, through Raoul Wallenberg, that one person can make a difference.\nThe member for Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier is to be congratulated for introducing this bill, whose enduring legacy will be “Never Again”, not for Jews, not for anyo …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/10/29/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Holocaust and its lessons (dangers of hate, silence, indifference, importance of education) without condemning any specific actor or group responsible for antisemitic hostility. The passage reports on the significance and meaning of the Holocaust rather than addressing present-day hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-408", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-02-27", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday we saw once again the ugly side of Liberal anti-Americanism when the member for Mississauga Centre said that she hates Americans.\nHad she expressed her hatred for any other identifiable group, for Africans or Asians or Jews, she rightly would have been turfed from the Liberal caucus, but in the Liberal Party there seems to be a particular exception for hate speech: when it is aimed at Americans.\nWhat is it about the government that sees its members constantly expressing their hatred for our American allies? Would the government defend this comment as free speech if it were made about any other national group?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/02/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/02/27/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker uses antisemitism as a comparative example, naming the Liberal Party as responsible for a double standard where they would expel a member for expressing hatred toward Jews but allegedly tolerate hatred toward Americans, thus naming the Liberal Party as responsible for inconsistent application of standards regarding hate speech."}, {"id": "house-409", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-05-29", "speaker": "Brian Fitzpatrick", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ay ignored in his speech. He ignored history. Freedom-loving people who do not understand this reality will sooner or later be attacked by evil people. Hearing a man like that speak reminds me of the peacemaker Neville Chamberlain who did not like war, but sometimes war is necessary. I am sure the six million deceased Jewish people would have said that sometimes war is necessary.\nWe cannot let evil knock down our door, walk in and take over our country. If our neighbour is being attacked, we do not sit back and say it is not our problem because our door will be knocked down sooner or later and we need a defence system against that.\nThat is not the end of this paradigm. The other part of this paradigm is that we have international terrorism today in this world and in my view it is motivated by religiou …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/05/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/05/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker references the six million deceased Jewish people in the context of a broader argument about the necessity of defense against evil and terrorism, but does not describe any specific hostility toward Jews, name perpetrators, or take a position on antisemitism itself."}, {"id": "house-410", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-09-16", "speaker": "Andrew Telegdi", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… who stood up against the tyranny of the Ceausescu regime in Romania and he helped to make that dictatorship fall.\nWe are talking about an evolving society that changes. Back in 1692 we had the Salem witch hunts. Looking at Canada's history, we had the cultural genocide against the first nations. We also had the Asian Exclusion Act, the Chinese head tax and the internment of Ukrainians and Japanese. We also had a policy of non-immigration for the Jews. We had an Immigration Act that was not repealed until 1976 when we removed the colour barrier to immigration to this country.\nI mention those things because I think it is that history that resulted in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms being enacted in Canada on April 17, 1982. I think what is so critically important …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/09/16/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/09/16/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discriminatory policies against Jews (non-immigration policy) as part of a factual catalogue of Canada's past injustices, without condemning, naming perpetrators, or taking a evaluative position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-411", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-04-10", "speaker": "Anita Neville", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in January 2002 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal delivered a ruling concerning Ernst Zundel and his Internet hate site.\nThe tribunal concluded that the “tone and expression of these messages is so malevolent in its depiction of Jews, that we find them to be hate messages within the meaning of the act”.\nZundel simply moved to the United States and continued his activities there. Now that the Americans do not want him, he wants back into Canada. He does not want to go back to Germany because there he would face charges of suspicion of incitement of hate.\nThe charges stem from his website, one that denies the murder of six million Jewish people during the second world war. Why would we allow this man into Canada, a man who incites hatred? In 2002 Zundel said after moving to the United States, “Now I'm in Canada-denial. I have put Canada behind me”.\nLet us hold him to his word and deny his entry back into Canada. He has no place in Canadian society."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/04/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/04/10/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Ernst Zundel as responsible for hate messages and incitement of hatred against Jews, citing the tribunal ruling and his website denying the Holocaust."}, {"id": "house-412", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-06-11", "speaker": "Richard Marceau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ividuals oppose this bill. I will not repeat what my Liberal colleague said before me about the letter from Timothy Coonen from St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Yukon, or the letter from Thomas Adams, the pastor at the Baptist church in Richiboucto, or even the editorial—to use another religious denomination—from the Jewish Bulletin of January 3, 2003 pointing out that the Bible is not hate literature. I would only ask people to read what was said.\nHowever, I do not entirely agree with my Canadian Alliance colleague who spoke before me. He said that he would no longer be able to speak freely from the Bible to condemn homosexual activity—for lack of a better word.\nI was baptized Catholic. I was raised in …", "… ur leads us to eternal life. The Jews, who did not accept him, committed a theological error.\nThat is what I was taught and perhaps they still teach it. It is possible to say, with respect, that one believes the Jews made a mistake in not accepting Jesus as their saviour. But to go from that to saying that because the Jews made a supposedly theological error, they can be subjected to hate propaganda is a major leap that our society has refused to make for a long time, for instance when provisions against hate propaganda were included in the Criminal Code.\nOn Sunday, I attended the opening of the Holocaust Museum. It is easy to see how far hate propaganda can lead. One can see the depths of baseness and darkness that human beings can descend to when hate is involved. I am very much aware of the hate that has been directed against the Jews.\nIn the same way, someone who believes in a particular interpretation of the Bible, a holy book, may well say, “We condemn what homosexuals do”. Someone might very well say that. But to go from this interpretation in good faith of a religious text to an incitement to hatred based on hate propaganda is, once again, a step that must not be taken.\nI was using the example of the Jews who are protected by the Criminal Code because they are an identifiable ethnic group. Quite simply, the same reasoning applies in the case of homosexual, lesbian or transgendered persons. It is simply a matter of not crossing the line between interpretation of a religious text, with which one may agree or disagree, an …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/06/11/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate propaganda directed against Jews, notes the dangers of hate as demonstrated by the Holocaust, and emphasizes that society has rightly refused to allow theological disagreement to justify hate propaganda against Jews."}, {"id": "house-413", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-06-09", "speaker": "Marlene Jennings", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… moment of humanity's long history. Millions of Jews were mercilessly sent to concentration camps to be brutally murdered for the sole crime of being Jewish. The museum will show the Holocaust through the eyes of those who have lived and experienced it.\nIf I consider this event to be a source of hope, it is because the Holocaust museum will remind future generations of the terrible cost of intolerance and hate toward others.\nHere in Canada, the sad lessons of the Holocaust will not be soon forgotten. I want to congratulate all the organizers of this event and wish them the best of success for the future."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/06/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2003/06/09/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Holocaust and intolerance/hate toward Jews, calling it 'terrible' and 'brutal,' without naming specific perpetrators responsible for contemporary hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-414", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-12-09", "speaker": "Michel Bellehumeur", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Douglas Christie, a B.C. lawyer who defended members of the extreme right in 1989, has accused CSIS of inciting violence against Jews and of interfering in his clients' trials.\nCan the Solicitor General tell us if the recent investigation by the review committee also dealt with Mr. Christie's accusations?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/12/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/12/09/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes accusations made by Douglas Christie without endorsing, condemning, or taking a position on them. The passage simply reports what Christie accused CSIS of doing and asks a factual question about whether an investigation addressed these accusations."}, {"id": "house-415", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-29", "speaker": "François Langlois", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ldiers in Somalia, the existence of such links is plausible.\nAre Grant Bristow and other agents part of a plot by CSIS to spy on the CBC?\nAnother allegation made is to the effect that CSIS, Grant Bristow or other individuals who may or may not be related to the neo-nazi group Heritage Front have targetted the Canadian Jewish Congress, by leaking information on Canadian Jewish organizations to violent American racists, by promoting the use of violence by members of Heritage Front and by organizing a campaign to harass anti-racist leaders by telephone.\nAccording to another allegation made, CSIS apparently followed every step of French secret service agents interested in the Quebec sovereignist movement. Consequently, even if CSIS did not directly investigate Quebec sovereignist forces, which have been called \"the enemy within\" in this House by …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/29/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes allegations of targeting the Canadian Jewish Congress and promoting violence against anti-racist leaders, but presents these as allegations being made without the speaker taking a position on their veracity or condemning the alleged conduct."}, {"id": "house-416", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-27", "speaker": "Svend Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ways have been, just as gays and lesbians are found in all other walks of life.\nPursuant to Standing Order 18, I want to ask what could be more offensive, to use the words of Standing Order 18, than to suggest that my very existence is immoral, unnatural, destroying Canadian values and must not be condoned. If similar hateful words had been directed toward another minority, be they Jews, Blacks, Chinese Canadians, people with disabilities or aboriginal people, all of whom are represented in the House, it is inconceivable the Chair would not have intervened and called the offending speaker to order. Therefore I want to ask why the standard should be any lower in the case of hatred directed at gays and …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/27/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/27/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby--Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway, N.D.P.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker invokes hypothetical hateful statements directed at Jews as an example of offensive speech that should be condemned and stopped, using it to illustrate the principle that such hostility should not be tolerated."}, {"id": "house-417", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-19", "speaker": "Michel Gauthier", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ant is also alleged to have infiltrated the entourage of the Reform Party leader.\nMy question is for the Prime Minister. Given the seriousness of the situation, does the Prime Minister think it is acceptable for CSIS to infiltrate a democratically formed political party, collect information on the CBC and the Canadian Jewish Congress, and contribute to the foundation of a Canadian racist group?\nDoes the Prime Minister consider that this is right?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/09/19/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Roberval", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Leader of the Opposition, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Lieutenant-Governor Of Quebec", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes alleged CSIS activities (infiltration, information collection) without explicitly condemning or naming responsibility for hostility toward Jews; the question frames these as serious matters but is primarily reporting what is alleged to have occurred."}, {"id": "house-418", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-15", "speaker": "Pierrette Venne", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… uals forming a social group are not elements of identification of victims of hate propaganda.\nI think that restricting potential victims to a few groups is not justified when we are dealing with a crime against humanity as a whole. Instead of designating a few \"identifiable\" groups, the law should prohibit any form of hate propaganda against any group. Public incitement to kill women, welfare recipients or homosexuals is no different than inciting people to kill Jews, Catholics or Muslims. Social hatred, in its expression and in its effects, is akin to universal hatred.\nConsequently, I agree with the hon. member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell on the spirit of his proposed amendment to Bill C-214. However, I cannot support the bill itself, because it implicitly recognizes that the law would only protect certain groups of people, when it should include everyone.\nThis bill is similar t …", "… on hate propaganda in light of the decision rendered by the Supreme Court in the Zundel case, last year, and the Keegstra case, in 1990. As we know, the Alberta Court of Appeal was scheduled to hear another appeal from Keegstra on February 2, 1994, and has not yet issued a ruling.\nWhile Keegstra was charged under the hate propaganda provisions, Zundel was charged under old section 181 on spreading false news. As we all recall, Zundel denied the Jewish holocaust ever happened and his comments were tinged with racism.\nZundel's motives could have been examined as part of mens rea determination. However, in the majority jugement of the Supreme Court, section 181 was invalidated by the Charter and, whatever his motives, Zundel had to be acquitted. In its ruling, the court mentioned it had ruled a few years earlier, in the Keegstra ca …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/15/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/15/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Zundel case involving Holocaust denial and racist comments without taking a position on the hostility itself; focuses on legal procedure and court rulings rather than condemning the antisemitic conduct"}, {"id": "house-419", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-18", "speaker": "Roger Pomerleau", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to rise in the House today to mark the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Jewish Congress. This organization is well-known among Quebecers and Canadians; it is a pillar of our Jewish community.\nFounded in Montreal after World War I, the Canadian Jewish Congress has participated in all major political and social debates in Quebec and Canada. Its fight for religious freedom and against all forms of discrimination was then taken up by all Quebecers and Canadians.\nOn the occasion of its 75th anniversary, I would like to thank the Jewish Congress for its important contribution to our society and to wish it a long life."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Canadian Jewish Congress's historical role and contributions, including its fight against discrimination, but does not describe, condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-420", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-11", "speaker": "David Berger", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… trust, fear and hatred.\nWhen tragic and terrible violence occurs it is essential that we continue to support those engaged in the search for peace. I found encouraging the powerful statements by Prime Minister Rabin in the aftermath of the Hebron massacre and as well the forceful condemnation by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of the murderous attack on Jewish youth in New York.\nIt is important that members of all faiths and communities examine more carefully their own habits of thought and expression so that these cannot fuel the acts of extremists, so that they can never believe that they are merely zealots acting as true agents of God and their people.\nIt is such mistake …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/03/11/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — VIOLENCE", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to violence and hatred toward Jews, praising condemnations of attacks on Jewish youth and calling for examination of habits that fuel extremism, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-421", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-06-03", "speaker": "Jan Brown", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to hear that answer because yesterday the Minister of National Defence said he would refuse to enter Canadian Legions because they are discriminating against the Sikh and Jewish communities.\nIronically, if the Minister of National Defence attended the \"Writing through Race\" conference he would be refused entry to certain workshops on the basis of his race. This conference is demonstrating racial discrimination and it is clearly wrong.\nWill the minister immediately withdraw federal funding fro …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/06/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/06/03/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states that discrimination against Jewish communities (along with Sikhs) is 'clearly wrong' and objects to it, without naming a specific party responsible for the discrimination itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-422", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-11-25", "speaker": "André Caron", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… a Quebec native leader in New York, where the word \"racist\" was bandied about. I think that it is rather inappropriate to use such a word in that particular context. We are in a negotiating context, where you must keep your cool to be able to come up with something which will be fair to all involved.\nWhen issues like racism are raised, a notion so emotionally charged because of the long racist history of mankind-just think of what happened to the Jews and the Gypsies during the Second World War-we are often taken aback, stunned and disappointed to see it surface in the papers, in the minds and in conversations, and being applied to situations occurring in Canada.\nWe cannot say that the situation in Canada is one of racism. I believe that no one among native people …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/11/25/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1994/11/25/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker references historical racism against Jews during WWII as an example of serious racism to contrast with the current Canadian situation, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute hostility toward Jews—merely cites it as a historical reference point."}, {"id": "house-423", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-10-06", "speaker": "Gérard (Gerry) Weiner", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ion. This is not so. As a member of a community which has for generations kept its faith and traditions alive in places where there were no rights, when the exact opposite occurred, systematic suppression, 1 know that no law or mere interpretation of law can ever destroy or diminish that culture. The experience of the Jewish people is not unique. If not outright prejudice and oppression, most minority ethnic cultures have at one time or another felt the persuasive force of the majority to conform to that majority. Yes, at times in our history that has happened in Canada as well. We have only to look around us to see the hopeless failures of such pressure.\n\nAnd today, all of usv whatever our ethnic gr …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/06/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Secretary of State of Canada; Minister of State (Multiculturalism and Citizenship)", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — ALLOTTED DAY, S. O. 81-REGIONALTENSIONS", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical prejudice and oppression against Jewish people and other minority cultures without condemning it, blaming specific actors, or taking a clear position -- they are narrating historical experiences as context for a broader point about cultural persistence."}, {"id": "house-424", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-10-20", "speaker": "James Douglas Manly", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… hich we see in Bill C-55. The Order in Council eventually led to the Kamagata Maru incident when a boat was chartered to bring people directly from India to Vancouver, and Canadian racism erupted in a very ugly manner which eventually led to the death of a number of Sikhs.\nI would like to give some examples of earlier racism. We know the sad story of the turning back of the St. Louis with Jewish refugees on board at the close of the 1930s. These people had no alternative, when Canada and other countries shut the door to them, but the Holocaust of Hitler's Europe.\nWe can look at the attitude exemplified by R. B. Bennett on June 7, 1928, when he was Leader of the Opposition and spoke about European immigrants i …", "… ation Act, 1976\ncase. Because they could stay here for such a long period, they began to use the delays and to abuse the refugee policy. Of course Portuguese Jehovah's Witnesses making false claims of persecution is a predominant example of that. Jehovah's Witnesses themselves do not give any credence to the claims of persecution in Portugal.\nThere has been a number of studies of the administrative backlog and what needs to be done. The best known would be the study done by Rabbi Gunther Plaut. Standing committee recommendations called for a speedier process, but one which would continue to give people due process and would continue to give them the right to a hearing within Canada, the right to appeal, and so on.\nDespite the recommendations of a number of committees, the Government refused to …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/20/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/20/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — IMMIGRATION ACT, 1976 MEASURE TO AMEND", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada turning back the St. Louis with Jewish refugees in the 1930s as a 'sad story' and connects it to the Holocaust, objecting to this historical act of hostility without naming a specific current person or party as responsible."}, {"id": "house-425", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-10-20", "speaker": "Lynn McDonald", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… the present system. The answer, therefore, is to reform the present system.\nFinally, they state that they will resist with unflagging determination the concept that this compromise is just for refugees. Refugees are among the most powerless people in today's world. We all know that to be the case. They are exploited, oppressed and fearful. When they arrive they have to make decisions and have decisions made on their behalf at a time of acute stress for them.\nRabbi Gunther Plaut is very well known for his work on refugees. Ele is a Canadian, having come here as a refugee. He has called for humane refugee procedures which will respect our international obligations. In Heart of the Stranger, a report on refugees, he stated:\nWe have a Bill that was constructed by the Commission of …", "… t and other difficulties the Government is taking a get-tough approach. With bogus refugees, ambiguous situations, and growing numbers of refugees the Government wants to get tough.\nOnly very recently Canada became humane in its refugee determination process. We have a sorry history in this regard. We have turned away Jews and Sihks who were persecuted when they returned to their countries. Frankly, we had a racist immigration policy until very recently which, of course, also affected the refugee process. However, Canada finally did sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on Refugees and has done some very good work on refugees. We accepted a large number of people from Southeast Asia and dealt with them in a very humane w …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/20/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/10/20/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PROCEEDINGS ON ADJOURNMENT MOTION — CRIMINAL CODE-PORNOGRAPHY-INQUIRY RESPECTING MINISTERIAL ACTION-INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION-DEFINITION OF OBSCENITY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's historical rejection of persecuted Jews as part of documenting past immigration policy failures, without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on hostility toward Jews in the present context."}, {"id": "house-426", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-12-08", "speaker": "Gordon Edward Taylor", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… es of the Communists is the domination of the world.\nIt will be time enough to believe Gorbachev's \"freedom to reign supreme\" talk after he takes his army out of Afghanistan, after he permits the Ukrainians, the Poles, the Yugoslavians, the Hungarians to have free elections, after he removes the Berlin Wall, and stops persecuting the Jews in Russia. Until then, let us keep our powder dry.\n\n[ Translation]"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/12/08/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/12/08/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "RE-EMERGENCE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN ALBERTA", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions persecution of Jews in Russia as one of several conditions that must be met before trusting Gorbachev, but does not condemn the persecution, name responsible parties, or take an explicit position on it - it is listed as a factual claim among other geopolitical conditions."}, {"id": "house-427", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-05-12", "speaker": "Gérard (Gerry) Weiner", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… oor and will be allowed to stay. That kind of unfairness has a very negative connotation and does not help in the management of immigration.\n\nMay 12, 1987\nSupply\nAs Minister of State for Immigration I take those kind of charges personally. I can tell you that a second generation Canadian from Montreal, whose origin is Jewish and east European, whose family and himself would probably not be alive today were it not for coming to Canada, does not act out of motives of prejudice or racism, and does not serve in a Government in any way whatsoever influenced by such feelings.\nLet there be no doubt that this Government's commitment to Canada's long and honourable tradition of refugee humanitarian assistance is 100 per cent solid. Our Prime Minister (Mr. Mulroney) and our Secretary of State for External Af …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/05/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/05/12/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "Secretary of State of Canada; Minister of State (Multiculturalism and Citizenship)", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — ALLOTTED DAY, S. O. 81-REGIONALTENSIONS", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Minister rejects charges of prejudice and racism, emphasizing commitment to humanitarian values and stating he does not act from motives of prejudice, thereby objecting to the hostility/discrimination described without naming a specific responsible party.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-428", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-09-30", "speaker": "Sheila Finestone", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… , enable, and promote the interests and concerns of the Jewish community of Montreal.\nOver 1,600 people attended, bore witness and paid tribute to the volunteer and professional leadership which has enabled the communal service organization to reflect the heart and soul of this very heterogeneous society.\nFrom 1762 on Jews have made their home, and have become part of the fabric of the Canadian and Quebec society. Successive waves of immigrants, seeking safe harbour from discrimination or economic hardship, have come to Canadian shores, speaking a myriad of languages and reflecting diverse cultures.\nWe have become a bilingual, multicultural and yet highly identifiable minority in Quebec and in Canada. I salute AJCS on its 70th birthday for its enriching contribution to the development of outstanding …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/30/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical Jewish immigration to Canada and mentions that immigrants sought 'safe harbour from discrimination' but does not take a position on any current hostility or condemn specific acts."}, {"id": "house-429", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-09-03", "speaker": "James Douglas Manly", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… t is another matter. There is still a fear of the stranger, a kind of latent racism.\nI would like to share a poem with you, Mr. Speaker, a poem written at the time of the rise of Hitler by W. H. Auden, the English poet. In the poem we see that all the concerns that we have today for documents, committees, politicians, racism, and the fear that refugees will take away our daily bread were there 40 and 50 years ago. The poem is entitled Refugee Blues. The poem is either a Jewish couple talking to each other or a Jewish parent talking to his or her child. The poem reads:\nSay this city has ten million souls,\nSome are living in mansions, some are living in holes:\nYet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.\nOnce we had a country and we thought it fair,\nLook at the atlas and …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/03/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/03/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — IMMIGRATION ACT, 1976 MEASURE TO AMEND", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and cites Auden's 'Refugee Blues' poem about Jewish refugees during Hitler's rise, describing the historical situation without taking a position on current hostility or naming/blaming specific actors for it."}, {"id": "house-430", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-09-09", "speaker": "Lynn McDonald", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… wants to turn the clock back to that earlier and very disgraceful period during which Canada treated would-be refugees abominably.\n\n\n\nSeptember 9, 1987\nImmigration Act, 1976\nIn 1939 Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany came to South America, the United States of America, and finally to Canada. Canada turned away 907 Jewish refugees, many of whom died in death camps as a result. There was also the case of would-be East Indian immigrants; they were the wrong colour under our racist policies of the past, and those desperate people were turned away. We now have legislation which will ensure that people are turned away at the ports, the bus stations, the airports and the train stations. Genuine refugees whose lives are at stake in countries which torture, imprison and kill people, could be turned a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/09/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/09/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PROCEEDINGS ON ADJOURNMENT MOTION — CRIMINAL CODE-PORNOGRAPHY-INQUIRY RESPECTING MINISTERIAL ACTION-INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION-DEFINITION OF OBSCENITY", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's historical rejection of Jewish refugees in 1939 as 'abominable' and 'disgraceful,' objecting to this hostility without naming a specific person or party responsible for the current policy."}, {"id": "house-431", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-09-10", "speaker": "Nelson Andrew Riis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… urned home.\nThe most obvious incident in recent history occurred in 1939 with the St. Louis when we saw over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror in Europe. Immigration officials and the Canadian Government of the day said that they did not believe there was anything wrong with the Nazi regime or that they would be persecuted, tortured, or killed. In retrospect we know that what they were fleeing was in fact very authentic. Every one of the Jewish refugees who came to our shores and were forced back to Europe returned to certain death in the gas chambers of the Nazi terror. Again it was a dark day. In retrospect we regret that it happened, but there are people who are saying that we do not want that to happen again, that we do not want those events to be replay …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/09/10/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "N.D.P. House Leader", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — CRIMINAL CODE, IMMIGRATION ACT, 1976 AND CITIZENSHIP ACT MEASURE TO AMEND", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states that 'Immigration officials and the Canadian Government of the day' rejected Jewish refugees and forced them back to Europe, directly naming responsible parties for the hostile act against Jews."}, {"id": "house-432", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-03-12", "speaker": "Svend Johannes Robinson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ntre, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the B'nai Brith, and many others. As we know, and as has been clearly documented, Canada has a history of shameful inaction in this area. As Judge Deschenes pointed out, unfortunately, we were not alone in this inaction.\n\nBefore the war not only did the Government close the doors to Jews who were seeking to flee persecution from Nazi Germany, but afterward those doors were opened. Those doors were opened to far too many people who, in fact, were perpetrators of the atrocities that the Jews were attempting to flee. Canada had one of the worst records in admitting Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust from 1940 to 1945, and a tragic record …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/03/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/03/12/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS-PUBLIC BILLS — CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACT — AMENDMENTS TO PROHIBIT DISCR1MINATION ON GROUND OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names the Canadian Government as responsible for closing doors to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution and opening doors to perpetrators instead, describing this as 'shameful inaction' and a 'tragic record.'"}, {"id": "house-433", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-03-04", "speaker": "James Kenneth (Jim) Jepson", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… rian spirit with the applications of persons who wish to be reunited with members of their family. As a signatory to that accord, the Soviets have clearly not abided by this agreement.\nI urge the Secretary of State for External Affairs (Mr. Clark) to continue his good efforts in having the Soviets agree to allow these persecuted Jewish people the freedom to leave and join their loved ones in Israel and other nations around the world."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/03/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/03/04/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the persecution of Jewish people and urges continued diplomatic efforts to address it, without naming a specific party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-434", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-06-01", "speaker": "John Martin Oostrom", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, the Soviet Union has been telling all the world that it is changing. The world receives a constant barrage of propaganda designed to project an image of caring and understanding. Yet the U.S.S.R. continues its brutal war in Afghanistan, its persecution of Jews, and the stifling of religious freedoms.\nA Lithuanian Catholic priest, Father Tamevicius, has been returned to a Soviet labour camp after refusing to confess to anti-state activities. Father Tamevicius said:\nIn prison, I will always pray for... the struggle for the freedom of the church\nand for basic human rights. Do …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/06/01/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/06/01/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Soviet Union's 'persecution of Jews' as part of a list of brutal practices, without naming a specific person or party as responsible beyond the USSR's general actions.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-435", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-08-18", "speaker": "Lloyd Axworthy", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nternational legal obligations with respect to refugees and\nto uphold its humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the\npersecuted-\nPerhaps the Hon. Member is not aware of the fact that in February of this year the Government cancelled or eliminated a special refugee status that had been established for oppressed and persecuted people. Under group sponsorship that allowed Canada to take people like the Baha'is from Iran, Falashas Jews from the Sudan, and Jews from Argentina, people who were not fully within the definition of convention refugees. That clause was cancelled or eliminated. The opportunity for this country to reach out to specially persecuted groups around the world was eliminated.\nIs that the type of policy that the Member feels his constituents want to suppor …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/18/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/18/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the Government as responsible for eliminating a special refugee status program that had specifically helped persecuted Jewish groups (Falashas Jews from Sudan, Jews from Argentina), framing this policy decision as reducing Canada's ability to assist specially persecuted groups including Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-436", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-08-11", "speaker": "John Napier Turner", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ugees says:\nInstead of access, there is a screen. Instead of bringing Canada a notch ahead of European countries, the Immigration Minister has brought it down to their level. It's despicable.\nMichael Schelew of Amnesty International says:\nIt's an about-face on Canada's humanitarian record that may place people fleeing persecution in jeopardy.\nLome Waldman of the Canadian Jewish Congress says:\nA long-term aim of the Immigration Department is to eliminate all refugee claims within Canada. The Government has spent millions of dollars and innumerable hours consulting on this problem, and everyone's recommendations have been ignored altogether.\nThat is the verdict on Bill C-55 which is now before …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes Lome Waldman of the Canadian Jewish Congress criticizing immigration policy, but presents it as a statement or position without the speaker taking an independent stance condemning hostility toward Jews or naming responsible parties for anti-Jewish actions."}, {"id": "house-437", "year": 1987, "chamber": "house", "date": "1987-08-19", "speaker": "Neil Young", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… cated in my letter, I was most disturbed by the policies which were imposed in February, 1987, but the introduction of Bill C-55 to the Legislature has left me truly appalled. I feel we are reverting to attitudes and practices which I had hoped we had left behind forever: practices reminiscent of government-sanctioned racism and of the refoulement of Jewish refugees in the Second World War.\n1 recognize and appreciate that there have been abuses of our refugee determination process in the past, however, those abuses have largely stemmed from an inappropriate process.\nNumerous humane alternative procedures have been suggested in the past which would enable us to deal quick …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1987/08/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses being 'most disturbed' and 'truly appalled' by policies, comparing them to racism and Jewish refugee refoulement, clearly objecting to the hostility without naming a specific person as responsible."}, {"id": "house-438", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-10-02", "speaker": "Brian Fitzpatrick", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e to address and then I will get to the question. The Americans did not bring in the Balfour declaration. The Americans brought in the Marshall plan that rebuilt Germany and Japan. Woodrow Wilson was looked at as the founder of the United Nations. There have been three attempts to bring peace between the Arabs and the Jewish people through the Americans. I am concerned when we are talking about promoting hatred against a group that the Americans are also in this fold as well.\nYesterday the Minister of State for Multiculturalism said that people were allowed to say what they want in this country. Well I am no so sure that is the--"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/10/02/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/10/02/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about 'promoting hatred against a group' (referring to Jewish people) without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hatred itself."}, {"id": "house-439", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-02-05", "speaker": "Judy Wasylycia-Leis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… nt ways by the horrors of the Holocaust. When I first introduced the bill in the House last spring, I had just returned from a pilgrimage marking the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Holland and a visit to Camp Westerbork, where the Dutch Jewish population was sent en route to the death camps.\nIn total, 6 million Jewish men, women and children perished as a result of a deliberate and planned state sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.\nThe bill proposes to establish a national annual Holocaust memorial day to be called Yom ha-Shoah. I urge all members to consider the importance of this initiative, which will ensure that a sorry chapter in the history of the world is never allowed to repeat itself.\n(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/02/05/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/02/05/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg North Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Holocaust facts and historical persecution of Jews without attributing current hostility to anyone or taking a position on contemporary antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-440", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-12-04", "speaker": "Monte Solberg", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… se that we need to have much more than a security perimeter to keep Canadians safe and the Canada-U.S. border open to trade. In other words, a North American security perimeter is necessary but it is not sufficient.\nThis hard reality seems to be lost on the Liberals. What more evidence do they need? We had the bracing attacks of September 11, reports of planned attacks on Montreal's Jewish community, the slowing pace of trade at the Canada-U.S. border and now U.S. military patrols along what was the longest undefended border in the world.\nThis Liberal reluctance is nothing more than anti-Americanism dressed up as nationalism, and a cheap nationalism it is. Canada is a great country but its greatness is …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/12/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/12/04/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions 'reports of planned attacks on Montreal's Jewish community' as one example of security incidents, citing it as evidence for their argument about border security needs, without condemning the hostility, naming perpetrators, or taking a position on the incident itself."}, {"id": "house-441", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-05-04", "speaker": "Leon Benoit", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I am pleased to take my last five minutes.\nI will begin by quoting Martin Niemoller, a famous German theologian who lived from 1892 to 1984. It is a very famous quote that we have all heard, but I ask every member in the House to listen to it again. It reads:\nWhen Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church—and there was nobody left to be concerned.\nI would argue that many of the people who looked at this so-called gun bill, Bill C-68, and its implementation, fought the bill not …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/05/04/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/05/04/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Niemoller's famous passage about Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups to illustrate a point about indifference, but does not take a position condemning or naming anyone responsible for hostility toward Jews in the current context."}, {"id": "house-442", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-09-26", "speaker": "Stockwell Day", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… h Landy, said the following:\n\nThis is an edict that should be condemned by all who support religious freedom and the rights of minorities. The Taliban regime has demonstrated its lack of respect for human rights in the past. This is but one more gesture to return Afghanistan to the Middle Ages.\n\nHe went on to say that Jews and other minorities have often been subject to such discriminatory dress edicts, most recently during the Nazi domination of Europe. This is a chilling reminder of those times and the fact that such laws are never passed for the benefit of the minority affected. This is the kind of so-called protection that minorities have to be protected from and serves mainly to make them targets e …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/09/26/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/09/26/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Okanagan--Coquihalla", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Stockwell Day (Okanagan—Coquihalla, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to discriminatory dress edicts targeting Jews and minorities, calling them wrong and comparing them to Nazi persecution, without naming a specific responsible party beyond the Taliban regime's general lack of respect for human rights."}, {"id": "house-443", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-03-30", "speaker": "Jason Kenney", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in fact her department did fund International Women's Day. The group that ransacked this cathedral had participated in the parade funded and promulgated by her department earlier that day.\nHow can this minister stand here as a self-styled defender of tolerance when she spreads religious intolerance and division across the country, when she has been condemned for doing that by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Muslim Federation, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Catholic Civil Rights League, and when her own department supports marches that lead to this kind of violent anti-religious bigotry?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/03/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2001/03/30/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the minister as responsible for spreading religious intolerance and division, and specifically links her department's funding of the parade to the subsequent ransacking of a cathedral, establishing a causal connection between her actions and the hostile act."}, {"id": "house-444", "year": 1978, "chamber": "house", "date": "1978-05-23", "speaker": "David Orlikow", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… an citizens will be working in that country. Bell Canada has assured Saudi Arabia under the agreement that it does not do business with the state of Israel. Prospective employees of Bell Canada who are to go to Saudi Arabia are required to fill out application forms which ask for their religion. There is evidence that Jewish applicants are not issued visas by Saudi Arabia.\nWhen I asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Trudeau) on May 5 whether he was aware of these discriminatory practices and whether he would take action to deal with this discriminatory situation, he evaded the issue, as he did on earlier occasions when answering similar questions by the hon. member for Windsor West (Mj. Gray). That Saudi policy, as I have\nMay 23, 1978\n\nindicated, was proven in a recent United States court de …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1978/05/23/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1978/05/23/", "party": "New Democratic Party", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE ACT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Saudi Arabia as responsible for discriminatory practices against Jewish applicants (not issuing visas to Jews) and names Bell Canada as complicit by assuring Saudi Arabia it doesn't do business with Israel and requiring religion questions on applications."}, {"id": "house-445", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-01-29", "speaker": "Costas Menegakis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… handful of exceptional cases each year, where there are no other legal grounds to keep despicable people out of our country.\nAmong others, immigration lawyer Julie Taube testified that she not only supported the bill but also its new ability to deny entry to those who pose a risk. She said:\n This is just a question of hate-mongers.... Anybody wanting to promote hatred in Canada, be it against homosexuals, Jews, women, Muslims, etc.—they should all be barred. \nI agree with Julie Taube.\nThe faster removal of foreign criminals act is common sense legislation. It would make it easier for the government to remove dangerous foreign criminals from our country and make it harder for those who pose a risk to Canada to enter the coun …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/01/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/01/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Richmond Hill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Richmond Hill, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Yom HaShoah", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker expresses agreement with barring those who promote hatred against Jews and other groups from entering Canada, objecting to such hostility without naming a specific person or party responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-446", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-03-28", "speaker": "Wayne Marston", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eople across Canada, in Israel and around the world commemorating Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day. \nFor 68 years, since the end of the Second World War, we have memorialized the victims of one of the darkest periods of history. \nDuring Yom Hashoah, we remember those whose lives were so brutally taken during the Holocaust. They died solely because they were Jewish or Roma, disabled, or members of the gay and lesbian community. Each was a victim of Nazi hatred. Today we remember the survivors, women and men whose profound courage and example taught us that love and life are possible, even after facing the most unspeakable of horrors.\nHistory tells us that those who promote bigotry for political advantage plant the very seeds for crimes against humanity. When we say “never a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/03/28/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/03/28/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Nazi hatred and bigotry without naming specific current actors, emphasizing remembrance of Holocaust victims and the dangers of promoting bigotry generally."}, {"id": "house-447", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-04-22", "speaker": "Deepak Obhrai", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… he situation in various parts of the world where individuals, including Ahmadis, Baha'is, Chaldeans, Christians, Copts, Falun Gong practitioners, Jews, Muslims, Rohingyas, Sufis, and Zoroastrians, among others, experience difficulty in their ability to worship and practise their faith in peace. We strongly condemn all attacks on places of worship, whether at temples, synagogues, shrines, mosques, gurdwaras, or churches. Canada cannot and will not condone such cowardly acts. It is of utmost importance that every individual is able to practise their faith in safety and security.\nOur advocacy on the issue of religious freedom has been steadfast and ongoing.\nAs others have already mentioned, we …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/04/22/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2013/04/22/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'We strongly condemn all attacks on places of worship' including synagogues, and reaffirms that 'Canada cannot and will not condone such cowardly acts' without naming any specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-448", "year": 1966, "chamber": "house", "date": "1966-07-11", "speaker": "Mr. Diefenbaker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Will the government of Canada make an official protest to the U.S.S.R. regarding the Investigations imposed upon or suffered by Jewish citizens in the U.S.S.R., which by discriminatory measures deny Jews the full right to practise their religion in freedom?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1966/07/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1966/07/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews (discriminatory measures denying religious freedom) and poses a question about whether the government will protest, without themselves condemning, naming responsibility, blaming, or disputing the hostility."}, {"id": "house-449", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-05-30", "speaker": "Matthew Dubé", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… 981, in Merritt, BC. Around 3 a.m., an explosion occurred at an East Indian church. Firefighters speculated that someone had thrown dynamite through the window. Obviously, given the time, no one was in the building. One can only imagine what that represents to the community and it people, seeing their place of worship attacked.\nIn 1985, the Temple Shalom in Vancouver was firebombed. The damage was significant, $400,000. It also threatened a Jewish funeral chapel. \nCommunities too often feel under attack by individuals who put forward bigotry and hatred. That fear is certainly exacerbated by these types of attacks.\nThere have been firebombings in Mosques in Calgary and Hamilton and in synagogues in Edmonton. A Hindu temple in Hamilton suffered an arson attack. That attack was mentioned earlier in debate today. There were attacks on a synagogue in Saskatoon and a Mosque in Edson. A Sikh temple in Vancouver suffered an arson attack. Someone who douses gasoline on temples creates a climate of fear and hatred.\nThese acts obviously create a climate of fear and hatred and cause physical harm. They can lead to the kind of physical attacks we have seen committed against people.\nThis brings me to the next example, the attack at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec on January 29, 2017, which we are unfortunately all too famil …", "… s of acts. When we list all these heinous acts, all the attacks against places of worship and people of faith, the list is unfortunately far from exhaustive. However, these examples show that there has been an increase in religiously motivated hate crimes in Canada.\nAccording to Statistics Canada, police reported that hate crimes increased by 47% from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, just two years ago, there were 2,073 incidents, 664 more than in the previous year.\n Jewish Canadians, as we unfortunately know, continue to be the most targeted community for religiously motivated hate crimes, and incidents increased from 221 in 2016 to 360 the following year. \nMuslim Canadians see a growing trend of hate crimes committed against them, with incidents increasing by over 150% in that same span from 2016 to 2017, for a total of 349 police reported hate crimes. That is an important distinction. We can only ima …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/05/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/05/30/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—ISIS Fighters Returning to Canada", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes multiple attacks on places of worship including Jewish temples/synagogues as 'heinous acts' that 'create a climate of fear and hatred,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-450", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-05-30", "speaker": "Ziad Aboultaif", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… eted. I often say, when it comes to helping those in need, that Canadians all have the same DNA. It is a part of who we are as people. Whether here at home or around the world, Canadians have always answered the call to help those in need, to stand up for those who are unable to stand up for themselves and to call out bigotry and discrimination wherever it is found. Whether it is discrimination against Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, any other religious group, or those who do not have a religious belief, as Motion No. 153 makes clear, faith-based violence and bigotry is not compatible with our shared vision of a free, peaceful and pluralistic Canada. \nI believe it is important that we recognize this by naming January 29 of each year the national day of solidarity with victims of anti-religious bigotry and violence. When it comes to such an important issue, creating a day of solida …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/05/30/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/05/30/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Manning", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Manning, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to bigotry and discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, calling it incompatible with Canadian values, without naming any specific person or entity responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-451", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-03-19", "speaker": "Todd Doherty", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… e. \nI also want to say that our thoughts are with the first responders and their families, because we know through the work we have been doing with respect to post-traumatic stress disorder that these incidents will stay with them and have a dramatic impact on their lives in the days, weeks, months and years to come. \nViolent extremism has no place in our society. We must stand and act against systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and all other religious communities. We need to build a world where people of every faith can live in freedom and peace together.\nI had an opportunity this weekend to speak at an event in Ottawa called ILEAD 2019. It was an event that was organized by Islamic and Muslim youth in the Ottawa a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/03/19/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/03/19/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to violent extremism and discrimination against Jews among other religious communities, without naming specific perpetrators or acts."}, {"id": "house-452", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-04-29", "speaker": "Andrew Scheer", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… ns, we unequivocally condemn this act of violence and hatred toward Christians and the targeting of religious minorities throughout the world.\n It was less than two months ago that we stood in this chamber to mark the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. Over this past weekend, we heard again of a heinous and murderous attack on Jews marking Passover at a synagogue in California.\nIn the era of the 24-hour news cycle, it is easy to become desensitized to these attacks. We are shocked at the news footage as it comes in, but soon our attention is lost.\nWe must never get used to this kind of hatred and violence. We must never forget.\nTogether, we must resist those who attack someone because of their religious beliefs.\nAs Canadians visit our respective places of worship for our various …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/04/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker unequivocally condemns the violence and hatred toward Jews at the Passover synagogue attack, and calls to resist such attacks based on religious beliefs, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-453", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-04-29", "speaker": "Garnett Genuis", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… peace between communities. People of all communities must seek to participate in this work. However, I note in this context in particular, the way in which this idea of forgiveness and reconciliation in the context of the events of Easter is what drives Christians to be involved in this work.\n We hear of instances of violence against Christians, Muslims, and Jews in countries where the media is able to identify and cover these events. However, let us not forget, as well, the destruction of houses of worship and the persecution of believers in authoritarian nations where often these stories cannot be told. The persecution of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and other believers in the People's Republic of China, a place where it has been state policy to mandate the physical destruction of houses of worship, like the Golden Lampstand Church or L …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/04/29/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/04/29/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes instances of violence against Jews alongside violence against Christians and Muslims, and discusses persecution of believers in China, without taking a position on these hostilities or assigning responsibility."}, {"id": "house-454", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-06-06", "speaker": "John Brassard", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, D-Day veteran Martin Maxwell, now 95 years old, made this profound and relevant statement in the days leading up to today:\n If these young men [killed at Normandy] could look at the world and what is happening, not only against the Jews—mosques are being attacked, churches are attacked—they would say: “What the hell have you done with the tomorrows we gave you?” \nFourteen thousand Canadian soldiers landed on Juno Beach 75 years ago today. D-Day was the turning point in the fight from oppression, the fight for freedom, the fight for valuing human life, the fight for human dignity and the fight for de …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/06/06/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/06/06/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Barrie--Innisfil", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. John Brassard", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Points of Order — Oral Questions", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a D-Day veteran's statement that references hostility against Jews alongside attacks on other religious sites, but does not themselves condemn, name perpetrators, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. They are citing/quoting the statement as part of commemorating D-Day."}, {"id": "house-455", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-06-07", "speaker": "Erin O'Toole", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… that he was knowingly advocating or promoting violence against an identifiable group, that would have been enough. In fact, combined with my last point, it would have been “likely to prevent”. That could have stopped someone in that circumstance. \nAll communities, particularly religious communities like the Muslim and Jewish communities that face threats and see horrific things online, should not want these aspects of Bill C-59 to pass, and that is what the Conservatives have consistently been advocating in the interest of public safety, in the interest of all Canadians. The Senate agrees on the issue of counselling the commission of an offence. Most advocacy groups a …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/06/07/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/2019/06/07/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes threats and 'horrific things online' targeting Jewish communities without taking a position on the hostility itself, framing the discussion around Bill C-59 provisions and advocating for changes to the legislation rather than condemning the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-456", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-10-21", "speaker": "John George Diefenbaker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I would ask the Minister of Justice whether he is now in a\n\n\nposition to advise the house what the government intends to do in connection with an amendment to the Criminal Code relative to hate literature. A spate of this literature of a scurrilous nature has been distributed in the last few days. The Canadian Jewish News stated in a recent issue it had been advised that legislation had been prepared and was ready for presentation to the house. Months have gone by while this matter has been studied. Would the minister take the house into his confidence now and tell the house whether any action is going to be taken in this connecti …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/10/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/10/21/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Leader of the Official Opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate literature distribution and references a news report about prepared legislation, but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute characterizations."}, {"id": "house-457", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-07-17", "speaker": "James Edgar Walker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… made it clear why the committee on external affairs is the proper committee to go into the whole matter.\nSince last Friday's debate, an excellent and thoughtful editorial has come to my attention in connection with the opening statement of the debate. I quote from a translation into English of the column \"The Crime of Defamation\" which appeared in Dimanche Matin of Sunday, July 12, 1964.\nA Liberal member of parliament, a Montreal Jewish lawyer, Mr. Milton Klein, has raised one of the most complex problems which lies at the root of all the evils of our time.\nAnd Mr. Klein must have reckoned all the implications of this bill which he is submitting as a private member's bill for the consideration of his colleagues.\nIn a few words, it Is a question of in …", "… since anti-Britishism has developed like an octopus here at home, to the segregation of the whites from the southern American, in passing through all these genocidal movements which swarm in Asia and in Africa and which are turned against the whites) in more ways than one. Hatred engenders hatred. Defamation calls for defamation and violent action and the useless massacre of groups of human beings.\nI have not tackled this problem from the viewpoint of its being just a problem of my Jewish constituents. To me it is a matter which concerns every Canadian citizen regardless of his race or creed because it was in an atmosphere of hate and distrust that the late President Kennedy was assassinated.\nI think all Canadians must do some clear thinking about what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. As far as I am concerned, the current hate campaign is a very evil thing and I am committed to fight against it from the very beginning, …", "… legal talents of this country can come to grips with this problem and find the formula which will give protection and peace and comfort to all Canadians while at the same time\n\nprotect the traditional democratic right of free speech. Bishop Wilkinson recently said:\nWe strongly resent and protest the crude and vicious attacks against Jews, Negroes and other minority groups that are being distributed through the mails. It is an affront to Christianity that these attacks insinuate that hatred of minority groups is in defence of Christianity. Christians fought and died to wipe out the disease of hatred engendered by the nazi philosophy. It is intolerable that this hatred should now be allowed to incite violence in a country where the price of freedom from it came so high.\nIt is to be hoped that the present …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/07/17/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/07/17/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker opposes hate campaigns and defamation directed at groups including Jews, calling them 'very evil' and expressing commitment to fight against them, without naming specific actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-458", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-02-21", "speaker": "James Edgar Walker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Postmaster General. Are the postal authorities contemplating any action against the national white Americans party, who are using the Canadian mails to disseminate literature encouraging racial discrimination and advocating, among other things, the sterilization of people of the Jewish race?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/02/21/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/02/21/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the hostility (racial discrimination, sterilization advocacy against Jews) and asks a factual question about postal authority action, without condemning or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-459", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-09-10", "speaker": "John George Diefenbaker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I should like\n\nto direct a question to the Minister of Justice having to do with some letters I sent him which contained hate literature which is being sent out rather widely to people of the Jewish faith. The letter contains the threat of what would happen to Jewish people and altogether is a most scurrilous form of attempted blackmail."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/09/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/09/10/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Leader of the Official Opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate literature and threats being sent to Jewish people, but does not condemn it, name a responsible party, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. The speaker is simply reporting the incident to direct a question to the Minister of Justice."}, {"id": "house-460", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-03-10", "speaker": "John George Diefenbaker", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… have come to me in the last few days which enclose communications received by Canadians in all parts of our country from a certain group called the national white American party, the post office box number being given, asking for Canadian membership. These letters contain the most virulent and diabolical type of anti-Jewish propaganda and venomous attacks on the negroes of our country.\nI wonder whether the minister, having given full consideration to this matter, does not feel that action could be taken under the sedition provisions of the Criminal Code as it is today. This matter affects all Canadians. Is there any reason why the Department of Justice should not lay c …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/10/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/10/", "party": "Progressive Conservative", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "Leader of the Official Opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT — USE OF MAILS FOR DISSEMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LITERATURE", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes receiving letters containing anti-Jewish propaganda and attacks, then asks whether action could be taken, but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame authorities, or dispute its nature."}, {"id": "house-461", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-03-13", "speaker": "Alfred Dryden Hales", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Justice. Following the meeting yesterday with a delegation from the Canadian Jewish Congress I wonder whether the minister would care to report to the house what steps he proposes to take to stop the circulation of the hate literature."], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'hate literature' circulation without naming who is responsible for it or accusing any specific party of producing/distributing it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-462", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-03-12", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… blished today in a newspaper, the Minister of Justice, a few days ago, met a delegation of people from various ethnic groups who asked the department to take steps in order to protect Canadians of Jewish origin against calumny and slander.\nCan the minister tell the house in what areas, towns or localities the Canadian Jews have to put up with more calumny, slander and discrimination than any other ethnic group of our country?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a meeting where a delegation asked for protection against calumny and slander, and then asks the minister for information about where Jews experience discrimination, without condemning or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-463", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-03-12", "speaker": "David Réal Caouette", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["A supplementary question, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister of Justice assure the house that there is in Canada no more discriminating against the Jewish people than against any other group?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/12/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/03/12/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Member asks a question about discrimination against Jewish people but does not take a position on whether such discrimination exists or condemn it; the question itself is neutral/procedural in nature."}, {"id": "house-464", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-06-11", "speaker": "Clifford Silas Smallwood", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["I have a question for the Minister of Justice. Is the minister aware of the recent flood of hate literature in the capital as well as in other centres in Canada directed against Jews and negroes, and the implication of the connection with the Social Credit party through one Neil Carmichael, the approved Social Credit candidate in the Toronto-St. Paul riding, as reported by C.F.R.A.'s parliamentary press correspondent?"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/06/11/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/06/11/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate literature directed against Jews and mentions alleged connections to a political party and candidate, but poses this as a question to the minister without taking a position on the hostility described or making accusations."}, {"id": "house-465", "year": 1964, "chamber": "house", "date": "1964-08-13", "speaker": "Kenneth Hamill (Ken) More", "source": "lipad", "passages": ["… all the amenities of life that we enjoy today. We lived in a mixed community. Predominantly it was Protestant. We had only two churches, a Methodist and a Presbyterian. We had some Roman Catholic families-not many, but two that I can remember very well, because we were close to each other and played together. We had a Jewish family and we had a Chinese family. We had no problems of separatism, no problems of prejudice. These people joined us at our churches at times because they were Christian people and the Christian message coming from whatever source was interesting to them. Their own church was not available and transportation was not easy. On occasion, they joined with us.\nI remember well as a lad going to the Orange celebrati …"], "url": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/08/13/", "url_official": "https://www.lipad.ca/full/1964/08/13/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes a historical mixed community setting and mentions the presence of a Jewish family without describing any hostility toward them. The passage states 'We had no problems of separatism, no problems of prejudice,' characterizing the community positively rather than describing hostility."}, {"id": "house-466", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-09-16", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… who stood up against the tyranny of the Ceausescu regime in Romania and he helped to make that dictatorship fall. We are talking about an evolving society that changes. Back in 1692 we had the Salem witch hunts. Looking at Canada's history, we had the cultural genocide against the first nations. We also had the Asian Exclusion Act, the Chinese head tax and the internment of Ukrainians and Japanese. We also had a policy of non-immigration for the Jews. We had an Immigration Act that was not repealed until 1976 when we removed the colour barrier to immigration to this country. I mention those things because I think it is that history that resulted in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms being enacted in Canada on April 17, 1982. I think what is so critically important …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/9/16/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/9/16/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's historical policy of non-immigration for Jews as a factual historical matter without condemning it, blaming anyone for it, or taking an evaluative stance on it in this passage."}, {"id": "house-467", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-09-26", "speaker": "Mr. Stockwell Day (Leader of the Opposition, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ith Landy, said the following: This is an edict that should be condemned by all who support religious freedom and the rights of minorities. The Taliban regime has demonstrated its lack of respect for human rights in the past. This is but one more gesture to return Afghanistan to the Middle Ages. He went on to say that Jews and other minorities have often been subject to such discriminatory dress edicts, most recently during the Nazi domination of Europe. This is a chilling reminder of those times and the fact that such laws are never passed for the benefit of the minority affected. This is the kind of so-called protection that minorities have to be protected from and serves mainly to make them targets e …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/9/26/mr-stockwell-day-leader-of-the-opposition-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/9/26/mr-stockwell-day-leader-of-the-opposition-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Okanagan--Coquihalla", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Stockwell Day (Okanagan—Coquihalla, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states the edict 'should be condemned by all who support religious freedom' and characterizes it as discriminatory toward Jews and minorities, drawing historical parallels to Nazi persecution."}, {"id": "house-468", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-29", "speaker": "Mr. Langlois", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ldiers in Somalia, the existence of such links is plausible. Are Grant Bristow and other agents part of a plot by CSIS to spy on the CBC? Another allegation made is to the effect that CSIS, Grant Bristow or other individuals who may or may not be related to the neo-nazi group Heritage Front have targetted the Canadian Jewish Congress, by leaking information on Canadian Jewish organizations to violent American racists, by promoting the use of violence by members of Heritage Front and by organizing a campaign to harass anti-racist leaders by telephone. According to another allegation made, CSIS apparently followed every step of French secret service agents interested in the Quebec sovereignist movement. Consequently, even if CSIS did not directly investigate Quebec sovereignist forces, which have been called \"the enemy within\" in this House by …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/29/mr-langlois/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/29/mr-langlois/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes allegations of hostility toward the Canadian Jewish Congress without taking a position on them or naming a specific responsible party; uses phrases like 'allegation made' and 'apparently' that indicate reporting rather than condemning or blaming."}, {"id": "house-469", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ways have been, just as gays and lesbians are found in all other walks of life. Pursuant to Standing Order 18, I want to ask what could be more offensive, to use the words of Standing Order 18, than to suggest that my very existence is immoral, unnatural, destroying Canadian values and must not be condoned. If similar hateful words had been directed toward another minority, be they Jews, Blacks, Chinese Canadians, people with disabilities or aboriginal people, all of whom are represented in the House, it is inconceivable the Chair would not have intervened and called the offending speaker to order. Therefore I want to ask why the standard should be any lower in the case of hatred directed at gays and …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/27/mr-svend-j-robinson-burnaby-kingsway/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/27/mr-svend-j-robinson-burnaby-kingsway/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jews hypothetically as a comparison point ('If similar hateful words had been directed toward...Jews') to illustrate a principle about how hateful speech should be treated equally. This is a reference to Jews as an example of a protected group, not a statement about actual hostility toward Jews or anyone's response to it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-470", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-06-03", "speaker": "Mrs. Jan Brown (Calgary Southeast)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to hear that answer because yesterday the Minister of National Defence said he would refuse to enter Canadian Legions because they are discriminating against the Sikh and Jewish communities. Ironically, if the Minister of National Defence attended the \"Writing through Race\" conference he would be refused entry to certain workshops on the basis of his race. This conference is demonstrating racial discrimination and it is clearly wrong. Will the minister immediately withdraw federal funding fro …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/6/3/mrs-jan-brown-calgary-southeast/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/6/3/mrs-jan-brown-calgary-southeast/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies the 'Writing through Race' conference as demonstrating racial discrimination, and characterizes it as 'clearly wrong,' specifically linking it to excluding people based on race in a way that parallels discrimination against Jewish and Sikh communities."}, {"id": "house-471", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-18", "speaker": "Mr. Roger Pomerleau (Anjou-Rivière-des-Prairies)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to rise in the House today to mark the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Jewish Congress. This organization is well-known among Quebecers and Canadians; it is a pillar of our Jewish community. Founded in Montreal after World War I, the Canadian Jewish Congress has participated in all major political and social debates in Quebec and Canada. Its fight for religious freedom and against all forms of discrimination was then taken up by all Quebecers and Canadians. On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, I would like to thank the Jewish Congress for its important contribution to our society and to wish it a long life."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/18/mr-roger-pomerleau-anjou-rivière-des-prairies/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/18/mr-roger-pomerleau-anjou-rivière-des-prairies/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker marks an anniversary and praises the organization's historical role in fighting discrimination, without describing or responding to any specific hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-472", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-15", "speaker": "Mrs. Pierrette Venne (Saint-Hubert)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… uals forming a social group are not elements of identification of victims of hate propaganda. I think that restricting potential victims to a few groups is not justified when we are dealing with a crime against humanity as a whole. Instead of designating a few \"identifiable\" groups, the law should prohibit any form of hate propaganda against any group. Public incitement to kill women, welfare recipients or homosexuals is no different than inciting people to kill Jews, Catholics or Muslims. Social hatred, in its expression and in its effects, is akin to universal hatred. Consequently, I agree with the hon. member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell on the spirit of his proposed amendment to Bill C-214. However, I cannot support the bill itself, because it implicitly recognizes that the law would only protect certain groups of people, when it should include everyone. This bill is similar t …", "… on hate propaganda in light of the decision rendered by the Supreme Court in the Zundel case, last year, and the Keegstra case, in 1990. As we know, the Alberta Court of Appeal was scheduled to hear another appeal from Keegstra on February 2, 1994, and has not yet issued a ruling. While Keegstra was charged under the hate propaganda provisions, Zundel was charged under old section 181 on spreading false news. As we all recall, Zundel denied the Jewish holocaust ever happened and his comments were tinged with racism. Zundel's motives could have been examined as part of mens rea determination. However, in the majority jugement of the Supreme Court, section 181 was invalidated by the Charter and, whatever his motives, Zundel had to be acquitted. In its ruling, the court mentioned it had ruled a few years earlier, in the Keegstra ca …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/15/mrs-pierrette-venne-saint-hubert/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/15/mrs-pierrette-venne-saint-hubert/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Zundel case where he 'denied the Jewish holocaust ever happened and his comments were tinged with racism' and reports on legal proceedings and court rulings, without taking a position condemning or naming the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-473", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-03-11", "speaker": "Mr. David Berger (Saint-Henri-Westmount)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… trust, fear and hatred. When tragic and terrible violence occurs it is essential that we continue to support those engaged in the search for peace. I found encouraging the powerful statements by Prime Minister Rabin in the aftermath of the Hebron massacre and as well the forceful condemnation by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of the murderous attack on Jewish youth in New York. It is important that members of all faiths and communities examine more carefully their own habits of thought and expression so that these cannot fuel the acts of extremists, so that they can never believe that they are merely zealots acting as true agents of God and their people. It is such mistake …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/11/mr-david-berger-saint-henri-westmount/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/11/mr-david-berger-saint-henri-westmount/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — VIOLENCE", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to violence and hatred toward Jews ('murderous attack on Jewish youth'), praises condemnations of such violence, and calls for examination of 'habits of thought and expression' that fuel hostility, without naming specific parties as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-474", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Mrs. Jan Brown (Calgary Southeast, Ref.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… wish Centre. On behalf of all of my colleagues I would like to extend our support for the intended victims of the bombing. Thankfully I have received assurances from the centre that everyone is all right and that the centre is continuing today in its place of prominence in the Calgary community. Members of the Calgary Jewish community should be applauded for their perseverance and their refusal to be intimidated by these bigoted acts of violence. At this point in time the police have no information regarding the motivation for the crime. I only hope that calm will prevail in the city. I call on Calgarians and Canadians to reserve their judgments until such time as it is known exactly who is responsible for this heinous attack on a valued community organizatio …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mrs-jan-brown-calgary-southeast-ref/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mrs-jan-brown-calgary-southeast-ref/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the bombing and violence, calling it 'bigoted acts of violence' and a 'heinous attack,' while expressing support for victims and praising the community's perseverance, without naming a specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-475", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-03-22", "speaker": "Hon. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands, not only the forgotten exodus but also the forced exodus. Following the United Nations partition resolution of November 29, 1947, and over the following decades, approximately 850,000 Jews were uprooted and displaced from Arab countries. In 1945, there were around 900,000 Jews living in the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000. It has been documented that state-sanctioned repression and persecution in Arab countries targeted Jewish populations and led to the anti-Jewish pogroms. This is a story that must be acknowledged and must be repeated. As my colleague from Mount Royal has said: Where there is no remembrance, there is no truth; where there is no truth, there will be no justice; where there is no justice, there will be no reconciliation; and where there is no reconciliation, there will b …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/3/22/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/3/22/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states that 'state-sanctioned repression and persecution in Arab countries targeted Jewish populations and led to the anti-Jewish pogroms,' directly naming Arab countries/states as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-476", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-06-14", "speaker": "Hon. Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ries. The question is not so much any more what are the rights of the state, vis-a-vis other states. The question much more is whether the rights of citizens in countries, who are being mistreated by their government, are important. This afternoon, and I am sure the minister will be there, we will be commemorating the Holocaust. We will be reflecting on the fact that the world turned away from those who were being viciously discriminated against in Germany. We waited for a long time and then the interventions came in Poland. Then the interventions came in Russia and then in all of eastern Europe, and six million people were killed because they were Jews. After the second world war, we began to realize that we had to develop some sense of the rights of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/6/14/hon-bob-rae-toronto-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/6/14/hon-bob-rae-toronto-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about Holocaust discrimination and persecution of Jews without taking a position on current hostility or naming specific contemporary responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-477", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-04-12", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… to our veterans for fighting so bravely in a war that we are proud to have fought. We defeated fascism and in the aftermath of war, we built a more just society in Canada itself, one that respects basic human rights and freedoms. This year our soldiers are fighting again to defeat a fascist mentality that feeds ethnic hatred. We fought before to defeat those who hated and killed Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and newspaper editors who would not agree. What we hear from Belgrade today is all too familiar, all too dangerous. In September 1996 I observed elections in Bosnia in the historic city of Mostar. I saw too many fresh flowers on gravesites. My interpreter, Igor, showed me the grave of his best f …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/4/12/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/4/12/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the 'fascist mentality that feeds ethnic hatred' and draws parallels to historical antisemitism and genocide without naming a specific party or individual as responsible for the current hostility."}, {"id": "house-478", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-03-25", "speaker": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Over its eight decades it has become a model community advocacy organization, blending its efforts on behalf of the Jewish community of Canada seamlessly with its outstanding contributions on issues of national scope and significance. Internationally its vigorous promotion of global human rights and the elimination of racism and discrimination everywhere complement its efforts on behalf of the State of Israel and Jews around the world. To CJC, I say happy anniversary. It has earned our admiration. Yashar koach . May it go from strength to strength."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/3/25/hon-sheila-finestone-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/3/25/hon-sheila-finestone-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes an organization's advocacy work and historical contributions without addressing any specific hostility toward Jews or taking a position on any such incidents."}, {"id": "house-479", "year": 2020, "chamber": "house", "date": "2020-11-16", "speaker": "Mrs. Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… yet we do not focus on the incredible women within our own judicial system. I therefore want to take a moment to highlight the incredible women of our Supreme Court. Of course, to get into their entire resumés would take hours, so here is an overview. There is the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella. She is the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court. Previous to her appointment, she did significant work on equality, discrimination and disabilities. There is the Honourable Andromache Karakatsanis. She served as Ontario's secretary of the cabinet and as clerk of the executive council from July 2000 to November 2002. As the province's senior public servant, she provided leadership to the Ontario public service and the deputy ministers. She was als …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/11/16/mrs-stephanie-kusie-calgary-midnapore-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/11/16/mrs-stephanie-kusie-calgary-midnapore-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Midnapore", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Calgary Midnapore, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Retirement Congratulations", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes Justice Abella's background and notes she is the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court, but does not address any hostility toward Jews or take a position on discrimination against them."}, {"id": "house-480", "year": 2020, "chamber": "house", "date": "2020-11-02", "speaker": "Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… However, Canada has not always been as just as we would like it to be. Certain groups have faced more challenges than others. Indigenous Canadians are one of those groups. The treatment of indigenous peoples is a stain on our history, and we cannot forget about the injustices of the past; we must learn from them. As a Jewish Canadian, the term “never again” always comes to mind. The commitment of never again is a solemn pledge to never let hatred and injustice take control of our society, to never let genocide take place, to never stand idly by while bad actors motivated by something sinister wipe out those who seem to be getting in their way. As scholar and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said: I swore to never be silent. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. We are all here as elected officials, 338 out of 38 million Canadians. These 38 million Canadians expect us to get it right. We have no option but to be successful in these efforts. The process of reconciliation is vital and fundamental to the f …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/11/2/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/11/2/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Proposed tax changes", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker condemns hatred, injustice, genocide, and the oppression of Indigenous peoples without naming specific perpetrators; emphasizes commitment to never be silent about injustice."}, {"id": "house-481", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-03-30", "speaker": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in fact her department did fund International Women's Day. The group that ransacked this cathedral had participated in the parade funded and promulgated by her department earlier that day. How can this minister stand here as a self-styled defender of tolerance when she spreads religious intolerance and division across the country, when she has been condemned for doing that by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Muslim Federation, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Catholic Civil Rights League, and when her own department supports marches that lead to this kind of violent anti-religious bigotry?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/3/30/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/3/30/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes responsibility for religious intolerance and anti-religious bigotry to the minister by stating her department funded and promulgated the parade that led to the cathedral ransacking, and accuses her of spreading religious intolerance and division."}, {"id": "house-482", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-02-05", "speaker": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nt ways by the horrors of the Holocaust. When I first introduced the bill in the House last spring, I had just returned from a pilgrimage marking the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Holland and a visit to Camp Westerbork, where the Dutch Jewish population was sent en route to the death camps. In total, 6 million Jewish men, women and children perished as a result of a deliberate and planned state sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The bill proposes to establish a national annual Holocaust memorial day to be called Yom ha-Shoah. I urge all members to consider the importance of this initiative, which will ensure that a sorry chapter in the history of the world is never allowed to repeat itself. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/2/5/ms-judy-wasylycia-leis-winnipeg-north-centre-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/2/5/ms-judy-wasylycia-leis-winnipeg-north-centre-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg North Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about the Holocaust and presents a legislative proposal, without taking a position on any current hostility toward Jews or condemning contemporary antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-483", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-10-18", "speaker": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… t memorial day. Many of us in the House have been touched in some way by the horrors of the Holocaust. For me it was a recent pilgrimage marking the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Holland and a visit to Camp Westerbork where the Dutch Jewish population was sent on route to the death camps. In total, six million Jewish men, women and children perished as the result of a deliberate and planned state sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The bill proposes to establish a national, annual Holocaust memorial day to be called Yom haShoah. Why do we need this as a nation? It is because the terrible destruction and pain of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. It is because systematic violence, racism and hatred continue to occur. It is because as a parliament we must do everything to uphold human rights and value the diversity and multiculturalism of Canadian society. It is because this part of our history must never be allowed to repeat itself. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/10/18/ms-judy-wasylycia-leis-winnipeg-north-centre-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/10/18/ms-judy-wasylycia-leis-winnipeg-north-centre-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg North Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust as 'terrible destruction and pain' that 'must never be forgotten' and advocates for a memorial day to prevent repetition, expressing moral opposition to the hostility without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-484", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-12", "speaker": "Hon. Ken Dryden (York Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… loss, fathers, mothers, grandparents the children never had. Children, so full of learning, so full of possibilities, never the chance to live their lives. A next generation never born, and a next. The incalculable loss to the Jewish people; the incalculable loss to all of us. For us, never to forget the Jews and the Jewish people. But for us, too, never to forget how easy it is to push to one side any group of people, to separate, divide, cut off, then to demonize, hate and destroy. The Holocaust happened then and there, but the Holocaust is a forever story for all of us. Never again, and always to remember."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/12/hon-ken-dryden-york-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/12/hon-ken-dryden-york-centre-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses deep objection to the historical hostility and destruction of Jews in the Holocaust, emphasizing moral imperatives to remember and prevent such atrocities, without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-485", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-29", "speaker": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… afe, which would bar certain privileges to refugees from those countries making claims. We have also heard the minister, on repeated occasions, talk about the Roma in Hungary as not having legitimate claims because, in his opinion, Hungary is a safe country. We all know that gypsies and Roma were rounded up along with Jews and communists during World War II and sent to the gas chamber for one reason only, that they were Roma. Historic discrimination persists in central European countries against Roma to this day. Whether or not that amounts of oppression, there is no question about the fact that they experience systematic discrimination. My grandparents were born in Hungary, and I have a fair bit of knowledge about the Hungarian culture and the situation of Roma …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/29/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/29/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the minister as responsible for dismissing Roma refugee claims by calling Hungary 'safe,' while contextualizing this within historical persecution of Roma alongside Jews and the persistence of systematic discrimination against Roma in Hungary today.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-486", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-04-10", "speaker": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in January 2002 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal delivered a ruling concerning Ernst Zundel and his Internet hate site. The tribunal concluded that the “tone and expression of these messages is so malevolent in its depiction of Jews, that we find them to be hate messages within the meaning of the act”. Zundel simply moved to the United States and continued his activities there. Now that the Americans do not want him, he wants back into Canada. He does not want to go back to Germany because there he would face charges of suspicion of incitement of hate. The charges stem from his website, one that denies the murder of six million Jewish people during the second world war. Why would we allow this man into Canada, a man who incites hatred? In 2002 Zundel said after moving to the United States, “Now I'm in Canada-denial. I have put Canada behind me”. Let us hold him to his word and deny his entry back into Canada. He has no place in Canadian society."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/4/10/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/4/10/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names Ernst Zundel as responsible for hate messages toward Jews, citing the tribunal ruling that his messages are 'malevolent in its depiction of Jews' and accusing him of inciting hatred."}, {"id": "house-487", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-03-07", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, when I spoke yesterday in the House of the danger of anti-Jewish terror, the targeting of Jews because they are Jews, we in the House did not know that at that moment, in a tragic irony, a murderous terrorist assault on a Jewish school in Jerusalem was taking place. Nor could we even fathom that, in an obscene declaration, Hamas would actually bless the terrorist attack and call for more, while thousands celebrated the killings in the streets. It reminded me of the words of Mideast scholar Fouad Ajami. At the time of the Passover massacre, yet another anti-Jewish terrorist attack, he wrote: [The suicide bomber] did not descend from the sky: He walked straight out of the culture of incitement.... He partook of the culture all around him--the glee that greets those brutal deeds of terror, the cult that rises around the martyrs and their families. This culture of hate must end. This incitement must stop. For it is this Hamas sanctioned hate and incitement that leads to Hamas rockets targeting Jews in Sderot and Ashqelon and terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. We need a culture of peace, not a culture of hate."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/3/7/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/3/7/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to anti-Jewish terror, Hamas incitement, and the culture of hate that enables such violence, without accusing any specific person of being responsible for creating the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-488", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . This act of racism occurred under the Conservative government of Sir Robert Borden. This was one of the most notorious incidents in the history of the early 20th century of the exclusion laws in Canada and the United States that were designed to keep out people of Asian origin. Sadly, it was not the last of Canada's exclusionary practices. Members will recall the ship of the damned, the Jewish people who came to the shores of Canada, only to be turned away by a member of the government who said that one Jew was one Jew too many in this country. In 1958 the Conservatives, under John Diefenbaker, moved to block the flow of Italian Canadians coming to Canada. The shadow of racism was still alive. Of course today, buried in the latest budget bill, Bill C-50 , the Conservative government is moving to control immigration. It will control not only who gets into Canada but more importantly who does not get in, who is excluded in this immigration package that is coming forth. However, back to the st …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific government member as responsible for hostility toward Jews, stating they 'said that one Jew was one Jew too many in this country' regarding the rejection of Jewish refugees.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-489", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-02-27", "speaker": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday we saw once again the ugly side of Liberal anti-Americanism when the member for Mississauga Centre said that she hates Americans. Had she expressed her hatred for any other identifiable group, for Africans or Asians or Jews, she rightly would have been turfed from the Liberal caucus, but in the Liberal Party there seems to be a particular exception for hate speech: when it is aimed at Americans. What is it about the government that sees its members constantly expressing their hatred for our American allies? Would the government defend this comment as free speech if it were made about any other national group?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/2/27/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/2/27/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the 'Liberal Party' and its government as responsible for permitting hate speech and having 'a particular exception for hate speech' against Americans, contrasting this with how they would allegedly respond if similar hatred were expressed toward Jews or other groups."}, {"id": "house-490", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, David Ahenakew was stripped of his Order of Canada for repeatedly making racist anti-immigrant statements and in particular, for stating that Jews are a disease, they currently control the media, and the Holocaust was justified because it was Hitler's way of preventing the Jewish control of Europe. Notwithstanding these facts, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations recently decided to reinstate Mr. Ahenakew as a senator within its organization, a position which is considered to be one of honour and leadership. This is a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenaclennox-and-addington-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenaclennox-and-addington-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies David Ahenakew as responsible for making hostile statements about Jews (calling them a disease, claiming they control media, justifying the Holocaust), and names the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations as responsible for reinstating him to an honored position despite these statements."}, {"id": "house-491", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-02", "speaker": "Ms. Ruby Dhalla (Brampton—Springdale, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… discretionary powers to pick and choose who comes to our nation. We only need to be reminded of the injustices of the past, injustices like the Komagata Maru incident, or the time from 1885 to 1923 when there was a head tax for the Chinese, or the period from 1923 to 1945 where strict immigration rules prohibited the Jewish from entering our country. Those were not proud moments in our nation's history. We must not, as a nation, go back to the politics of exclusion, discrimination or racism. We must move forward as a country. As a proud Canadian, a proud Sikh and a proud Indo-Canadian, I have seen and heard first-hand how the injustices of the Komagata Maru incident has left families around the world, including many in the Indo-Canadian community, with scars and with pain that can never be forg …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/ms-ruby-dhalla-bramptonspringdale-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/2/ms-ruby-dhalla-bramptonspringdale-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical discrimination against Jews (1923-1945 immigration restrictions) as an injustice and explicitly warns against returning to 'politics of exclusion, discrimination or racism' without naming a specific current actor responsible."}, {"id": "house-492", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-07", "speaker": "Hon. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, last week the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations made a decision to reinstate David Ahenakew to its senate, in spite of his despicable and hateful remarks about Jews. The Minister of Indian Affairs appropriately expressed disappointment with the federation's decision to reinstate Mr. Ahenakew and stated that the government would be reviewing its funding commitments with the federation. The minister said: The past comments by this person have been very hurtful and inappropriate and …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/7/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/7/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly identifies David Ahenakew as responsible for 'despicable and hateful remarks about Jews' and describes the Federation's decision to reinstate him despite these remarks as problematic.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-493", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-16", "speaker": "Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… would like to congratulate my colleague for Châteauguay—Saint-Constant for her valiant effort in bringing this bill before the House. The objective of the bill is praiseworthy and necessary, particularly as we approach the fourth anniversary of the bombing of the United Talmud Torah elementary school in Montreal. Hate attacks against cultural communities in Canada continue. Allow me to provide an overview of certain recent incidents. In September 2006, the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish school for boys in Outremont was firebombed a few hours after the end of the school day. In January 2007, the Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens (JMC) school in the Saint-Laurent—Cartierville borough was vandalized. Twenty windows were broken and a school bus damaged. That was not the first time the school had been vandalized. In June 2007, the Kitigan Zibi cultural ce …", "… in the right direction, but it is a small step. In 2004 Canada's principal Jewish organizations estimated that it would take approximately $8 million to undertake minimum investments to upgrade the security of their infrastructures, schools and community centres. Officials from the Taldos Yakov Yosef school, which was attacked in September 2006, had to launch an appeal to raise $150,000 for repairs and security enhancements to that private Orthodox Jewish school. It was precisely because of my concern with these increased costs incurred by victims of crime, who through no fault of their own were having to fork the bill to ensure the security of their institutions, that in 2004 I wrote a letter to the then prime minister, to the then deputy prime minister, and to the th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/16/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/16/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes specific incidents of attacks and vandalism against Jewish schools and other cultural institutions, along with financial costs, without explicitly condemning the perpetrators or taking a clear position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-494", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-04-16", "speaker": "Mr. Mike Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… would apply when it could be proven that the act of mischief was motivated by prejudice or hate based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin or sexual orientation. I understand the rationale behind the proposal. It seeks to send a clear message to Canadians that we do not tolerate acts motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred. I noted the examples pointed out by my hon. colleague from the Bloc, who talked about the schools and the things that were done in Outremont to the Jewish school and the library. In particular, it seems that the intention of the bill is to send a message to potential hatemongers that we do not tolerate acts that are directed toward institutions in Canada that are used by what is defined in subsection 318(4) of the Criminal Code as an “identifiable group”, or in other wo …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/16/mr-mike-allen-tobiquemactaquac-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/4/16/mr-mike-allen-tobiquemactaquac-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of mischief at a Jewish school and library in Outremont as examples supporting the bill's intent, without condemning the acts, naming perpetrators, or taking an evaluative position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-495", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-01", "speaker": "Mr. James Lunney (Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today we will take part in an act of solemn remembrance for the millions of victims who perished at the hands of the Nazi regime. Kristallnacht , the “Night of Broken Glass”, took place on November 9, 1938. This act of destruction gave official sanction to persecution, humiliation, deprivation and eventually the systemic and organized murder of nearly six million Jewish people. While the Nazi machine geared up, the nations of the world gathered in Evian, France to consider what actions might be taken. Tragically, the conference took on its own measure of infamy in that it broke up early with no resolve to act at all. Hitler's spies returned to say, “You can do what you want with the Jews, no one wants them”. That is precisely why we must gather and stand with our Jewish friends and survivors in the spirit of zakar , remembrance, and reaffirm our commitment to fight racism and hatred wherever it is found. As the Prime Minister wrote after his recent visit to Auschwitz: We are witness here to the vestiges of unspeakable cruelty, horror and death. Let us never forget these things and work always to prevent their repetition."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/1/mr-james-lunney-nanaimoalberni-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/1/mr-james-lunney-nanaimoalberni-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility and atrocities described (Kristallnacht, Nazi persecution, murder of Jews) and calls for standing with Jewish people and fighting racism and hatred, without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-496", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-12-09", "speaker": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rred to as the never again treaty, to prevent and protect against this most unthinkable and unspeakable of crimes. Regrettably, and incredibly, genocide became the paradigmatic form of armed conflict in the 1990s, including the advocacy and perpetration of genocide in the Balkans and Rwanda. The enduring lesson of the Holocaust is that Nazism succeeded not only because of the industry of death but because of the ideology of hate. It was this teaching of contempt, this demonizing of the other, this is where it all began. Fifty years later we have witnessed an appalling trafficking in state sanctioned hate, which led us down the road to the unthinkable, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the unspeakable, the preventable genocide in Rwanda, and the demonizing, once again, of the Jews. What is needed at this point is a strategy of prevention, a culture of human rights in place of a culture of hate; a culture of respect in place of a culture of contempt, of respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, and the equal dignity of all persons everywhere."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/12/9/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/12/9/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hatred and demonizing of Jews described, advocating for prevention and human rights culture without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-497", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. James Rajotte (Edmonton—Leduc, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… in which the school is located. Many Muslim Canadians across the country may feel affronted by the attack. The House may very well recall the situations with respect to attacks that happened at the United Talmud Torah elementary school in Montreal in 2004. Members may also remember the early Saturday morning fire bomb attack on an Orthodox Jewish school in 2006. These are only a couple of examples. Unfortunately, in my home city of Edmonton there have been incidents against educational institutions and houses of worship, which I know are outside the parameter of the bill. These are situations in which there is an attack of hatred, and it affects the entire com …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/14/mr-james-rajotte-edmontonleduc-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/14/mr-james-rajotte-edmontonleduc-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "education", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes specific past incidents of attacks on Jewish schools and institutions without taking a position on them or accusing anyone specific of responsibility."}, {"id": "house-498", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-05-15", "speaker": "Ms. Ruby Dhalla (Brampton—Springdale, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… for this reason that I stand before the House today to once again ask for the government to apologize to the Indo-Canadian community and others impacted by the 1914 Komagata Maru injustice. The Komagata Maru tragedy occurred at a time when our nation had immigration policies that were exclusionary, discriminatory and racist, policies that served to divide our nation and played on our nation's fears. It is these policies that resulted in the Chinese having a head tax imposed, 900 Jewish people being denied entry into Canada and the internment of over 700 men from the Italian community in the second world war. It is these injustices that will forever serve as a reminder of the struggle and the challenges that so many immigrants have encountered in their hope for a better future in Canada. We fast forward to 2008 and realize th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/15/ms-ruby-dhalla-bramptonspringdale-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/15/ms-ruby-dhalla-bramptonspringdale-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discriminatory policies that denied entry to Jewish people without taking a position on current hostility or accusing anyone of responsibility for it."}, {"id": "house-499", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-11-07", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… be one of those 20%. The practice we had in the country at that time was that if one was injured fighting overseas for Canada, then came back to this country and required relief and hospitalization, one could be deported. Surely we all recognize that this history has to be addressed. During the second world war we had racist policies. The SS St. Louis , a ship full of Jews, travelled from Cuba to South America and past the coast of the United States and Canada. They were seeking refuge for almost 1,000 Jews who were fleeing wartorn Europe and persecution in Germany. What did we do? We turned them all down: the Americans, Cubans, South Americans and Canadians. We forced that ship to go back to Europe where many of those Jews perished in the gas chambers. I bring that up because we also had a policy of “none is too many” for the Jews at the turn of the second world war. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/11/7/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/11/7/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's rejection of Jewish refugees and racist wartime policies as historical wrongs that 'have to be addressed,' expressing disapproval without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-500", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-06-02", "speaker": "Ms. Olivia Chow (Trinity—Spadina, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… d open immigration policy that welcomes the skills, innovation and contributions of immigrants rather than a policy that reeks up the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Continuous Passage Act, which were designed to keep out immigrant groups. Canada has made many mistakes in the past, oftentimes because of discriminatory policies based on race, religion or nationality. In 1939 we refused to allow the ocean liner S.S. St. Louis to dock on our shore, forcing 900 Jewish refugees to return to Germany, and many of the passengers did not survive. During World War II, Canada only accepted 5,000 Jewish refugees, one of the worst records among all refugee-receiving countries. Let us also not forget that from 1941 to 1945 Canada interned, displaced, dispossessed, and detained 23,000 Japanes …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/2/ms-olivia-chow-trinityspadina-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/2/ms-olivia-chow-trinityspadina-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Trinity--Spadina", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Trinity—Spadina, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Balanced Refugee Reform Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical incidents of discrimination and refusal to accept Jewish refugees (S.S. St. Louis, WWII refugee record) without naming a current person or group as responsible, and without explicitly condemning the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-501", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-06-06", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ourselves from this very problematic and historically hateful process, but the NDP members now say that things have changed and they are supporting it. What has changed? Iran, a country dedicated to the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world, is vice-chair. It recently denied observer status to a Canadian Jewish NGO. The organizers have re-invited all of the NGOs who participated in the most extreme and odious promotion of hatred at the last Durban conference. I say to the NDP members, shame on them for supporting this terrible disgrace."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/6/hon-jason-kenney-secretary-of-state-multiculturalism-and-canadian-identity-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/6/hon-jason-kenney-secretary-of-state-multiculturalism-and-canadian-identity-cpc/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Iran as responsible for hostility toward Jews (denying observer status to a Canadian Jewish NGO and being 'dedicated to the destruction of the only Jewish country'), and names the conference organizers as responsible for promoting 'hatred' by re-inviting NGOs from the previous Durban conference."}, {"id": "house-502", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-06-11", "speaker": "Ms. Raymonde Folco (Laval West, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ons in our City and throughout Canada in the recent past and we consider any such act to be an assault upon all of us. We urge that all people manifest a tangible and meaningful respect for each other, and to eject and repel any attempts to vilification of other individuals or groups. Recently, Canadians of Muslim and Jewish faiths were the target of racist acts and events. This is an important initiative by the religious leaders of three communities as a show of trust and solidarity toward their fellow citizens."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/6/11/ms-raymonde-folco-laval-west-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/6/11/ms-raymonde-folco-laval-west-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Laval West", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Raymonde Folco (Laval West, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Racism", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to racist acts targeting Jews and Muslims, calling them 'an assault upon all of us' and urging rejection of vilification, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-503", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-05-21", "speaker": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, as we all know, the Internet is continuing its exponential growth and its impact on all facets of our economic and social activities. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. It is providing a crucial contribution to our knowledge of Internet use through its evaluation of hi-tech hate with its Digital Hate 2002 program. Digital Hate 2002 examines all varieties of the online content of hate. This includes games that promote racism to the online recruitment and validation of suicide bombings. Researchers at Canada's Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies have contributed by tracking the significant and troubling contributions of Canadian origin to this worldwide phenomenon. I urge all members of the House as well as all other Canadians to familiarize themselves with this unique and vital tool in the fight against the promotion of hatred, terror and racism on t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/5/21/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/5/21/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Digital Hate 2002 program and its findings about online hate content, including tracking of Canadian contributions, without accusing any specific person, party, or entity of responsibility for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-504", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-05", "speaker": "Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r the House itself. We have heard the admission, the statement by the hon. member for Ahuntsic . In it she admits that: first, she did indeed distribute all this information by email to the members' personal Blackberry addresses; second, that some of the information and images contained in the material she distributed incited hatred toward a religious group, namely the Jews, and glorified certain organizations that have been declared legally by legislation passed in this House as terrorist organizations; and third, that she has been remiss in her duties as a member of Parliament. This breach of her duties is at risk, first of all, of being prejudicial to all other members but also—and ev …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/5/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/5/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names the 'hon. member for Ahuntsic' and states that she distributed material that 'incited hatred toward a religious group, namely the Jews,' directly attributing this hostile act to her."}, {"id": "house-505", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-19", "speaker": "Mr. Mac Harb (Ottawa Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in the aftermath of September 11, Canadians banded together to implore their fellow citizens to refrain from committing acts of violence against members of the Muslim community. Six months later, I am saddened that I must rise again to condemn recent acts of hatred against members of both the Muslim and Jewish communities across Canada and in my own riding. These deplorable acts undermine our national values of tolerance and understanding. Canada is known throughout the world as a place where people of diverse backgrounds coexist peacefully and indeed are enriched by the varied cultures which surround them. Canadians must s …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/19/mr-mac-harb-ottawa-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/19/mr-mac-harb-ottawa-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly says 'I must rise again to condemn recent acts of hatred against members of both the Muslim and Jewish communities' and calls these acts 'deplorable' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-506", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-19", "speaker": "Ms. Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West--Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today with profound sadness to condemn recent acts of vandalism and hatred against Jews in Ottawa. Hate messages on Temple Israel, on a community centre and on a shopping mall reflect an ugly side of our community that we must not tolerate. Whether it is the desecration of a synagogue, a mosque, a church or a temple we must speak out against the hatred that motivates the cowardly goons who perpetrate such crimes. It is a short step from a spray can of paint to the intimidation of children, the persecution of whole segments of our society or even more violent ways of expressing hatred. Such actions are a betrayal of our most cherished value of pride in the diversity …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/19/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-west--nepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/19/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-west--nepean-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'condemn recent acts of vandalism and hatred against Jews' and calls such actions 'ugly' and intolerable, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-507", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-24", "speaker": "Ms. Lois Brown (Newmarket—Aurora, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, another day, another embarrassment for the opposition leader at the hands of his own dirty tricks specialist, Warren Kinsella. According to sources, Kinsella was fired yesterday from a committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress because of his misconduct. This comes just a week after Kinsella tried to bully TVOntario into cancelling a guest from a talk show, an outrageous attempt to interfere with the independence of a public broadcaster, and that is hard on the heels of catscam, Kinsella's anti-Chinese bigotry that grew into a diplomatic incident. If Warren Kinsella were just another lobbyist, his poor judgment would be …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/24/ms-lois-brown-newmarketaurora-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/24/ms-lois-brown-newmarketaurora-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Newmarket—Aurora", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Newmarket—Aurora, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Warren Kinsella and states he was 'fired...because of his misconduct' from a Canadian Jewish Congress committee, directly attributing responsibility for some form of hostility or misconduct affecting a Jewish organization."}, {"id": "house-508", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-18", "speaker": "Mr. Larry Spencer (Regina--Lumsden--Lake Centre, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… oo far. I believe that is stretching the term educational too far. I believe it is stretching artistic merit too far. I would ask the judge, and I would ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether there would be, for instance, any artistic merit in a sign being carried by a demonstrator on the front lawn of parliament that promoted hate toward, let us say, Muslims, Jews, parliamentarians? If the sign being carried promoted the aspect of killing, hating, wounding or abusing other members of society would the judge say that it was such a beautiful sign, done in such magnificent colours, that it was the most beautiful, colourful sign he or she had ever seen, and that it had such artisti …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/18/mr-larry-spencer-regina--lumsden--lake-centre-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/18/mr-larry-spencer-regina--lumsden--lake-centre-canadian-alliance/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hate speech targeting Jews (among others) by questioning whether such hateful signs could have artistic merit, implying disapproval of hostility toward Jews without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-509", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-02-24", "speaker": "Mr. Jeff Watson (Essex, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Arab Federation recently circulated videos from banned terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, called Israel a “racist state”, and attacked a member of the House because of his wife's involvement in the Jewish community. The Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism has said that extreme groups like CAF should not expect to receive taxpayer subsidies, but the Liberal Party appears to disagree. The Liberal member of Parliament for Willowdale has said that taxpayers should fund extreme groups like CAF. What is …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/24/mr-jeff-watson-essex-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/24/mr-jeff-watson-essex-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Essex", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Essex, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the Canadian Arab Federation as responsible for hostility toward Jews, specifically for attacking a member of Parliament because of his wife's involvement in the Jewish community."}, {"id": "house-510", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-12", "speaker": "Mr. Mac Harb (Ottawa Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… people to live in harmony, safety and security. The continuation of violence and terror can only result in the loss of more innocent lives. We are fortunate in Canada to live in a society that protects the rights of individuals to live without discrimination based on religion or place of origin. I deplore the acts of hate against Muslim institutions after September 11. I also deplore the recent acts of hate against the Jewish community centre and temple in my community. These types of acts are meant to undermine our Canadian values. I call on all community and spiritual leaders and on our law enforcement officers to be proactive and vigilant. I join with my colleagues in calling for an immediate ceasefire and a resumption of peace talks in …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/12/mr-mac-harb-ottawa-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/12/mr-mac-harb-ottawa-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — RACIAL DISCRIMINATION", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly deplores acts of hate against Jewish community centre and temple, objecting to the hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-511", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-11", "speaker": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… an extremely negative reaction for suggesting that civilian casualties regardless of their cause were equally reprehensible. In other words, making no distinction between civilians tragically killed as bystanders in the course of defensive military operations and civilians deliberately targeted and killed in terrorist attacks. Understandably, members of the Canadian Jewish community, people who know personally many of those innocent Israeli civilians under daily threat from suicide bombers, snipers and rocket attacks, were extremely upset by these remarks. Only a few days later there was a vivid illustration of the folly of the minister's remarks. On the evening of March 9, as Israelis came out onto the streets after the Sabbath, yet another horrifying suicide attack killed 11 Israelis in a Jerusalem cafe one block from the prime …", "… have endorsed. It is led by the United States. That has not been criticized by the government as moral equivalence. In closing, I would like to quote Frank Dimant of B'nai Brith Canada when he said last week: It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a double standard in the war on terror. When Americans are attacked, Canada supports and even participates in an unremitting campaign to eradicate the terror.... When Jews are attacked, when every day brings another suicide bomber--"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/11/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/11/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the minister as responsible for making remarks that drew criticism from the Canadian Jewish community for creating moral equivalence between civilian casualties in defensive operations and those deliberately targeted in terrorist attacks."}, {"id": "house-512", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-08", "speaker": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the point is that prayer alone is not enough, that goodwill is not enough. What is happening here at home is also totally unacceptable: the harassment of Canadian Arabs and Canadian Jews, attacks on their mosques and their synagogues, the religious institutions of their communities. I want to ask the minister a very direct question. Has the Canadian government invited representatives of the Canadian Islamic and the Canadian Jewish communities to come together in an attempt to launch dialogue, to increase understanding, to build bridges and to work …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/8/ms-alexa-mcdonough-halifax-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/8/ms-alexa-mcdonough-halifax-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Halifax", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Public Safety Act, 2002", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to harassment of Canadian Jews and attacks on synagogues as 'totally unacceptable' without naming specific parties responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-513", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-03-03", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canadians are free to express different views about the policies of foreign government but Israel Apartheid Week is not about that. It is about a systematic effort to delegitimize the democratic homeland of the Jewish people, a country born out of the Holocaust. We find very troubling this resurgence of the old slander that Zionism is racism. That is the notion that lies at the heart of Israel Apartheid Week. Jewish students at campuses across the country are subsequently feeling increasingly vulnerable. We condemn these efforts to single out and attack the Jewish people and their homeland in this terrible way."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/3/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/3/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism-cpc/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "education", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'We condemn these efforts to single out and attack the Jewish people and their homeland' and describes Israel Apartheid Week as 'troubling' without naming specific individuals or organizations as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-514", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-03-30", "speaker": "Mr. Deepak Obhrai (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s obligations, both in law and in practice, and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities. The situation of the Baha'is is a reflection of the troubling human rights situation in Iran. As Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have noted that persecution of religious and ethnic minorities goes beyond the Baha'i and includes Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Christians, Jews, Sufis and Sunni Muslims. Iran continues to execute more juvenile offenders than any other country. The rights of women and workers are suppressed and the Iranian authorities have gone to great lengths to limit freedom of expression and the media. There has also been a movement to intimidate academics and journalists …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/30/mr-deepak-obhrai-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/30/mr-deepak-obhrai-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Passage describes persecution of Jews among other minorities in Iran by citing human rights organizations' documentation, without taking a position or assigning blame beyond stating what has been noted."}, {"id": "house-515", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-20", "speaker": "Mr. Peter Stoffer (Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… There was a poem written by Lorne Shirinian and Alan Whitehorn. I say this because this poem says a lot. I was born in Holland and my parents and oldest brother were liberated by Canadian sacrifices. At that time the Nazi regime of Germany did some terrible atrocities to the people of Europe and, for that matter, the Jewish people as well. We just had a day of remembrance for the Jewish holocaust. When groups of people are out there in the world today being harassed, slaughtered, killed or in any way defamed because of their nationality, religion, ethnicity or whatever, then we as parliamentarians in Canada must stand up against that. We must remember the genocide for the following poem: We must remember. Remember and learn. Remember and tell. But also remember and live. The last line is the most important: And some day, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/20/mr-peter-stoffer-sackvillemusquodoboit-valleyeastern-shore-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/20/mr-peter-stoffer-sackvillemusquodoboit-valleyeastern-shore-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Sackville--Eastern Shore", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sackville—Eastern Shore, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to harassment, slaughter, killing, and defamation of people based on religion/ethnicity, calls for parliamentarians to 'stand up against that,' and invokes the Jewish Holocaust as a reason to remember and learn from such atrocities."}, {"id": "house-516", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-12-04", "speaker": "Mr. Monte Solberg (Medicine Hat, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… se that we need to have much more than a security perimeter to keep Canadians safe and the Canada-U.S. border open to trade. In other words, a North American security perimeter is necessary but it is not sufficient. This hard reality seems to be lost on the Liberals. What more evidence do they need? We had the bracing attacks of September 11, reports of planned attacks on Montreal's Jewish community, the slowing pace of trade at the Canada-U.S. border and now U.S. military patrols along what was the longest undefended border in the world. This Liberal reluctance is nothing more than anti-Americanism dressed up as nationalism, and a cheap nationalism it is. Canada is a great country but its greatness is …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/12/4/mr-monte-solberg-medicine-hat-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/12/4/mr-monte-solberg-medicine-hat-canadian-alliance/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions 'reports of planned attacks on Montreal's Jewish community' as one example supporting their argument about security threats, but does not condemn, name, blame, dispute, or use coded language about this hostility—merely cites it as evidence."}, {"id": "house-517", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-05-04", "speaker": "Mr. Leon Benoit (Lakeland, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I am pleased to take my last five minutes. I will begin by quoting Martin Niemoller, a famous German theologian who lived from 1892 to 1984. It is a very famous quote that we have all heard, but I ask every member in the House to listen to it again. It reads: When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church—and there was nobody left to be concerned. I would argue that many of the people who looked at this so-called gun bill, Bill C-68, and its implementation, fought the bill not …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/5/4/mr-leon-benoit-lakeland-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/5/4/mr-leon-benoit-lakeland-canadian-alliance/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Niemoller's famous statement about Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups, but does not take a position on any hostility toward Jews or make accusations about current events."}, {"id": "house-518", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-05-02", "speaker": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jews all over the world in concert with their fellow citizens commemorate crimes against humanity that are too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened; a genocidal racism in which as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel put it, “Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims”; where biology was inescapably destiny. Today we remember that the Holocaust is not an abstraction in which six million Jews and 11 million non-Jews were murdered, but where onto each person murdered there is a name, an identity. I would like to commend l'Assemblée nationale du Québec for unanimously ena …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/5/2/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/5/2/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Holocaust facts and commemorates the event without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on contemporary hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-519", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-04-14", "speaker": "Mr. Maurice Vellacott (Wanuskewin, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ther countries. Israel, as one of the prime movers of this, had to back away and could not give its approval. I will cite at least one of its major concerns but it has other concerns as well. The letter from Judge Eli Nathan states: Mr. President, it causes me considerable pain, both personally as a victim of the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people, and on behalf of the Israeli delegation which I proudly head, to have to explain the negative vote which Israel has been unwillingly obliged to cast today with regard to the Statute of the International Criminal Court. It is no secret that out of the embers of the Holocaust against the Jewish people—the greate …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/4/14/mr-maurice-vellacott-wanuskewin-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/4/14/mr-maurice-vellacott-wanuskewin-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Saskatoon--Wanuskewin", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Iran", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites a letter from Judge Eli Nathan explaining Israel's concerns and negative vote, presenting the statement without taking a position on whether the concerns are justified or condemning any party's actions."}, {"id": "house-520", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. Svend Robinson (Burnaby--Douglas, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… speaking out. I want to pay tribute tonight to those who in Israel and in the occupied territories have given me hope. I speak here of Canadians like Kevin Neish who is there in solidarity in a refugee camp in Bethlehem, volunteers from Oxfam Quebec, or those that I met with in Tel Aviv, 15,000 Israeli people, mainly Jews, rallying on Saturday night against Sharon's war. The war widows, who for the first time have spoken out, said “No more”. They said “In these days of blood, violence and destruction, when women from both sides are widowed and children are orphaned, we call for an end to the cycle of bereavement. The control over another people is leading to unnecessary casualties on both sides and endangering our lives and the moral fabric of Israeli society”. They talked of the control. We must r …", "… must immediately withdraw. There must be emergency humanitarian relief. We have to consider, if the situation deteriorates, the possibility of re-evaluating our relations, both economic and diplomatic, with Israel. I know my time is limited. I want to conclude by saying that certainly we in Canada condemn any acts of racism, of violence, the attack on a synagogue in Saskatoon for example. I have been accused of taking sides in this tragic dispute. I want to say yes, I plead guilty. I have taken sides. I take the side of life over death. I take the side of peace over war. I take the side of the oppressed over the oppressor. I take the side of justice over dehumanization and tyr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-svend-robinson-burnaby--douglas-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-svend-robinson-burnaby--douglas-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby--Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway, N.D.P.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'we in Canada condemn any acts of racism, of violence, the attack on a synagogue in Saskatoon for example' - directly condemning hostility toward Jews without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-521", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. Joe Comartin (Windsor--St. Clair, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ian administration and some of the other Arab governments in the Middle East. She also reflected on the outright discrimination and the attacks that she has faced at times. That is a bit of a microcosm of what happens in Canada. I have seen it happen in the last few weeks to those of us who have spoken out against the violence on both sides and then have been attacked by the other side. That is not acceptable in Canada. Therefore, I try to reach out this evening to both the Jewish and Arab communities in Canada to tell them to strive for what is best in Canada as far as democratic discourse. Both those communities have a responsibility in Canada to provide leadership but also to reach out with a sense of co-operation to the other community to try to take a message back to the Middle East, back …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-joe-comartin-windsor--st-clair-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-joe-comartin-windsor--st-clair-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Windsor--Tecumseh", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Windsor—Tecumseh, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination and attacks against someone (appears to be a woman who faced attacks), characterizes such behavior as 'not acceptable in Canada,' and calls for better conduct from both communities."}, {"id": "house-522", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… g visited upon innocent children, women and men in the Middle East. We are witnessing a terrifying escalating spiral of attack and retaliation, a vortex of violence that draws its destructive strength from events of today, of last week, of the last century, and indeed of previous millennia. Who are the victims of this violence? Let me say clearly at the outset, there is no gain in judging history by the body count. Our sisters and brothers in the Middle East, be they Jewish, Muslim or Christian, whatever their ethnicity or nationality do not deserve to live their lives under threat or lose their lives to violence, whether that threat comes from Apache helicopters and military tanks, from fanatics with explosives strapped to their bodies or from talk of peace being achievable only by one side exterminating the other. Peace requires courage. In recent memory we have seen that courage in the heavy price paid by those who have dared to take a stand fo …", "… n terrorists struck in the United States. This has also played out in smaller ways in cities and towns across our country. New Democrats have persistently called for recognition of despicable acts of hatred directed at visible minorities. We have called on the government to address the environment that is resulting in attacks against houses of worship for example. In the immediate aftermath of September 11, a mosque was firebombed in Montreal. This week we learned of arson at a synagogue in Saskatoon. There is another family that must be heard in this crisis. That is the family of nations. In the international community today there is almost total consensus on urgent immediate steps that must be taken to move from death and destruction to dialogue and genuine human development. In the words of Anna Li …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/ms-alexa-mcdonough-halifax-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/ms-alexa-mcdonough-halifax-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Halifax", "province": "NS", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Public Safety Act, 2002", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to violence and hatred directed at Jewish people (synagogue arson in Saskatoon) as part of broader condemnation of attacks on houses of worship and visible minorities, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-523", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-03-24", "speaker": "Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg—Transcona, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hmir. Religious persecution and religiously motivated killings are to be abhorred wherever they occur. The world is an increasingly dangerous place for people of many faiths, depending on where they happen to be born or where they live. The Baha'is in Iran and the Christians in Sudan come quickly to mind, but Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and all other faiths each find themselves persecuted in various contexts. What I find most distressing is state sanctioned official persecution. The NDP believes, as I am sure most Canadians do, that the 21st century is a time when religious discrimination and hatred should be put behind us forever."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/3/24/mr-bill-blaikie-winnipegtranscona-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/3/24/mr-bill-blaikie-winnipegtranscona-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg--Transcona", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg Transcona)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Okanagan Centre Constituency Association", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to religious persecution generally, including that against Jews, calling it something to be 'abhorred' and 'distressing,' without naming specific perpetrators of such hostility."}, {"id": "house-524", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. James Lunney (Nanaimo--Alberni, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… over, the day on which Jewish people gather to celebrate their deliverance from bondage in Egypt, as we read in the Bible, a suicide bomber blew them up. These are horrible things to contemplate. I did not hear it tonight but it was also shocking to hear on the news just recently that during passover the ancient blood libel was still being perpetrated by some haters of Israel. Some Jewish members in the House tonight talked how they gather in their homes with their families during passover to remember events and to celebrate the season. I find it outrageous that others would portray this celebration as one where Jewish people actually kill the children of Christians or Muslims and drink their blood. It is outrageous to think that this kind of blood libel is still being spread, as it has been recently in the press, by some who have chosen to make enemies and will not be placated. This kind of hatred is hard to understand. We heard reference to many of the leaders involved in this dispute, which has gone on for so many years, and references to Mr. Sharon, the prime mini …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-james-lunney-nanaimo--alberni-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-james-lunney-nanaimo--alberni-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker calls the suicide bombing 'horrible,' describes blood libels as 'outrageous' and 'hatred,' expressing strong objection to these hostile acts without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-525", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. John McKay (Scarborough East, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… efing, sounded exactly the same. Then at some mysterious point the briefing went 180 degrees in the opposite direction. One wondered whether they were talking about the same conflict. Two issues seem to preclude peace in the short and medium term. The first is the persistent indoctrination of Palestinian children that Jews are inherently evil. We were provided with documentation that showed Jews in a racist light. It was part of the school curriculum. It is pretty hard to see how peace will emerge from systemic hatred where children are taught to hate. The second issue was Jewish settlements on disputed lands. There can be no more visible symbol of one's impotence than living in a refugee camp in a valley and looking up at one's ancestral home being bulldozed and replaced by a modern subdivision and occupied by people from California or wherever. The settlers we talked to were not interested i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-john-mckay-scarborough-east-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-john-mckay-scarborough-east-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Guildwood", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Scarborough—Guildwood, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — International Cooperation", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the indoctrination of Palestinian children with antisemitic material (depicting Jews as inherently evil) without naming specific individuals or institutions as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-526", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Verchères--Les-Patriotes, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… er in their own country, provided, of course, that they have the right permit. This is why most Palestinians cannot visit Islam's third holy site, Haram as-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, in Jerusalem, while tourists from around the world can visit it freely. I also saw Israel, a constitutional state, a modern democracy, discriminate against its own citizens. While military service is mandatory for Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, with a few exceptions, are officially prohibited. I was also disheartened to see that a people who have faced so many challenges in building their own state could turn such a blind eye to the most basic aspirations and misfortunes of the Palestinians. If there is one people that should understand bette …", "… acabre round of attacks with a vengeance, thus setting themselves up for increasingly brutal military reprisals. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”, said Moses. This seems to have become “eyes for an eye, and teeth for a tooth”. Israel's customary promptness in protesting vigorously any Palestinian terrorist attack contrasts sharply with the apparent indifference and apathy shown by the Israeli authorities following a bomb attack by an extremist Jewish group in the yard of an Arab school in East Jerusalem. What was the Jewish state's response in this case? “Anti-terrorist terrorism”, coldly concluded the Israeli authorities. Israel has imperturbably pursued its punitive operations in the occupied territories. But the worst thing of all in this whole business is that Israel's policy has the effect of violating, one after another, all the pr …", "… y to counter this wave of intolerance that seemed to associate Islam and Arab communities with terrorism, a simple but inappropriate association that had to be denounced. Similarly, some people seem to want to transpose in our communities the conflict that exists in the Middle East. We were dumbfounded as we witnessed hate motivated acts against the Jewish community and we must denounce these acts with the same energy. Therefore, we must expect this government to take measures to prevent, as much as possible, similar acts from being committed in our communities. In these circumstances, I will conclude by saying that only an unconditional return to the negotiating table …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-stéphane-bergeron-verchères--les-patriotes-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-stéphane-bergeron-verchères--les-patriotes-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Montarville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Montarville, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Situation in the Middle East", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker denounces hate-motivated acts against the Jewish community and states 'we must denounce these' without naming specific perpetrators"}, {"id": "house-527", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener--Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… he Middle East. This conflict has spanned some six decades and taken or destroyed the lives of many thousands of mostly innocent people from both communities, people who are simply trying to live normal lives in very abnormal circumstances. There are some commonly accepted reasons that explain how the ongoing cycle of violence began and why it continues today. From the perspective of the Israelis, for whom the spectre of the Holocaust and hostile Arab armies bent on their destruction lies within living memory, this conflict represents a struggle to survive. Despite their military power they still feel isolated, vulnerable and surrounded by a sea of enemies. Terrorist attacks on Israel harden the hearts of those who want peace now and strengthen the …", "… g to defuse the Suez crisis. Ironically, Hungary is free and at peace while the Middle East conflict once again threatens world peace. It is ironic that I who was a ten year old Hungarian boy at the time of the Hungarian revolution and the Suez crisis in 1956, one who became one of 200,000 refugees, one who lived in a Jewish refugee camp in Austria, now as a Canadian member of parliament partake in this debate on a Middle East crisis that once again threatens the peace of the world. I fully support the idea that there should be an immediate resolution to the Middle East conflict and note that Canada has publicly called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian controlled areas viewing these actions as helpful to the peace process. We have also called f …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchener--waterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/mr-andrew-telegdi-kitchener--waterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explains perspectives from both sides, and notes Canada's policy positions, without condemning hostility toward Jews or taking a stance on whether antisemitic hostility has occurred."}, {"id": "house-528", "year": 2002, "chamber": "house", "date": "2002-04-09", "speaker": "Hon. Bill Graham (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… re have been firings across the blue line. We have asked Lebanon and Syria to recognize the dangers of the situation and exercise maximum restraint. The situation in the Middle East naturally raises intense emotions here at home. However none in the House can ignore the despicable actions of those who have seen fit to desecrate Jewish sites in our country recently. As we reflected the other day on Holocaust Memorial Day, any manifestation of this type of hatred is unacceptable to us in Canada. I know hon. members will join me in deploring and condemning unequivocally these callous and un-Canadian acts. I have the privilege of being in touch with both the Jewish and Palestinian communities in Canada as well as many of our own NGOs to discuss the situation in the Middle East. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/hon-bill-graham-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2002/4/9/hon-bill-graham-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Rosedale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Graham", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly uses 'deploring and condemning unequivocally' regarding desecration of Jewish sites and describes the actions as 'despicable' and manifestations of 'hatred,' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-529", "year": 2000, "chamber": "house", "date": "2000-02-17", "speaker": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I wish to share with my colleagues the concerns and aspirations that were expressed at the recent international conference on the Holocaust, held in Stockholm. First, the dangers of racist hate speech, which in Bosnia and Rwanda took us down the road to ethnic cleansing and genocide. As the Supreme Court of Canada put it in upholding the constitutionality of anti-hate legislation, “The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers, it began with words”. Second, the danger of remaining silent, of indifference to evil, be it the killing fields of Sierra Leone, Chechnya or Burundi, “Dans ce temps-ci, qui s'excuse, s'accuse”. Third, the importance, as Sweden has demonstrated, of Holocaust and human rights education as an antidote to racism, xenophobia and hate. Fourth, the struggle against impunity; of fidelity to the Nuremberg legacy of bringing war criminals to justice. Finally, the inspiration of a Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish non-Jew who saved 100,000 Jews in the Holocaust, who showed that one person can make a difference, that each one of us in our daily lives can mak …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/2/17/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2000/2/17/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes concerns from an international Holocaust conference and quotes the Supreme Court of Canada on hate speech and the Holocaust, presenting these as lessons and inspirations without accusing any specific person, party, or group of current hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-530", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-21", "speaker": "Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ll just go over what the report indicated at that time. Fifty-five per cent of those hate crime incidents were based on race or ethnicity, with folks from the black community and the South Asian community being the victims of those crimes most often. Twenty-eight per cent were based in religion, and the members of the Jewish community were most prominently affected in that case. Sixteen per cent were hate crimes based on sexual orientation. Of all of the hate crimes, those based on sexual orientation were by far the most violent. Seventy-five per cent of hate crimes based on sexual orientation that Statistics Canada looked at in that survey were violent crimes, as compared to 38% of hate crimes based on race being violent and 25% of those based on religion being violent. It was a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/21/mr-bill-siksay-burnabydouglas-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/21/mr-bill-siksay-burnabydouglas-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby--Douglas", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes statistics on hate crimes affecting the Jewish community without taking a position on the incidents or assigning blame or responsibility to any party."}, {"id": "house-531", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Mr. Steven Blaney (Lévis—Bellechasse, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, we recently discovered that some Bloc members are supporting a conference that will be attended by the executive director of an NGO that sanctions hateful stereotypes about Jews. The spokesperson for the Canadian Islamic Congress claims that all Israelis over 18 are legitimate targets for Palestinians. That organization will be represented at the conference. Those remarks are unacceptable. Can the Minister of Public Safety comment on the Maclean's magazine article that reports that the Bloc Q …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/mr-steven-blaney-lévisbellechasse-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/mr-steven-blaney-lévisbellechasse-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific entities (Bloc members, Canadian Islamic Congress, and their representatives) as responsible for supporting hostility toward Jews through attendance at a conference and making hateful statements about Israelis."}, {"id": "house-532", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Mr. Ed Fast (Abbotsford, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… d others who perished at the hands of the Nazis. Without understanding and firmly resolving to remember the lessons of our history, we are doomed to repeat the horrific chapters of our past. Sadly, even Canada's history is stained by the memory of a callous government turning away the MS St. Louis , a ship filled with Jews desperately seeking a safe haven from hatred and bigotry. How many lives could have been saved had Canada done the right thing? Quite frankly, I still struggle to fully grasp the depravity of the Nazi genocide, but I do understand the Hebrew word “Zachor”, which means to remember. That is why this bill is so important. It ensures that we continue to remember the darkest cha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/mr-ed-fast-abbotsford-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/mr-ed-fast-abbotsford-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Abbotsford", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Abbotsford, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (Nazi genocide, MS St. Louis rejection) and expresses moral objection to these events without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible for current hostility."}, {"id": "house-533", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-11-16", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Kania (Brampton West, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rch and other religions. I would like to quote people who are not Roman Catholic to prove that point. In October 2003, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement congratulating Pope John Paul II on entering his 25th year of the papacy and essentially complimenting him for his role in bridging the divide between the Jewish faith and the Roman Catholic church. Immediately after Pope John Paul II's death, the same Anti-Defamation League issued a statement that Pope John Paul II had revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations saying that “more change for the better took place in his 27-year papacy than in the nearly 2,000 years before”. There are many other examples of his attempts to bridge with other faith communities. In terms of the Muslim community, Pope John Paul himself, when he was in Casablanca on August 19, 1985, during …", "… oeder, whose own country was long held under the oppressive forces of communism, said,“Pope John Paul II wrote history. By his efforts and through his impressive personality, he changed our world. Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav said that the pope “bravely put an end to historic injustice by officially rejecting prejudices and accusations against Jews”. On his death, he was honoured with one of the largest funerals in human history. What we are really talking about here is the people of Canada providing some respect, honour and memory for Pope John Paul II. We have done it before. For example, we granted honorary Canadian citizenship to the Dalai Lama. The American …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/11/16/mr-andrew-kania-brampton-west-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/11/16/mr-andrew-kania-brampton-west-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes statements from the Anti-Defamation League and Israeli officials praising Pope John Paul II's positive role in Catholic-Jewish relations and his rejection of prejudices against Jews, without taking a position on hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-534", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-11-16", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Armstrong (Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nships. In his years as pope, he visited 129 countries and redefined the papacy for a modern age. Three of those trips were taken here to Canada. He was in fact the first pope to visit Canada, and one of his many gifts was his ability to reach out to people of other faiths and inspire reconciliation after centuries of hostility and suspicion. Pope John Paul II was a man of action as well as a man of words. He was the first pope to enter a Jewish synagogue. He was the first pope to enter a mosque. He initiated and participated in many events and conferences and promoted a message of peace and harmony among different religions. In October 1986, the pope convened and led a multifaith service involving leaders of the world's religions. During this conference he said: I wis …", "… insula in Antarctica that is named after Pope John Paul II for his contribution to world peace and understanding among people. We are very fortunate that in this country Canadians of all faiths are encouraged to follow the religious practices of their own choosing. We are a country of many faiths. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and many others are free to celebrate their holy days without fear of persecution. Our calendar reflects many of these holidays. Days like Good Friday, Easter Monday and Christmas Day are statutory holidays. But in more recent years here in Canada, other faith holidays like the month of Ramadan, the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the festival of Diwali in the Sikh and Hi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/11/16/mr-scott-armstrong-cumberlandcolchestermusquodoboit-valley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/11/16/mr-scott-armstrong-cumberlandcolchestermusquodoboit-valley-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes Pope John Paul II's interfaith work and Canada's religious pluralism without taking a position on any hostility toward Jews. It reports historical facts about the pope's actions and Canada's treatment of religious minorities."}, {"id": "house-535", "year": 1998, "chamber": "house", "date": "1998-03-19", "speaker": "Mr. Nelson Riis (Kamloops, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. On March 21, United Nations international day for the elimination of racism, a white supremacist meeting in Oliver, British Columbia, will try to solicit support for an Internet provider who has become an electronic news-stand for publications fostering hate against aboriginals, new Canadians, francophones, the Jewish community and other groups. Racist groups are flaunting the law by using the Internet. What is the government doing to ensure that Canada does not become an electronic safe haven for hate mongers?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1998/3/19/mr-nelson-riis-kamloops-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1998/3/19/mr-nelson-riis-kamloops-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Kamloops", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Nelson Riis (Kamloops, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Racism", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a specific incident (white supremacist meeting, internet provider hosting hate publications) and asks what the government is doing, but does not condemn the hostility, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-536", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-11-30", "speaker": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hip and Immigration. Anatoli Delets and his family came to Canada from the former Soviet Union in 1992. Their refugee claim has been turned down and this family, despite having integrated well into Quebec society, will soon be deported to Moldavia. There is every reason to believe that they will be subject to the same persecution as they were before they left that country, for Mrs. Delets is Jewish and is not considered a Moldavian under that country's laws. How can the minister explain that, instead of exercising his discretionary powers to allow the Delets to become permanent residents, he has allowed employees of his department to arrest Mr. Delets and place him in a detention centre awaiting deportation, whi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/11/30/mr-osvaldo-nunez-bourassa-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/11/30/mr-osvaldo-nunez-bourassa-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Bourassa", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Hate Propaganda Via Electronic Highway", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies the Canadian minister and his department employees as responsible for allowing the deportation of a Jewish family to a country where they face persecution based on their religion/ethnicity."}, {"id": "house-537", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-06-04", "speaker": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the many francophone journalists who were incensed by the minister's remarks, and the personal show of support I received, I also have the support of the Parti Quebecois, the Quebec NDP, the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, the Black Coalition of Quebec, the FTQ, the CSN, B'Nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Spanish Canadian Congress, to name just a few. Far from withdrawing his discriminatory comments on all new Canadians and new Quebecers, the minister added to them. In such a context, I see no other alternative for him but to resign. As for me, I will keep on striving to find another country, Quebec."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/6/4/mr-osvaldo-nunez-bourassa-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/6/4/mr-osvaldo-nunez-bourassa-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Bourassa", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Osvaldo Nunez (Bourassa, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Hate Propaganda Via Electronic Highway", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names the minister as responsible for 'discriminatory comments' toward new Canadians and new Quebecers, calling for his resignation as a consequence."}, {"id": "house-538", "year": 1997, "chamber": "house", "date": "1997-11-17", "speaker": "Hon. Stéphane Dion (President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… peak French. Attention must not be paid to a minority within a minority to a point where the growth of society as a whole is paralyzed. Other groups told the committee that the guarantees accorded under section 93 to Catholics and Protestants are at odds with Quebec's modern pluralistic society. Representatives of the Jewish and Arab communities in particular have pointed out that this section contains a form of discrimination. This point too warrants consideration. By passing the amendment proposed by Quebec's National Assembly, Parliament will permit an open and full debate on the whole question, which is what the Quebec minister of education promised, in fact, when she appeared before the committee. In quite another vein, members of Queb …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1997/11/17/hon-stéphane-dion-president-of-the-queens-privy-council-for-canada-and-minister-of-intergovernmental-affairs-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1997/11/17/hon-stéphane-dion-president-of-the-queens-privy-council-for-canada-and-minister-of-intergovernmental-affairs-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent--Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Content of Flyer", "subject": "education", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes that Jewish community representatives 'have pointed out that this section contains a form of discrimination' without endorsing, condemning, or taking a position on whether the discrimination claim is valid."}, {"id": "house-539", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-11-05", "speaker": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier-Sainte-Marie, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r. Roux is not able to carry out his duties as lieutenant-governor of Quebec in a dignified manner. We believe that, having worn the swastika and taken part in a demonstration whose stated purpose was to wreck the offices of The Gazette , during which endeavour damage was done to businesses belonging to members of the Jewish community, Quebec's lieutenant-governor, Jean-Louis Roux, cannot carry out his duties as representative of Her Majesty the Queen without prejudice to the people of Quebec. In particular, the lieutenant-governor has expressed no regret for over 50 years, having made no public apology to Quebecers, Canadians and the Jewish community. I would therefore ask that you consider favourably my request for an emergency debate."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/11/5/mr-gilles-duceppe-laurier-sainte-marie-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/11/5/mr-gilles-duceppe-laurier-sainte-marie-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies Jean-Louis Roux as responsible for hostile acts: wearing a swastika, participating in a demonstration targeting Jewish businesses, and causing damage to those businesses."}, {"id": "house-540", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-10-24", "speaker": "Hon. Warren Allmand (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the minister of finance, Mr. Landry, which attacked the ethnic minorities in Quebec for their votes in the referendum and the interpretation of the poll results. These were statements which terribly upset the ethnic minorities in Quebec. There were recent statements which were even more extreme from Mr. Villeneuve who attacked the Jewish community in Quebec and said that they would get theirs once independence was brought about. Do these kinds of statements encourage employers to come to Montreal: extremism in language policy; proposals to bring back the language police, which has even been attacked by part of the sovereignist community in Quebec and …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/10/24/hon-warren-allmand-notre-dame-de-grâce-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/10/24/hon-warren-allmand-notre-dame-de-grâce-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Mr. Villeneuve as responsible for attacking the Jewish community with a specific threatening statement about what they would 'get' after independence."}, {"id": "house-541", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-09-23", "speaker": "Mrs. Eleni Bakopanos (Saint-Denis, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the separatist movement has long been associated with groups and individuals who promote segregation, racism and intolerance. In today's Gazette , Raymond Villeneuve, president of the Mouvement du libération nationale du Québec openly attacked the Jewish community of Quebec. He stated: ``If there is trouble after Quebec becomes independent, nationalists will remember who was against them''. I appeal directly to the leader of the official opposition to publicly and strongly condemn these racist and violent comments, which have no place in our society. Separatists want …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/9/23/mrs-eleni-bakopanos-saint-denis-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/9/23/mrs-eleni-bakopanos-saint-denis-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies Raymond Villeneuve and attributes a hostile statement toward Jews to him, stating he 'openly attacked the Jewish community of Quebec' and quoting his threatening remark."}, {"id": "house-542", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-09", "speaker": "Mr. Gordon Kirkby (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ian. I have heard it suggested that this bill provides special rights. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bill C-33 will not give special rights to anyone. If an individual is discriminated against on the basis of colour, whether black or white, they are protected by human rights legislation. If an individual is discriminated against on the ground of religion, be they Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or some other religion, they are protected by human rights legislation. Similarly, if an individual is discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation, be they heterosexual or homosexual, human rights legislation offers protection. Protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation at the federal level means that a person who has been fired by an air carrier or a railway company or was denied service by a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/9/mr-gordon-kirkby-parliamentary-secretary-to-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/9/mr-gordon-kirkby-parliamentary-secretary-to-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jewish individuals in the context of describing existing human rights protections against religious discrimination, without taking a position on any specific hostility toward Jews or responding to it."}, {"id": "house-543", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-08", "speaker": "Mrs. Brenda Chamberlain (Guelph-Wellington, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… fficials, must take a stand and say we do not tolerate bigotry. We cannot accept that some Canadians, our sons, daughters, mothers, daughters, co-workers, employees and friends, are denied goods and services, are overlooked for promotion, are ignored or, worse, beaten because of who they are. The only thing we must be intolerant of is intolerance against others. This amendment has the support of such national organizations as the Canadian Jewish Congress, the YWCA, the Canadian Bankers Association, the Canadian Bar Association and the Anglican Church of Canada. I know there is concern about this legislation. Much of this concern has resulted from the importance of marriage and family. I know there are individuals who enjoy stretching the facts. These same peo …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/8/mrs-brenda-chamberlain-guelph-wellington-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/8/mrs-brenda-chamberlain-guelph-wellington-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to bigotry and discrimination against Canadians (including Jews, implied through Canadian Jewish Congress support), stating 'we do not tolerate bigotry' and 'we must be intolerant of intolerance against others,' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-544", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Mr. Barry Campbell (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Finance, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… arty noted for its defence of human rights and its advocacy on behalf of minorities. I am proud that the day has arrived where we are debating this measure which is long overdue. The bill does not take anything away from anyone else. It does not create special status but it responds to a reality. Gays and lesbians are discriminated against in our society because of what they are. I guess as a Jew I have a special sensitivity to other minorities because of my people's history. The Jewish people have known discrimination, persecution and worse in this century and throughout the centuries, too often simply because of who they are or what they are perceived to be. I attach great significance to what we are doing here today. I think Jews have a special responsibility to stand up in support of a human rights measure such as this. I am very pleased that the two principal organizations which speak for the Jewish community, namely B'nai Brith Canada with its fine record in defence of human rights with the fine work of the League of Human Rights and the Canadian Jewish Congress with its fine work as well in this field. They both stand strongly behind the government's efforts in amending the human rights act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. There are other parallels perhaps to the experience of the Jewish people that may be missed by some of my colleagues. Perhaps some of us have a special sensitivity, but I get concerned when I hear people in this great country-our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our acquaintances-referred to in ways that make them seem as outsiders. Those kinds of words have a dehumanizing effect …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-barry-campbell-parliamentary-secretary-to-minister-of-finance-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-barry-campbell-parliamentary-secretary-to-minister-of-finance-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about dehumanizing language and discrimination, drawing on Jewish historical experience of persecution to support human rights protections, without naming specific perpetrators of current hostility."}, {"id": "house-545", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Mr. Julian Reed (Halton-Peel, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews during the years when it was not a very popular thing to do. How ludicrous it seems that there was the same kind of fear at that time as has been expressed by some members of this House today. On Sunnyside Beach in Toronto there were signs which read: No dogs or Jews allowed. He became part of that movement which brought society a little further forward and brought to an end that open discrimination against Jews in Toronto. This bill, this particular amendment to the human rights act simply adds one more step in the progress of a country that is looked upon as being generous, tolerant and appreciative of the other person. It is right and fitting that we should support this and not succumb to the fear that is being generated s …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-julian-reed-halton-peel-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-julian-reed-halton-peel-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination (signs excluding Jews) and current expressions of fear/discrimination, supporting legislation to counter such hostility without naming specific perpetrators of the current hostility."}, {"id": "house-546", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-05-07", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ened to Canadians with Japanese ancestry during the second world war is well known. They were uprooted, put in camps, dispersed outside British Columbia, and their properties were confiscated. In my community of Kitchener-Waterloo there is no question there were problems involving the German population. There was also discrimination against Italians during the second world war. Jews were discriminated against in this century and previous centuries. The Spirit of St. Louis , a boat carrying hundreds of Jews, was denied access to free ports. The people on it, mostly women and children, ended up being killed. I came to this country as a refugee in 1957 from Hungary. I am painfully aware of what is happening in Europe, the former Yugoslavia and other countries right now. In those other countries there are problems with mino …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-andrew-telegdi-waterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/5/7/mr-andrew-telegdi-waterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical and contemporary discrimination against Jews (camps, confiscation, denial of port access, deaths) without explicitly condemning or blaming any specific actor for these incidents."}, {"id": "house-547", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a life of service to his people and his faith. Canadian Jews have made an enormous contribution to this country. Canadians have stood by Israel during its darkest moments and continue to work with Israel in the search for peace in the Middle East. Rabbi Lau will be aware of the attempted bombing yesterday at Calgary's Jewish Centre. Happily, no one was seriously injured. I hope that when Rabbi Lau returns to Israel it will be with the knowledge that all Canadians condemn violent and hateful acts."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mr-barry-campbell-st-pauls-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mr-barry-campbell-st-pauls-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'all Canadians condemn violent and hateful acts' in reference to the bombing attempt at the Jewish Centre, objecting to the hostility without naming a specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-548", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-23", "speaker": "Hon. Hedy Fry (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… uld like to see us acknowledge a tragic systemic massacre and degradation of the Armenian people which began in 1915 under the Ottoman empire and recognize the day April 24 as a day to mourn for those who suffered. Yet on April 15 we also mark the holocaust as a day to remember with sorrow the slaughter of millions of Jews and on April 27 we celebrate the death of apartheid, the triumph of freedom over the decades of legislated racism, bigotry and murder of black South Africans. This amendment seeks to remember all of these peoples and more. It proposes to set a week to mourn man's inhumanity to man, all the women who for millennia have been raped in the name of power, all the children who have been orphaned in the struggle for freedom, all those who have b …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/23/hon-hedy-fry-secretary-of-state-multiculturalism-status-of-women-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/23/hon-hedy-fry-secretary-of-state-multiculturalism-status-of-women-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Holocaust remembrance (April 15) as marking 'the slaughter of millions of Jews' without condemning anyone for hostility, naming perpetrators, blaming inadequate responses, or disputing the characterization. This is factual reporting of a commemorative occasion."}, {"id": "house-549", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-13", "speaker": "Hon. Sergio Marchi (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… it continues today, after the referendum was fought and won by Canada. It continued this week when elements of that separatist movement suggested ethnic communities in Quebec were enemies of Quebec. It was articulated by Pierre Bourgault, who had the audacity and the courage to suggest that those Greeks, Italians and Jews were racist because they voted for Canada. The separatists across the way and those beside them who participate in the politics of division would want to stratify our province of Quebec, our nation of Canada into different classes of people. They would want us to talk about them and us. I find it exceedingly ironic that the separ …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/13/hon-sergio-marchi-minister-of-citizenship-and-immigration-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/13/hon-sergio-marchi-minister-of-citizenship-and-immigration-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "opposition", "role": "", "governing_party": "Progressive Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — DEPARTMENT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND CITIZENSHIP ACT — MEASURE TO ENACT", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Pierre Bourgault and the separatist movement as responsible for hostile statements toward Jews (and other ethnic groups), specifically accusing them of calling Jews racist for their political choices."}, {"id": "house-550", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-07", "speaker": "Mr. Irwin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the member for Saint-Jean out there working hard. However, we have a fundamental difference. We just went through the referendum. Last week we heard the guru of the Bloc. I thought he was gone but he just stepped to the back of the bus. He was quoted in the Globe and Mail . What did Mr. Pierre Bourgault say? It is the Jews, the Italians and the Greeks who vote in an ethnic block who are the racists, not us. They only have one objective, to obstruct things. They are saying these Jews, Italians and Greeks, because they want to be Canadians, are obstructionists. If we multiply that by about fivefold we have an idea of the Cree, the Montagnais, the Attikamekw and the Micmac and their feeling of alienation within the province of Quebec. We have to have a uniform philosophy. As much as I appreciate wha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/7/mr-irwin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/7/mr-irwin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly attributes hostile statements about Jews to Pierre Bourgault, quoting him as saying Jews are racists and obstructionists for voting as an ethnic block."}, {"id": "house-551", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-12-07", "speaker": "Mr. John Cannis (Scarborough Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I was appalled the other day to read in Le journal de Montréal how Pierre Bourgault, a staunch separatist and confidant of Mr. Parizeau, branded a group of Canadians as racists. It seems after a Canadian victory on October 30 the separatist had to blame somebody. Therefore Mr. Bourgault stated: \"The Jews, Italians and Greeks are racists\". Mr. Bourgault further states: \"We are not asking them to be sovereignists, we are asking them to be Quebecers\". They are proud Quebecers and they are also proud Canadians. The separatists have now been completely unmasked and their hidden agenda is secret no longer. He further made reference to the member for Boura …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/7/mr-john-cannis-scarborough-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/12/7/mr-john-cannis-scarborough-centre-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes a hostile statement about Jews to Pierre Bourgault by name, quoting him as calling Jews racists and implying they cannot be true Quebecers."}, {"id": "house-552", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-13", "speaker": "Mr. Milliken", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… dge consider certain aggravating circumstances. One of those aggravating circumstances is stated to be evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on a number of factors. What could possibly be wrong with that? I can understand an argument that says we should have equality of treatment. An assault is an assault is an assault. If somebody gets bumped on the head whether it is because the person is out to beat him up because he is black, gay, Catholic, Jewish, or whatever, okay, maybe that should not be treated differently. I understand that argument and that appears to be the argument Reform Party members are advancing although they are doing it in the most cumbersome fashion imaginable. They are putting all kinds of other things in the bill. If that is the only argument, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/13/mr-milliken/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/13/mr-milliken/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker questions whether bias-motivated offences should be treated as aggravating circumstances, arguing that assault should be assault regardless of the victim's identity or the motivation behind it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-553", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-13", "speaker": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e House about hate crime I really am amazed. This is the year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of the second world war. We are all proud of the contributions that Canadian soldiers made. Let us think back to what happened during the second world war. Everybody seems to forget. Let us talk about some of the hate crimes that occurred during that war. The horrors that the Jews suffered are well known. First they lost their property, their jobs, their civil rights. Then they were taken to the gas chambers. When the war came to an end six million Jews had died in the holocaust. I cannot for the life of me understand how this year when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of victory in the second world war we could have such flippant attitudes in the House about hate crimes. It is just amazing. We have all heard about the Spirit of St. Louis that went from port to port looking for refuge for Jews. They were turned away at port after port and were sent back to their deaths. Nobody wanted to know or to believe this was happening. A few short months ago we remembered the 80th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenians when 2.5 million people died. They died because of hate. Finally we seem to have some good news coming our way. Members of the IRA are putting down their arms. What is the basis of that conflict? It is a religious conflict-hatred. Take a look at the present situation in Yugoslavia. What do we have there? It is not some minor disagreement. A holocaust is occurring right now and it is based on hate. There are also the Hutus and the Tutsi in Rwanda. It goes on and on. Recently I attended a NATO conference in Budapest in eastern Europe. The major problem discussed in the civilian affairs committee related to the treatment of minorities and avoiding the examples of history. How do you do that? It is done by recogni …", "… ile they were trying to speak. I am referring to members of the Reform Party. They have been a major disappointment on this issue to me personally. I come from the community of Kitchener-Waterloo where neo-Nazis have made their presence felt. They have marched in front of European Sound. They have spewed forward their hate propaganda. One of the Jewish activists in my community, Mona Zetner, had her house burned down. She had to go into hiding. As a person who came to this country as a refugee having grown up in war torn Europe, I can appreciate what hatred has done. I would suggest to members of the House that perhaps they might think about that, look around at the …", "… The Urban Alliance on Race Relations support the bill. I say this to my colleagues in the Reform Party because they often ask for the police officers' stance. The chief of police for Ottawa says: \"As chief of police, I strongly support this legislative change that will allow my officers to effectively work to counter hate crimes in our community. I urge the quick passage of Bill C-41\". The Canadian Jewish Congress, a community so much more than many others knows the effect of hate and hate crimes, supports the bill. The list goes on and on. Let me end with the support that comes from the Canadian Federation of Municipalities. At its March meeting held in Ottawa, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' national board of directors endorsed a resolution concerning violence arising from hatred over race, religi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/13/mr-andrew-telegdi-waterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/13/mr-andrew-telegdi-waterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses strong objection to 'flippant attitudes' about hate crimes and catalogs historical hostility toward Jews (Holocaust, refugee ships turned away) without naming specific current individuals or parties as responsible for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-554", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-03", "speaker": "Mr. Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Ref.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… flicts; it is the innocent men, women and children who are slaughtered indiscriminately and are defenceless. Once we do get involved, it is costly both in terms of our dollars and in terms of our people who we put in harm's way. Furthermore, the groundwork for future carnage has been laid, for in these civil conflicts hatreds will be branded into the psyches of generations to come. Children are told by their parents to hate Muslims, to hate Jews, to hate Chechens, to hate Tutsis, to hate Hindus, Tamils, Croats, and the list goes on. They in turn tell their children who tell their children and the cycle repeats itself with deadly efficiency. Memories are long for these carnages and hatred dies a difficult death. There were in fact over 120 conflicts in the world. In the future we can see the pots boili …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/3/mr-keith-martin-esquimalt-juan-de-fuca-ref/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/3/mr-keith-martin-esquimalt-juan-de-fuca-ref/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Keith Martin (Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — The Middle East", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes hatred toward Jews being taught to children in civil conflicts as part of a broader pattern of intergenerational conflict and hatreds, without condemning, naming responsibility, or taking a position on this specific hostility."}, {"id": "house-555", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-03", "speaker": "Mr. Sarkis Assadourian (Don Valley North, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… t it never says not to be forgiven. Forgiveness has to come when those who committed the crime ask for forgiveness. They also should be ready to be forgiven because forgiveness is the nature of human beings. We cannot forget because if we forget we are condemned to repeat it. We all know very well what happened to the Jewish population in World War II beginning in 1939. Adolf Hitler had many excuses, but as far as I am concerned there is no good reason to commit violence or genocide in any shape or form. This cannot be comprehended by an ordinary person. There is no reason to commit, especially in this case, crimes against humanity. The world was silent. It stood silent while six million Jews were slaughtered. Nobody said a word until the war was over. Why did we have to wait until th …", "… man so we can educate the younger generation that crimes against humanity must be punished. There is no escape when a crime is committed, be it a small or a large crime. Even today violence is taking place in the Middle East. Yesterday a three-year old child was killed for no reason. Who will stand up and condemn this violence against innocent people? In 1939 when Adolf Hitler was giving his orders to SS units to slaughter the Jewish population, he said: \"Who remembers the extermination of the Armenian people today?\" That was on August 9, 1939. Today is April 3, 1995 and I hope and pray the House will remember the message of Adolf Hitler was wrong in 1939. A continuation of this cannot be tolerated. Many ministers of the government and members of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/3/mr-sarkis-assadourian-don-valley-north-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/3/mr-sarkis-assadourian-don-valley-north-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Holocaust and violence against Jews, stating 'there is no good reason to commit violence or genocide' and calling for the world to 'stand up and condemn this violence against innocent people.'"}, {"id": "house-556", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-02-15", "speaker": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak to Motion No. 310 which urges branches of the Royal Canadian Legion which do not permit Jews and Sikhs to wear religious head dress in their branches to reconsider this discriminatory practice. As my hon. colleague for Windsor-St. Clair suggests in her motion, all members of the legion must have access to legion facilities without having to choose between their legion affiliation and their religious belief. As most of us know, the Royal Canadian Legion does excellent work among other worthy things …", "… men and women who fought in the various branches of the Armed Forces. However, the non partisan nature of the Legion has been put in question by the unfortunate incident where Sikh veterans were denied access to Legion facilities for refusing to take off their turbans. In trying to deal with subsequent allegations of racism, the Dominion Command of the Canadian Legion put forth a resolution to amend the rule concerning the wearing of the Jewish kipa and the Sikh turban inside Legion facilities. It read in part as follows: Once a person who is required to wear a head-dress for (the Jewish and Sikh) faiths has been accepted as a Legion member, they are to be authorized admission to all areas of that branch that are opened to the general membership or invited g …", "… anslation] In an effort to appease the strong public outcry against the proposed motion being rejected, the Dominion Command urged Legion branches to reconsider their decision. I am pleased to report to this House that almost 90 per cent of the branches have now passed motions recognizing the important contribution of Jewish and Sikh servicemen in the world wars and, consequently, repealed their discriminatory policy on religious head-dress. Unfortunately, another 10 per cent did not. It is important to state once again that Canadians of various religious backgrounds, including Jews and Sikhs, have in the past served and continue to serve with great distinction in Canadian and other Commonwealth forces. Their faith did not …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/2/15/mr-barry-campbell-st-pauls-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/2/15/mr-barry-campbell-st-pauls-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Barry Campbell (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the discriminatory practice of denying Jews and Sikhs access to Legion facilities based on religious headwear, calling it 'discriminatory' and 'unfortunate,' without naming specific individuals as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-557", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-11-25", "speaker": "Mr. André Caron (Jonquière, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a Quebec native leader in New York, where the word \"racist\" was bandied about. I think that it is rather inappropriate to use such a word in that particular context. We are in a negotiating context, where you must keep your cool to be able to come up with something which will be fair to all involved. When issues like racism are raised, a notion so emotionally charged because of the long racist history of mankind-just think of what happened to the Jews and the Gypsies during the Second World War-we are often taken aback, stunned and disappointed to see it surface in the papers, in the minds and in conversations, and being applied to situations occurring in Canada. We cannot say that the situation in Canada is one of racism. I believe that no one among native people …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/11/25/mr-andré-caron-jonquière-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/11/25/mr-andré-caron-jonquière-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "Speaker argues it is 'rather inappropriate' to use the word 'racist' in the negotiating context described, disputing the characterization of hostility/discrimination."}, {"id": "house-558", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-09-19", "speaker": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ant is also alleged to have infiltrated the entourage of the Reform Party leader. My question is for the Prime Minister. Given the seriousness of the situation, does the Prime Minister think it is acceptable for CSIS to infiltrate a democratically formed political party, collect information on the CBC and the Canadian Jewish Congress, and contribute to the foundation of a Canadian racist group? Does the Prime Minister consider that this is right?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/19/mr-michel-gauthier-roberval/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/9/19/mr-michel-gauthier-roberval/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Roberval", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Leader of the Opposition, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Lieutenant-Governor Of Quebec", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes alleged CSIS actions involving the Canadian Jewish Congress without taking a position on whether the hostility toward Jews is wrong or condemning it. The passage presents these as facts/allegations being questioned rather than expressing objection to anti-Jewish hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-559", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-05-19", "speaker": "Hon. Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canadians are shocked and appalled to hear reports today that indicate Iran is about to pass a law requiring non-Muslims to wear coloured badges identifying their religious beliefs. Jews would have to sew yellow strips of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges. This kind of state-run bigotry is both disgusting and frightening to Canadians and all citizens of the world who believe in tolerance and religious freedom. What steps is the government taking to protest the actions of this rogue state?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/5/19/hon-karen-redman-kitchener-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/5/19/hon-karen-redman-kitchener-centre-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies Iran as the state responsible for the hostility, describing it as 'state-run bigotry' and a 'rogue state' implementing discriminatory laws targeting Jews and other religious groups."}, {"id": "house-560", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Warawa (Langley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… government has traditionally relied on the legal definition of marriage, which until recently applied exclusively to opposite sex couples. The provinces are responsible for the solemnization of marriage, which includes licensing and registration. Bill C-38 is not about human rights. It is about the Liberal government attacking religious rights. Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and other faith based organizations are all vulnerable to activist attacks in the courts and human rights tribunals. Canada's judicial courts and human rights tribunals have a near perfect record of finding against religious freedom rights, that are under attack by activists. We saw this in Oshawa where the civil courts ruled that a Catholic school had discriminated against the rights of Mar …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/mr-mark-warawa-langley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/mr-mark-warawa-langley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker lists Jews among faith groups said to be vulnerable to activist attacks, but does not condemn hostility toward Jews specifically, name perpetrators of anti-Jewish hostility, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute claims of such hostility. The mention is part of a broader argument about religious freedom concerns."}, {"id": "house-561", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-06-03", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ion. My first comment has to do with the importance for the minister of maintaining the integrity of the judiciary, as he has said himself in his speech. This is why he decided against lodging a complaint in Michel Robert's case. However, his predecessor lodged one in 1996 in the case of Justice Bienvenue who had made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews. The then Minister of Justice is now Deputy Prime Minister. My second comment has to do with the representation of minorities in the judiciary. Going back to the point made by the Minister of Justice and the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, if this is so important, can the minister tell us how many judges are bi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/6/3/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/6/3/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a past case where Justice Bienvenue made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews, citing it as a precedent without taking a position on the remarks themselves or the handling of the situation."}, {"id": "house-562", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-18", "speaker": "Mr. Rahim Jaffer", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… opinion has deliberately taken steps to hurt the ethnic communities and individuals of those communities since becoming the immigration minister. I will give some examples. On March 13, he warned members of the Sikh community in Toronto not to criticize the Liberal government. He said, “Keep it inside the family”. He attacked the Jewish publisher of the Western Standard magazine for publishing a satirical poster comparing the Liberal Party to criminals. He then went on to accuse the Conservative Party of being Ku Klux Klan related. He made deliberate comments about an MP from Newton—North Delta who happens to be a Conservative MP and Sikh. Then, last …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/18/mr-rahim-jaffer/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/18/mr-rahim-jaffer/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific named person (the immigration minister) and says he 'deliberately taken steps to hurt' ethnic communities, including attacking 'the Jewish publisher' for publishing a poster, which is stated as a hostile action toward that individual."}, {"id": "house-563", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-17", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Justice's predecessors wasted no time filing a complaint when judges made discriminatory remarks against women and Jews. Today, the sovereignists are being targeted, and the minister is still refusing to file a complaint. Is the minister saying that he would have done nothing and remained silent before discriminatory remarks against women and Jews at the time, which would explain his own discrimination against sovereignists today?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/17/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/17/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names judicial predecessors as responsible for filing complaints against discriminatory remarks against Jews, and contrasts this with the current Minister's failure to act similarly, implying the Minister is responsible for this inaction/discrimination."}, {"id": "house-564", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-11-02", "speaker": "Hon. Rob Nicholson (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e Ukraine in the early 1930s, killing over seven million people. Stalin systematically killed kulak farmers in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Over one million of them were killed. There was the near complete ethnic cleansing of the population of the Crimean Tartars by murder and exile to Siberia. There were the multiple pogroms targeting Jews. To use that term I think is unfortunate and I would ask the hon. member to withdraw that term and apologize, both to the Minister of Agriculture and to all the victims of that terrible time."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/11/2/hon-rob-nicholson-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-and-minister-for-democratic-reform-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/11/2/hon-rob-nicholson-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-and-minister-for-democratic-reform-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Niagara Falls", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges pogroms targeting Jews as part of historical atrocities without naming a specific responsible party, and objects to characterization of these events.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-565", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-05-04", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in the recent past, the justice minister's predecessors, who were from the same party, did not hesitate to lodge complaints before the judicial council. That happened in 1996, when Justice Bienvenue made discriminatory comments against women and Jews, and again in 1999, when the current Deputy Prime Minister ordered an investigation into Justice Flahiff's behaviour. How can the Minister of Justice conclude that Justice Robert should not be reprimanded for his comments, considering that his predecessors at the Department of Justice showed much more courage than him …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/4/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/5/4/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Justice Bienvenue as responsible for making discriminatory comments against Jews, and contrasts this with the current Minister of Justice's failure to act similarly against Justice Robert."}, {"id": "house-566", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-04-19", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Warawa (Langley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… slapped by the Supreme Court. If the Prime Minister really wanted to protect religious freedoms, he would have drafted amendments to the Income Tax Act on charitable status. Before tabling Bill C-38 he had the time to make those changes, but he chose not to. Bill C-38 is not about human rights, but about the Liberals attacking religious rights. Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and other faith based organizations are all vulnerable to activist attacks in the courts and human rights tribunals. Canada's judicial courts and human rights tribunals have a near perfect record of finding against religious rights. We have seen this in Oshawa, where a Catholic school was charged with discrimination for not allowing Marc Hall's boyfriend into the graduation dance. In greater …", "… , and is now the Bishop of Calgary, is being brought before the Human Rights Commission for his defence of marriage. Who is next? Teachers in faith based schools will have to resign or be forced to lecture against their religious beliefs. Members of the Liberal government are describing religious institutions as being discriminatory and have argued already that their charitable tax status should be revoked. This would cause the closure of churches, synagogues, mosques and any faith based organization that disagrees with the Liberal government. The attacks have just started. Marriage is a historic religious union that predates government. From time immemorial it has been a union of one man and one woman. It is more than just two people uniting. It is God being part of it in joining the union according to His will. The government should not change the traditional definit …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/4/19/mr-mark-warawa-langley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/4/19/mr-mark-warawa-langley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Human Resources, Skills and Social Development", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Liberal government as responsible for attacks on religious institutions, including Jewish organizations, describing them as discriminatory and threatening their charitable status."}, {"id": "house-567", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "Hon. John Godfrey (Minister of State (Infrastructure and Communities), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nce and understanding for other people in Canadian society. This has been a great evolving and continuing national project extending human rights over the past years. There was a time, and we can remember it, when people who spoke French in this country, people who were Roman Catholics in this country, people who were Jews, blacks, and women were discriminated against. We have, as part of our increased understanding of what it is to be Canadian, extended rights to those people. Even if we pass this bill, as I hope we do, our work will not be done in the field of extending human rights. There are rights for disabled people which have to be dealt with. There are rights for ch …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/hon-john-godfrey-minister-of-state-infrastructure-and-communities-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/hon-john-godfrey-minister-of-state-infrastructure-and-communities-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews as part of a factual recounting of Canadian history, without condemning the discrimination, naming perpetrators, or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "house-568", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-03-21", "speaker": "Ms. Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West—Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ns of Ukrainian origin during the first world war. We imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants and then excluded them entirely. We interned Canadians of Italian origin during World War II. These are times we can only look back on with dismay and wonder that they seemed okay at the time. When Canada closed its doors to Jews fleeing persecution and almost certain death in Nazi Germany, this was surely one of our darkest moments, yet it appears that these actions were considered okay at the time. We have discriminated based on race. We have discriminated based on ethnicity. We have discriminated based on religion. There was even a time when Roman Catholic marriages were not considered legal in Canada. Jewish marriages were not considered legal. It was considered okay that women were persons under the law in matters of pains and penalties, but not in matters of rights and privileges. What a debt of gratitude we owe to five brave and determined women who challenged the prevailing opinion and the law of the time to establish …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-westnepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/3/21/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-westnepean-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's historical exclusion of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution as 'one of our darkest moments' and expresses dismay at past discriminatory actions, without naming specific individuals or institutions as responsible."}, {"id": "house-569", "year": 2006, "chamber": "house", "date": "2006-12-06", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… iscrimination in Canada. First nations are an example. It was not until the sixties and seventies that they were allowed to even vote, to have the franchise. We know what happened to Canadians of Chinese and Asian origin. We know about the people from the Ukraine, people who were interned. We know what happened to the Jews and the policy of none was too many. We had a blatant racist immigration policy. It was all these things put together that resulted in Canada's recognition of the fact that we are a collection of minorities. There is no majority in our country. It was at that time when there was the realization that if one minority's right could be attacked one day, another minority's right cou …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/12/6/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/12/6/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews ('the policy of none was too many') as part of a factual account of Canada's discriminatory past, without condemning it, naming specific actors, or taking an evaluative position."}, {"id": "house-570", "year": 2005, "chamber": "house", "date": "2005-02-03", "speaker": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ing himself and his party in the cloak of human rights on the marriage issue, suggesting that support for traditional marriage reflects hostility to basic rights, but Canadian political history tells a totally different story. It was the Liberal Party that imposed the infamous head tax on Chinese immigrants; created a racist immigration system with the Exclusion Act; interred all Japanese Canadians; rejected Jewish refugees before and during the war; imposed martial law in 1970; permitted Ernst Zundel to run for its party leadership in 1968; eliminated constitutionally guaranteed rights for confessional education; and preached moral equivalence during the cold war and in China today. It was Conservative governments that introduc …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/2/3/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2005/2/3/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-cpc/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the Liberal Party as responsible for rejecting Jewish refugees before and during the war, listing this among their specific historical actions."}, {"id": "house-571", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-12-07", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ism. We had superior races and inferior races. It did not only happen to the Ukrainians. As the member said, it also happened to Canadians of Japanese ancestry who suffered the same horrors during the second world war. We also know that as part of our history we had the Asian Exclusion Act and the Chinese Head Tax. We discriminated against all sorts of minorities. It was a fact of life at that time. However, I think it was the suffering of all those groups, including the Jews, who, during the second world war, when they were looking for refuge to escape Nazi Germany, were turned away. Given all the suffering in the past, we now have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The member talked about doing a more general kind of redress. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms recognizes that, which is …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/12/7/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/12/7/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews during WWII (turned away from refuge) as part of a broader historical account of discrimination against multiple groups, without taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-572", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-03-27", "speaker": "Hon. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to express my disappointment, disappointment because the government forgot Canada's most vulnerable communities in its budget. Some Canadian communities face a disproportionate risk of being attacked by terrorist organizations or racist groups. For example, every synagogue, community centre, Jewish school and community festival requires continual security presence. Mosques and gurdwaras have been targeted. The financial implications of this unprecedented level of security are great and the federal government's first priority is to protect Canadians. Members on our side have called on the government to establish …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/3/27/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/3/27/hon-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes security needs of Jewish institutions and other communities targeted by attacks without condemning the hostility, naming specific perpetrators, or blaming anyone for the situation."}, {"id": "house-573", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-04-19", "speaker": "Mr. Omar Alghabra (Mississauga—Erindale, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on all parliamentarians to join me in condemning all forms of hate speech. Unfortunately, occasionally we see hate and intolerance rear its ugly head among us. On April 4 a small explosion outside a Jewish community centre in Montreal sent a chill as many Canadians celebrated Passover. Last week Professor Muriel Walker of McMaster University had hateful and racist slurs painted on her office door because she promoted understanding about Muslim Canadians. These acts of cowardice and hate disgust all Canadians. As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the charter, I am proud that our laws and institutions stand firm against hate. Today my colleague from Etobicoke Centre will be ta …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/4/19/mr-omar-alghabra-mississaugaerindale-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/4/19/mr-omar-alghabra-mississaugaerindale-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly condemns 'all forms of hate speech' and describes the explosion outside the Jewish community centre as an act of 'hate and cowardice' that 'disgust all Canadians,' without naming a specific perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-574", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-04-30", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… at if there were a dispute with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that the decision should be made by Parliament. That is a dangerous statement to make when we look at the history of this country and its abuse of minority rights. We have had many abuses, and the member referred to a number of them, such as the Asian Exclusion Act, the Chinese head tax, the internment of Ukrainians, the policy of none-is-too-many for the Jews and a racial discrimination policy for immigration. The point is that the Constitution of Canada is very clear. It says that the Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada and any law that is inconsistent with the provision of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency is of no force or effect. That is section 52 of the Con …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/4/30/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/4/30/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker lists historical abuses of minority rights, including the 'none-is-too-many' policy toward Jews, as examples to support a constitutional argument, without taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-575", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-05-16", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Lemieux (Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have a petition, initiated by the Calgary Jewish Community Council, that I would like to table in the House. There are over 300 signatures on it. It concerns Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government. They have campaigned to delegitimize the State of Israel by among other means Holocaust denial and to incite citizens of Iran and other countries to hate Israeli Jewish citizens. The Iranian government has also given substantial material support, funding and training to organizations recognized by Canada as terrorist organizations for the purpose of terrorizing and killing Israelis. The Government of Iran and its President Ahmadinejad have publicly and repeatedly called for the destr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/5/16/mr-pierre-lemieux-glengarryprescottrussell-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/5/16/mr-pierre-lemieux-glengarryprescottrussell-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Glengarry--Prescott--Russell", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions — Iran", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies and accuses the Iranian government and President Ahmadinejad of being responsible for hostility toward Jews, including Holocaust denial, incitement to hate Israeli Jewish citizens, and material support to terrorist organizations targeting Israelis."}, {"id": "house-576", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-19", "speaker": "Ms. Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West—Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ians gathered in solidarity on our first national Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom ha-Shoah. I want to congratulate the member for Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier; the government House leader, the member for Brossard—La Prairie; members of the House from all parties; and senators who made it possible for the bill to establish Holocaust Memorial Day to pass unanimously and quickly. The Jewish community is again under attack with the desecration of sacred places and even the burning of a school library. We are painfully reminded that the evil of hatred and the horrible acts it generates are not in the past. They can be turned against any group at any time and when they are we must speak out and say “never again”."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/19/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-westnepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/19/ms-marlene-catterall-ottawa-westnepean-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to attacks on the Jewish community, desecrations, and hatred without naming specific perpetrators, and calls for speaking out against such acts."}, {"id": "house-577", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-19", "speaker": "Mr. Bryon Wilfert (Oak Ridges, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday Canadians were able to commemorate our first national Holocaust Memorial Day. Yom ha-Shoah has been commemorated by communities and governments across Canada for many years, but was formally recognized as Holocaust Memorial Day by Parliament last year. As members may know, “Shoah” is the Hebrew word for “whirlwind”, the whirlwind of hatred that swept six million Jews to their deaths under the Nazi sponsored policy of hatred and genocide during the second world war. Yom ha-Shoah provides an opportunity for all Canadians to be educated on the universal lessons of human rights and to reaffirm our commitment to protect Canadians from those who would commit crimes of violence, racism and hate. It is my hope that on Yom ha-Shoah, Canadians of all religious and cultural backgrounds would take a moment to recognize this day and reflect on what religious and racial hatred can do to an individual, a community and a country."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/19/mr-bryon-wilfert-oak-ridges-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/19/mr-bryon-wilfert-oak-ridges-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hatred and genocide against Jews during the Holocaust, and expresses commitment to protect Canadians from crimes of violence, racism and hate, without naming any specific current perpetrator."}, {"id": "house-578", "year": 2004, "chamber": "house", "date": "2004-04-01", "speaker": "Mr. Pat O'Brien (London—Fanshawe, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, like most Canadians of goodwill I am appalled by the recent hateful expressions of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment by a misguided handful of people here in Canada. Recently, several mosques and synagogues have been desecrated with hateful symbols and slogans. Sadly the phrase “Jesus Rules” has even been employed. It is indeed upsetting for true Christians who understand the teachings of Jesus to see his holy name misused as a put down of Canadians who are members of any other faith, be it Islam or Judaism. Since 9/11 Canadian Arabs, especially Muslims, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/1/mr-pat-obrien-londonfanshawe-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2004/4/1/mr-pat-obrien-londonfanshawe-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "London—Fanshawe", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Pat O'Brien (London—Fanshawe, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Middle East", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses being 'appalled' by 'hateful expressions' and 'anti-Jewish sentiment' and describes desecrations as 'upsetting,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-579", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-29", "speaker": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ker, the unanimous adoption by the House of a bill to memorialize the Holocaust is an historic moment in the life of this Parliament and this country. It will provide an enduring remembrance and a reminder of horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened, and of the universal meaning of the Holocaust, including: the dangers of a state sanctioned culture of hate; the dangers of silence and indifference in the face of evil; the complicity of the elites, la trahison des clercs; the importance of Holocaust and human rights education as an antidote to racism and hate; the moral legal imperative of bringing war criminals to justice; and the demonstration, through Raoul Wallenberg, that one person can make a difference. The member for Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier is to be congratulated for introducing this bill, whose enduring legacy will be “Never Again”, not for Jews, not for anyo …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/29/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/29/mr-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the hostility and dangers described (state-sanctioned hate culture, silence in face of evil, racism) without naming specific perpetrators, while emphasizing lessons and prevention through education and remembrance."}, {"id": "house-580", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-22", "speaker": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… imously to create a national day of remembrance of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Memorial Day will ensure that Canadians always remember that six million Jews lost their lives. In 1939, Canada joined the second world war. Over one million Canadians served in uniform, fighting against the Nazi army, fighting against the persecution of innocent people. The Canadian people were shocked by the horrors of the Holocaust and, to this day, we stand up against intolerance and small-mindedness, both at home and in missions abroad. Next April on Yom Hashoah, the annual day of the Holocaust, Canadians will commemorate the millions of lives lost and reaffirm our nation's commitment to tolerance and justice."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/22/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/22/ms-anita-neville-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Anita Neville (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Question Period — Multiculturalism", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker affirms commitment to remembering the Holocaust, standing against intolerance, and upholding tolerance and justice, without naming any specific current actor as responsible for hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-581", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-11-19", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s serving with the Canadian armed forces during the second world war while another uncle was interned and in detention during the second world war. I can tell members that my colleague was highly emotional about it. Of course, we had the internment of Japanese Canadians. We had the policy of “none is too many” for the Jews. We had the turning away of SS St. Louis . We had a racist immigration policy until 1977. So when I talk about the importance of this debate and what the charter represents, it is important to look at the history. It is because of all those injustices that I believe the Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into play and was enacted by the House. It was a recognition that Canad …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/11/19/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/11/19/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical instances of hostility toward Jews (the 'none is too many' policy, turning away the SS St. Louis) as factual historical events without taking a position on them or naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-582", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-10-09", "speaker": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, one of the most odious promoters of hatred and bigotry in North America, Fred Phelps, has announced that he plans to spread his disgusting message here on Parliament Hill on October 13. Mr. Phelps reserves his worst messages of hatred for homosexuals but he has a long list of those he dislikes: Catholics, Jews, anybody with whom he disagrees. This Mr. Phelps promotes ideas which are not welcome in Canada. His abuse of freedom of expression is a mockery to that right which we all treasure. Mr. Phelps pretends to hold his positions based on religious conviction but he makes a mockery of religious conviction. On behalf of all …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/9/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/10/9/mr-jason-kenney-calgary-southeast-canadian-alliance/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker specifically names Fred Phelps and states he 'reserves his worst messages of hatred for homosexuals but he has a long list of those he dislikes: Catholics, Jews' - directly attributing hostility toward Jews to this named individual."}, {"id": "house-583", "year": 2007, "chamber": "house", "date": "2007-12-04", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Hanukkah, la Fête de la Liberté, la Fête des lumières, la Fête de l'espoir, is important not only for the Jewish people but has universal resonance. First, Hanukkah signifies the importance of religious liberty in general and freedom from religious persecution in particular, for the oppressors of the day sought not only to discriminate against Jews but to extinguish the Jewish religion. Second, Hanukkah, as the festival of lights, is the victory of the forces of light over the forces of darkness, of the rights of minorities everywhere, indeed, peoples everywhere, to live in peace and dignity. Third, Hanukkah is a holiday of hope, that those who persevere in the struggle for human rights wil …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/12/4/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/12/4/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews during the Hanukkah period but does not condemn current hostility, name specific actors responsible, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute claims of antisemitism. The passage reports on historical religious persecution as context for explaining the significance of Hanukkah."}, {"id": "house-584", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-06-11", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ividuals oppose this bill. I will not repeat what my Liberal colleague said before me about the letter from Timothy Coonen from St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Yukon, or the letter from Thomas Adams, the pastor at the Baptist church in Richiboucto, or even the editorial—to use another religious denomination—from the Jewish Bulletin of January 3, 2003 pointing out that the Bible is not hate literature. I would only ask people to read what was said. However, I do not entirely agree with my Canadian Alliance colleague who spoke before me. He said that he would no longer be able to speak freely from the Bible to condemn homosexual activity—for lack of a better word. I was baptized Catholic. I was raised in …", "… ur leads us to eternal life. The Jews, who did not accept him, committed a theological error. That is what I was taught and perhaps they still teach it. It is possible to say, with respect, that one believes the Jews made a mistake in not accepting Jesus as their saviour. But to go from that to saying that because the Jews made a supposedly theological error, they can be subjected to hate propaganda is a major leap that our society has refused to make for a long time, for instance when provisions against hate propaganda were included in the Criminal Code. On Sunday, I attended the opening of the Holocaust Museum. It is easy to see how far hate propaganda can lead. One can see the depths of baseness and darkness that human beings can descend to when hate is involved. I am very much aware of the hate that has been directed against the Jews. In the same way, someone who believes in a particular interpretation of the Bible, a holy book, may well say, “We condemn what homosexuals do”. Someone might very well say that. But to go from this interpretation in good faith of a religious text to an incitement to hatred based on hate propaganda is, once again, a step that must not be taken. I was using the example of the Jews who are protected by the Criminal Code because they are an identifiable ethnic group. Quite simply, the same reasoning applies in the case of homosexual, lesbian or transgendered persons. It is simply a matter of not crossing the line between interpretation of a religious text, with which one may agree or disagree, an …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/6/11/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourgjacques-cartier-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/6/11/mr-richard-marceau-charlesbourgjacques-cartier-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate propaganda directed at Jews, references the Holocaust Museum to illustrate the dangers of hate, and states awareness of 'hate that has been directed against the Jews' without accusing any specific party of perpetrating it."}, {"id": "house-585", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-06-09", "speaker": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… moment of humanity's long history. Millions of Jews were mercilessly sent to concentration camps to be brutally murdered for the sole crime of being Jewish. The museum will show the Holocaust through the eyes of those who have lived and experienced it. If I consider this event to be a source of hope, it is because the Holocaust museum will remind future generations of the terrible cost of intolerance and hate toward others. Here in Canada, the sad lessons of the Holocaust will not be soon forgotten. I want to congratulate all the organizers of this event and wish them the best of success for the future."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/6/9/mrs-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/6/9/mrs-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the historical hostility (Holocaust) described, emphasizing its terrible nature and the importance of remembering it to prevent future intolerance and hate, without naming specific contemporary actors responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-586", "year": 2003, "chamber": "house", "date": "2003-05-29", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Fitzpatrick (Prince Albert, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ay ignored in his speech. He ignored history. Freedom-loving people who do not understand this reality will sooner or later be attacked by evil people. Hearing a man like that speak reminds me of the peacemaker Neville Chamberlain who did not like war, but sometimes war is necessary. I am sure the six million deceased Jewish people would have said that sometimes war is necessary. We cannot let evil knock down our door, walk in and take over our country. If our neighbour is being attacked, we do not sit back and say it is not our problem because our door will be knocked down sooner or later and we need a defence system against that. That is not the end of this paradigm. The other part of this paradigm is that we have international terrorism today in this world and in my view it is motivated by religiou …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/5/29/mr-brian-fitzpatrick-prince-albert-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2003/5/29/mr-brian-fitzpatrick-prince-albert-canadian-alliance/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker references the six million deceased Jewish people in context of discussing war and defense, but is making a broader point about responding to evil and terrorism, not describing or condemning hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "house-587", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-01-30", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, last week UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour welcomed the coming into force of the Arab charter, which calls for “rejecting all forms of racism and Zionism” and says that Zionism is “a violation of human rights” and poses “a threat” to world peace. Eradicating Zionism would mean the eradication of the Jewish state. The Canadian government does not support Ms. Arbour in her endorsement of this goal. In fact, we call on Ms. Arbour to apologize, renounce the Arab charter and state unequivocally that Zionism is a perfectly legitimate movement. Here at home, the Liberal Party must make clear its own position on the Arab charte …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/1/30/mr-pierre-poilievre-nepeancarleton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/1/30/mr-pierre-poilievre-nepeancarleton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Louise Arbour as responsible for endorsing a charter that equates Zionism with racism and a threat to peace, which the speaker characterizes as hostile to Jews/the Jewish state, and calls for her to apologize and renounce it."}, {"id": "house-588", "year": 2008, "chamber": "house", "date": "2008-02-05", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hinese-Canadians. In fact, we just apologized for the head tax. We know about the Asian exclusion act, we dealt with that. We know about the internment of Japanese Canadians during the second world war for which the government has apologized. We know about what happened to S.S. St. Louis and how it was turned away and Jews were sent to the gas chambers in Europe. We know about that. We know that we used to have a racist immigration policy and it was because of that that we ultimately enacted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on April 17, 1982. We did that because we wanted to make sure that injustices of the past did not carry us forward into the future. A very important section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms relates to the l …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/2/5/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/2/5/hon-andrew-telegdi-kitchenerwaterloo-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Kitchener--Waterloo", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener—Waterloo, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Citizenship Of Canada Act", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (S.S. St. Louis rejection, deportation to gas chambers) as a factual historical event without condemning it directly or assigning responsibility to any specific party."}, {"id": "house-589", "year": 2001, "chamber": "house", "date": "2001-10-02", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Fitzpatrick (Prince Albert, Canadian Alliance)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e to address and then I will get to the question. The Americans did not bring in the Balfour declaration. The Americans brought in the Marshall plan that rebuilt Germany and Japan. Woodrow Wilson was looked at as the founder of the United Nations. There have been three attempts to bring peace between the Arabs and the Jewish people through the Americans. I am concerned when we are talking about promoting hatred against a group that the Americans are also in this fold as well. Yesterday the Minister of State for Multiculturalism said that people were allowed to say what they want in this country. Well I am no so sure that is the--"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/10/2/mr-brian-fitzpatrick-prince-albert-canadian-alliance/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2001/10/2/mr-brian-fitzpatrick-prince-albert-canadian-alliance/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes concerns about promoting hatred against a group and references a minister's statement about free speech, but does not condemn the hatred, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute characterizations of it."}, {"id": "house-590", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-09-28", "speaker": "Mr. John Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on September 18, before taking the stage to address the United Nations with his racist hate-filled rant against the world, his continued blatant disregard for human rights and his complete dishonesty about his true nuclear intentions, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once again denied the Holocaust, describing it as a myth. What is the government's position on the Iranian regime's continued bigotry towards the Jewish people and the denial of the Holocaust?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/9/28/mr-john-weston-west-vancouversunshine-coastsea-to-sky-country-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/9/28/mr-john-weston-west-vancouversunshine-coastsea-to-sky-country-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly names Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime as responsible for Holocaust denial and bigotry toward Jewish people"}, {"id": "house-591", "year": 1999, "chamber": "house", "date": "1999-06-04", "speaker": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… this unique institution. Red and gold colours encircle the crest representing its members Sephardic Jewish origin from Spain and Portugal. Four columns in silver symbolize the four different locations they have occupied since 1768. The 10 commandments crested by a red maple leaf on the crown reflects Canada, where the Jewish population found haven and security from war and discrimination. This synagogue has evolved over the years. Today it is multicultural and multilingual, with members coming from the Middle East and Europe. The congregation, led by Rabbi Howard Joseph, has had many distinguished community and civic leaders who have contributed to our society's growth and development, including a Montreal police chi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/6/4/hon-sheila-finestone-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1999/6/4/hon-sheila-finestone-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Sheila Finestone (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women))", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical discrimination against Jews ('found haven and security from war and discrimination') as a factual historical context for the synagogue's establishment, without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming anyone, or disputing anything."}, {"id": "house-592", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… , academics and lawyers, and in light of their testimony the subcommittee made a number of recommendations. In our assessment, we recognized that the regime has a long history of systemic and widespread violations of the human rights of its own people. The abuses violate the population's right to life and freedom from discrimination based on religion. For example, the Baha'is, the Jews and the Christians in that country live a very quiet life, trying not to draw any attention to themselves at all, because there are huge penalties to be paid. There is discrimination according to sex, language, sexual orientation and political opinion. Normally we talk about political parties where there is dissent, b …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination against Jews as part of a documented assessment of human rights violations by a regime, without condemning the hostility, naming specific perpetrators, blaming inadequate responses, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "house-593", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva (Davenport, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ers of the Baha'i faith. Left unprotected by the Iranian legal system, the 300,000 members are singled out for particularly brutal persecution. Their homes are raided. They are publicly vilified and have no means of public recourse, creating what Suzanne Tamas of the Baha'i Community of Canada called “an atmosphere of prejudice, which allows the Iranian government to continue to persecute the Baha'is with impunity”. People of the Jewish faith remaining in Iran are also targeted for oppression, as are other minority communities such as Christians and Sunni Muslims. Minorities like the Kurds and the Baluchis are always under constant threat from the Iranian regime, so much so that Fakteh Zamani, president of the Association for Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran said judges would simply show …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes persecution of Jews in Iran alongside other minority groups, citing specific claims and sources, without taking a position on the hostility described or assigning responsibility."}, {"id": "house-594", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva (Davenport, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, I want to commend my hon. colleague on his excellent speech and the work he does in the committee. The member stated very clearly what is faced by a lot of the minority groups in Iran, whether it be the Baluchis, the Baha'is, or some of the minority Christian and Jewish communities, and how they are being persecuted by the Iranian government. One community the member knows very well is the Baha'is which appeared before our committee. They documented the incredible persecution they face on a daily basis by that regime, without any access to the media, without any access to any type of state protection. In fact, the minister of int …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that the Iranian government is persecuting Jewish communities (along with other minorities), naming Iran's regime as responsible for this hostility."}, {"id": "house-595", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Yasmin Ratansi (Don Valley East, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… is to save humanity”. The Quran is very clear in what it states that Muslims should respect all religion and all people, people with religion and without religion, which is the cosmopolitan ethic. I hope this clarifies the principles that no Baha'i, no Hindu, no Ahmadiyyas or any other denominations, no Christians, no Jews, should be persecuted by the regime of Iran. When the west talks about Islam, it gets itself confused between the principles of Islam and the Sharia. The Sharia is man made. It is not God sanctioned. I hope that in the Iranian regime, some of the people are watching, because I would like to pose a question for them. How can these mullahs c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/ms-yasmin-ratansi-don-valley-east-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/16/ms-yasmin-ratansi-don-valley-east-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to persecution of Jews (among other groups) by the Iranian regime, without naming specific individuals or accusing them of causing the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-596", "year": 1996, "chamber": "house", "date": "1996-04-30", "speaker": "Mr. Geoff Regan (Halifax West, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… lar category we cannot treat them as less than human. For example, there have been times in the past when people who were black or of other races were treated as less than human. Society said it was all right to do that. Even the courts said it was all right to do that. We are saying to the courts, by saying we cannot discriminate on the ground of race, that is not right any more, we cannot do that. There was a time when Jews were treated as less than human. People of other religions were treated as less than human. We are saying that is not permissible. There were times when children were treated as less than children. Society said it was all right. The courts said it was all right. However, the Canadian Human Rights Act states we cannot …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mr-geoff-regan-halifax-west-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1996/4/30/mr-geoff-regan-halifax-west-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical treatment of Jews as less than human and argues such discrimination is 'not permissible,' without naming specific actors responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-597", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-19", "speaker": "Mr. Nic Leblanc (Longueuil, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… , but we cannot ignore the fact that these weapons are used and have been used in the past and that they kill adults and children who are innocent of any involvement in wars or conflicts. These weapons could also be used against groups who are against a given religion, for instance. A whole congregation of Christians, Jews or Muslims can be destroyed with these weapons. They are not just used to wage war but also to defend all kinds of ideologies and, in the process to attack innocent people. That is why today I again want to take a few moments to condemn these horrifying weapons. These weapons can make people chronically ill. People are attacked physically, and their health may suffer for the rest of their lives. They are very dangerous in that respect as well. These weapons can also cont …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/19/mr-nic-leblanc-longueuil-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/19/mr-nic-leblanc-longueuil-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'I again want to take a few moments to condemn these horrifying weapons' and describes how such weapons could be used to destroy congregations of Jews (among others), without naming any specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-598", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-06-15", "speaker": "Mr. Lee Morrison (Swift Current-Maple Creek-Assiniboia, Ref.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for York-Simcoe seems to suffer from the same misapprehension as her colleagues in that she believes Bill C-41 is a bill with only one clause. We hear nothing except the so-called hate clause over and over again. The member from Thunder Bay-Atikokan wants to play on that field. I will join her there. My mythical Jewish gentleman wanders into a bad section of town and is beaten half to death by someone who does not know he is Jewish in order to steal his wallet. On another occasion he suffers the same type of treatment from someone who knows he is Jewish and decides that for his daily kicks he will beat up on Jews. As an afterthought …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/15/mr-lee-morrison-swift-current-maple-creek-assiniboia-ref/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/6/15/mr-lee-morrison-swift-current-maple-creek-assiniboia-ref/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hypothetical scenarios of violence against a Jewish person to illustrate a legal point about Bill C-41, without condemning the violence, naming perpetrators, or taking a clear position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-599", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-27", "speaker": "Hon. Arthur C. Eggleton (President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for Infrastructure, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ing the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Europe on June 4, 1994 when we remembered the sacrifices of thousands of our countrymen on the beaches of Normandy. Today we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. While we mark the end of a tragic time in human history, we must recognize we have all come a long way. The Nazi holocaust victimized all of humanity. It showed how blind nationalism, racism and bigotry can be. The Nazi Holocaust victimized all of humanity. It showed how blind nationalism, racism and bigotry, a violation of the very basic democratic principles on which our society is based, can lead to incomprehensible suffering and violence. The names of the death camps liberated half a century ago ring out as sacred prayers: Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz-Birkenau. These places have become holy ground. We must remember them because they symbolize what humanity is capable of and remind us of our obligation not only to millions of men, women and children who fell victim to tyranny but to future generations around the world. Canada remembers the suffering of Europe. We remember the deaths of six million Jews and the victimization of millions of other innocent people persecuted because of their religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or political views. Canada remembers the selfless sacrifice of thousands of our soldiers who offered their lives for freedom, democracy and for a better future for us today. We honour all of their memories by ensuring we remember why they died. We honour the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/27/hon-arthur-c-eggleton-president-of-the-treasury-board-and-minister-responsible-for-infrastructure-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/27/hon-arthur-c-eggleton-president-of-the-treasury-board-and-minister-responsible-for-infrastructure-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust as showing how 'blind nationalism, racism and bigotry' led to 'incomprehensible suffering and violence' and emphasizes the obligation to remember and honor victims without accusing any specific person or group of current hostility."}, {"id": "house-600", "year": 1995, "chamber": "house", "date": "1995-04-26", "speaker": "Mr. Preston Manning (Calgary Southwest, Ref.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… iversary of the allied liberation of the concentration camps in Europe. Yom Hashoah is a day to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust. It is a day to make a pledge for the future: never again. It is a day to rededicate ourselves to the sacred principle that all people are born equal regardless of race or creed. When racist extremism flourished in Nazi Germany, the Jewish people were targeted for death and six million were murdered. Millions of others were also killed. When the rights of some are attacked on the grounds of race or religion, ultimately the rights and freedoms of all are undermined. On behalf of the Reform Party, I solemnly vow that we shall honour the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust by remaining vigilant against those who would divide us by promoting hatred and discrimination."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/26/mr-preston-manning-calgary-southwest-ref/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1995/4/26/mr-preston-manning-calgary-southwest-ref/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to racism, hatred, discrimination, and the Holocaust without naming specific current perpetrators, and pledges vigilance against such hostility"}, {"id": "house-601", "year": 1994, "chamber": "house", "date": "1994-12-09", "speaker": "Mr. Michel Bellehumeur (Berthier-Montcalm, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Douglas Christie, a B.C. lawyer who defended members of the extreme right in 1989, has accused CSIS of inciting violence against Jews and of interfering in his clients' trials. Can the Solicitor General tell us if the recent investigation by the review committee also dealt with Mr. Christie's accusations?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/12/9/mr-michel-bellehumeur-berthier-montcalm-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/12/9/mr-michel-bellehumeur-berthier-montcalm-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker reports accusations made by Douglas Christie about CSIS allegedly inciting violence against Jews, without endorsing or condemning those accusations, and asks a factual question about an investigation."}, {"id": "committee-602", "year": 2006, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2006-12-12", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I should say that the Orthodox Jews who are there are members of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sect that do not support the existence of a state of Israel. They are also the ones who demonstrated in Durban at the infamous World Conference Against Racism. They are a standing presence at conferences that speak to either the Holocaust denial or the delegitimization of Israel. I wouldn't draw any inferences from that other than that they are a prop at these conferences. I think the disturbing thing is the presence at this conference of those who are Holocaust deniers themselves, from different parts of the world, as well as racists, who've gone there to join in it in that regard."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/12/12/hon-irwin-cotler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2006/12/12/hon-irwin-cotler/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the presence of Holocaust deniers and racists at a conference without directly condemning the hostility or naming specific responsible parties for it. The focus is on reporting what occurred and the composition of attendees."}, {"id": "committee-603", "year": 2007, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2007-03-27", "speaker": "Mr. Jared Genser (President, Freedom Now)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… putting forth statements that are incompatible with the views of the regime. Let me talk about violations of religious freedom, again at a high level. Freedom to practice religions exists but is limited to the practice of Shiite Islam, the official religion of Iran. The Sunni population is generally not targeted with violence, but there are a lot of claims of discrimination against Sunni members of the population, and religious activities of Christians and Jews are also restricted. Members of those faiths often suffer substantial discrimination. Indeed, for example, they are not able to access government employment, which constitutes a substantial plurality of employment in Iran. Evidence suggests that more and more frequently religious minorities are subject to arrest under accusation of un-Islamic activities, and the Baha'i fair even worse. Members of the …", "… preme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “There is only one solution to the Middle East problem, namely the annihilation and destruction of the Jewish state.” There are a number of other examples that I provide in my testimony. Based on the repeated and public statements from the most senior Iranian government officials inciting genocide against the Jews in Israel, there's been a public call by many people, including members of this committee, for a case to be filed against Iran in the International Court of Justice under the state-to-state complaint procedure for its violations of the genocide convention, and here in Canada the major Jewish human rights organization, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/3/27/mr-jared-genser-president-freedom-now/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/3/27/mr-jared-genser-president-freedom-now/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes hostility toward Jews to the Iranian regime and its senior officials, specifically naming Ayatollah Khamenei as making statements calling for 'annihilation and destruction of the Jewish state,' and describing systematic discrimination against Jews in Iran's employment and religious practices."}, {"id": "committee-604", "year": 2007, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2007-05-01", "speaker": "Mr. Pablo Rodriguez", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… opy of clearly indicates what Mr. Doan said. It will be up to the judge to decide. I am not sure exactly what the process is, but the official's report is very clear as to the comments made by Mr. Doan. In my view, the allegations are so serious that they alone are reason enough to not appoint him captain. Had he made racist allegations or comments about anglophones, Jews, blacks, etc., I don't think he would have been named captain. There is no acceptable kind of discrimination. All forms of discrimination are unacceptable."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/5/1/mr-pablo-rodriguez/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2007/5/1/mr-pablo-rodriguez/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Honoré-Mercier", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Transport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Justice", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that discrimination against Jews (and other groups) is unacceptable and objects to discriminatory treatment without naming a specific perpetrator of hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-605", "year": 2008, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2008-05-27", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["What did he do? I gather he joined al-Qaeda, which is an international terrorist organization dedicated to creating an 8th century caliphate extreme Muslim dictatorship and to killing Jews and Americans and allies of the United States. I think that's what he did."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/27/hon-jason-kenney/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/5/27/hon-jason-kenney/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes al-Qaeda's stated goals and dedication to killing Jews, but does not condemn the hostility, name a specific responsible party, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-606", "year": 2008, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2008-06-16", "speaker": "Ms. Chantal Desloges (Immigration lawyer, Green & Spiegel, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 14 people to hold both designations. For the majority of my 14 years in immigration work, I've been dealing with people who are persecuted for various reasons and with the application of international law instruments to people in those situations. A great deal of my practice in the past five years has been focused on persecuted religious minorities from every area of the world, including not only certain specific religious minorities, but also any religious minority, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or Hindu, whatever the case may be. In my practice I have seen the level of persecution of religious minorities increasing exponentially, and I believe—and this is just my personal opinion—that it's because religious polarization across the world is becoming a more serious problem, not only for those directly involved in the persecution, but for all of us as well. For this reason, this issue really shoul …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/16/ms-chantal-desloges-immigration-lawyer-green--spiegel-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/16/ms-chantal-desloges-immigration-lawyer-green--spiegel-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes increasing persecution of religious minorities including Jewish people, but does not condemn it, name responsible parties, blame others for weak responses, dispute the characterization, or use coded language. They are reporting observations from their professional practice."}, {"id": "committee-607", "year": 2008, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2008-06-17", "speaker": "Mr. Nabih Abdelmalek (Member, Canadian Coptic Association)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… -TV and newspapers--ridiculing Christ and the Christian faith. Recently, a good number of books by prominent Muslim scholars have been published, again ridiculing the Christian faith. At the end of Friday prayers, imams of the mosques say a prayer asking Allah to destroy the infidels--that's me--the Christians and the Jews, making widows of their wives and orphans of their children. The Egyptian government turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to all that. That's the unofficial discrimination. Minor girls are regularly kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and given in marriage to Muslim men and/or raped. This was also reported in the Ottawa Citizen this morning. Families of these girls are badly treated when they complain to the security police and ask to have their girls back. They're told to shut up or …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/17/mr-nabih-abdelmalek-member-canadian-coptic-association/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2008/6/17/mr-nabih-abdelmalek-member-canadian-coptic-association/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of hostility toward Jews (imams' prayers asking Allah to destroy Jews, discrimination by Egyptian government) without explicitly condemning, naming specific perpetrators as responsible, or blaming anyone for inadequate response. The passage primarily recounts and lists grievances."}, {"id": "committee-608", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-02-26", "speaker": "Mr. David Sweet (Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Congratulations, Professor, on your appointment. I would like to echo what Mr. Silva just said. I was listening to the testimony from both of you, and things such as the daily incitement of hatred in all kinds of mass media, the desecration of graves, the ransacking of property and sometimes confiscation of it, and the arrests, all sound eerily like the events leading up to pogrom of the Jewish community prior to the Second World War. So like Mr. Silva, I have some grave concerns in that regard. I want to zero in on one point that my colleague Mr. Hiebert had talked about, but I just want to get a little more detail. Is the sole reason the persecution is so pernicious towards the Bahá'í religious minority be …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/26/mr-david-sweet-ancasterdundasflamboroughwestdale-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/2/26/mr-david-sweet-ancasterdundasflamboroughwestdale-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Human Rights Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility described (incitement of hatred, desecration of graves, property ransacking, arrests) and expresses grave concerns about these actions, without naming a specific person or entity as responsible for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-609", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-03-10", "speaker": "Mr. Keith Rimstad (Campaigner, Amnesty International)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… es very difficult for these individuals to present a defence. On the issue of religious minorities, I think it's important to note that all religious minorities, even those that are accepted under Iranian constitution, are facing repression of various sorts. It depends on the context and the situation, but Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and the unrecognized minorities such as the Baha'is all face forms of discrimination and possible persecution in certain circumstances. It is a continuing problem that needs to be addressed. In terms of the ethnic minorities issue, I only want to say here that the broad discrimination includes not just simple political repression, but also discrimination in terms of access to education, access to government services, living c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/10/mr-keith-rimstad-campaigner-amnesty-international/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/10/mr-keith-rimstad-campaigner-amnesty-international/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes discrimination and persecution against Jews and other religious minorities in Iran without condemning it, blaming anyone for it, or taking a position on it -- simply presenting it as a factual situation that 'needs to be addressed.'"}, {"id": "committee-610", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-03-26", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As someone who was at Durban and who spoke up there on behalf on the Dalits, I just want to say that they were not given a voice, and that was because the World Conference against Racism in Durban, which was supposed to be the first 21st century conference against racism in the name of human rights, turned into a conference against Israel and Jews. I mention that point because the government has taken the decision not to attend Durban 2 because it was going down the same road, to be a repeat of Durban 1, so it will not be a forum within which we will be able to make the case in cause. My question to you is this: are there other arenas we should enter or other i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/26/hon-irwin-cotler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/26/hon-irwin-cotler/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states that the World Conference against Racism in Durban 'turned into a conference against Israel and Jews,' directly naming the conference as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-611", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-03-31", "speaker": "Prof. Gregory Gordon (Director, Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, University of North Dakota)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… most press coverage, but his inflammatory statements since then have been equally effective at persuading Iranians and the rest of the world to visualize a Middle East cleared of Israeli Jews. Not only has Ahmadinejad regularly continued to urge and prophesy their elimination, but he has variously referred to Israeli Jews as animals, barbarians, and mass murderers. Many think that incitement consists only of direct and explicit requests for mass murder. I submit that when it is anchored to direct calls, there are other types of incitement. In the case of Ahmadinejad, we can see seven different categories: first, calling for Israel's destruction; second, predicting Israel's destruction; third, dehumanizing Israeli Jews; fourth, accusing Israel of perpetrating mass murder and seeking world domination; fifth, condoning past violence against Israelis and issuing threats against those who would protect Israel; sixth, advocating expulsion of Israeli Jews from the Middle East; and seventh, denying the Holocaust. Let me give you some examples of each of these. As far as calls for destruction are concerned, Ahmadinejad has publicly called for the annihilation of the State of Israel on several occasions. In addition to his October 2005 wipe-off-the-map speech, he has stated that “the Zionist regime...cannot survive” and “...can …", "… He has stated that Israel is heading toward annihilation and elimination and that it soon will be wiped out. He publicly warned Israeli Jews that their country will one day vanish, will be gone definitely, and that they are nearing the last days of their lives. Furthermore, as Israel defended itself against Hezbollah attacks in the summer of 2006, Ahmadinejad said the Jewish state had “pushed the button of its own destruction”. Last May, as Israel celebrated the sixth decade of its existence, Ahmadinejad told an audience that Israel was “dying” and its 60th anniversary festivities were an attempt to prevent its “annihilation”. In an address to the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2008 …", "… killing human beings”. He said at another public gathering that Israeli Jews are “fighting a war against humanity”. In October 2007 he accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians, and in September 2008 he told the UN General Assembly that the “underhanded actions” of Israel were among the causes of violence in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. At a Holocaust conference at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on January 27, 2009, Ahmadinejad stated: Today the Zionists dominate many of the world's centers of power, wealth, and media. Unfortunately, they have ensnared many politicians and parties, and they are plundering the wealth and assets of nations in this way, dep …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/31/prof-gregory-gordon-director-center-for-human-rights-and-genocide-studies-university-of-north-dakota/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/3/31/prof-gregory-gordon-director-center-for-human-rights-and-genocide-studies-university-of-north-dakota/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director, Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, University of North Dakota", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly identifies Ahmadinejad as responsible for incitement against Israeli Jews through specific statements and actions, detailing seven categories of his inflammatory rhetoric"}, {"id": "committee-612", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-04-21", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva (Davenport, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Kurds given the fact that most of them are Sunni. They are denied mosques within their own country. There is violation of their language. This is all in the backdrop of yesterday's Durban review conference, where the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made a mockery of the conference by using it to spill out his hatred and his incitement to hate and genocide of the Jewish people. It was extremely appalling. I think the government made a very wise decision to in fact not participate in the Durban review conference. There were many other countries that did not participate as well. It truly was a sad day for human rights, when you had such a human rights violator going there to preach suc …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/4/21/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/4/21/mr-mario-silva-davenport-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Davenport, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Ahmadinejad's 'hatred and incitement to hate and genocide of the Jewish people' and calls it 'extremely appalling,' without accusing a specific party/institution of responsibility for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-613", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-05-05", "speaker": "Professor Gregory Stanton (President, Genocide Watch)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tions, including Ahmadinejad's statements, are early warning signs of genocide. Genocide scholars have studied the early warning signs of genocide. Genocide is not a mystery. It does not just come out of nowhere. So we can see it coming, just as we can see a hurricane coming. These signs include open expressions of an exclusionary ideology characterized by hate speech. We saw that in Ahmadinejad's statements about Jews as animals, barbarians, and mass murders. Another early warning sign is an authoritarian government that represses dissent. That, of course, is a perfect characterization of the Iranian regime, a regime in which more than 100,000 people have been executed since the time of the Iranian revolution. We also see it in the organization of fanatical militia, such as the Revolutionary Guards, and its sustained record of support for terror attacks against Jews around the world, especially through Hamas and Hezbollah, both of whom have in their charters genocidal statements advocating the destruction of Israel and of Jews everywhere. In December 2005, President Ahmadinejad added to this another early warning sign, namely the denial of a past genocide, the Holocaust. The UN Security Council and Secretary General condemned his statements. Indifference to incitement and inaction by the outside world, most notably by the United Nations itself, is another early warning sign, as we have seen in the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Darfur, and elsewhere. The development of the capacity to commit genocide—for example, Hitler's arming of Germany before World War II—is another early warning sign. We see that today in the development of a covert nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles by a state whose leader declares …", "… s attempted to “clarify” that he merely advocates the “transfer” of Jews in Israel to German and Austrian provinces. That, folks, is also a crime against humanity, because it's forced deportation or ethnic cleansing. It is also contradicted by his own actions and his long-term Iranian policy, which has included terror attacks on Jews outside Israel, such as the bombing of a synagogue in Buenos Aires; the arming of Hezbollah and Hamas, both of which, as I have said, have genocidal ideologies; and advocating the murder of Jews everywhere by Iranian-financed media such as Palestinian television. In 2005, Palestinian Authority television carried a Friday sermon calling for the butchering of all Jews e …", "… t human life and well-being overrides the sovereignty claims of any government whose actions demonstrate genocidal intent. Now I want to turn to another basic principle of genocide prevention, the precautionary principle. Because the dangers of inaction could be catastrophic, we repeat the calls of Genocide Watch, the Hebrew University genocide and violence prevention program's petition, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars' call for the application of the precautionary principle, which is a powerful tool for decision-making in public health for prevention of this and all other genocidal threats. The principle states simply that when there is uncertaint …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/professor-gregory-stanton-president-genocide-watch/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/professor-gregory-stanton-president-genocide-watch/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime as responsible for hostile statements and actions toward Jews, including hate speech describing Jews as 'animals, barbarians, and mass murders,' support for terror attacks against Jews, and genocidal advocacy through allied groups."}, {"id": "committee-614", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-05-05", "speaker": "Prof. Gregory Stanton", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… to but didn't go through in any detail, is the following. The risk factors are essentially statistical probabilities. We have actually taken computers and developed variables that can be correlated with genocides of the past, and the risk factors that stand out the most strongly are the ones I have listed. First is an exclusionary ideology—in other words, an ideology that excludes whole groups of people from being considered fully people—and we have that here with Jews, for instance. Second is a denial of past genocides, which we have in the denial of the Holocaust. Third is authoritarian or totalitarian regimes. Each of these factors is essentially a probability prediction, a statistical risk factor. The way in which that relates to the eight stages of genocide model I have develop …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/prof-gregory-stanton/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/prof-gregory-stanton/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews (exclusionary ideology, Holocaust denial) as part of a statistical analysis of genocide risk factors, without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming specific actors, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-615", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-05-05", "speaker": "Mr. Russ Hiebert (South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… laborate a little more on the steps that Iran has taken as it steps closer to step seven: extermination. In particular, I'm looking at the stages of organization, polarization, and preparation. The reason I want more detail is that we've heard previous witnesses indicate, certainly, that religious minorities have been persecuted, specifically Azerbaijanis, Bahá'ís, and Kurds, but we've also heard testimony that other quasi-religious minorities like Christians and Jews receive or are the beneficiaries of greater protections under the constitution. We also know that there is at least an enclave of a Jewish community within Iran, yet I have not heard testimony about their specific persecution. The thought crosses my mind that if Iran were intent on annihilating the Jews in Israel, certainly they would take steps within their own country first, but I have not heard that testimony yet. Perhaps you can provide some insight into what persecution of the Jews is occurring within Iran. Also very helpful would be any information you can provide about the steps closer to step seven, extermination, which would provide a very strong argument about their place at that stage."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/mr-russ-hiebert-south-surreywhite-rockcloverdale-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/mr-russ-hiebert-south-surreywhite-rockcloverdale-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes persecution of religious minorities in Iran and notes the absence of testimony about specific persecution of Jews within Iran, without condemning anyone or making accusations. The speaker is requesting information and seeking clarification rather than taking a position on hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-616", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-05-05", "speaker": "Prof. Gregory Stanton", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["This is often raised as a counter-argument to the intent of the Iranian regime. It is true that there is a Jewish community in Iran. There's also a Christian community. However, to characterize them as having equal rights, for instance, with the Shiite community in Iran is inaccurate. The truth is that Jews and Christians both are discriminated against in Iran in jobs, in the legal sphere, and in many other domains of life. It is not true that they have equal rights. However, there is a difference between their treatment and the treatment of Bahá'ís Azeris, Kurds, and other groups that the Iranian regime has decided to positively persecute. It's true. I thin …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/prof-gregory-stanton/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/5/5/prof-gregory-stanton/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states that the Iranian regime discriminates against Jews in jobs, legal sphere, and other domains, and characterizes this as unequal treatment compared to the Shiite community."}, {"id": "committee-617", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-05", "speaker": "Mr. Ezra Levant (As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ng I don't think Canadians expect a government employee to do. For nearly 10 years he's been a member of a neo-Nazi group called Stormfront and another neo-Nazi group called Vanguard and another called the Canadian Heritage Alliance. He actually fills out membership forms, then goes online to their websites and writes bigoted, hateful things, like gays are a “cancer” on society, or that white police should be loyal to “their race”, or that Jews like your colleague, Irwin Cotler, are “scum”. Seriously, he did this as a commission employee. He wrote hundreds of bigoted messages like that. He convinced other commission staff to do the same thing. At least seven staff have membership privileges in Nazi organizations. Last year, commission investigator Dean Stacey admitted, under oath, that he was one of them. He fingered his two assistants and Sandy Kozak and Giacomo Vigna and their m …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/mr-ezra-levant-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/mr-ezra-levant-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names a government employee and specific individuals (Dean Stacey, Sandy Kozak, Giacomo Vigna) as responsible for hostility toward Jews, citing their membership in neo-Nazi groups and their written statements calling Jews 'scum.'"}, {"id": "committee-618", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-06-18", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ed.... If you stop and look at the feelings, as you describe them, of Jewish people who stood before those signs that said to them that they weren't welcome because they were lesser than the rest of humanity--because that's what those signs were intended to do--and you talk about people's feelings getting hurt, I have Jewish friends who were not of the Holocaust generation, yet they suffer every day as a result of the hate from that time. How can you can sit and call a group of people “thought police” when they are doing one of the most difficult jobs that we have in our country in trying to sort out the difference between what are serious incidents and what are not serious. And at times, as with any group of human beings, I'm sure they …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/6/18/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/6/18/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to exclusionary signs and hate directed at Jewish people, describing the harm and suffering caused, without naming a specific responsible party for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-619", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-05", "speaker": "Mr. Joe Comartin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… section of the code, but nothing further than that. Is that the position of both of you? I don't want to lay too much of a trap here. Let me throw this at you: the German situation. Germany has passed legislation that actually makes it a crime. Let's say we don't go that far. As a country we're going to say that it is hate literature, hate propaganda, hate speech if you deny the Holocaust, just because that is damaging to the Jewish community per se. Let me say we're going to do that for the Holocaust and we may do it for some of the other well-known genocides, be it Rwanda and the more recent ones, or go back to the Armenian-Turkish one, those kinds. We may pass a law to say that is hate speech and you're not allowed to say that in this country. Would you be willing to support that kind of legislation?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/mr-joe-comartin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/mr-joe-comartin/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Windsor--Tecumseh", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Windsor—Tecumseh, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Holocaust denial as damaging to the Jewish community and proposes hypothetical legislation without explicitly condemning the denial itself or assigning blame to anyone for it."}, {"id": "committee-620", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-05", "speaker": "Hon. Ujjal Dosanjh", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ieve that even the hate speech law needs to be rewritten, perhaps broadened, perhaps narrowed. There are different views on that. In terms of that particular provision, let me remind you of what Keegstra said. Keegstra basically was a high school teacher who taught there was a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. He described Jews to his people as treacherous, subversive, sadistic, money loving, power hungry, child killers, and several other things. He was convicted of a hate crime under our Criminal Code. It appears to me from what you have said that this kind of language and those kinds of things are okay to say."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/hon-ujjal-dosanjh/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/5/hon-ujjal-dosanjh/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Keegstra by name and specifies what he did (taught conspiracy theories, made dehumanizing statements about Jews) as hate speech/crime, establishing him as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-621", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-20", "speaker": "Mrs. Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I asked you about their treatment, and I want to delve a bit further. To some degree, does Iran's Jewish population suffer from persecution; are their rights violated? We know what the president can say about Israel. But what I want to know is whether the majority of Iran's Jewish population, despite being officially recognized, is subject to persecution, in Canada's opinion."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/20/mrs-ève-mary-thaï-thi-lac/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/20/mrs-ève-mary-thaï-thi-lac/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Saint-Hyacinthe--Bagot", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, BQ", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Canadian Jewish Congress", "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is asking a question seeking information or Canada's position on whether Iran's Jewish population suffers persecution and rights violations, rather than making a statement that condemns, names, blames, disputes, or uses coded language about hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-622", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-26", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber (Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Jewish Congress)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hts legislation. He has just completed acting as special counsel on the Air India disaster, and most pertinent to this particular committee, Mark Freiman was special counsel to the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the Ernst Zundel case, which was in fact the first successful proceeding under section 13 dealing with hate on the Internet. I'd like to pass the rest of our time to Mr. Freiman in order for him to present the views of the Canadian Jewish Congress."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-bernie-m-farber-chief-executive-officer-canadian-jewish-congress/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-bernie-m-farber-chief-executive-officer-canadian-jewish-congress/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker introduces Mark Freiman and his credentials without describing, condemning, or taking a position on any hostility toward Jews. The mention of the Zundel case is presented as background context about his expertise, not as a statement about hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-623", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-26", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Freiman (President, Canadian Jewish Congress)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. I won't comment on that hyperbolic introduction. Let me start by giving you the overall perspective of the Canadian Jewish Congress on the matters before us. The Canadian Jewish Congress believes that section 13 is an important resource in protecting vulnerable communities from the harm caused by hate propaganda. It believes that section 13 is constitutionally appropriate in a free and democratic society, because it deals only with dangerous and harmful speech and is not concerned simply with offensive speech. It deals with dangerous and harmful speech in a way that minimally impairs the ability of Canadians to debate freely important social and political issues, including the ability to take strong and controversial positions. The Canadian Jewish Congress believes that the Criminal Code, and especially section 319, which criminalizes some aspects of hate propaganda and incitement to violence, is not an adequate substitute for subsection 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act. It also believes that it is not advisable to restrict hate or the definition of hate to advocating violence. That having been said, the Canadian Jewish Congress does not believe that the regime under subsection 13(1) of the Human Rights Act is without issues or problems. It believes that subsection 13(1) and the way it is administered could be significantly improved, so as among other things to weed out frivolous complaints at an early stage, to speed up the process, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-mark-freiman-president-canadian-jewish-congress/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-mark-freiman-president-canadian-jewish-congress/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker presents the Canadian Jewish Congress's position on hate speech legislation and section 13 protections without condemning, naming, or blaming any specific hostility toward Jews. They describe institutional perspectives on legal frameworks rather than addressing a specific incident of hostility."}, {"id": "committee-624", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-10-26", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… effect. We don't live in a perfect society. There will always be those racists and crumb-bums out there who will perpetrate these kinds of acts. My goal is educative. My goal is to use civil procedure in a way to help people learn, specifically young people, well before it comes to a point where we have to worry about swastikas being drawn on headstones of Jewish graves."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-bernie-m-farber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/26/mr-bernie-m-farber/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Jewish Congress", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to racist acts including antisemitic vandalism (swastikas on Jewish graves), calling perpetrators 'racists and crumb-bums' without naming specific individuals or groups responsible."}, {"id": "committee-625", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-11-18", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Murphy", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s to eradicate hate propaganda, and Canada's commitment to the values of equality and multiculturalism. Having found that Fred Kyburz did communicate, repeatedly, by means of the facilities of a telecommunications undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, matter that is likely to expose people of the Jewish faith to hatred or contempt, Mr. Warman's section 13 complaint is substantiated. The simple question is, were you a part of that panel? And were you involved in the expression of this opinion, in writing, and do you agree with its content?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/18/mr-brian-murphy/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/18/mr-brian-murphy/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Moncton--Riverview--Dieppe", "province": "NB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a finding by a panel that someone communicated hate propaganda targeting Jews, but does not themselves condemn it, name/blame specific parties for it, or dispute it—they are reporting the panel's conclusion and asking clarifying questions about another person's involvement."}, {"id": "committee-626", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-11-18", "speaker": "Ms. Shirish P. Chotalia", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ducates the public and advocates certain positions. The commission is certainly free to come here and share its view on section 13, that they think section 13 should be amended in such and such a fashion. That is for the commission. When the commission was created, it started out of piecemeal legislation that was anti-discriminatory legislation found, for example, in the Ontario human rights act, that you couldn't give insurance, say, to Jewish people or you couldn't sell land to Jewish people. There were provisions in various statutes that were very discriminatory. Then in the 1970s the whole act was put together to create the Canadian Human Rights Act, with a commission to educate Canadians about the virtue of the act. Prior to that there were also criminal and quasi-criminal provisions. Those were not found to be very effective, because if somebody was found to be in breach o …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/18/ms-shirish-p-chotalia/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/18/ms-shirish-p-chotalia/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discriminatory legislation against Jewish people (insurance and land sale prohibitions) as context for explaining the creation of the Canadian Human Rights Act, without taking a position on current hostility or naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-627", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-11-26", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Angus asked, am I opposed to redress? Mr. Chairman, absolutely not. I'm the minister who successfully managed to oversee the redress of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, something that was not done or ever addressed by previous governments. I'm the minister who brought about, for the first time ever, working with the Jewish community on the St. Louis incident and will recognize the country's refusal to accept European Jewish refugees during the Second World War. There was a failure to address that by previous governments. I'm the minister who successfully came to an arrangement with eastern and central European communities about the hist …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/26/hon-jason-kenney/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/11/26/hon-jason-kenney/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (refusal to accept refugees during WWII) and acknowledges it as a past failure, but is primarily reporting on government actions taken to address it rather than condemning the hostility itself or assigning blame."}, {"id": "committee-628", "year": 2009, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2009-12-08", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Yes. I could read you emails that I received, for instance. I also received phone calls, and people took the flyer to the synagogue. So when I entered the synagogue, I saw the flyer. You can imagine my reaction when I went to the synagogue and saw this flyer, which says: “Jewish community of Montreal should turn their back to such bigot and expel him from the community!” They wanted me not only to step down as MP, but also to be thrown out of the Jewish community. And others are calling for the same. It is the same in the synagogues. Rabbis have even quoted the flyer. I have to say, it caused a major prejudice, which still persists today."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/12/8/hon-irwin-cotler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/12/8/hon-irwin-cotler/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes receiving hostile communications (emails, phone calls, flyers) and their circulation in synagogues, including the content of the flyer, without condemning the hostility, naming specific perpetrators, or taking a clear position on it."}, {"id": "committee-629", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-04-27", "speaker": "Mr. Aklilu Wendaferew", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… There are very good things, so we have to acknowledge that. At the same time, concerning the Muslim-Christian diversity within Ethiopia, the country has been very much a blessed country with diversity, and for centuries Muslims and Christians have lived side by side in peace. In fact, there are a substantial number of Jews also within the Ethiopian community, and we have lived together very much in harmony. Yes, there has been systemic repression, systemic discrimination from time to time. I acknowledge that, but that fabric of unity, of oneness, of togetherness is amazing. It is so mixed. You will find a family that has a Christian father, a Muslim mother, and offspring of a Christian father and a Muslim mother. It is very much mixed in our country. In the last little while, politica …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/27/mr-aklilu-wendaferew/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/27/mr-aklilu-wendaferew/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges historical systemic discrimination against various groups including Jews, but frames it within a broader narrative about diversity and coexistence without condemning the hostility or naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-630", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-04-27", "speaker": "Mr. Luis-Guillermo Plata (Minister of International Trade, Republic of Colombia)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… number is not 236; maybe it should be 500, 800, or 1,000. I don't know the right number. The point is we need to make an effort. We're making that effort, and we need to continue making those efforts to make sure that anybody—anybody—in Colombia who commits a crime against a union member, or an African Colombian, or a Jewish Colombian, or a white Colombian, or whatever type of Colombian there is, will go to jail. The problem is much bigger than just violence against union members, or impunity, in the case of union members. It's a problem of violence as a whole and impunity as a whole that we need to fight as a country. And we need to fight this as a country not because of an FTA with Canada, not because of an FTA with the U.S., not because the UN says so, not because anyb …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/27/mr-luis-guillermo-plata-minister-of-international-trade-republic-of-colombia/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/27/mr-luis-guillermo-plata-minister-of-international-trade-republic-of-colombia/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker expresses commitment to ensuring that crimes against Jewish Colombians result in prosecution, framed as part of a broader effort against violence and impunity affecting all groups."}, {"id": "committee-631", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-05-06", "speaker": "Mr. Victor Armony (Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of the Observatory of the Americas, Montreal Institute of International Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Mr. Chávez's inflammatory rhetoric. Far be it from me to minimize the significance of the gaffes of a president on a public stage who insults some and hurls abuse at others. Combative words from a charismatic leader, we know very well, can become, in some people, an authorization for pernicious behaviour. The cases of intimidation that the Venezuelan Jewish community have been a victim of were raised in your exchanges and were also the subject of very severe criticisms in the latest report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Of course, we have to be vigilant about this situation but it would be a mistake to speak of a persecuted or systematically disregarded minority, or to give the impression that Venezuelan society has become intolerant. The Jewish community in Venezuela is well integrated into national life and actively participates in the rich culture of the country, and plays an important role in many civilian society organizations. I would say then that these two themes—the actions of a government that has firm control of power and benefits from significant …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/5/6/mr-victor-armony-professor-department-of-sociology-and-director-of-the-observatory-of-the-americas-montreal-institute-of-international-studies-université-du-québec-à-montréal/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/5/6/mr-victor-armony-professor-department-of-sociology-and-director-of-the-observatory-of-the-americas-montreal-institute-of-international-studies-université-du-québec-à-montréal/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Mr. Chávez's inflammatory rhetoric as responsible for intimidation cases against the Venezuelan Jewish community, stating his combative words can authorize pernicious behavior."}, {"id": "committee-632", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-05-25", "speaker": "Ms. Pia Zambelli (Member, Legislative Review Committee, Quebec Immigration Lawyers Association (AQAADI))", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ovisions in clause 12, which restrict access to the RAD, present a host of problems. Designation will presumably be based on safety, but this is not specified anywhere, nor are there any criteria provided. The fact that classes of nationals within a country can also be designated—for example, homosexuals from Nigeria, Jews from Russia—is clearly discriminatory. It's not just a country that can be designated. There's a power to designate classes of nationals within a country and deny them an appeal. This new approach for Canada—it might exist in Europe, but it's new here—is apparently a response to a crisis with respect to bogus claims from Mexico or central European Roma. H …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/5/25/ms-pia-zambelli-member-legislative-review-committee-quebec-immigration-lawyers-association-aqaadi/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/5/25/ms-pia-zambelli-member-legislative-review-committee-quebec-immigration-lawyers-association-aqaadi/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly labels the designation of 'Jews from Russia' as a class of nationals as 'clearly discriminatory' without naming a specific actor responsible for the hostility itself, rather objecting to the discriminatory policy framework being proposed."}, {"id": "committee-633", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-06-10", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier (Congregation Shaar Hashomayim)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… gain, the government representatives discovered nothing inside the Jewish communal institution, although the members of the Jewish community live in fear that in the course of the raid the government obtained the Jewish community's records off of the club's computers. In January 2009, in the early morning hours of the Jewish Sabbath, 15 unidentified men broke into the Tiferet Israel synagogue in Caracas. They destroyed offices, they wrote threatening messages on the synagogue's interior walls, and they desecrated holy objects. One month later, in February, a bomb was thrown into the Beth Shmuel synagogue, damaging property and sending a threatening message to the Jewish community. For your perusal, I'd like to submit into evidence, as we discussed before, Mr. Chairman, some photographs that I took on a subsequent visit following these attacks on the community."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier-congregation-shaar-hashomayim/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier-congregation-shaar-hashomayim/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of hostility toward Jewish institutions (raids, break-ins, vandalism, bombing) without condemning them, naming perpetrators, blaming officials, or disputing their characterization. The passage presents facts and evidence for documentation purposes."}, {"id": "committee-634", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-06-10", "speaker": "Mr. Mario Silva", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… and anti-Jewish rhetoric has come not from Chávez but from his very close advisers and senior people. I heard testimonies, and the language is extremely appalling. His silence and the fact that he's not condemning these people speak volumes. Chávez has been very critical of Israel, but he has been very careful not to attack the Jewish community too much. His senior advisers have attacked the Jewish community and have made some very anti-Jewish statements, and he still keeps them in senior positions in the government. He's playing this game, and I'm wondering if you can flesh out some of those statements that have been made by some of his advisers."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/mr-mario-silva/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/mr-mario-silva/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Davenport", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Incoming Chair, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker accuses Chávez of ignoring and enabling anti-Jewish rhetoric by his advisers through his silence and refusal to condemn them, while keeping them in senior positions."}, {"id": "committee-635", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-06-10", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["The connection with Iran is one that is, of course, very frightening, not only to the international community but also to the Jewish community in Venezuela. The timing of the attacks, many have suggested, were to coincide with, I believe, the first official meeting between Chávez and Ahmadinejad. Whether the rumours in the community are true or not, I don't know. I simply want to present the fear that exists in the community. More than one person, more than one leader of the community, respected i …", "… a seat on that flight. We have no idea who's travelling, we have no idea why they're going; we just know that there's some type of partnership. The belief is that Chávez is trying to balance two very delicate political situations: one is his absolute desire to please Iran and, hence, there's suspicion that many of the attacks on the Jewish community have been government-sponsored and government-encouraged in order to show Iran that he does have control over the Jewish community; and the other is a simple desire to be recognized as a messianic figure, a Castro-like figure, within his immediate international circles and, of course, in the world as well. That's basically been the balance. There are veiled threats, yet the message is clear. He can defend himself against any outright accusation that he said something threatening or genocide-inciting about the Jewish community. At the same time, the message is very clear and loudly heard by the community."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker attributes hostility toward the Jewish community to Chávez, stating there is 'suspicion that many of the attacks on the Jewish community have been government-sponsored and government-encouraged' by him to please Iran."}, {"id": "committee-636", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-06-10", "speaker": "Rabbi Adam Scheier", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . No one knows who does them, except for the government raids. The government raids didn't break any laws. They're certainly within the right of a government, if they have suspicion, to go through the protocol and raid a community institution. Why these are happening, no one knows. It's being reported. Who's doing the attacks? We still don't know. Yet it is being reported. And that also makes the Jewish community fearful, that this is out there. And yet the outpouring of concern and the natural solidarity.... People are afraid to show gestures of solidarity. It's not an open society like we enjoy, and that's what makes them fearful as well. Yes, they are reported. Everyone in Venezuela knows that Jewish communal institutions were attacked in 2009. Why it was done, and by whom--no idea."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/10/rabbi-adam-scheier/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Congregation Shaar Hashomayim", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes attacks on Jewish communal institutions and community fear without assigning responsibility or taking a position on the hostility itself, repeatedly using phrases like 'it is being reported' and 'no one knows' who is responsible."}, {"id": "committee-637", "year": 2010, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2010-06-15", "speaker": "Mr. Russ Hiebert", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["There's the Supreme Court justice basically saying that the court itself is not there to be a check on the executive. You talked about there not being proper checks and balances. As well, we've talked about the attacks on synagogues in the Jewish community. We've talked about political opponents being prevented from running, or being imprisoned. We've talked about corruption in the public service. It hasn't been mentioned, but it was told to us that a minister of the government admitted that 15% to 20% of the crime in the country, including violent crime, is b …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/15/mr-russ-hiebert/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/15/mr-russ-hiebert/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions attacks on synagogues in the Jewish community as part of a list of problems/incidents being discussed, but does not condemn, blame, name responsible parties, or take any evaluative position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-638", "year": 2011, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2011-02-10", "speaker": "Mr. Eric Vernon (Director, Government Relations and International Affairs, Canadian Jewish Congress)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… re organized and more international in scope, so must the efforts to contain it be more organized, serious, and efficacious. Members of the committee, that brief was submitted in April 1984, almost 27 years ago, and yet in the aftermath of September 11 it became clear just how unprepared Canada was in dealing with the threat of international terrorism and its domestic manifestations. Canadian Jewish Congress was therefore gratified by the government's introduction of then Bill C-36, including the two ultimately sunsetting clauses that lie at the heart of Bill C-17 now. To date, thankfully, Canada has been spared the agony of the suicide bombings and attacks that, at least since the turn of the new century, have become a commonplace weapon in the terrorist arsenal. But our nation has certainly not been immune to terrorism, not least the tragic events surrounding the bombing of Air India flight 182. Canada's Jewish community has been targeted for terrorist violence by the likes of Ahmed Ressam and Jamal Akal, and beyond that we cannot but see the community's security in the context of the vulnerability of and attacks on sister communities elsewhere in the world, both before and after September 11, 2001. Given the multicultural and pluralistic nature of its society, Canada is esp …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/10/mr-eric-vernon-director-government-relations-and-international-affairs-canadian-jewish-congress/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/2/10/mr-eric-vernon-director-government-relations-and-international-affairs-canadian-jewish-congress/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of terrorist targeting of the Jewish community (Ahmed Ressam, Jamal Akal, Air India bombing) without taking a position on the hostility itself, and frames this within a broader discussion of counterterrorism legislation."}, {"id": "committee-639", "year": 2011, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2011-10-25", "speaker": "Ms. Paulina Ayala (Honoré-Mercier, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ow you see Canada's role in regard to these events, but, in concrete terms, Canada will provide economic support in the area of work for people who are unemployed. But what can we do about education, for example? As we know, the textbooks for Egyptian children—and this is also true of public television—trivialize this xenophobic propaganda and stigmatize Jews and Christians as accomplices of Zionists and foreigners. How can that be changed with Canada's help? You also talked about establishing a task force on Christians in the Middle East. We're dealing with problems these days, and education is a source of solutions. These cultural conflicts stemming from prejudices and i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/10/25/ms-paulina-ayala-honoré-mercier-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/10/25/ms-paulina-ayala-honoré-mercier-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility (xenophobic propaganda stigmatizing Jews and Christians) in Egyptian textbooks and media without condemning it, blaming anyone for it, or taking a clear position on it—the passage cuts off mid-thought and focuses on asking questions about what Canada could do about education."}, {"id": "committee-640", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-04-03", "speaker": "Mr. Jack Harris", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… inal justice system. I just want to make sure people understand that when we are looking at the comparison between the new provision we're talking about in Bill C-217 —a provision for a specific crime of mischief in relation to war memorials or cenotaphs—we see that a particular crime against religious objects such as synagogues and mosques and churches must be in fact motivated by hatred or prejudice. Therefore, a swastika on a synagogue would be prosecuted more severely because it is motivated by hatred, hatred of a particular group of people. I don't need to remind anybody that the Second World War was fought against an enemy that carried out the mass slaughter of Jewish people throughout Europe, so when we talk about a swastika on a synagogue or a Jewish cemetery, we're talking about someone inciting that kind of hatred. When we talk about desecration of a war memorial, we may be talking about something inane, idiotic, stupid, misunderstood, or whatever, and if we're talking about denunciation, yes, in appropriate cases there is a proper case for denunciation. Sentences should be appropriate, and the judge would be in a position to do that. I do want to remind you …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/3/mr-jack-harris/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/3/mr-jack-harris/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "St. John's East", "province": "NL", "side": "opposition", "role": "St. John's East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development—Main Estimates, 2021-22", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hostility toward Jews (swastikas on synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, incitement of hatred) without naming a specific person or party responsible for it. The focus is on describing the wrongness of such acts."}, {"id": "committee-641", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-04-24", "speaker": "Prof. Kathleen Mahoney", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… uman Rights Act's section 13. From that perspective, I'm very familiar with the legal background, as well as the factual background, of both of those cases. Today I'd like to address basically three points. A number of the points that I could address have been addressed by the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Jewish Congress, so what I'm going to talk about first of all, essentially, is that hate expression is more than expression. Hate expression is a practice of discrimination that actually causes harm to vulnerable groups and to society. Those harms include both physical and psychological harms. Hate speech perpetuates stereotypes and creates barriers to the social, economic, and political participation of the groups that it targets. It silences people, so it affects freedom of expression …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/24/prof-kathleen-mahoney/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/24/prof-kathleen-mahoney/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate expression/hate speech as harmful discrimination that causes physical and psychological harms to vulnerable groups, perpetuates stereotypes, and silences people, without naming specific actors or incidents as responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-642", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-04-26", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Kurz", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… would be fixed. Legislation has not been fixed, Mr. Casey, and I don't see any legislation on the table to fix it. So we, as a human rights organization, are faced with a situation where we're talking about tools, not results. At the end of the day, we know what we want. We want a Canada where minorities are free from hate speech, where Jews aren't defamed as a group because they're Jews, where blacks can feel comfortable—all of that. What we've seen, three and a half years later, is that it's working less and less. This, for example, was before the Elmasry and Rogers case, which is a seminal case in the history of human rights commissions and human rights law dealing with hate speech, with the whole …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/26/mr-marvin-kurz/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/26/mr-marvin-kurz/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a situation where Jews face defamation and hate speech, but is primarily reporting on the ineffectiveness of legislation and human rights tools rather than condemning, naming, or blaming any specific party for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-643", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-05-01", "speaker": "Mr. Bill Frelick", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hich is an EU country—and the conditions of detention there are absolutely inhuman and degrading. I myself documented cases where people were brutally pushed back across the border into Turkey. I also have been in the detention centres in Turkey, which are horrific. We just published a report a couple of months ago on racist and xenophobic violence in Italy. Just last week we published a report on the discrimination against Roma, Jews, and other national minorities in Bosnia. These are reports that are essentially fresh off the press about, in the case of Italy, violence directed against dark-skinned people primarily. This is something we're seeing in Hungary and in many other places as well."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/1/mr-bill-frelick/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/1/mr-bill-frelick/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites published reports documenting discrimination against Jews and other minorities in Bosnia, describing the reports as 'fresh off the press' without taking a position on the discrimination itself beyond noting its existence."}, {"id": "committee-644", "year": 2011, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2011-11-22", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I just wanted to clarify for the record, because we're going back and forth between Iraq and Egypt, and the situations are terribly similar. Going back to Egypt for a moment, because that's your homeland originally, to what extent is the discrimination based on religion? How pervasive is that? You said that right now it seems that the Coptic Christians are in the sights, so to speak, and you referred to the Jewish situation before. So any Christian in that country would not feel safe and would be definitely discriminated against?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/11/22/mr-wayne-marston/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/11/22/mr-wayne-marston/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is asking questions to clarify and understand the extent of religious discrimination in Egypt, including discrimination against Jews and Christians. They are seeking information and description of the situation without condemning, naming specific perpetrators, or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-645", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-03-27", "speaker": "Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… prisal tools that Iran has at its disposal. Iran would probably focus on responding to Israel first by unleashing Iranian proxies in the Levant by having Hezbollah and Hamas launch missile attacks on Israel and initiate hostilities on Iran's behalf, and secondly by launching and trying to execute a number of terrorist attacks on soft targets overseas against both Israeli diplomats and diplomatic missions, as well as Jewish centres across the world. I doubt that a rational Iran would engage in the kinds of activities that would draw the United States to come to Israel's side. The second school of thought, of course, says the opposite, which is that Iran is not a rational actor, and if attacked, it would unleash every single tool it has i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/27/dr-emanuele-ottolenghi/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/27/dr-emanuele-ottolenghi/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes potential Iranian hostility toward Jews and Jewish targets (missile attacks, terrorist attacks on Jewish centres) as part of a hypothetical analysis of Iran's possible responses, without condemning, naming responsibility, blaming anyone, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-646", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-10-24", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… moting hatred, and even inciting violence. To give you one example, last year the Council of Quebec Gays and Lesbians protested the effort of Mr. Hazma Tzortzis and Mr. Abdur Raheem Green, British nationals who were seeking to come to Canada to speak at a conference. These two individuals have a long record of vicious hatred, including calling for the death of gays and lesbians, Jews, violence against women, etc. Indeed, the Quebec National Assembly passed a unanimous motion calling upon me as the minister to deny entry into Canada of these individuals. This is one of many examples. In fact, when I was a member of the opposition, I had proposed that we deny entry to Canada of Fred Phelps, a man who goes around promoting violent hatred against gays and lesbians. I also did so with respect to Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, a Saudi national who called for the destruction of all of the Jewish people. Now, here's the problem we have, Mr. Chairman. If you believe the admission of such people to Canada is a problem—and that's a debatable question, for sure—and if you believe that such foreigners should not be permitted to spread potentially violent hatred in Canada, you have to recognize that the current law doesn't give us the tools to deny them entry, unless they are inadmissible on national security grounds. Let me be clear: promoting hatred against Jews is not a crime in Saudi Arabia. There are many countries in which crimes that exist in Canada do not exist in other countries, such as the promotion of violence or hatred against vulnerable groups. This raises a very serious question as to whether or not Canadians and Parliament believe there should be some reasonable, discrete, limited, flexible tool that we can use in extraordinary cases where, for reasons like this, we want to keep out a foreign national who might otherwis …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/24/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/24/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names specific individuals (Hazma Tzortzis, Abdur Raheem Green, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais) and directly states they have 'a long record of vicious hatred, including calling for the death of...Jews' and 'called for the destruction of all of the Jewish people,' attributing hostile acts toward Jews to them."}, {"id": "committee-647", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-10-29", "speaker": "Ms. Julie Taub", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Absolutely, without question, and it's long overdue. And this isn't a question of mental illness either. This is just a question of hate-mongers who are promoting jihad and promoting killing—I don't need to get into it. Anybody wanting to promote hatred in Canada, be it against homosexuals, Jews, women, Muslims, etc.—they should all be barred."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/29/ms-julie-taub/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/29/ms-julie-taub/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Immigration and Refugee Lawyer, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hatred and discrimination against Jews (among other groups) without naming a specific person, party, or institution as responsible for it. They argue such hatred 'should all be barred.'"}, {"id": "committee-648", "year": 2012, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2012-10-31", "speaker": "Mr. James Bissett", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… o finally remove him after many reviews of his case and many appeals. The most glaring example of abuse of our system is the case of Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad. I think I've mentioned him before in front of this committee. He was an assassin and a terrorist for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He attacked an Israeli aircraft that was on the tarmac in Athens and used a machine gun and threw grenades. He killed a Jewish businessman and wounded a stewardess before he was overtaken. He came to Canada in 1987. When we found out he was here, we ordered his deportation. He is still here. His case is still before the courts. A Globe and Mail report a couple of years ago indicated that so far his case had cost Canadian taxpayers $3 million. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/31/mr-james-bissett/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/10/31/mr-james-bissett/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes a terrorist attack targeting an Israeli aircraft and killing a Jewish businessman, but does not condemn the hostility toward Jews, name responsibility for it, blame others for enabling it, or dispute its characterization. The passage primarily recounts facts about the case and its legal/financial consequences."}, {"id": "committee-649", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-07", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel (Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ng this important issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries here in the foreign affairs committee. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs applauds this committee's efforts. We encourage all of its members to carefully consider the testimony before them and join together in recommending official recognition of the persecution and displacement of over 850,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Previous witnesses set out the historical facts surrounding this issue. Our focus today will be on the Canadian dimension. Two refugee populations were created as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, one Palestinian and the other Jewish. Unfortunately the plight of Jewish refug …", "… e movement of North African Jews to Canada. That resulted in approximately 25,000 Jews coming to Canada from Morocco as part of the mass migration of over 200,000 Jewish Moroccans between 1948 and 1967. In December 1956, the Department of External Affairs received diplomatic cables describing the expulsion of Egyptian Jewry. Those Jewish Egyptians who did not have a second citizenship and had been rendered stateless by the discriminatory 1926 nationality code, which impacted on approximately 50% of the 75,000 Jews living in Egypt, were faced with a horrific dilemma. The cables to External Affairs reported that Jews without nationality were given a choice between leaving Egypt or being sent to a concentration camp. Jews would receive a visit by some official who would intimidate them into signing a declaration of intention to leave Egypt, which would then result in a cancellation of residence permits and then force them to leave the country. In response to these reports, a memorandum to the Minister of External Affairs, sent in December 1956, stated: What we have in mind is that a sensible pr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/mr-shimon-fogel-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/mr-shimon-fogel-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical persecution and displacement of Jews from Arab countries, citing diplomatic cables, statistics, and specific incidents (Egyptian expulsion, Moroccan migration) without attributing blame to any current actor or taking a position on the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-650", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-07", "speaker": "Mrs. Regina Bublil Waldman (President, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… one million Jews indigenous to the Middle East. Jews had lived in my native Libya and the rest of the region for over 2,000 years. When I was born in 1948, there were about 36,000 living in Libya; by 1967 there were only 6,000; and today, ladies and gentlemen, my whole community is extinct. I grew up in a middle-class Jewish community. My father, Rahmin Bublil, imported oil equipment for companies. My father often spoke of the 1945 Mora’ot, a pogrom that took place in Tripoli, when anti-Jewish mobs took to the streets and murdered over 145 Libyan Jews. He buried the severed bodies of his own friends. During the pogrom, my mother escaped the mobs by running from one rooftop to another until a Christian woman saved her life. When I was born, the Jewish community of Tripoli constituted almost 30% of the total population of the city. My family had lived in Libya for over two millennia, but we were denied citizenship. We were denied basic rights. We were denied the right to travel and to have passports. All of these rights were given to all Libyan Muslims. The first time I experienced hate and intolerance was in 1954 when I was six years old. I witnessed an arithmetic lesson at the local madrassa school. The teacher turned to the blackboard and said to the little six-year-old Muslim girls, “If you have 10 Jews and you kill five of them, how many Jews do you have left to kill?” I was six years old and completely traumatized. That was a very painful experience for me as a child: my first taste of anti-Jewish hatred. Our Jewish community was forbidden to the leave the country. We were denied citizenship. We were denied passports. We were denied the right to travel, yet we had to live in this very anti-Jewish environment. In order to cope, we lived in denial and pretended that everything was going to be okay. On June 6, 1967, the Six Day War …", "… Italy, where we lived penniless and destitute. Seven of us lived in one room, a very small room. Because there was no place to sleep on the floor anymore for the seven of us, my sister and I for two years shared sleeping inside a bathtub. Please don't try it. It's not very comfortable. We had endured the hardships of discrimination, intolerance, the loss of a 2,000-year community, our culture. We endured human rights abuses only because we were Jewish. The only thing we had left was our dignity. We mourned the loss of our own selves. We felt we had been lost to civilization, lost to the world, lost to history forever. Despite our oppression, despite our suffering and humiliation, we rose above victimhood. We were victimized, but we never felt as victims. We rose above revenge. We focused on rebuilding our shattered life. I have personally forgiven the perpetrators who tried to kill my family and me. I believe that hate is a weapon of mass destruction. My story is not unique. It is the story of nearly one million Jews who were made refugees from nine Arab countries. Six hundred thousand fled to Israel, which became the largest and most successful refugee camp in the Middle East, because it integrated us and gave us dignity and hope. The remaining 300,000 were absorbed in host countries around the world. In all, fully 99% of the Ara …", "… creates political distortions with real relevance to the future of the Middle Eastern peace process. If we want to understand the refugee problem of the Middle East, including the Palestinian refugee problem, and we want to find a fair and just solution, we must take into consideration the plight of nearly one million Jewish refugees. Today, I appeal to you to restore our narrative to its rightful place in history, and to speak forcefully on the discriminatory treatment and the expulsion of the Jews from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf region. I would like to offer three recommendations to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Recommendation one is that the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development forward a resolution for the consideration …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/mrs-regina-bublil-waldman-president-jews-indigenous-to-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/mrs-regina-bublil-waldman-president-jews-indigenous-to-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "President, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews in Libya (pogroms, discrimination, denial of rights, antisemitic education) and personal experiences without explicitly condemning it or naming responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-651", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-07", "speaker": "Hon. Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Let me thank our guest from Hungary, Ms. Bublil Waldman, and also thank Shimon Fogel for being here. I hope nobody misunderstands this question. Mr. Fogel's presentation talked a lot about how Canadian diplomats were, of course, aware of the terrible discrimination that existed in a number of capitals and cities where Jews had been present for thousands of years and were leaving the country, and that until Mr. Martin made his statement, there was no formal statement from Canada about the refugee situation affecting Jewish refugees from the Maghreb and from other countries in the Middle East. I have to say that in my meetings with Israel …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/hon-bob-rae-toronto-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/hon-bob-rae-toronto-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Toronto Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Toronto Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews and notes the absence of Canadian formal statements on Jewish refugee situations, without condemning, blaming, or naming specific responsible parties for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-652", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-07", "speaker": "Ms. Gladys Daoud (As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ng homes and businesses. My maternal grandfather miraculously survived despite being hunted by rebels trying to get hold of the key to the country's treasury. In spite of that, my parents endured and prospered. After the creation of the State of Israel, the Iraqi government embarked on a policy of ethnic cleansing and persecution of its Jewish population. Prominent Jews were publicly hanged. Jewish businesses were confiscated. Import licences were cancelled. Jewish public servants were fired. Jews were forbidden from leaving the country under the pretense that they would join the Zionist enemy and attack Iraq. Under international pressure, the government finally relented, and allowed Jews to leave Iraq provided they abandoned all of their assets in favour of the state. Out of 150,000 Jews, 140,000 left the country, abandoning all of their possessions with the exception of one suitcase of clothes. Those who stayed behind were deluded optimists who believed that the violence directed at the Jews would pass, and that coexistence in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbours was still possible. Things took a turn for the worse in 1963, after the Baath regime took power. Their first priority was to embark on an ethnic cleansing policy towards the Iraqi Jews. They banned all exit visas for Jews, and actively promoted a culture of hatred and incitement towards them. I was a teenager going to school in 1967 when the Six Day War took place. I saw my entire world collapse around me. All Jews in Baghdad were declared spies and enemies of the people. The radio was blaring all day, calling the people to action to kill the Jews. Needless to say, we were terrified, and we had nowhere to go. The government proceeded with a plan of total isolation and economic strangulation. Employers were instructed to fire the …", "… 2,500 years of history and Jewish tradition by the rivers of Babylon came to an abrupt and gruesome end. The religious shrines, artifacts, and books of learning that remain in Iraq should be the only reminders, except, as we speak, the Iraqi authorities are trying to deface these shrines and erase any reminder of the Jewish existence. I hope this story serves as a reminder to all of us to remain vigilant and stand up against all incitement of hatred, racism, and discrimination. Let us always strive to uncover the truth and seek justice for all. Thank you very much for your time and for the privilege to tell my story."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/ms-gladys-daoud-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/ms-gladys-daoud-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical persecution of Iraqi Jews with extensive detail about government policies, violence, and personal experience, without explicitly condemning or naming responsibility in the passage excerpt provided."}, {"id": "committee-653", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-07", "speaker": "Ms. Lisette Shashoua (As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen. For 25 centuries, Jews lived in harmony with the inhabitants and contributed to the economic, social, and cultural background of first Babylon, now Iraq. There were a few pogroms against the Jews in Iraq, most notably in 1929 and later in 1941: the infamous farhud incited by the Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem. In 1948, the State of Israel was created. Iraq, along with four other Arab countries, suffered a sore defeat on the front against Israel, so Iraq needed a scapegoat to justify this defeat. They tried and hanged the innocent Mr. Shafiq Ades as an Israeli spy. They hanged him in front of …", "… when England decided to appoint a king in Iraq, King Faisal I, they chose my grandfather's house for him to live in. My grandfather, Shaul Shashoua, duly moved out and rented his house for a nominal sum to the king until a suitable palace was built for him to move into. Up until 1950, there were approximately 150,000 Jews in Iraq. After the farhud and the persecution of the Jews by their fellow citizens and the government, and after the hanging of Mr. Shafiq Ades, Iraq stated that it would now allow the Jews to leave for Israel on condition they renounce their Iraqi citizenship. Nearly the entire Jewish population asked for this laisser passer . They were denationalized and their assets were frozen while they were still in Iraq waiting for their turn to leave. Upon their departure they were searched and further stripped o …", "… y left for food. When my grandfather passed away in 1968, my mother and grandmother were forced to pay the government rent for the house my grandfather built in 1927. They were paying for the shares my mom's siblings should have inherited, but now belonged to the Iraqi government. On top of this, they started to go to Jewish homes at random, usually after midnight. They would search the house, vandalize it, arrest the father, the son, sometimes even the daughter. The accusation was always that they were spying for Israel. It got to the stage that any time a car passed by at night, I would wake up, kneel, and pray that this car would not stop at our house to raise havoc in our lives. My mother and I bought sleeping pi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/ms-lisette-shashoua-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/7/ms-lisette-shashoua-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical incidents of persecution, pogroms, and discriminatory treatment of Jews in Iraq (1929, 1941, post-1948) without explicitly condemning them or naming current responsible parties. The passage is primarily a personal testimony recounting events."}, {"id": "house-654", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-02-06", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… mber this chamber was the epicentre of a grave international embarrassment for Canada when this individual, a former SS soldier, was recognized and given a standing ovation during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address to our Parliament. This gave Vladimir Putin a major propaganda coup and caused significant pain for Jewish Canadians and all victims persecuted in World War II. The government, and the Prime Minister in particular, were at great pains to distance themselves from any connection to this individual, claiming that they had absolutely nothing to do with his invitation and subsequent recognition. Lo and behold, Global Affairs Canada recently released, through acces …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/6/hon-andrew-scheer-reginaquappelle-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/6/hon-andrew-scheer-reginaquappelle-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "history", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the government and Prime Minister for their weak response (distancing themselves, claiming no connection) to an incident that caused pain to Jewish Canadians, rather than condemning or taking responsibility for the initial hostile act itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-655", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-01-31", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Vuong (Spadina—Fort York, Ind.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 1 million worth of UNRWA supplies, including fuel and trucks; and an intelligence assessment claims Hamas operatives are so deeply enmeshed within the UNRWA aid delivery enterprise that they coordinate transfers for the organization. Does any of this sound like an agency to be trusted? UNRWA is an organization full of hate and it has been indoctrinating generations of innocent Palestinians to hate Jews. I have been reading excerpts of UNRWA's textbooks and I cannot believe what it has been teaching. Did members know that teachers are required to punish students who do not directly connect Judaism to murder? Did they know terrorists are glorified as role models, and that suicide bombings and cutting the necks of the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/1/31/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/1/31/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "party": "Independent", "riding": "Spadina--Fort York", "province": "ON", "side": "independent", "role": "Spadina—Fort York, Ind.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Diversity and Inclusion", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses UNRWA of being 'full of hate' and 'indoctrinating generations of innocent Palestinians to hate Jews,' naming the organization as responsible for hostility toward Jews through its textbooks and teaching practices."}, {"id": "house-656", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-12-14", "speaker": "Hon. Kamal Khera (Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ed multiculturalism and anti-racism program to help organizations build capacity. This is yet another example of our government's unwavering commitment to addressing racism and promoting a more inclusive Canada. I wish I could say the same thing about the Conservative Party of Canada, which voted against Canada's anti-racism strategy and, just last week, voted against funding for the new Montreal Holocaust Museum and the redevelopment of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. It is shameful."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/14/hon-kamal-khera-minister-of-diversity-inclusion-and-persons-with-disabilities-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/14/hon-kamal-khera-minister-of-diversity-inclusion-and-persons-with-disabilities-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — International Development", "subject": "funding", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker accuses Conservative Party of voting against Holocaust Museum funding and Jewish Community Centre support, characterizing this as shameful and implicitly suggesting weak response to antisemitism/Jewish concerns", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-657", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-28", "speaker": "Mr. David Sweet", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 'í faith are banned from universities in Iran. He founded the Bahá'í educational rights committee, being a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and of human rights activists. Now that I've talked about Navid Khanjani being imprisoned in Iran, I'd like to pose my first question to Susanne Tamás. Ms. Tamás, persecution is rampant in Iran. Zoroastrians, Christians, Hindus, minority Muslims, and Jews all face persecution. Could you explain to the committee what is unique about the Bahá'í community and the persecution it faces compared to the persecution that other minorities face?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/28/mr-david-sweet/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/28/mr-david-sweet/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Human Rights Act", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker lists Jews among persecuted minorities in Iran but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame enablers, dispute the characterization, or use coded language. The statement simply reports that Jews face persecution as part of a factual enumeration of affected groups."}, {"id": "house-658", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-11-28", "speaker": "Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, gunfire has been heard in Montreal over the past few days. Windows have been broken, and graffiti has been directed specifically against the Jewish community. There are fears that these actions were in some way encouraged by an exception in the Criminal Code that allows hate speech and the incitement of violence. In light of recent events, would the Prime Minister agree to remove the religious exemption from the Criminal Code?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/11/28/mr-yves-françois-blanchet-beloeilchambly-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/11/28/mr-yves-françois-blanchet-beloeilchambly-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific legal provision (the religious exemption in the Criminal Code) as responsible for encouraging the hostility toward Jews described, arguing it enables hate speech and incitement of violence."}, {"id": "house-659", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-11-23", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ivilians, casually chanting in the streets and online and calling for a third. Canadians should ask themselves why there are celebrations and treats being handed out in parts of the Gaza Strip when innocent civilians are murdered. The government must take an unequivocal stand against terror everywhere and condemn this attack for what it is: hate-fuelled terror to kill Jews. They murdered a Canadian. I hope that every member of the House will join me in condemning this attack and standing with Israel to protect our foundational principles, the ones we all hold dear."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/11/23/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/11/23/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the attack described as 'hate-fuelled terror to kill Jews' and calls for condemnation, without naming a specific person or entity as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-660", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-11-09", "speaker": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Montreal's Jewish community is being targeted. This week alone, here is what has happened: a Montreal synagogue has been firebombed, a hate preacher has called for the extermination of Jews, Jewish students have been called the K-word, terrorists have fired bullets at two different schools and the U.K. foreign office has warned of likely terrorist attacks in Canada. We have all seen the Prime Minister 's theatrical words, but what concrete steps has he taken this week to protect Jews and all Canadians?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/11/9/hon-pierre-poilievre-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/11/9/hon-pierre-poilievre-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker describes serious hostility toward Jews and then criticizes the Prime Minister for taking insufficient concrete action ('theatrical words' vs. needed protection), implying weak response to the threat."}, {"id": "house-661", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-25", "speaker": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… orld is a dangerous place for women. In the DRC, women are facing the world's highest rates of sexual and gender-based violence. MSF reports that sexual violence now is a public health emergency in the Central African Republic. In Afghanistan and Iran, women's rights are non-existent. In Canada, women who speak up are attacked, not just in politics but also in journalism, on social media and in their communities. I am alarmed by the exclusion of Muslim and Jewish women's voices from critical conversations on Israel and Palestine. Canada claims to have a feminist foreign policy, but where are the investments? As Sudan's Hala Al-Karib said recently, only paying lip service to the women, peace and security agenda without insisting on women's rights and women's meaningful particip …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/25/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/25/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Edmonton Strathcona", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Strathcona, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the exclusion of Jewish women's voices from conversations, expressing alarm at this exclusion without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-662", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-24", "speaker": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… war, with Hamas militants spitting on and torturing their victims. It is disgusting. It is horrifying. The Israeli defence minister is using words such as “human animals”. The Israeli president has said that the “entire nation” of Gazans is responsible for Hamas. There is a straight line between dehumanization and the hate crimes we are seeing around the world. We know that hate crimes against Jewish Canadians have massively increased since October 7. It is heartbreaking to see what is happening in the world. The National Council of Canadian Muslims says that reports of hate crimes against Muslims have increased by 1,000%. I am deeply concerned by the silencing of Jewish and Palestinian people, particularly of women and of women's voices across Canada, in the media, on social platforms and in public discourse. This is a time for us who are not Palestinian and who not Jewish to listen and to learn. We need a ceasefire. Our call for a ceasefire does not mean we do not want the end of Ha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Edmonton Strathcona", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Strathcona, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names the Israeli defence minister and Israeli president as responsible for dehumanizing language ('human animals,' 'entire nation' responsible) and draws a causal line between their statements and hate crimes against Jewish Canadians."}, {"id": "house-663", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-23", "speaker": "Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, that was not clear. Was it a yes or a no? It will come up again after question period. Since the horrific and tragic events of October 7, Canada and Quebec have seen a rising trend in hate between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine factions. We have seen graffiti, swastikas and endless intimidation of people who follow the Jewish or Muslim faith. It is as though they want to transport the war, hatred and division experienced in the Middle East to Quebec and Canada, as if we needed more division on this issue. Could the Prime Minister ask for calm before a tragedy erupts, as it happened in the United States or France?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/mr-alexis-brunelle-duceppe-lac-saint-jean-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/mr-alexis-brunelle-duceppe-lac-saint-jean-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Lac-Saint-Jean", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Religious Minorities in China", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the rising hate, graffiti, swastikas, and intimidation targeting Jewish people, without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-664", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-23", "speaker": "Hon. Karina Gould (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for this very important question. I think everyone in the House is truly concerned about this right now. There is no place for hatred or violence here in Canada. We know that both the Jewish and Muslim communities, both the Israeli and Palestinian communities, are really hurting right now. They are scared. We all need to come together because, first and foremost, we are Canadians. We should be there for each other."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/hon-karina-gould-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/hon-karina-gould-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of International Development, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — International Development", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states 'there is no place for hatred or violence here in Canada' and calls for unity, expressing concern about hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-665", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-23", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… knows that full well. On the issue of what has been taking place, the Prime Minister said not that long ago, “Hamas is a terrorist organization that ... [slaughtered] and brutalized innocent people.” He went on to say, “Hamas continues to commit unspeakable ... [atrocities] and are trying to instigate further acts of violence against Jewish people....” Let me be clear about Hamas. Its members “are not freedom fighters, they are not resistance fighters: they are terrorists.” “Terrorism is always indefensible and nothing can justify Hamas' acts of terror and the killing, maiming, and abduction of...civilians.” Let me also be extremely clear that, “Hamas do …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/mr-kevin-lamoureux-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/23/mr-kevin-lamoureux-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-leader-of-the-government-in-the-house-of-commons-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg North", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker quotes the Prime Minister's statements condemning Hamas and its violence, presenting these as factual statements rather than making an independent condemnation or accusation about hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-666", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-20", "speaker": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Carleton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the Toronto police chief has reported a 132% increase in hate crimes. We have seen horrific stories of a sign written in spray paint in Centennial Park that says “Attack the Jew” or a vandalized message in London that says “Kill all Muslims”. This is absolutely unacceptable. We can all be revolted by the horrors of Hamas, but we should never blame our fellow citizens in Canada who are Muslim. They did not commit those atrocities. We can debate the decisions of the Israeli government, but we have no right to insult our Jewish neighbours or attack their local synagogue. This must be a country based on freedom, where it does not matter if one's name is Mohammed or Martin, Chang or Charles, Singh, Smith or Steinberg. We are all Canadians. We are all compatriots. Let us embrace each other with love."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/20/hon-pierre-poilievre-carleton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/20/hon-pierre-poilievre-carleton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hate crimes and vandalism targeting Jews, calling them 'absolutely unacceptable' and stating 'we have no right to insult our Jewish neighbours or attack their local synagogue,' without naming any specific person or party as responsible."}, {"id": "house-667", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-06-13", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… iliation in determinations about chaplaincy and discrimination against religious communities holding views that are not consistent with the Government of Canada's positions on, for instance, various sexuality issues. Petitioners believe that Canadian Armed Forces chaplains serve all members of the armed forces without discrimination, and they should not be facing discrimination. This proposed discrimination would affect the Muslim community, the Christian community, the Jewish community and other religious communities in Canada. They call on the Government of Canada to reject the recommendations on chaplaincy in the Canadian Armed Forces in the final report of the Minister of National Defence 's advisory panel on systemic racism and discrimination, as well as to affirm the right of all Cana …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/13/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/13/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes petitioners' concerns about potential discrimination against religious communities including the Jewish community, but does not condemn the hostility, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute the characterization. It simply reports what petitioners believe and call for."}, {"id": "house-668", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-04-25", "speaker": "Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… , Israel's Independence Day. Canada is proud to have been one of the first countries to formally recognize Israel in 1948. Our two countries have shared 75 years as friends, allies and close partners. We will continue to oppose efforts to isolate Israel in international forums and we will continue to stand against any attacks on the values we share. We are united by shared bonds and values that will forever endure. In honour of the statehood in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, I say, “Next year in Jerusalem”."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/4/25/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/4/25/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Proposed tax changes", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage celebrates Israel's Independence Day and Canada-Israel relations without describing any hostility toward Jews or taking a position on such hostility."}, {"id": "committee-669", "year": 2014, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2014-05-13", "speaker": "Mr. Ali Alfoneh", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… funds and political support from Iran's regional rivals. In some cases that may even be true, but there is absolutely no excuse for discriminating against members of those communities. Among the religious communities there is one success story, and that has nothing to do with the government of Iran, and that is Iran's Jewish minority. The Jewish minority is not persecuted because of its faith. You cannot credit the government of the Islamic republic for that. Iran hosts the second largest Jewish community in the Middle East after Israel, and that is not because of the government. That is because of the generally tolerant nature of Iranian society. It has nothing to do with the government. Other violations of human rights are usually directed against human rights activists, against lawyers who defend victims o …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/13/mr-ali-alfoneh/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/13/mr-ali-alfoneh/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Iran's treatment of its Jewish minority as a 'success story' and states that the Jewish community is 'not persecuted because of its faith,' presenting factual observations about the situation without condemning anyone or taking a position on hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-670", "year": 2014, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2014-05-13", "speaker": "Mr. Ali Alfoneh", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… lam. The Baha'i faith, in their viewpoint, more or less negates the entire theology of Shia Islam. If you are a devout Shia Iranian, and if you are exposed to this type of propaganda every single day, there is some of it that works on you, and therefore the government of the Islamic republic has a slightly easier time persecuting the Baha'i community. The reaction to persecution of the Jewish community would have been much harsher because the Jewish community in Iran.... Most Iranians consider Iranian Jews first and foremost as Iranians and then as Jews. This, I believe, can be documented by the fact that Iran has the largest Jewish community in the Middle East after Israel."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/13/mr-ali-alfoneh/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/13/mr-ali-alfoneh/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes persecution of Baha'i and Jewish communities in Iran and notes that Iranian Jews are viewed as Iranians first, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or assigning blame."}, {"id": "committee-671", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-09", "speaker": "Roman Baber (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Minister, I represent one of the larger Jewish communities in the country. It's a community to which I also belong. Over the last decade of Liberal government, hate crimes against the Jewish community have more than quadrupled. I believe that your appearance today is evidence of your government's failure to protect the Jewish community. To add betrayal to injury, the Prime Minister rewarded the worst terrorist attack in our lifetime with the recognition of a terrorist state, so please don't pretend that you're doing us any favours. What I am seeing is that unless Bill C-9 is amended, it will criminalize and prosecute speech that isn't criminal right now. Let's get into it. For 35 years, we used the Supreme Court's definition of ha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/roman-baber-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/roman-baber-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names the Liberal government as responsible for failure to protect the Jewish community and accuses the Prime Minister of rewarding terrorism, stating these as causes of harm to the Jewish community."}, {"id": "committee-672", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-09", "speaker": "Hon. Sean Fraser", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ly, and the circumstance you gave would obviously be differentiated from, for example, teaching kids in our schools about the Holocaust, where they learn about the impact that these symbols had that caused an entire nation to turn against an entire group of people, leading to millions of Jews being murdered during the Holocaust. These are important parts of our history to understand, but they are not important in terms of protecting the ability to use them to foment hate against others."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/hon-sean-fraser/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/hon-sean-fraser/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the use of symbols to foment hate against Jews, while distinguishing legitimate Holocaust education from hateful symbol use. Does not name specific perpetrators but clearly opposes the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-673", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-01", "speaker": "Ms. Iqra Khalid (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… t. As we announce $10 million in humanitarian aid for Lebanon and as I watch our government work really hard to try to make sure there is de-escalation and that we are finding a way forward to peace, I cannot help but think about a town hall I held in my riding over the summer. It was a round table on anti-Palestinian racism. Throughout the summer, I have continued to meet with Canadians of Middle Eastern decent, of Jewish decent. Throughout this whole process, one thing has stood out to me. It is the fear expressed by some residents, who are not Palestinian, that this war would escalate and draw in other nations in the Middle East, and that soon, no one would be safe. We are witnessing that escalation right now. These indiscriminate at …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/ms-iqra-khalid-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-national-revenue-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/ms-iqra-khalid-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-national-revenue-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a town hall on anti-Palestinian racism and reports on fears expressed by residents, without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-674", "year": 2015, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2015-02-03", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah (Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ing phenomenon and real life actually begins after death. They say that this world is best treated as an airport transit lounge where we wait to catch the flight to our final destination that's paradise—but only after an end-of-time scenario that will not happen until the entire world is ruled by a single Islamic caliphate and after even the stones and trees will join Muslims in an effort to wipe out non-Muslims, especially Jews. To some of you this may sound like a kindergarten fantasy, but trust me, ladies and gentlemen, this is not because of a lack of education; I have never met an uneducated or illiterate jihadi. No farm or factory worker has blown himself up. It's the educated who are leading ISIS. It was a student of the prestigious Lo …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/3/mr-tarek-fatah-founder-muslim-canadian-congress/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/3/mr-tarek-fatah-founder-muslim-canadian-congress/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes extremist ideology and eschatological beliefs involving hostility toward Jews and non-Muslims, but does not condemn, name a responsible party, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute the characterization. The passage is presented as factual description of what 'they say.'"}, {"id": "committee-675", "year": 2015, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2015-02-03", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n-Muslims under the cover of religion. We need to shut down charitable status to send the message. We know what has worked in France, and we know what has not worked in the U.K. Unless we follow the French example, we will have a serious problem over here in educated, upper-class Muslims pretending that they are being discriminated against and blaming the United States, Israel, and the Jews for all the problems they have."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/3/mr-tarek-fatah/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/3/mr-tarek-fatah/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific groups (educated, upper-class Muslims) as blaming Jews for problems, and characterizes this blame as a problem requiring action against their charitable status."}, {"id": "house-676", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-05-19", "speaker": "Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Milton, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… side of the border were quick to say that this happened across the border and we do not have the same issues as the United States, but Buffalo is only a 90-minute drive from my riding of Milton and events like this do happen here in Canada. The Afzaal family was murdered in London only a year ago. This far right wing, violent extremism is the greatest threat to public safety in North America, and it disproportionately impacts Black and Jewish communities, Muslims, indigenous people and other people of colour. Canada is not immune to white supremacy. One ideologically motivated hate crime is one too many. We must find ways to put an end to these hate-fuelled attacks. I refuse to accept that they are inevitable in today's society. We are leaders. In the House, we are obligated to denounce hateful rhetoric at every turn unequivocally with our words and our actions, but also with better policies and bette …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/19/mr-adam-van-koeverden-milton-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/19/mr-adam-van-koeverden-milton-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Milton", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth and to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Sport), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Canadian Heritage", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker denounces far-right violent extremism and hate crimes that disproportionately impact Jewish communities, calling them unacceptable and obligating leaders to denounce hateful rhetoric unequivocally."}, {"id": "house-677", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-05-18", "speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ime Minister accusing others of being racist, as he did today during question period, when the Prime Minister himself enjoys dressing up in costumes and in blackface to make fun of other people's cultures and skin colour. The accusation-in-a-mirror propaganda technique has been used in non-genocidal and other forms of persecution committed against Jews, Blacks and first nations, among others. He had the audacity of using AIM in this instance to claim conspiracy theories and to hide the misdeed that is actually taking place. This is not to be confused with IMVE: ideologically motivated violent extremism. IMVE is the term used by the Canadian Security Intelligence Ser …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/18/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/18/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Christianity", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly identifies the Prime Minister as using a propaganda technique historically deployed in persecution against Jews, among others, and attributes this misdeed to him."}, {"id": "committee-678", "year": 2015, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2015-02-26", "speaker": "Mr. Yehuda Azoulay (Chair, Sephardic Affairs Council, B'nai Brith Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 0,000 to 120,000 Jews living in Iran, this historical centre of Persian Jewry. This estimate is based on the Jewish Agency, which had an office Tehran in 1948. Approximately 95% have since migrated. The current Jewish population of Iran today is roughly 8,000 Jews. The Islamic Republic uses factions within the Iranian Jewish community to win public relations points with the Western world, but privately many Jews complain to foreign reporters of discrimination.... The strong public anti-Israel position of the Iranian Jews... is a reflection of the pressure on them from the authorities and “their desire for survival.” Iranian leadership claims the Jewish minority is treated fairly, but experts, rabbis, offer contrasting views. “There's basic fear”, according to researchers. The current Ayatollah Khomeini has been clear in declaring his …", "… hich suggested dividing Palestine into two countries, Palestine and Israel, the situation continued to deteriorate. The Arabs refused to accept the UN recommendation, and when Israel declared the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 seven armies from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and Saudi Arabia attacked Israel. Moreover, in the native Muslim countries the persecution of Jews became rampant. Muslims around the world directed their hostility to the Jewish state against the Jewish communities living in their midst. In some places public executions became more and more frequent. As the Arab-Israeli conflict developed, Arab governments also turned on their Jewish populations. These governments often instituted drastically anti-Jewish measures, such as confiscation of passports, freezing of bank a …", "… eft behind since the Jews were rarely allowed to sell them, and when they did, it was at ridiculously low prices. This necessary flight with very few of their possessions also led to the abandonment of ancient synagogues, community centres, schools, hospitals, and once-thriving businesses. Perhaps most painful for the Jews was leaving behind the cemeteries where their ancestors had been buried for thousands of years and in which the gravestones were vandalized and used for building homes, parks, hotels, and public transport. Thus, while many Arabs left Palestine following the declaration of the Jewish state, many Jews left their homes in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bukhara, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, and Yemen. These refugees suffered a threefold loss: their identity, their way of life that simply ceased to exist, and their material possessions. Three-thousand-year-old communities were destroyed. Nearly on …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/26/mr-yehuda-azoulay-chair-sephardic-affairs-council-bnai-brith-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/26/mr-yehuda-azoulay-chair-sephardic-affairs-council-bnai-brith-canada/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chair, Sephardic Affairs Council, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes discrimination and persecution of Jews in Iran and Muslim countries without taking a clear position condemning it, naming specific perpetrators, or blaming anyone for inadequate response. It presents facts, quotes, and expert observations in a documentary manner."}, {"id": "committee-679", "year": 2015, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2015-03-24", "speaker": "Mr. Avi Benlolo", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nsively and know them very well. We continually talk about hate crime and hate crime legislation, and try to press charges for various hate speech incidences. I mentioned Al-Quds Day, where we have tried to push forward charges because we felt that it's quite disconcerting for someone to stand up at a rally and preach hatred towards the Jewish community and to threaten to go on a shooting spree in Israel, which is exactly what was done. We've had interaction with the police. We concur with one of the statements that was made, that we do believe there is insufficient resources for the intelligence community, for the police services. There has to be much more. So much is going under t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/24/mr-avi-benlolo/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/24/mr-avi-benlolo/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Al-Quds Day events as instances where hatred toward the Jewish community was preached and threats were made, naming this as a specific hostility incident requiring legal action."}, {"id": "house-680", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-03-22", "speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ting throughout the pandemic by the Liberal-bought-off media. The attempted cancellation of anyone who dissented over lockdowns, whether for scientific grounds or civil liberty grounds, further exacerbated the problem. The accusation is a mere propaganda technique that has been used in non-genocidal and other forms of persecution committed against Jews, Blacks and first nations, among others. It is time to face some inconvenient truths about the Prime Minister . His behaviour is dividing our country. Being angry all the time is not demonstrating leadership."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/3/22/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/3/22/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Christianity", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution techniques used against Jews (among other groups) as context for discussing accusations and propaganda, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific hostility toward Jews in the present passage."}, {"id": "house-681", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-01", "speaker": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I want to express my sadness and sympathy to the member. I know that she has family in Israel and that what she has suffered over the last number of months has been horrific. I also want to acknowledge that Jewish people, Palestinian people, Muslims and Arabs across this country have faced incredible racism and discrimination. Even within the House, the member has been a victim of discrimination and of horrific hate speech, in my opinion. I want to give the member my sympathy and express my support for her."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Edmonton Strathcona", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Strathcona, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the discrimination and hate speech experienced by the Jewish member, expressing sadness, sympathy, and support without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-682", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-02-20", "speaker": "Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I absolutely 100% agree, as do all members on this side of the House, that the swastika does represent hate and is certainly a repugnant, abhorrent symbol. However, on Wednesday, we witnessed what I would say was one of the worst incidents of an attack on a member in my six years in the House. We saw the Prime Minister attack a Jewish member of the House, the member for Thornhill , who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors. He suggested she was standing with those who were displaying the swastika. It was the Prime Minister who said this. Will the member condemn the Prime Minister for that statement?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/20/mr-john-brassard-barrieinnisfil-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/20/mr-john-brassard-barrieinnisfil-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Barrie--Innisfil", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. John Brassard", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Points of Order — Oral Questions", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the Prime Minister as responsible for attacking a Jewish member by suggesting she stood with swastika-displaying groups, characterizing this as hostile toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-683", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-02-17", "speaker": "Hon. Rob Moore (Fundy Royal, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nister is trying to eradicate any opinions that do not match his. This is a political crisis for the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's instinct, unfortunately, and we have all seen it in the House over and over, as recently as yesterday, is to divide. We know that not everyone who disagrees with the government is a racist, misogynist or white supremacist, but it is a lot better for him if everybody thinks that. Just yesterday in the House, the Prime Minister accused a young Jewish member of Parliament of standing with swastikas. We might be wondering what triggered him to make such a disgusting statement. The member for Thornhill dared to ask the Prime Minister when he lost his way, since he stated in 2015 that if Canadians were going to trust their government, their government needed to trust Canadians. It speaks volumes that pointing out h …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/17/hon-rob-moore-fundy-royal-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/17/hon-rob-moore-fundy-royal-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Orders of the Day — Emergencies Act", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses the Prime Minister of making 'a disgusting statement' by falsely associating a Jewish MP with swastikas, naming this as a specific hostile act toward that Jewish member."}, {"id": "house-684", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-02-16", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Regina—Qu'Appelle, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… he House are injurious, insulting and unparliamentary, they rise to the level of a question of privilege. As you know, you have the ability to rule on that immediately. I will not even go into the hypocrisy of a man who did blackface so often that he cannot remember it accusing somebody else of doing anything remotely racist. However, his comments made to a Jewish member of the House are beyond unparliamentary. They are reprehensible. I ask that you rule that this rises to the level of a question of privilege. I am prepared to move the appropriate motion."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/16/hon-andrew-scheer-reginaquappelle-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/16/hon-andrew-scheer-reginaquappelle-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies a specific person ('a man who did blackface') as making reprehensible comments directed at 'a Jewish member of the House' that are insulting and unparliamentary, explicitly naming their behavior as racist and hostile."}, {"id": "house-685", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-02-07", "speaker": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… what is happening. Let me talk about the convoy protest and begin by talking about what it is not. This convoy protest is not a peaceful protest. There is an often-used saying that if people continue to show who they are then we have to start believing them. This is what the convoy has been about. From the beginning, hateful symbols, such as the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag, have been displayed at this convoy. This has clearly made Jewish Canadians, Muslim Canadians and racialized Canadians scared of violence. We heard it clearly in the House, in eloquent words, what it means to a racialized person to see those flags. We have seen the harassment of citizens. What is really unique about this is that, normally, protests target the government, its policies and its decisions. However, we see in this convoy that the targets of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/7/mr-jagmeet-singh-burnaby-south-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/7/mr-jagmeet-singh-burnaby-south-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby South", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Burnaby South, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Shootings in New Zealand", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the display of hateful symbols (Nazi flag) at the convoy and notes it has made Jewish Canadians scared, without naming specific individuals as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-686", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-02-07", "speaker": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… toward the families in Ottawa that want to send their kids to school but have been kept awake all night by people who want to overthrow the government. I am compassionate toward workers in the downtown core who get harassed and intimidated by members of the convoy. I am compassionate toward young people who have been harassed and verbally assaulted. I am compassionate toward racialized people who see symbols of hate. I am compassionate toward Jewish people who saw swastikas and Nazi flags flying. I am compassionate toward racialized people and Black people who saw Confederate flags. I ask how this is happening in our country. That is who we are standing with. We are standing with the people and saying this is not Canada. This is not what we represent, this hate, with the desecration of w …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/7/mr-jagmeet-singh/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/2/7/mr-jagmeet-singh/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Burnaby South", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Burnaby South, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Shootings in New Zealand", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses compassion for Jewish people who encountered swastikas and Nazi flags, and objects to this hate as 'not Canada' and 'not what we represent,' without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-687", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-01", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, one issue had to do with a number of Jewish community buildings this year, including in Montreal in my own riding, where people gathered around the buildings, screaming hateful things and blocking access to or exit from them. That was totally unacceptable. Municipalities and provinces can do a better job of controlling that by passing zoning bylaws at the municipal level, or laws at the provincial level, setting out safety perimeters. We cannot do that, but what we can do federally would be …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/mr-anthony-housefather/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/1/mr-anthony-housefather/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states the harassment and blocking of Jewish community buildings was 'totally unacceptable,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-688", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-01-31", "speaker": "Mr. Yasir Naqvi (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… entre, ask all members, including the member who just spoke about listening to the other side, to please ask the protesters to leave the residential areas of my community alone. They can make their point on Parliament Hill, but let us make sure the residents who live here can live peacefully and not have to accept any hate. The Jewish members of my community are rattled. They are really rattled by the symbols of hate they have seen. We ask the protesters to please stop and to respect the community I represent."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/1/31/mr-yasir-naqvi-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-president-of-the-queens-privy-council-for-canada-and-minister-of-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/1/31/mr-yasir-naqvi-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-president-of-the-queens-privy-council-for-canada-and-minister-of-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ottawa Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Emergency Debate — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate symbols and hostility toward Jews in their community without naming specific individuals or groups as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-689", "year": 2021, "chamber": "house", "date": "2021-11-30", "speaker": "Ms. Julie Dzerowicz (Davenport, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… g critical services. We have allocated $600 million over five years to achieve this plan and, since 2015, committed over a billion dollars to support violence prevention, create shelters for women and families, support crisis hotlines and many other steps. The third priority is the need to continue our battle to fight hate, racism and discrimination. Davenport is home to so many different cultures and religions. We have a vibrant Muslim community, a growing Jewish community, a Caribbean community that has been in Davenport for over 40 years, and multiple Asian communities. We are so blessed. Diversity is indeed our strength, and it is one of the many reasons why Davenport is such a special riding. The commitment to continue combatting hate and racism with a renewed anti-racism …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/11/30/ms-julie-dzerowicz-davenport-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/11/30/ms-julie-dzerowicz-davenport-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses commitment to 'fight hate, racism and discrimination' and states 'diversity is our strength,' objecting to hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-690", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-09", "speaker": "Ms. Nicole Nashen", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["My grandfather was born in a refugee camp outside of Yemen in the British protectorate of Aden because Jews were being persecuted, and my grandmother was born in Morocco when Jews were being persecuted, and Israel was the only country that took them in. I would not be alive today if it were not for the State of Israel. When I see a sign on my campus saying “No Zionists allowed”, that means no Jews allowed. That is terrifying."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/ms-nicole-nashen/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/ms-nicole-nashen/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Student, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the sign 'No Zionists allowed' as hostile toward Jews, calling it 'terrifying,' without naming a specific person or organization as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-691", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-09", "speaker": "Hon. Marco Mendicino", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["In the course of your experience and as Jewish students or active members of university campuses, have you heard others claim that the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavour?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/hon-marco-mendicino/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/hon-marco-mendicino/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker asks a question about whether others have made a claim, but does not themselves condemn, name, blame, dispute, or use coded language regarding the claim."}, {"id": "committee-692", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-09", "speaker": "Mr. Yos Tarshish", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["This is a regular thing. The attempt to ban Jewish student organizations on campuses is not a new thing. Everyone wants us to think this is a new thing. I come from the U.K. originally. There were attempts to ban Jewish societies on campus in the U.K. from as early as 1973, especially after the UN passed its infamous “Zionism is racism” resolution in 1975. That became a really serious thing that Jewish students had to deal with in the U.K. for 25 years. We've come out the other side of it. Coming here, it is shocking. There is a lot more that can be done right now. Seeing my organization, Hillel, called a Zionist cultural institution, and therefore not allowed on campus, is just laughable to me."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mr-yos-tarshish/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mr-yos-tarshish/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director, Hillel Queen's, Hillel Ontario", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to attempts to ban Jewish student organizations and characterizes such actions as hostile and laughable, without naming specific individuals or institutions as responsible for the current situation."}, {"id": "committee-693", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-05-18", "speaker": "Mr. Nikahang Kowsar", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Kurdistan is a very well-established part of the country. We have millions of Kurds in the country, but we have had very few people working in the administration from Kurdistan or from Sistan and Baluchestan. On the other hand, we have had very few Sunni officials as well, so it's a matter of ethnic and also religious discrimination. I don't remember having heard or read about a high-ranking Christian or Jewish official in the country."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/18/mr-nikahang-kowsar/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/18/mr-nikahang-kowsar/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a pattern of underrepresentation of Jewish officials in a country's administration as part of a broader discussion of ethnic and religious discrimination, without condemning it, naming responsible parties, or taking an argumentative position."}, {"id": "committee-694", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-05", "speaker": "Hon. Rob Moore", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ound the world but we're also seeing them in our home—we see disturbing acts of hatred and discrimination. Those acts threaten these values. These incidents can include verbal abuse, vandalism, hate, intimidation and violent acts. These acts must never stand in our country. In recent years, we've seen a community face intimidations and threats by nefarious foreign actors. We've seen Jewish schools shot at and synagogues firebombed. We've seen churches burned down. We've seen Sikhs face harassment and discrimination. We've seen innocent Muslims murdered in their places of worship. We've seen Hindu temples vandalized. These shameful acts have one goal, to terrorize Canadians. This cannot be tolerated. All Canadians must be able to freely live their lives and follow their dreams without fear and intimidation. The Prime Minister has …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/hon-rob-moore/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/hon-rob-moore/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Fundy Royal", "province": "NB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Fundy Royal, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Orders of the Day — Emergencies Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes incidents of hostility toward Jews (schools shot at, synagogues firebombed) and states these acts 'must never stand' and 'cannot be tolerated' without naming specific perpetrators responsible."}, {"id": "committee-695", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-05", "speaker": "Mr. Tako Van Popta (Langley—Aldergrove, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… and talking with them and encouraging them, so politically it seems as though it would be a popular thing to follow through on what Mr. Moore has now put as number one on this motion. I'm surprised that nothing has happened about it yet. Second, it is very timely in the sense that, given the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on innocent Israelis, the sense of discomfort and the sense of insecurity among the Jewish population here in Canada has spilled over, and we should be doing whatever we can to support them and to show them that they have a home here in Canada, that we support Israel. I would point out that Israel is the only democratic nation in the middle of what is otherwise a pretty hostile region of the world—to them, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-tako-van-popta-langleyaldergrove-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-tako-van-popta-langleyaldergrove-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Langley--Aldergrove", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Langley—Aldergrove, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Committees of the House — Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about Jewish insecurity and discomfort following October 7, states support for the Jewish population, and advocates for showing them Canada is a welcoming home."}, {"id": "committee-696", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-05", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hing to do. It should be done on a timely basis. We are constantly evaluating Canada's threat assessment, whether in light of the U.K. travel advisory or anything else. Canada would always be doing that. I strongly support that. Remove red tape and speed up access to the security infrastructure program. As soon as the attacks of October 7 happened, where the Hamas terrorist organization attacked our democratic ally Israel, there were threats to Jewish communities and institutions across the country, and threats to Muslim associations and others. Dominic LeBlanc immediately acted and created a new round of funding that removes most of the red tape and speeds it up. Most people will get answers under the new program, once they apply, in a matter of weeks. It allows security guards to be included. No longer do you need to provi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to threats against Jewish communities and institutions following October 7, characterizing them as occurring in response to terrorist attacks, without naming specific perpetrators of the threats."}, {"id": "committee-697", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-05", "speaker": "Mr. Damien Kurek", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… firm, I am subbed in, so that clarifies the specifics associated with this. We have before us a common-sense motion. Over the last number of weeks, in the aftermath of the horrific invasion that took place by Hamas into Israel on October 7, we have been thrust into a situation in which our friends in Israel and in the Jewish community around the world have faced attacks in an unprecedented way. What we have before us is a simple opportunity to not just stand for the people of Israel and the Jewish community in our country, but to truly stand on the side of freedom, to stand up for the rights and freedoms that we all take so seriously. At least I would hope that we all take them very, very seriously. To recap, the motion here would do five simple things: One, it would designate the IRGC as a terrorist entity und …", "… at it speaks to one of the fundamental values that defines us as Canadians. That is the very idea of freedom. That freedom includes freedom of association, freedom of expression and freedom of religion. I have a number of examples. I've spoken to people of faith within the communities I represent, where they have felt persecuted. This is across the spectrum, with those in the Jewish community, in the Muslim community and in the Christian community, and with those without a faith. They have felt a level of an erosion of the faith that we have traditionally had in the freedoms we enjoy in this country. It's a fear that the Canadian experience and the freedoms associated with that are eroding. This …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-damien-kurek/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/5/mr-damien-kurek/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to attacks on Israel and Jewish community, describes them as unprecedented and horrific, and advocates for standing with them and defending freedoms without naming specific perpetrators of the broader hostility."}, {"id": "house-698", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-08", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Vuong (Spadina—Fort York, Ind.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… on to do nothing and allow Samidoun to not only continue to operate on Canadian soil but enjoy tax exemptions on its income as a federally registered non-profit is reprehensible. Since my initial question to the government on September 20, calling for it to take action to ban Samidoun, arrest leader Khaled Barakat for inciting violence and hatred, and list Samidoun as the terrorist organization that it is, October 7 has passed. On that sombre day, when our Jewish brothers and sisters were grieving the most heinous, horrific and deadly attack on Jews since the Holocaust, what did Samidoun do? It celebrated. It put up posters for a rally in my city of Toronto under a headline of “Long live October 7”. In Vancouver, it glorified terrorism by literally chanting, “we are Hamas and we are Hezbollah”; these are literal terrorist groups. It also desecrated our Canadian national flag by lighting it on fire. When is enough, enough? This terrorist-affiliated, terrorist-supporting organization does not even bother to hide it anymore. Before, it would at least pretend to not hate Jews and just claim it was all about anti-Zionism. It just hated Zionists, which, unfortunately, we know is code for Jews. However, every incident of hatred left intentionally unanswered by the government has emboldened the organization. On October 7, in addition to celebrating literal terrorist groups, Samidoun chanted, “Death to Canada. Death to the United States. And death to Israel.” The people at Samidoun have shown us who they are, and one of the things they have shown us is not only that they hate Jews, but they hate Canada and Canadians. Why does the government make the choice to allow them to turn Canada into their base of operations to promote terrorism and hatred? Inaction is a choice, and the intentional decision to allow these blatant acts of hatred and incitement of violence is a choice by the Liberal government that puts C …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/8/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/8/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "party": "Independent", "riding": "Spadina--Fort York", "province": "ON", "side": "independent", "role": "Spadina—Fort York, Ind.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Diversity and Inclusion", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names Samidoun as responsible for hostility toward Jews, stating it 'celebrated' the attack on Jews, 'hated Jews,' and engaged in 'acts of hatred' against them. The speaker also names the Liberal government as enabling this hostility through inaction."}, {"id": "committee-699", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-07-19", "speaker": "Mr. Murad Ismael", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I share the same thing. We have a homeland in Turkey and Iraq, and in Syria, but we are always on the move because of the persecution. Just as the Jewish people who have been all over the world, I think sometimes you don't have a choice. The Yazidis have no choice, and I think they will be integrated. The results from the high school just came out in Kurdistan, and I think probably the first three or four schools on top are the Yazidi schools. It's not because they are …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/7/19/mr-murad-ismael/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/7/19/mr-murad-ismael/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes persecution of Jewish people as a historical fact while drawing a parallel to Yazidi experiences, without taking a position on the hostility itself or naming responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-700", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-01-29", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ilence of complicity and the silence of cowardice. The government's refusal to take a clear position on South Africa's baseless case at the ICJ, its about-face on its once-respectable UN voting record and its abject failure to protect Jews in this country betray all three of those vices. Calls for the extermination of Jews in Canada have been normalized by the morally bankrupt Liberal brain trust. On Canadian values, the Prime Minister responds with silence, only to amplify the hate. Worse, he stokes it. This weekend's International Holocaust Remembrance Day should have been a stark reminder that “never again” is right now. Silence in the face of lies can be as damaging as the deliberately confusing position of the Prime Minister . He has one group of MPs say one thing to one community, and he sends another group to say the exact opposite to another commun …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/1/29/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/1/29/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly accuses the Prime Minister and Liberal government of enabling/failing to protect against hostility toward Jews ('failure to protect Jews'), normalizing calls for extermination, stoking hate, and maintaining complicit silence on antisemitic incidents in Canada."}, {"id": "committee-701", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-10-27", "speaker": "Ms. Iqra Khalid (Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you very much for coming in to speak to us about this very important issue. When I was in law school, I had a very dear friend from Iran who was of the Jewish faith, which is a very small minority in Iran. He was a very dear friend, continues to be, and he would tell me stories of discrimination and persecution that he and his family faced in Iran prior to moving to the west. I understand the plight, and it is very dire. I was a little bit troubled, Ms. Lamoureux, when you indicated that after dealing with Daesh the problems of discrimination would still not end. I am wondering what role Canada can play, not only with respec …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/ms-iqra-khalid-mississaugaerin-mills-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/ms-iqra-khalid-mississaugaerin-mills-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker recounts personal anecdotes about discrimination and persecution faced by a Jewish friend in Iran, describing the situation without condemning anyone specific or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-702", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-11-17", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack (Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r from being able to make partner in that firm. Also, it could possibly limit access to the insurance she would need to establish her own independent practice, if she chose to do so. No Canadian should be forced to choose between their life and their livelihood. While this experience is particularly concerning for the Jewish community, we're by no means the only group impacted. Others are increasingly susceptible to genetic discrimination as research progresses, whether they are of Scandinavian, South Asian, African, French Canadian, or first nations descent. It's not just minority groups that face this challenge. Genetic testing can be a lifeline for all Canadians. From rare disorders to cancer, diagnostic and treatment options are developing at an ex …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/17/mr-noah-shack-director-of-policy-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/17/mr-noah-shack-director-of-policy-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a situation of genetic discrimination affecting a Jewish woman without condemning it, naming responsible parties, or blaming anyone for inaction. The passage simply reports the discriminatory scenario and its potential consequences."}, {"id": "committee-703", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-11-17", "speaker": "Mr. Colin Fraser", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Okay. I'd like to ask Mr. Shack or Mr. Marceau if they have any information about other jurisdictions where you can't discriminate for genetic testing. Have numbers gone up? Have we seen this in Jewish communities and other jurisdictions where there is no longer this discrimination?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/17/mr-colin-fraser/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/17/mr-colin-fraser/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "West Nova", "province": "NS", "side": "government", "role": "West Nova, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker asks a neutral informational question about discrimination policies in other jurisdictions, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or condemning any discrimination."}, {"id": "committee-704", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-08", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I think it's important that we're having these conversations now after the horrific attack in Quebec City. I remember how I felt, as a Jewish Canadian, after seeing the synagogue in Jerusalem attacked in a similar fashion. Of course, a Torontonian was in attendance in prayer there as well and lost his life. My heart just goes out for everybody who has been impacted so similarly here in Canada. This is something that should not happen. It's my understanding that the mosque in Quebec City had security cameras in plac …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/mr-noah-shack/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/mr-noah-shack/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses that the attack 'should not happen' and shows emotional concern ('my heart just goes out') for those impacted, objecting to the hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-705", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-08", "speaker": "Hon. Tony Clement (Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Shack, for being here and for representing your organization's views. I know you've done a lot of thinking about some of these issues, so it is much appreciated. As you indicated in your very multi-faceted remarks, certainly the Jewish population is a massive target for hate crime activity in this country, unfortunately. The statistics that have been indicated to me are that the Jewish community is one of the most, if not the most at-risk community in our country, with 55 hate crimes per 100,000 Jewish people per year. This is a continuing problem, and I'm glad that you've raised these issues. I'd like to open the floor to you. You've mentioned a lot of things already in terms of how to frame a counter-radicalization program. Can you dig a bit deeper into how we change the psychology involved in this? I noticed that in your remarks you talked about how the Jewish population could be the canary in the coal mine. Things that start off with graffiti or some specific kind of assault can then lead to other acts of violence. Sometimes though, because of the online nature of the development of radicalization, it just goes from online to action. Again, I put it to you to drill a bit deeper on how we can best counter this kind of phenomenon."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/hon-tony-clement-parry-soundmuskoka-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/hon-tony-clement-parry-soundmuskoka-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes the high rates of hate crimes against Jewish people as 'a continuing problem' and expresses concern about radicalization leading to violence, without naming any specific person or group as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-706", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-08", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I haven't looked carefully at the motion, so I can't really speak to the specifics, but I can tell you that on both sides we of course need to make strong statements about the importance of freedom of religion here in Canada and the importance of people being able to have their conscience respected and to be free from hate. That's for all people in Canada. On the other hand, for the Jewish community, I understand that consistently the highest rate of hate crimes is for those perpetrated against Jews in Canada. As Mr. Clement noted, this has been consistent for a long time. Incidents targeting Muslim Canadians, although not as numerous, have been rising the fastest, so I understand that there's some anxiety among Muslim Canadians, and I think it's important that we acknowledge what they're going through. It can be …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/mr-noah-shack/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/8/mr-noah-shack/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes statistics about hate crimes against Jewish Canadians and Muslims without taking a position on responsibility or condemning specific actors; presents factual observations about rates and trends."}, {"id": "committee-707", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-13", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… and my colleague may have one as well. Something that I've noticed in speaking to various police panels or national security panels about the anti-radicalization process is that you're just talking about the focus within one community. I think it is important to expand that beyond one community. For example, when the Jewish community is being targeted for hate, we are not involved in those consultations. There are other minority communities that are sometimes being targeted for hate, yet police and government often don't involve vulnerable communities that are being targeted because maybe we're outsiders to another community. I don't quite know how you solve a problem if, for example, there's a hatred towards women or a minority group, and the people who are becoming slowly radicalized against th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/13/mr-michael-mostyn/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/13/mr-michael-mostyn/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Jewish community being targeted for hate and criticizes exclusion from anti-radicalization consultations, without naming a specific responsible party.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-708", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Chandra Arya", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ed based on race, religion, sexual identity, and sexual expression have not subsided; in fact, they have been increasing. We had certain dark episodes in our country: the Chinese head tax; the internment of Ukrainians, Japanese, and Italian Canadians during the First and Second World Wars; our turning away of boats of Jewish and Punjabi refugees; our own history of slavery; and “No Irish Need Apply”, and “We don't speak French here, so speak white”; and the discrimination faced by Greek and Portuguese Canadians in Toronto and other places. The same rhetoric that led to a “None is Too Many” immigration policy toward Jews in the thirties and forties is being used to raise fear against Muslims today. There has been discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for a very long time. The Criminal Code once described gay men as “criminal sexual psychopaths” and “dangerous sexual offenders”. In the sixties we deployed the RCMP to investigate suspected homosexuals. This discrimination still exists in parts of Canadian societ …", "… , the arc of Canadian history bends towards inclusion, towards liberty”. Bill C-305 seeks to amend a subsection of the Criminal Code that deals with damage to property due to crime motivated by “hate based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin”. This bill proposes to expand this to include motivation by hate based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Also, currently the subsection is limited to places of worship, like churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and cemeteries. The proposed Bill C-305 seeks to expand this to include schools, day care centres, colleges or universities, community centres, seniors' residences, and cultural centres. Under this criminal subsection, if a person is found guilty of an indictable offence, the prison term is up to 10 years. I …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-chandra-arya/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-chandra-arya/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical and contemporary discrimination against Jews and other groups (turning away Jewish refugees, 'None is Too Many' policy) as factual examples in a historical narrative, without expressing personal condemnation or taking a position on the incidents themselves.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-709", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Sure. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Arya, for appearing and for your presentation. Let me say at the outset that I think the intent of this bill is a good one, and I certainly support it. You mentioned that a couple of months ago a whole series of hate crimes were committed against or targeted at religious groups. I think a mosque and a Jewish community centre were targeted, among other places, here in Ottawa. Am I am correct that it was not just houses of worship but also community centres that were targeted? Is that what happened in the Ottawa incidents?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert--Edmonton", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of hate crimes targeting religious groups including a mosque and Jewish community centre without condemning, blaming, naming, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-710", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau (General Counsel and Senior Political Advisor, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… first came about, and we are here today to study it. Finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The objective of the bill is fairly straightforward. It is to extend the protection already given to houses of worship and cemeteries to other buildings and structures used by communities at risk. Our community, the Jewish community, has often been the target of vandalism. As Michael mentioned, Jewish Canadians are victimized by hate-motivated crime at a higher rate than any other identifiable group. StatsCan data shows that roughly three-quarters of these crimes fall under the legal category of mischief—broadly speaking the vandalism or destruction of property. Vandalism of community centres and schools involves more than attacks on buildings. It reverbera …", "… ; at a time when Igor Sadikov, a member of McGill University's student society sent out a tweet that read, “punch a [Z]ionist today”; at a time when—and this happened on February 6, 2017—someone hacked the attendance sheet of a children's swim team in Côte Saint-Luc, hosted by Google Docs, and filled it with murderous threats against the Jewish community, as well as several references to Hezbollah, a Lebanese terrorist organization, banned in Canada, that seeks the destruction of Israel; At a time when six Muslim worshippers were so brutally gunned down while engaged in prayer, when a wave of hate vandalism hit many religious and community institutions in Ottawa, including the community centre where my sons work and the synagogue I am a member of, it is time to send a strong signal that anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Sikh bigotry, and all other forms of hatred have no place in Canada, that schools and community centres are as central to minorities' lives as houses of worship or cemeteries, and that mischief against those buildings should be seriously punished. I encourage all members of Parliament to continue to support Bill C-305 and to pass it without delay. Thank you ver …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau-general-counsel-and-senior-political-advisor-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau-general-counsel-and-senior-political-advisor-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Richard Marceau (Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, BQ)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hostility toward Jews (vandalism, hate crimes, threats) and calls for strong action against such bigotry without naming specific responsible parties as perpetrators.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-711", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… have seen a string of incidents in which people have been targeted in not only their homes, their synagogues, and mosques, but also their schools and their community centres. We saw the fire bombing of the United Talmud Torah school in Montreal. We saw a few month ago in Ottawa a string of incidents that included two synagogues, as well as a mosque, but these incidents also included a Jewish teaching centre and the Ottawa Muslim Association. The offences were motivated by the same hate. They were an attack on entire communities to perpetuate fear. The nature of the crimes that were committed at each of those sites was similar. Yet, depending on where certain acts of vandalism occurred, they may be subject to the general section or the specific section of the Criminal Code, with very different penalties—one up to a 10-ye …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert--Edmonton", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes specific incidents of targeting Jews and Muslims (firebombing, vandalism) without stating a position on them or assigning blame to any actor."}, {"id": "committee-712", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I'd be happy to. My comment would be to say to people that, yes, houses of worship and cemeteries are important, but schools and community centres are also identifiable places for certain groups, and that touching those institutions would affect the community as much as a threat or hate crime against a synagogue, mosque, or church. The latest example I can give you is that yesterday across North America there were specific threats made against JCCs—Jewish community centres. They were not synagogues being threatened; they were Jewish community centres. I can tell you that everywhere in the Jewish world things were put into place very quickly. Security experts were brought in. Is the entire community, all across North America, touched? Are we a potential target? Again, we cannot underestimate this. Let's say you're a parent and you have to bring your children to a swimming lesson at the local JCC, and you hear …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "General Counsel and Senior Political Advisor, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes threats made against Jewish community centres across North America and discusses community security responses, but does not condemn the hostility, name perpetrators, blame others for inadequate response, or dispute characterizations of the threats."}, {"id": "committee-713", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["“Does something like this really matter to them?” To go to Richard's point, the fact that a non-religious building—for example, a building that's within the Jewish community—is being targeted, like a JCC, is because it's Jewish. It's very important for society to acknowledge when there are hate-motivated factors in a crime. In fact, it's very disturbing for our community, and I'm certain for many other communities out there, if a mischief, say, were addressed, but the hate-motivating factors were not addressed by a court. At the end of the day, there's a sense of letdown, and perhaps betrayal, in a community if the cr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-michael-mostyn/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-michael-mostyn/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate-motivated crimes against Jewish targets and expresses that it's 'very disturbing' when hate factors aren't acknowledged, without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "committee-714", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Richard Marceau", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… naive in thinking that we're going to stop hate crime with this or any piece of legislation. I can tell you, however, that yes, there are bad people. These people should be punished and we should use every deterrent that we can. Very generally speaking, Canadians are good people. We saw it when there was that horrible attack in Quebec City. The swell of support for our Muslim brothers and sisters in Canada was overwhelming and amazing to see. When we saw attacks on the Jewish community centre and synagogues here in Ottawa, everybody went on that Saturday to the synagogue Machzikei Hadas to support. We had local politicians there; municipal, federal, and provincial ones; and members of every community were there. When the United Church was vandalized a few months earlier, the following Saturday members of every denomination were there to support that church. There is lots of good in Ca …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-richard-marceau/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "General Counsel and Senior Political Advisor, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes attacks on Jewish community centres and synagogues in Ottawa as examples of incidents where communities came together in support, without condemning the hostility itself or assigning responsibility to any actor."}, {"id": "committee-715", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Grant Jackson", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… minister, Mr. Brock. These are folks who understand this deeply, and I think probably more deeply than maybe even some of the Liberal members, but I digress. I really want to stress that Manitobans understand standing up against hateful acts. We've seen challenges with ethnic communities in Winnipeg being targeted by hateful acts, particularly with the rise of the conflict in the Middle East, and hateful protests outside the Jewish Folklorama pavilion, where people take their kids to celebrate faith. Manitobans are neither strangers to nor isolated from these activities that are disturbingly going on in our country. We see them, but we believe that the provisions to protect Canadians from these actions already exist in Canadian statutes and in C …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/grant-jackson/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/grant-jackson/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hateful acts targeting ethnic communities and Jewish institutions (protests outside Jewish Folklorama pavilion) as 'hateful acts' and 'disturbingly going on,' expressing clear objection without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-716", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Jacob Mantle", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… et into Jewish neighbourhoods. Again, I'm not an expert on protests, but you have to ask yourself why people want to protest in an area of our city that is heavily populated by one community and one community only. It doesn't take an expert to know that this section of the city was picked because of the members of the Jewish community who live there. Again, as a layperson, I think that's pretty hateful. This goes to my faulty premise, because the actions of the people in those protests may have been already criminal. I'll mention a few of the provisions of the code that I think may have been at issue and, of course, leave it to the Crown and the police to make the ultimate determination. There is, for example, in th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/jacob-mantle/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/jacob-mantle/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker characterizes the targeting of Jewish neighborhoods for protests as 'pretty hateful' and objects to the hostility without naming specific individuals or groups as responsible."}, {"id": "house-717", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-10", "speaker": "Mr. Shuvaloy Majumdar", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ncerned with maintaining their grip on power than on the welfare of the citizens they claim to represent. Unfortunately, this is all a pattern Canadians have become way too familiar with. This is a government that chooses to count votes over taking a moral stand. Today, as mobs march across our streets, inciting hate, inciting terror and chanting for the death of our country, Canadians see a weak Prime Minister , an incompetent foreign minister and a broken government. Our treasured Jewish communities, which are about to mark Yom Kippur, watched with shock as they saw the NDP-Liberal foreign minister tell Tom Mulcair that she is only concerned about the demographics of her own voters. For her own personal political gain, she fails to act when Canada is threatened. This is the same foreign—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/10/mr-shuvaloy-majumdar/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/10/mr-shuvaloy-majumdar/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies the NDP-Liberal foreign minister as responsible for failing to act against hostility toward Jews, specifically criticizing her response to mobs inciting hate and death threats while Jewish communities face these threats."}, {"id": "committee-718", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-05-09", "speaker": "Ms. Corinne Box (Director of Government Relations, Bahá'í Community of Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ry's largest non-Muslim religious minority. Baha'is have been persecuted since the inception of the faith in the mid-nineteenth century. This intensified soon after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. It continues unabated to this day and touches Bahá'ís at every stage of life, from cradle to grave. Of course, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians also face discrimination, as do Sufi, Sunni, and dissenting Shia Muslims. However, in the case of the Bahá'ís, the goal of the government is the eradication of the community. In fact, this is plainly stated in a 1991 government memorandum signed by the current supreme leader, provisions of which are still very much in effect. In an attempt to …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/9/ms-corinne-box-director-of-government-relations-baháí-community-of-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/9/ms-corinne-box-director-of-government-relations-baháí-community-of-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Describes persecution and discrimination against Jews in Iran as part of a broader factual account of religious minority treatment, without condemning, naming specific perpetrators, blaming inadequate responses, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-719", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Anju Dhillon", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["My questions will be directed to Mr. Silver. First of all, thank you so much for your incredible testimony today. You actually got to the bottom of something that hasn't been mentioned thus far, which is that it takes words. It takes hateful literature and propaganda to start something, and you gave the examples of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. That was very important to the work we're doing here today. It was not 10 and not 15 but six million members of the Jewish community who were subjected to the Holocaust. This all started with words, and thank you so much for pointing that out today. During the previous panel, I was actually h …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/anju-dhillon/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/anju-dhillon/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hateful literature and propaganda directed at Jewish people, connecting it to historical atrocities without attributing responsibility to any specific named party."}, {"id": "committee-720", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Noah Shack (Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… of their income, even if this new rate is applied to donations of another benchmark: higher than $200. This would ensure that all Canadians enjoy the same benefits from giving charitably, helping to grow the important charitable sector of Canada's economy and society. The fifth item I'd like to highlight is combatting hatred. The June 2017 Statistics Canada hate crime report confirmed that Jews remain the most targeted religious minority in Canada. To combat hate targeting a wide array of identifiable groups, the 2018 budget should provide support for the development of dedicated police hate crime units. Additionally, the budget should include funding for a national education campaign for police, prosecutors, and the public about the dangers of hate speech so that it's taken seriously in every instance. The last item I'd like to raise is green infrastructure for community institutions. The Jewish community, like many other communities across Canada, recognizes the imperative of ensuring a sustainable future. Government can help encourage a significant reduction in our collective ecological footprint by providing support for green communal infrastructure, such as incentives for green renovation or building of c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-noah-shack-director-of-policy-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-noah-shack-director-of-policy-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director of Policy, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes targeting Jews and calls for government action (police units, education campaigns) to combat it, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-721", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… midation, and violence against any person or group. “I support laws that genuinely protect people from being targeted, threatened, or terrorized. “But I cannot support any move that opens the door for the state to effectively edit, chill, or police sincere preaching from sacred texts—whether those texts are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or anything else. “That is the line for me as a pastor, and as a Canadian. Scripture is not the enemy—hate is.... “[T]he Bible—or any sacred text—is itself [not] the problem.... “Sacred texts do not stand in the pulpit by themselves. Human beings do. What causes harm is not the text, but how it is used: “Some leaders twist scripture into a weapon: to shame, to control, to dehumanize. “Others, and I include myself here, use …", "… e of this nation. “What I am asking for “I am not writing this to stir up rage. I am writing this to stir up clarity and courage. “I respectfully call on: “Members of Parliament—to oppose any amendment that removes the Criminal Code protection for good-faith religious expression...and to ensure that any law combatting hate is narrow, precise, and clearly separated from sincere theological teaching. “Fellow faith leaders—pastors, priests, imams, rabbis, and others—to speak up together, not as rivals, but as guardians of shared freedom. We may differ profoundly on theology, but we are united in saying: the state must not become the referee of our scriptures. “Everyday Canadians of goodwill—whether you are religious, spiritual, or secular—to recognize that freedom of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/larry-brock/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/larry-brock/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Crime", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to discrimination, intimidation, and violence against any person or group, and calls for laws protecting people from being targeted and terrorized, without naming any specific person or group as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-722", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-10-01", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, it is a privilege to speak to Bill C-9 , although I have grave concerns, not with the objective, but with the manner in which the Liberals have gone about trying to achieve it. From the outset, let me say that I am grateful the Liberals have finally recognized there is a wave of hate sweeping this country. I am glad they have realized what the Jewish community in this country, among others, has been crying out for for years, which is a government that will listen to these concerns and understand the very real threats that are targeting them on a regular basis. However, just as the Liberals have done with Bill C-2 and the firearms file, they take a legitimate issue …", "… may exist in one's heart; the law is to punish action, and the existing laws already do this. I would be remiss not to point out that the Liberals get tough on crime only when they are talking about thought criminals. These are the only people that the Liberals want to put behind bars. Let us look at some of the real hate crimes across the country. According to Juno News, 130-some churches have been vandalized or victimized by arson since 2021. Synagogues in Canada have been firebombed and vandalized. Jewish schools have been shot at. If the Liberals were serious about real hate crimes, they would be seeking mandatory 10-year prison sentences for these heinous assaults on places of worship. Again, the law should punish bad behaviour and not bad feelings. To be fair, we cannot confront the hatred that exists in Canada and in Canadian society without acknowledging some of the root causes of it. The crisis of hate is a direct consequence of 10 years of divisive Liberal identity politic …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/1/andrew-lawton-elginst-thomaslondon-south-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/1/andrew-lawton-elginst-thomaslondon-south-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the wave of hate targeting the Jewish community and describes specific incidents (firebombed synagogues, vandalized Jewish schools) without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-723", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-16", "speaker": "Dr. Sherif Emil (Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medecine, McGill University, Director, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia”. The last word in this sentence, “Islamophobia”, has rendered this motion controversial. Unfortunately, an alternative introduced by the opposition, urging Parliament to “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities” was rejected by the majority, even though Muslims came first on this list. Allow me to examine the notion of Islamophobia. I will start with a direct quote: “What we saw in the last couple of days in Germany and Netherlands are the reflections of Islamophobi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/dr-sherif-emil-professor-and-associate-chair-department-of-pediatric-surgery-faculty-of-medecine-mcgill-university-director-pediatric-general-and-thoracic-surgery-montreal-childrens-hospital-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/dr-sherif-emil-professor-and-associate-chair-department-of-pediatric-surgery-faculty-of-medecine-mcgill-university-director-pediatric-general-and-thoracic-surgery-montreal-childrens-hospital-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a rejected alternative motion that would have condemned discrimination against Jews alongside other religious groups, but presents this as factual reporting of parliamentary events rather than taking a position on hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-724", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Laurence Worthen", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["No, I think the discrimination is across the board—Orthodox Jews, for instance. It's ironic, because 50 years ago Jews weren't allowed in certain professions in Canada. Now we run the risk of driving them out of certain aspects of medical care. Muslim doctors have expressed extreme concern to us when we've met with them about this. Sikhs, Buddhists, other religious physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals are very conce …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-laurence-worthen/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-laurence-worthen/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against Jews and other religious groups in medical professions without naming specific individuals or institutions as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-725", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… form of legislation and at recommending some form of legislation. The nature of that wording makes it very hard for us as a committee to say that we're setting aside the word “Islamophobia” and instead focusing on what I would have preferred us to focus on, which is an approach to reducing or eliminating all forms of violence, systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination towards Muslims—and, coincidentally, towards Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists, and others. Given the fact that we're almost certainly going to be pushed into a situation in which the majority on this committee will insist that we include the word “Islamophobia”, would it be satisfactory to define “Islamophobia” as I've just done—that is to say, violence or systemic racism, religious i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-scott-reid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-scott-reid/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes discrimination toward Jews as part of a broader category of religious intolerance and discrimination without taking a position on any specific incident or actor's responsibility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-726", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Dan Vandal", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I'm going to be sharing my time with Julie Dzerowicz. There's not a lot of time, so I'm going to ask my question to Dr. Doobay. We received ample evidence several weeks ago that hate crimes are on the increase for many different communities, including the indigenous, the black population, and the Jewish and Muslim communities. In the Muslim community there's a 61% increase over the course of one year. I find that extremely troubling. I'm going to go to you, doctor, for advice. What can we do as a government to address this trend?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-dan-vandal/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/16/mr-dan-vandal/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate crimes increasing against Jewish and Muslim communities (citing a 61% increase for Muslims) and expresses concern, but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. They are reporting the situation and asking for advice."}, {"id": "house-727", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-03-28", "speaker": "Mr. Colin Carrie", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… inister thinks so or not. We have to focus on the things that bring us together. Electing a party that focuses on identity politics and on our differences instead of on these core values that bring us together would cause problems. We see a Prime Minister who likes to blame the other. He calls Canadians names, such as racist, misogynist and white supremacist. He calls Jewish MPs Nazis. He takes away Canadians' right to work for education. He punishes those who disagree with him and accuses Canadians of having unacceptable views. The division we see today is a direct result of the government's actions, inactions and the politicizing of things that should not be politicized. We have the bes …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/3/28/mr-colin-carrie/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/3/28/mr-colin-carrie/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Oshawa", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Oshawa, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Orders of the Day — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker states that the Prime Minister 'calls Jewish MPs Nazis,' directly naming the PM as responsible for this hostile act toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-728", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-25", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["In your opening submission, you referred to interfaith dialogue. You've cited the stats. We've heard the stats over and over again from different entities, whether they're governmental entities, NGOs, or civil society groups, talking about hate crimes being on the rise, specifically against Jews and Muslims, which demonstrates to me that we have discrimination occurring. We still have division and hatred, but we have a particular problem with religious discrimination, so the interfaith notion is appealing. You mention that you want to see the Department of Canadian Heritage supporting that. I'd ask you to develop that idea a bit. I also want to segue and ask you if there is room for other supports, because we've also …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-arif-virani/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-arif-virani/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites statistics about hate crimes against Jews and Muslims rising, describes discrimination and division occurring, but does not condemn, name a responsible party, blame someone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. They are reporting on the situation to frame a subsequent policy discussion."}, {"id": "committee-729", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-25", "speaker": "Mr. Pouyan Tabasinejad", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I agree with my colleague. Also, in terms of interfaith dialogue, it's very important, especially now that we're seeing, unfortunately, a lot of discrimination against certain religious groups. You mentioned the Jewish faith and the Muslim faith, but we also see it with regard to Sikhism, etc. Understanding is a huge part of this issue. A lot of faiths have this very much in common. We need to address this and showcase this issue. I really agree with what you meant. This is really a part of our recommendations in terms of a targeted …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-pouyan-tabasinejad/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-pouyan-tabasinejad/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Policy Chair, Iranian Canadian Congress", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against religious groups including Jews, without naming specific actors or institutions responsible for the discrimination."}, {"id": "committee-730", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-25", "speaker": "Mr. Larry Rousseau (Executive Vice-President, Canadian Labour Congress)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… -racist, anti-fascist counter-protests across Canada. Most horrifying of all was the terrorist gun attack on the Centre culturel islamique de Québec during evening prayers on January 29, 2017, that left six Muslim worshippers dead and 19 injured. The labour movement condemns in the strongest possible terms any acts of violence against Muslims. Religious hate crimes against women rose between 2014 and 2015 due to the increase in victimization of Muslim as well as Jewish women. The very recent Bill 62 in Quebec will likely worsen matters. Bill 62 ostensibly ensures religious neutrality, but de facto it's an attack on the rights of Muslim women who cover their face from receiving or delivering public services. The particularly gendered exclusionary impact of this bill is discriminatory. It is also wrong to ask workers providing public services to participate in the violation of rights that are promised to every Canadian under th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-larry-rousseau-executive-vice-president-canadian-labour-congress/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/25/mr-larry-rousseau-executive-vice-president-canadian-labour-congress/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage mentions an increase in religious hate crimes against Jewish women between 2014-2015 as a factual statement without condemning, naming responsible parties, blaming specific actors for weakness, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-731", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-30", "speaker": "Mr. Shahen Mirakian (President, Armenian National Committee of Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hese are but two examples. The work of Chinese Canadian groups on removing the discriminatory head tax against people of Asian descent, the work of Japanese Canadian and Ukrainian Canadian organizations in seeking redress for instances of internment during the Second and First World Wars, respectively, and the work of Jewish groups to track hate crimes and combat discrimination all have positive impacts measured well beyond the immediate subject of their advocacy or their own particular community. The work of numerous community organizations helped to make the Canadian Museum of Human Rights a reality, for instance. Similarly, Islamic organizations and advocacy groups from various cultures t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-shahen-mirakian-president-armenian-national-committee-of-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-shahen-mirakian-president-armenian-national-committee-of-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage mentions Jewish groups' work to track hate crimes and combat discrimination as an example of positive community advocacy, without taking a stance on any specific hostility incident or blaming anyone for it."}, {"id": "committee-732", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-30", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["We also heard testimony during these committee hearings from different groups talking about the need for interfaith dialogue, particularly when we look at the rise of hate crimes against religious groups, specifically Jews and Muslims right now. Interfaith dialogue could be a way of building up dialogue and understanding among groups. Do you think that makes sense?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-arif-virani/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-arif-virani/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the rise of hate crimes against Jews without condemning, naming specific perpetrators, blaming anyone for inaction, or disputing it. They simply reference testimony heard and propose interfaith dialogue as a response."}, {"id": "committee-733", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-06", "speaker": "Staff Sergeant David Zackrias (Head, Diversity and Race Relations, Ottawa Police Service)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… en in a remote part of the world in the name of Islam, and how scared Muslims become that they will be part of the next Quebec shooting. I've heard mothers tell me that they look over their shoulder in parking lots, afraid they might be mowed down in daylight. In November 2016, three religious sites were targeted with vandalism in Ottawa: a mosque, a synagogue, and a church with a black pastor. The offender was just 17 years old, and he pleaded guilty to inciting hatred. In the same month, a local rabbi's personal home was pasted with hate graffiti. We have to ask ourselves how it is that despite the Holocaust, one of the biggest tragedies of our time, the Jewish community still continues to be targeted by hatred. How are we allowing this to happen in our communities? Members of the committee, as a visible minority myself, I've witnessed a woman being accidentally run over by a taxicab early one morning. In the aftermath, I did what any police officer would do. I tried to help the victim involved and tried to take control of t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/6/staff-sergeant-david-zackrias-head-diversity-and-race-relations-ottawa-police-service/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/6/staff-sergeant-david-zackrias-head-diversity-and-race-relations-ottawa-police-service/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred targeting the Jewish community, asks 'how are we allowing this to happen,' and references specific incidents of vandalism and hate graffiti without naming perpetrators as responsible agents."}, {"id": "committee-734", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-06", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n going forward, I agree 100% with your suggestion that we use terms like “anti-Muslim bigotry” in place of the term “Islamophobia”. In fact, my colleague David Anderson proposed a motion, which was voted on in the House of Commons 48 hours before the vote on M-103. It specifically recognized “the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque”, and it called on the House to “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. I agree with your approach. Whether we're discussing other communities or just Muslims, I think that approach is the right one. You're aware of the fact that Motion M-103 makes reference to petition e-411. Are you aware of that fact?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/6/mr-scott-reid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/6/mr-scott-reid/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker references a motion that 'condemn[s] all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities' and expresses agreement with this condemning approach."}, {"id": "committee-735", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-08", "speaker": "Mr. Yvan Clermont (Director, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s at 6% and aboriginal populations at 5%. There were 35 police-reported hate crimes targeting aboriginal populations in 2015. These incidents have been relatively low. The increase in the total number of hate crimes in 2015 was attributable in part to an increase in the number of cases targeting Muslims. The number of hate crimes against Muslims reported to the police increased from 99 to 159, an increase of 61%. At the same time, the number of hate crimes targeting Jews decreased from 213 in 2014 to 178 in 2015. So, hate crimes against the Jewish population is still the largest number, but the number was followed very closely by crimes targeting the Muslim population. On slide 14, as you can see, there is an interesting pattern to be observed in relation to the age of the accused. In 2015, youths aged 12 to 17 accounted for 22% of all persons accused in police …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/8/mr-yvan-clermont-director-canadian-centre-for-justice-statistics-statistics-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/8/mr-yvan-clermont-director-canadian-centre-for-justice-statistics-statistics-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker presents statistics on hate crimes against Jews without taking a position on the hostility, simply stating that crimes decreased from 213 to 178 and remain the largest category."}, {"id": "committee-736", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-22", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum (Senator, Ontario, C)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ce that really serves as the engine or driver of the kind of intolerance that all of us would wish to see diminish and eradicated. It is in this context that I think they play an important role in helping other Canadians appreciate the shared values of specific communities...They bring down that sense of suspicion and hostility that is born from a sense of ignorance about other faith communities. Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B'nai Brith, agreed on the importance of a Canadian Jewish heritage month, saying: This act is most welcome. It will recognize the many achievements of Canada’s Jewish community, the members of which faced many hurdles from the outset of Canada’s original existence as a colony and yet were able to greatly contribute to the fabric of Canadian society. Despite facing systematic …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/22/hon-linda-frum-senator-ontario-c/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/22/hon-linda-frum-senator-ontario-c/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical hostility and hurdles faced by Jewish Canadians without condemning specific actors or taking a position on current incidents—it simply reports facts about past discrimination and present efforts to address it."}, {"id": "committee-737", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-22", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e burden on the Jewish community to reach out to other communities to share, to try to interact with other communities, and to make this part of a national celebration, not just a local community celebration. There is also a big educational component that could be part of this, as well. If we speak about ignorance and hostility, very often those things are born out of isolation, because, as we're acknowledging, there are only 400,000 Jews—I've heard 350,000. There are not very many of us in the country. Of course, there are many communities in Canada where people will grow up and never meet someone of Jewish background. That's not helpful if you want to create understanding. There is an opportunity, maybe through the educational system where there is n …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/22/hon-linda-frum/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/22/hon-linda-frum/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'ignorance and hostility' toward Jews and advocates for education and community outreach to address these problems, without naming any specific person or entity as responsible."}, {"id": "committee-738", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-12-12", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Fogel (Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nt, Parliament, and all like-minded groups to ensure that Canada remains a country where we all enjoy equal protections and opportunities. In March 2015, I appeared as a witness before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security as it studied Bill C-51 . Our testimony began with a statement of fact, “Jews are consistently targeted by hate and bias-related crimes in Canada at a rate higher than any other identifiable group.” Those words are, unfortunately, as true today as they were then. Statistics Canada recently released its report on 2016 hate crimes, and once again Jews were targeted more than any other religious minority, with 221 incidents. We must, however, keep this in perspective. Canada is a very safe place for identifiable groups and one of the greatest places in the world in which to live as a minority. However, we must also remain vigilant. A single hate crime is one too many. Whether considering the attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem, a gay nightclub in Orlando, an African American church in Charleston, or a mosque in Quebec City, extreme hate continues to precipitate extreme violence. Jews are often primary targets for terrorist attacks throughout the world: Belgium, Argentina, France, India, Bulgaria, Israel, Denmark, the United States. Understandably, Jewish Canadians are not just concerned about what threats might meet them abroad, but what could happen here at home. Public Safety Canada's “2016 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada” notes that Hezbollah, the listed terrorist entity widely believed to have carried out the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, has networks operating here in Canada. The notorious 2004 firebombing of a Jewish school in Montreal still looms large in our collective memory. Our community, therefore, takes a keen interest in the government's approach to counterterrorism. We appreciate the opportunity we were afforded to engage in the consultations on Canada's national security framework, both before this committee and with the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/12/12/mr-shimon-fogel-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/12/12/mr-shimon-fogel-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Citizenship and Immigration", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostility toward Jews (hate crimes, terrorist attacks, firebombing) and states that 'a single hate crime is one too many,' expressing objection to the hostility without naming specific individuals or parties responsible for it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-739", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… er-reporting of hate crimes is in and of itself a symptom of a societal problem: that people may not have faith that the criminal law is actually equipped to deal with the circumstances they face so routinely in their communities. It troubles me greatly when I open the newspapers and see such stories. When I meet with Jewish Canadians, they tell me that they are beginning to question whether they have a place in this country, as a result of the hate they have been subjected to. I think about what I have witnessed in my own community, with local police laying charges for the advocating of genocide toward Jewish Canadians. Recently in my home province of Nova Scotia, synagogues have been desecrated with hate symbols that seek to intimidate people of the Jewish faith against practising their religion. The National Holocaust Monument has been desecrated. Is there no limit to indecency? There are many communities that are impacted. I think about Muslim Canadians, who are suffering from a wave of Islamophobia that we must address. I have met with people and visited their mosques, people who have told me what it is like to be harassed in their communities and told me ab …", "… he conversation follows upon the recent federal election campaign, where we made a commitment to do more to protect the ability of communities of faith to practise their religion day to day in our country. In particular, we campaigned on commitments to advance new criminal offences when it comes to the obstruction and intimidation of people who seek to access their religious institutions. Too often, people do not feel safe to practise their religion and to visit their churches, synagogues, mosques or temples. Too often, community centres and schools that have been built for specific communities of interest in this country are targeted by those who wish harm upon the people who use them. These new criminal offences would create the conditions for a safer experience for Canadians from different communiti …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses deep concern ('troubles me greatly') about hate crimes against Jewish Canadians, describes specific incidents of desecration and hate symbols, and questions the indecency of these acts without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-740", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "Sukh Dhaliwal", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, when it comes to Christians, I did mention places of worship, including churches. I will always keep on making sure that Christians are equally protected under Canadian law. When it comes to displaying any symbol of hate that is attacking any of those communities I mentioned, whether it is the Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Muslim or Hindu community, it will not be tolerated. This bill would make sure that those symbols of hate are banned as acts of hatred that are offences under the law."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/sukh-dhaliwal/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/sukh-dhaliwal/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Surrey Newton", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Surrey Newton, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Crime", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that symbols of hate attacking Jewish and other communities 'will not be tolerated' and supports legislation to ban such symbols, without naming specific persons or groups as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-741", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-07", "speaker": "Mr. Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ain, it erodes public safety and hurt honest, hard-working, law-abiding Canadians. We heard very clearly from members of the Jewish community that they were very concerned about eliminating the promotion of terrorism provision as set out in Bill C-59 . In 2017, for the third year in a row, there were record numbers of hate crimes against the Jewish community, yet the Liberals would eliminate a Criminal Code provision for making promoting and advocating terrorism illegal. With increased hate crimes, they would allow ISIS to call for violence, and lone-wolf attacks on YouTube and other videos, while continuing to be immune from prosecution. I know Canadians do not support this. Canadians do not want to see Canada be the new home of radical terrorism and ISIS terrorists. However, right now, with no prosecution of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/7/mr-glen-motz-medicine-hatcardstonwarner-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/7/mr-glen-motz-medicine-hatcardstonwarner-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names the Liberals as responsible for a policy decision (eliminating the promotion of terrorism provision in Bill C-59) that would harm the Jewish community by allowing hate crimes and terrorist promotion to continue unprosecuted."}, {"id": "house-742", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-02-09", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… It is incredible that a prime minister would make such a comment. Not only is it absurd, but it is completely irresponsible. Many of these people have returned to Canada with terrorist training, which is based on hatred for everything that is contrary to their views. These terrorists have committed unthinkable acts of violence. They have shot homosexuals, raped women and young girls, and killed Christians, Jews, and members of other faiths. Today, the Prime Minister not only believes that these animals can be integrated into our society, but that they can be a powerful voice. Does the Prime Minister mean that they are a powerful voice for radicalization? Does he perhaps mean that they are a powerful voice for turning back th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/9/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/9/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes violence against Jews as part of a list of terrorist acts committed, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews specifically or naming/blaming anyone for that hostility."}, {"id": "house-743", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Mr. Chandra Arya (Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… wish faith, the Muslim faith, Sikhs, Hindus, and Christian faiths. They were all supportive. LGBTQ groups have also been a strong supporter, and it is my hope that this bill will soon become law and bring some peace of mind. In particular, I would like to recognize the support I received from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which worked hard to generate support from various stakeholders. The consequences of hate crimes are considerable. A manual issued by the Attorney General of Ontario lists the impact of hate crimes on individuals, target groups, vulnerable minority groups, and the community as a whole. It says, on the impact on the community as a whole: This, perhaps, is the greatest evil of hate crime. Hate crime can end up divi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes consequences of hate crimes generally, quotes from an Attorney General manual about their impact, and acknowledges support from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs for a bill, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-744", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-07", "speaker": "Ms. Pam Damoff (Oakville North—Burlington, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a simple genetic test to undermine her future access to employment and insurance, and she worried about her daughter and the effect it could have on her career and future. She reminded me that we live in Canada, a country where we celebrate our differences. We protect one another from race, colour, sex, and disability discrimination. In an article posted yesterday, representatives from Ovarian Cancer Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wrote: For a young woman taking her first steps in building a professional career, the “wrong” genetic test results can impose a new glass ceiling.... Tomorrow is International Women's Day, and members of this House will have an opportunity to enhance women's health by allowing them to use genetic testing for early detection, monitoring, and intervention without the fear of being discriminated against. Last year I had the opportunity to speak with Rabbi Stephen Wise from the Shaarei-Beth El congregation in Oakville. He shared with me the prevalence of certain genetic diseases within the Jewish community. He said that Bill S-201 would save lives. In fact, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, a member of the Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness, which appeared …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/7/ms-pam-damoff-oakville-northburlington-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/7/ms-pam-damoff-oakville-northburlington-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes representatives from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and a rabbi regarding genetic testing concerns, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of discrimination against them."}, {"id": "house-745", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Mr. Bill Blair (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… committed out of bias, prejudice, or hate based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin. The maximum punishment for this offence is 10 years' imprisonment. Subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code was enacted as part of the Anti-terrorism Act of 2001, which was also known at that time as Bill C-36. Today, hate crime is restricted to property that is primarily used for religious worship, such as churches, mosques, and synagogues, and also includes cemeteries. However, during the committee hearings on Bill C-36, some witnesses, while approving of the creation of a specific hate crime of mischief, argued that the crime should be broader in scope, and if I may, I will cite some examples. David Matas, lead counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, in his testimony at that time, argued that sex should be added to the list of hate motivations and also that the crime should be expanded to cover schools, organizational buildings, and cemeteries. As well, on November 6, 2001, before the same committee, Mr. Ed Morgan, who was at that time chair of the Ontario region of the Canadian Jewish Congress, testified that all religious property should be protected by the hate crime mischief offence. He said: Not just sanctuaries, not just synagogues or churches, but all religious structures, religious centres, religious schools, religious community centres, cemeteries—which are a particular target for hate crimes and desecration—ought to be covered as well. He also argued at that time, and again I quote from his testimony: ...the grounds of group identification ought to be expanded to include, for example, hate crimes against groups identified by sexual orientation or gender. Gay-bashing is a hate crime, as would be an attack …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-bill-blair-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-bill-blair-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough Southwest", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of National Defence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Public Safety", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical testimony about hate crimes and proposals for expanded protections, citing specific witnesses and their arguments without taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-746", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-22", "speaker": "Mr. Chandra Arya (Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ker, I am pleased to rise today to speak to my private member's bill. Bill C-305 seeks to amend a subsection of the Criminal Code which deals with damages to property due to crime, motivated by hate, based on religion, race, colour or national or ethnic origin. The bill proposes to expand this to include motivation by hate based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Also, the subsection is primarily limited to places of worship like churches, mosques, synagogues and temples. The proposed Bill C-305 seeks to expand this to include schools, day care centres, colleges, universities, community centres, seniors residences and cultural centres. Recently there were acts of hate crimes in Ottawa, motivated by hate based on religion and race. Synagogues, a Jewish community centre, a Rabbi's private home, mosques and a church were targeted. Whenever these things happen, it is important for each and every one of us to stand up united to condemn these acts. I am Hindu, and no Hindu temples in Ottawa were targeted in the recent hate crime wave. However, in times like this, we do need people from all differ …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/22/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/22/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states 'it is important for each and every one of us to stand up united to condemn these acts' of hate crimes targeting synagogues and Jewish community centre"}, {"id": "house-747", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-22", "speaker": "Mr. David de Burgh Graham (Laurentides—Labelle, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ur neighbourhoods, are hurtful, not only to their intended targets, but to our communities as a whole. It is for this reason that the member for Nepean proposed Bill C-305 . This bill seeks to amend section 430 (4.1) of the Criminal Code of Canada that to date only includes places of worship such as churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques as protected places against hate crimes. In its current form, Bill C-305 seeks to expand this to include schools, day care centres, colleges or universities, community centres, and playgrounds. The LGBTQ community is one of the most targeted groups when it comes to hate crimes. While Parliament has previously passed legislation to protect these groups, sect …", "… pport of this. We have heard from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the World Sikh Organization, the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations, the Canada-Indian Foundation, the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus, and so on and so forth. This is a wide breadth of support for a very important bill to address hate. Where I grew up in rural Quebec, there used to be signs on places that said, “No dogs, no Jews”. Hatred is a real thing. It is a thing that has to be fought. It has to be fought against and protected from. I think this is a really nice step and I really encourage the member for Nepean to go forward with this, and I am looking forward to the second hour of debate."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/22/mr-david-de-burgh-graham-laurentideslabelle-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/22/mr-david-de-burgh-graham-laurentideslabelle-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical antisemitic signs ('No dogs, no Jews') and expresses opposition to hatred generally, supporting legislation to protect against hate crimes without naming any specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-748", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-18", "speaker": "Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, in the speech he gave just now, my colleague from Rivière-du-Nord quoted comments made by Adil Charkaoui, a very controversial religious leader, during a demonstration literally calling for Jews to be hunted down and exterminated. These extremely violent and hateful comments were made under the guise of religion. As my colleague quite rightly pointed out, the authorities did not even bother to arrest him and bring him to justice, because such statements are protected under the Criminal Code. Whenever we raise this issue with our fellow MPs, particularly the Conservatives, they sa …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/18/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/18/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Adil Charkaoui as making hateful comments calling for Jews to be hunted and exterminated, directly naming him as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-749", "year": 2018, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2018-06-07", "speaker": "Mr. Borys Wrzesnewskyj", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I'll come back to my question, which was whether you would classify this as the beginnings of an ethnocide. Let me provide some additional context. As well, perhaps just to your point on the persecution of ethnic minorities and the closure of religious institutions, I'd also like to note that the Jewish Crimean community no longer exists. Their synagogues were among the first religious places of worship that were shut down. To come back to the Crimean Tatars, a century ago they were still a majority of the population, notwithstanding all the massive ethnic cleansing during the Russian Czarist occupation. Currently they're down to about 200,000 people. There has been an …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/7/mr-borys-wrzesnewskyj/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/7/mr-borys-wrzesnewskyj/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Etobicoke Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Etobicoke Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jewish and Crimean Tatar communities, citing specific facts (closure of synagogues, population decline) without explicitly condemning, blaming, or naming a specific responsible party in this excerpt."}, {"id": "house-750", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-09-23", "speaker": "Ms. Peggy Nash (Parkdale—High Park, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . It is a very mixed income community. For many newcomers to Canada it is a first stopping-off point. Over the years, waves of immigrants have put down roots and created institutions in our community. Earlier today, I spoke about the 100th anniversary of the Knesseth Israel Shul in my riding. It is the oldest original synagogue in Toronto that is still in use today. Many of the original congregants of this shul came to Canada to escape the persecution that the Jewish community was facing in Europe and other parts of the world, while others came for economic reasons. In many cases, they came with little more than the ability to work hard, their ingenuity and their creativity. Although small, this magnificent institution is so beautiful. It adds glimmer to the heart of a community t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/9/23/ms-peggy-nash-parkdalehigh-park-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/9/23/ms-peggy-nash-parkdalehigh-park-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical persecution of Jews in Europe as context for immigration patterns, but does not take a position condemning, naming responsibility for, blaming, or disputing claims about that hostility."}, {"id": "house-751", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-10-27", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… in most other democracies that are signatories to the United Nations convention on refugees. Having said that, what I found most disturbing and, frankly, demagogic in her speech was to draw a completely specious parallel with the tragic and unjust experience of the rejection of the St. Louis and other second world war Jewish refugees. In that case, Canada had a deliberate policy of none is too many, where we deliberately excluded Jewish immigrants as refugees. We had no refugee resettlement program and no asylum system per se. Under the regime we propose in Bill C-49 , people arriving in those circumstances would be able to enter our waters, disembark and have an asylum claim. Under the new system that we adopted this spring, they would almost certai …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/10/27/hon-jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-and-multiculturalism-cpc/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to drawing a parallel with historical rejection of Jewish refugees, calling it 'disturbing and demagogic,' while describing Canada's historical policy of excluding Jewish refugees as 'deliberate' and 'unjust.'"}, {"id": "house-752", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-06-14", "speaker": "Ms. Megan Leslie (Halifax, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… opulation. The city could have rejected these refugees because many of them were seriously ill and public health issues were not very well understood or well managed in Canada. The city of York welcomed these refugees and provided them with treatment and a place to call home. Only a few decades later in the 1930s many Jewish refugees were sent away. They were refused entry for pretty dubious reasons, reasons that were rooted in discrimination, bigotry and apathy. Only 5,000 Jewish refugees were accepted. I would like members to think of the thousands of lives that could have been saved if we had opened our doors to more than that. To say this is a black mark on Canadian history is an understatement. The realities of the government decision were difficult to rationalize after the extent of the H …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/14/ms-megan-leslie-halifax-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/6/14/ms-megan-leslie-halifax-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the discrimination and bigotry against Jewish refugees in the 1930s, calling it 'a black mark on Canadian history' without naming specific individuals as responsible."}, {"id": "house-753", "year": 2010, "chamber": "house", "date": "2010-04-29", "speaker": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… like to follow up on the issue of safe countries of origin. I note that Australia has recently adopted a similar program and has just designated Afghanistan and Sri Lanka to be safe countries. I know that the minister has spoken repeatedly about Hungary and its designating the Roma as not necessarily being victims of oppression. However, we all know that the Roma, during World War II, were specifically rounded up and gassed by the Nazi regime, along with Jews and communists, and they face systematic discrimination in Hungary, if not oppression. I wonder if the hon. colleague would care to comment on whether those countries would be considered safe, in his view."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/29/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2010/4/29/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Hungary as responsible for systematic discrimination against Roma, and implicitly suggests it fails to recognize persecution that has historical parallels to Jewish victimization (WWII genocide), questioning whether such a country should designate groups as safe."}, {"id": "house-754", "year": 2009, "chamber": "house", "date": "2009-10-01", "speaker": "Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n, race, colour, sex, language or sexual orientation. It is unfortunate that hate crimes have been committed in this country at community centres, religious institutions and educational institutions. The purpose of the bill is to take action against these crimes and to ensure that all Canadians are protected from such violence. The Canadian Jewish Congress, for instance, is in great support of this legislation. I hope the bill will enjoy the support of my colleagues, as it does by my seconder, who I thank dearly, my colleague from Random—Burin—St. George's . (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/1/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2009/10/1/hon-marlene-jennings-notre-dame-de-grâcelachine-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mrs. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Lachine, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Quebec City's Synagogue", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes committed against community centres, religious institutions, and educational institutions, and supports legislation to protect against such violence, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-755", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-03-18", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… helped build this country. We got enormous opportunities, more than we received anywhere else in history. In academia, law, medicine, physics, science, sports and journalism, we have helped build this country. Ninety-five per cent of Canadian Jews are Zionists. Zionism means we believe that we have a right to have one Jewish state in our ancestral homeland. Jews are indigenous to Israel. We have a history where Jews have faced persecution in every country in the world. We were expelled from England in 1290. We were expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s. We faced the Crusades, where people were killed. We were put in ghettos throughout Europe. We faced the Holocaust. Jews were expelled from Arab lands in the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies. We needed one place where every Jew in the world knew that, if things went wrong in their country, they could go. That is Israel. That is what Zionism means. When I get horrible threats and emails saying that I am a dirty Zionist, instead of a dirty Jew, that is what Zionism now means. There are all these demonstrations around the country outside of synagogues, outside of Jewish schools and outside of Jewish community centres, where people are screaming about how horrible Zionists are. I am a Zionist. I am not embarrassed or ashamed of being a Zionist. Canadian Jews should not have to live through what we are living through right now. My community is terrified. We are being intimidated over and over by people protesting outside of Jewish buildings. Canadian Jews have no control over what happens in the State of Israel, yet, for some reason, Jewish buildings across this country are being targeted. In my own riding, at the Jewish community offices, where the Jewish Public Library and the Holocaust museum are located, demonstrators went on private property, surrounded the building, blocked access to the building and blocked anyone from leaving for over three hours …", "… hear a speaker and they block me, yell at me, scream at me and stop me from going in, then their rights are infringing on my rights. The police need to step in and act as police. All leaders across this country need to tell them to do so, because this is not fair. It is too much. Jewish Canadians do not deserve this. Jewish students have told me of horrible stories happening on campuses across this country, from British Columbia to Newfoundland, about being intimidated on campus, about walking into dormitories and having anti-Israel slogans on the walls. They walk into a building and they are asked if they are a Zionist. If they are Zionist, supposedly they are not allowed into their dorm. This is not Canada. This is not the country that I know and love. Nobody should be forced to feel this way. This is how I get to this motion. Right now the Jewish community is demoralized and intimidated. This motion would create one winner and one loser. Most Canadian Muslims will vastly support this motion. They are feeling lots of pain right now, watching the events that are happening in Gaza. If this motion is adopted, Canadian Jews will feel tremendous pain because the way the motion is constructed would clearly …", "… st Bank is governed by Fatah, which has been in power without an election for 20 years. Mr. Abbas was elected in 2004. On the other side, in Gaza, there is a terrorist organization, Hamas, that has not held elections since 2007 and is recognized by Canada as being a terrorist organization. Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel, the deadliest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust, and we would be changing our foreign policy to reward Hamas and say, “Good for you, terrorists. You attacked a sovereign state, killed lots of people, including babies, women and everyone else, raped, pillaged and brought people back as hostages, who have now been there for almost five months. Let us recognize that state that we have never recognized before.” What a great idea for other places in the world where terrorism is …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/3/18/mr-anthony-housefather-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-president-of-the-treasury-board-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/3/18/mr-anthony-housefather-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-president-of-the-treasury-board-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostility toward Jews (threats, intimidating demonstrations at synagogues and community centers, targeting of Jewish buildings) and expresses opposition to it without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-756", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-03-18", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the war in the Middle East has torn the fabric of this country apart. We are seeing people who are passionate and emotional on both sides who are speaking past each other often, and it is tragic to watch. However, I have to say that the main issue I see are the demonstrations that are crossing the line and verging on intimidation and hate speech, surrounding Jewish buildings and doing things that create fear and all kinds of intimidation for the Jewish community. It is not right, as I mentioned before, that synagogues, Jewish community centres, Jewish schools, or Jewish businesses for that matter, are the focus of these protests. We, as Jews in Canada, do not control what is happening in the State of Israel, and this has to stop. It must end."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/3/18/mr-anthony-housefather/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/3/18/mr-anthony-housefather/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to demonstrations crossing into intimidation and hate speech targeting Jewish buildings and community, calling it 'not right' and demanding it 'must end,' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-757", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… lf is not enamoured of this title. The title \"Defender of the Faith\" implies a kind of religious uniformity that is out of step with our times. Frankly, state-sponsored religious uniformity was pretty undesirable in King Henry VIII's time too when viewed from our vantage point. In the 1500s, dissenting Christians were persecuted across Europe, the Inquisition was burning heretics at the stake in Spain and Jews were banned from living in England. In today's world, where the U.K., just as much as Canada, is home to robust communities of Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Buddhists, there is no such thing as “the faith”. It is worth noting that the current British Prime Minister is a Hindu. It is for this reason that when he was still P …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/6/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenackingston-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/6/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenackingston-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews (banned from England in the 1500s) as part of a broader historical example of religious uniformity and persecution, without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning blame."}, {"id": "house-758", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-23", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Vuong", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… is “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” position will no doubt be reinforced on November 7, with the visit to Toronto by United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Ms. Albanese is known for her open support of Hamas and other terror groups. She knows her rigged reports and comments are used to justify attacks on Israelis and Jews. In fact, in November 2022, Ms. Albanese participated in an official terrorist conference of Hamas. Section 83 of the Criminal Code of Canada prohibits support for terrorism, so I have two simple questions for the parliamentary secretary. Will the Minister of International Development be adding the not-so-special rapp …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/23/mr-kevin-vuong/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/23/mr-kevin-vuong/", "party": "Independent", "riding": "Spadina--Fort York", "province": "ON", "side": "independent", "role": "Spadina—Fort York, Ind.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Diversity and Inclusion", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that Francesca Albanese 'knows her rigged reports and comments are used to justify attacks on Israelis and Jews,' explicitly naming her as responsible for contributing to hostility toward Jews through her actions and statements."}, {"id": "committee-759", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-04-11", "speaker": "Dr. Geoffrey Cameron (Director, Office of Public Affairs, Bahá'í Community of Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nation of all forms of prejudice. Public or private expressions of hatred towards groups of people, whether online or off-line, are inimical to these beliefs. We have joined with many other faith and civil society groups to call for the study of the root causes and potential solutions to the rising incidence of online hate that has been directly connected to violent attacks on particular groups. Women, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and racial minorities have been among the most recent targets of violence that was inspired by hatred spread online. The recent attacks on Muslims at prayer at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand; the van attack in downtown Toronto; the attack on Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the shooting at the lslamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City are all recent examples of killers who spent extensive time in digital worlds of hatred. As Professor Richard Moon has found, “Hate crimes are committed most often...by individuals who have immersed themselves in an extremist subculture that operates at the margins of public discourse, and principally on the Internet.” Sadly, this is also a problem with which Bahá'ís have first-hand experience in other c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/dr-geoffrey-cameron-director-office-of-public-affairs-baháí-community-of-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/dr-geoffrey-cameron-director-office-of-public-affairs-baháí-community-of-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The passage objects to hatred toward Jews and other groups, citing specific violent attacks against Jewish worshippers, without accusing any particular person or group of being responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-760", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-04-11", "speaker": "Mr. Shahen Mirakian (President, Armenian National Committee of Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… to combat online hate and learn what other actions Canada can take to do its part to prevent future genocides and properly recognize those that have already taken place. We also want to go on the record today as strongly supporting the four policy recommendations proposed in November 2018 by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs as the basis for a comprehensive national strategy for combatting online hate. Those four policy recommendations are: defining hate, monitoring hate, preventing hate, and intervening to stop hate. We also agree that there needs to be a greater use of existing tools to address online hate as well as consideration given to implementing new tools to assist authorities in responding to online hate. One specific area of concern we would like to highlight is law enforce …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/mr-shahen-mirakian-president-armenian-national-committee-of-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/mr-shahen-mirakian-president-armenian-national-committee-of-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses strong support for combating online hate and preventing future genocides, without naming specific actors as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-761", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-04-11", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["With all of you leveraging how we better track.... And I'm cognizant that when we did the M-103 study, people came forward and said that Muslims will report to Muslim civil society groups, and Jews will report to Jewish civil society groups. B'nai Brith, which is in the room right now, has done a great report on hate crimes. How do we leverage civil society to help us do that tracking that we've heard about this morning?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/mr-arif-virani/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/11/mr-arif-virani/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes tracking of hate crimes and mentions B'nai Brith's report on hate crimes as a resource, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it."}, {"id": "committee-762", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-05-02", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani (Parkdale—High Park, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… can start collecting disaggregated data to do just that. I have about four questions, so could you keep your responses somewhat brief? We've also heard that people are more likely to come forward to people they trust. Are state actors the best entities to collect the data, or should we be relying more significantly on Jewish groups, Muslim groups, black groups, indigenous groups, and so on, that have the trust of their constituents who are experiencing these types of hatred?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/2/mr-arif-virani-parkdalehigh-park-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/2/mr-arif-virani-parkdalehigh-park-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hatred directed at Jewish people and other groups without condemning it, naming perpetrators, or taking a position on the described hostility itself. The passage poses a procedural question about data collection methods."}, {"id": "committee-763", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-05-02", "speaker": "Mr. Emmanuel Duodu (President, Ghanaian-Canadian Association of Ontario)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… t started with that information, with a few people saying on radio that these Tutsis are the cause of the problems, and that led to about 1.5 million people dead, killed in a very brutal way. Today, for me as a first-generation immigrant in this country, I would be doing myself a great disservice if I stand aloof when hate crimes are going on against people, especially the Jewish community, which I've seen lately. We have the evidence of that. For me to say that a lot is happening to the Jewish community, and therefore, as a Ghanaian, as an immigrant, it's not close to my community, would be doing an injustice to something that can happen to anyone. I feel strongly that, as a community, we hav …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/2/mr-emmanuel-duodu-president-ghanaian-canadian-association-of-ontario/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/2/mr-emmanuel-duodu-president-ghanaian-canadian-association-of-ontario/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes against the Jewish community and expresses strong opposition to standing aloof when such hostility occurs, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-764", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-04-15", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… d in reality be the worst nightmare of these extremists, because these extremists thrive only in the midst of conflict and violence. In the course of this weekend's events, it is worth recognizing and celebrating the effectiveness of Israel's defences. Israel's defensive technology is what has allowed the world's only Jewish state to survive as a state, facing constant existential threats from hostile forces. If people believe in Israel's right to defend itself, then they obviously must also have to believe in Israel's ability to procure the weapons that are necessary to defend itself. If people oppose the sale of weapons to Israel, then it is hard to make the case that they also believe in Israel's ri …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/15/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/15/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Israel facing hostile forces and existential threats, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute anything about hostility toward Jews specifically. The passage focuses on Israel's defensive capabilities and weapons procurement rather than addressing antisemitism or anti-Jewish hostility."}, {"id": "committee-765", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-05-09", "speaker": "Dr. Jasmin Zine (Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ism, harassment and online doxing under the cover of a free speech alibi. Now, newly emboldened neo-fascist groups are coming out from the shadows of Internet chat rooms and entering the public sphere. As a flagship case in Canada, I want to remind us of James Keegstra, the Alberta high school teacher who communicated hateful rhetoric against the Jewish community in his classroom, depicting Jews as evil and denying the Holocaust. In 1984 he was prosecuted under subsection 319(2) of the Criminal Code for publicly and wilfully promoting hatred. The Supreme Court of Canada concluded that even though the legislation infringed on freedom of expression, it was a reasonable and justifiable limitation, in a free and democratic society, to protect target groups from hate propaganda."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/9/dr-jasmin-zine-professor-sociology-and-muslim-studies-option-wilfrid-laurier-university-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/9/dr-jasmin-zine-professor-sociology-and-muslim-studies-option-wilfrid-laurier-university-as-an-individual/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies Option, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker specifically names James Keegstra and identifies his actions as communicating hateful rhetoric against Jews, depicting them as evil, and denying the Holocaust—directly attributing hostile acts toward Jews to a named individual."}, {"id": "house-766", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-04-16", "speaker": "Mr. Jamil Jivani (Durham, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… resent in Durham. He is welcome to take his claims that people who disagree with him are racist to my African father and see how that goes for him. The Prime Minister also uses the Liberal playbook to marginalize and vilify Canadians who disagree with him by calling those of us who believe in traditional family values bigots. I ask him to come to my diverse riding in Durham and try that on us, where we have Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews living together, all people who believe that mothers and fathers matter. He is welcome to try that with us. I know his Liberal playbook also likes to say that people who disagree with him do not care about the working class or do not care about vulnerable people. That is not going to work on me either. I am not a trus …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/16/mr-jamil-jivani-durham-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/16/mr-jamil-jivani-durham-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "Speaker argues against accusations of racism/bigotry directed at those with traditional family values, implying such characterizations are unfair or overstated. The mention of Jews living together in their diverse riding serves to dispute claims of discrimination/prejudice."}, {"id": "house-767", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-11-05", "speaker": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, now we know the Prime Minister 's real agenda. He wants to distract from all the economic misery he has caused at home, and so he uses divisions here at home. These divisions are as a result of him. Under his leadership, we have seen a 251% increase in hate crimes, firebombings of synagogues, bullets shot at Jewish children's schools, a hundred churches burned and vandalized, and now we see sectarian riots on the streets of Brampton. This never happened before the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister take ownership for the divisions he has caused and the violence that has resulted?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/5/hon-pierre-poilievre-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/5/hon-pierre-poilievre-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names the Prime Minister as responsible for the increase in hate crimes including firebombings of synagogues and attacks on Jewish schools, stating these divisions and violence 'are a result of him' and 'never happened before the Prime Minister.'"}, {"id": "house-768", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-11-07", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ect Canadians if they are not enforced, and why has the federal government, which has the highest authority to make sure that rights are protected, done nothing? A hundred or more Christian churches were burned in our country, and again, it is crickets from the Liberals on this. It goes on and on. What has happened to Jewish Canadians is heartbreaking. They have been constantly harassed, and their synagogues and their businesses are vandalized. They have been given death treats and nothing has been done. Certainly freedom of religion in this country is in serious jeopardy. Furthermore, there is discrimination that happens. We are supposed to be free from discrimination in this country, but it happens even in the Liberal benches. The Liberals are discriminat …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/7/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/7/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "The speaker criticizes the federal government and Liberals for doing 'nothing' in response to harassment, vandalism, death threats against Jewish Canadians, and discrimination—characterizing their response as inadequate ('crickets')."}, {"id": "house-769", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-06-02", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to welcome the member for Toronto—St. Paul's to the House. She is a true ally of the Jewish community. In terms of what she said in her speech, just in the last 10 days, two Jews were killed in Washington, D.C., while leaving an American Jewish Committee event. We had the incident this weekend where people who were marching for the release of the hostages were attacked brutally in Colorado. In the member's riding at Casa Loma and in my riding at the Chevra Kadisha, we had demonstrators demonstrating outside Jewish community events. What steps does the hon. member hope to take to help our community feel more safe in Canada?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/6/2/anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/6/2/anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes multiple incidents of violence and harassment targeting Jews (killings in Washington D.C., attacks on hostage march supporters, demonstrations outside Jewish community events) but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute its characterization. The speaker is simply recounting incidents to ask what steps the member will take."}, {"id": "house-770", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-04-30", "speaker": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I also condemn the extremism of a prime minister who gives hundreds of thousands of dollars of anti-racism money to a Jew-hater who has proposed shooting Jews in the head. I condemn a prime minister who allows the IRGC, which murdered 55 Canadians, to remain legal. I condemn a prime minister who allows the open use of crack, heroin, meth and weapons in hospital rooms, which threatens nurses, and on school buses next to children. Will the Prime Minister reverse his extremist …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/hon-pierre-poilievre/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/hon-pierre-poilievre/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nepean--Carleton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean—Carleton, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses the Prime Minister of giving anti-racism money to a 'Jew-hater' and allowing this person to receive funding despite proposing violence against Jews. This names a specific person (the PM) as responsible for enabling hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-771", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-04-30", "speaker": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the leader opposite is showing us once again what he will do try to earn votes through personal attacks. He shakes the hand of a leader of a white nationalist group then goes to actively court the support of the group's members and thinks he can get away with it. It is a group that advocates for violence against 2SLGBTQI+ Canadians, against Hindus and Sikhs and against Muslims and Jews. Diagolon stands against everything we stand for as Canadians, and yet he will not denounce its members or what they stand for. That is shameful."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/right-hon-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/right-hon-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names a specific group (Diagolon) and a specific person (the leader opposite) as responsible for hostility toward Jews, stating the leader 'shakes the hand' of the group's leader and 'actively courts' their support despite the group's advocacy for violence against Jews and other groups."}, {"id": "committee-772", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . I also want to thank you for not trivializing—as some of our witnesses have done in the past—the impacts of hate speech on people's daily lives or ascribing concerns about limitations of free speech to people being too sensitive. I have spoken to people in my own community who say that they are afraid to go to their synagogue or afraid to go to their mosque because of the violent events around the world and because those are being promoted locally. I want to ask you a question about recognition of hate speech. I want to base that on something that happened in my own community recently. An event was organized on Facebook and also promoted in other media. I'm not signalling out Facebook here. That said, the speech was on—I'll put a blank in place of the name of a group at the beginning—“blank” harm to women and children. People had trouble distinguishing that it was hate speech because of what was in that blank. If they had said, “Gay harm to women and children”, you would recognize that. If they had said “black”, “Jewish”, “Asian” or any kind of thing you put in there...but because it said “transgender”, the mayor of the local municipality said they could use public facilities because that wasn't hate speech. Your organization didn't catch that as a form of hate speech. It took a month. I will give Facebook credit. The person who orga …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/6/mr-randall-garrison-esquimaltsaanichsooke-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/6/mr-randall-garrison-esquimaltsaanichsooke-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Justice", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific entities (the mayor of the local municipality and Facebook/the speaker's organization) as failing to recognize hate speech, implying they were responsible for not catching or stopping the hateful content.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-773", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-06-11", "speaker": "Ms. Dafina Savic (Founder and Executive Director, Romanipe)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ctually killed by members of the far right on the basis of the idea that Roma need to be killed to eliminate so-called gypsy crime. In Italy, the minister of the interior, Matteo Salvini, recently announced his intention to create a Roma census, a policy that is very reminiscent of the 1933 policies inflicted upon the Jewish population in Italy at the time. This policy gained wide public support and in fact has led to an increase in hate crime against the Romani population in Italy. Just last year, after the violent killing of three young Romani girls, graffiti throughout Rome praising the deaths of those three girls was actually documented. In fact, some pictures show graffiti saying “three less Roma”. This was just last year. This month, in fact, in Bulga …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/11/ms-dafina-savic-founder-and-executive-director-romanipe/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/11/ms-dafina-savic-founder-and-executive-director-romanipe/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Matteo Salvini and his Roma census policy as comparable to 1933 policies against Jews in Italy, directly attributing responsibility for a policy that echoes historical antisemitic persecution."}, {"id": "committee-774", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-06-11", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… easure of speaking with you on previous occasions. I last ran into you coming out of a press conference, and I want to ask you about that, because it was genocide prevention month; I believe that was the occasion. It was a coming together of civil society groups from the Ukrainian, Armenian, Rwandan, obviously Romani, Jewish and other communities that have faced persecution over the years. I'm wondering if you could briefly give us a bit of background on the support that exists in civil society and through those kinds of organizations, and how that is a real advantage for the Romani community here, which probably doesn't exist anywhere else in the world."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/11/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/11/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a genocide prevention month event bringing together communities including Jewish groups that have faced persecution, but does not take a position on any hostility or make accusations about responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-775", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ecular. It has no religious identity or preference. As a result, public servants who represent the state in their work, such as police officers or teachers, are representatives of the state and should not show any religious preference. That is the approach that Quebec has taken to ensure that everyone, whether they be Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Christian or Buddhist, can practise the religion of their choice without facing criticism from the state. We are being told that hate crimes are being committed against religious communities. It is the federal government's responsibility to address this problem, and that is what Bill C-9 does. It is rare for the Bloc Québécois to agree with the government's proposals, particularly those of the Liberal government, whose legislative measures we have criticiz …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin-rivière-du-nord-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin-rivière-du-nord-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions that 'hate crimes are being committed against religious communities' including Jewish people, but does not condemn the hostility, name perpetrators, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute it. They simply state it as a fact in passing while discussing Bill C-9."}, {"id": "house-776", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-11-25", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… day in the House, we demand the same thing from the same government that refuses the same order. Day after day, we are asking the government to release the documents instead of talking about the issues with which Canadians are seized. This is a nation where it is no longer extraordinary to wake up to read that another synagogue has been firebombed, or that another Jewish business was vandalized, or that another bomb threat was made at a Jewish school or that gunshots flew through the windows. Kids as young as 17, 18 and 19 are being arrested for crimes. Children in our country are being turned against one another, blinded by our ability to teach even the most basic tenets of respect and critical thinking, with the woke academics pushing DEI ahead of introsp …", "… , because we have talked about it in the House and, most recently, from comments from the government House leader . Bouncy castles, hot tubs, outdoor barbecues and a protest blocking several blocks in a single city honking equals a national emergency, frozen bank accounts and prosecutions. However, rioting, targeting, harassing, intimidating the Jewish community for more than a year; torching cars, shooting synagogues and schools; calling for violence, murder, death; and celebrating actual terrorists carrying flags of terrorist organizations for over a year in our country equates to “peaceful protests” encouraged by members of the House. That is shameful and every single Canadian sees it now. What is happening now is a hallmark of the government, a government that …", "… f it holding up the debate in the House without handing over the documents that the Speaker told it to hand over. Canadians deserve to know where the $400 million in tax dollars went. The Prime Minister and the Liberal government have made our country a playground for foreign interference, for division, for people who hate us to come here, and they have rolled out the welcome mat. Then what did the Prime Minister do? He left us in the cold. The chants of death to Jews grew louder in front of synagogues. He ignores calls for safety and security. As his threats to communities got more intense, he ignored and silenced the voices in his own caucus, voices that are supposed to be the ones speaking out, the voices that are supposed to be standing up for their communities, that are supposed to have a seat at the table. He has shoved them out of the room and does not listen to the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the government and Prime Minister as responsible for enabling hostility toward Jews by encouraging 'peaceful protests' that involved 'rioting, targeting, harassing, intimidating the Jewish community' and 'torching cars, shooting synagogues and schools,' and by rolling out 'the welcome mat' to those who 'hate us.'"}, {"id": "house-777", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-11-25", "speaker": "Mr. Kyle Seeback (Dufferin—Caledon, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member would comment further on the explosion of hate that is happening in this country, particularly directed at the Jewish community, with the open display of terrorist symbols and the lack of action or condemnation from the Liberal government. We are seeing unprecedented hatred directed toward the Jewish community in our country, and the response from the government has been absolutely abysmal."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/mr-kyle-seeback-dufferincaledon-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/mr-kyle-seeback-dufferincaledon-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker accuses the Liberal government of failing to condemn and take action against hostility toward Jews, rather than saying the government is responsible for creating the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-778", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-11-25", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… racist but I am about the rule of law applying equally to all. If I get up and I block a road, I know that they are going to arrest me in a New York minute. If I commit a crime, I am going to get arrested, but that does not seem to be what is happening. In Toronto, there was a protest. Protesters were calling death to Jews. They were harassing them in their own neighbourhood. One of the Jewish women went to the police and said to arrest these people. The police said that there was nothing they could do. What is the point of having laws if we do not enforce them? The federal government puts the rule of law in place. The federal government has a responsibility. If the rule of law is not being enforced by the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/25/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "The speaker describes a specific incident where protesters called 'death to Jews' and harassed them, then criticizes police and the federal government for failing to enforce laws against this hostility, rather than attributing responsibility for the hostility itself to those entities."}, {"id": "committee-779", "year": 2020, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2020-05-05", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I think some of the usual suspects have turned back to those historical tropes about Jews, but we should also note that Chinese people, and Asians generally, have been the target of similar attacks. Your reference to online hate really represents a ripe opportunity for us to exponentially increase our action against it. Everybody has heard about Zoom bombing. That's just one manifestation of using technology to attack, disrupt, harass or otherwise undermine a sense of community and society. I know that increasingly, and largely as a result of …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/5/5/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/5/5/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'historical tropes about Jews' and online hate attacks without naming specific perpetrators, focusing on the need for action against such hostility."}, {"id": "house-780", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-09-23", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… in which Jewish people around the world reflect on our faith. It is a time for our families to come together and celebrate the gifts of the past year, reset, refocus and look forward with anticipation and hope to the year ahead. It is also a time for our country to recommit to fighting the alarming rise in pernicious hatred against a Jewish minority. To all of those celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Thornhill and across the country, shanah tova to them and their families. On behalf of Canada's Conservatives, we wish them a healthy, peaceful, prosperous and sweet new year."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/9/23/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/9/23/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'pernicious hatred against a Jewish minority' and calls for the country to 'recommit to fighting' it, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-781", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-12-04", "speaker": "Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I get the impression that the Prime Minister does not appreciate how serious the situation is. The Quebec National Assembly voted unanimously to end the religious exception. The Jewish community in Canada and Quebec is afraid. Here and in Quebec, because of the federal government, people can incite violence against Jews with impunity. If he takes this seriously, we will too. If he commits to passing the law to end the religious exception, we will unblock Parliament for 24 hours."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/12/4/mr-yves-françois-blanchet-beloeilchambly-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/12/4/mr-yves-françois-blanchet-beloeilchambly-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly says 'the federal government' enables people to 'incite violence against Jews with impunity,' attributing responsibility for the hostility to a specific institution", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-782", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-05-31", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, enough is enough. On Wednesday, a Jewish school in Montreal had shots fired at it. On Saturday, two men opened fire at a Jewish school in Toronto. Last night, a synagogue in Vancouver was attacked. Over the course of the last seven months, Jewish buildings and stores have been vandalized; encampments have been set up at universities, where posters extolling terrorist groups and glorifying violence against Jews are common; demonstrators yelling chants for Jews to go back to Poland, calling for intifada and saying that Zionists are not wanted here have surrounded community buildings and blocked access to and exit from them. At this point, condemnation is not enough. All levels of government need to do more, immediately. At the federal level, we need to designate the IRGC and …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/31/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/31/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes multiple hostile acts against Jewish targets (shootings, vandalism, harassment, blocked access) and states 'condemnation is not enough,' implicitly condemning the hostility while calling for stronger governmental action rather than naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-783", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-06-05", "speaker": "Hon. Gary Anandasangaree", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, I intend to work closely with the Jewish community, as well as all communities impacted by hate but particularly the Jewish community, in order to ensure that—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/6/5/hon-gary-anandasangaree/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/6/5/hon-gary-anandasangaree/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Rouge Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker states intention to work with Jewish community on hate issues without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any specific hostility."}, {"id": "house-784", "year": 2022, "chamber": "house", "date": "2022-10-17", "speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s in the Liberal Party that members of the freedom convoy were racists, misogynists and undesirables is a textbook example of the demonizing and dehumanizing that comes by labelling certain groups in society as undesirable. An appalling example of this divisiveness is when the Prime Minister accused a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, my Conservative colleague, the member for Thornhill , who is Jewish, of standing with racists. Canadians see the hypocrisy in the Prime Minister accusing others of being racist when the Prime Minister enjoys dressing up in costumes and in blackface to make fun of other people's cultures and skin colour. The accusation is a propaganda technique that has been used in non-genocidal and other forms of persecution committed against Jews, Blacks and first nations, among others. It is time to face some inconvenient truths about the Prime Minister . His behaviour is dividing our country. Being angry all the time is not demonstrating leadership. To this day, members of the Liberal Party refuse to condemn the Prime Minister 's racist act of wearing blackf …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/17/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/17/mrs-cheryl-gallant-renfrewnipissingpembroke-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Christianity", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the Prime Minister as responsible for using an accusatory propaganda technique against a Jewish MP, which the speaker characterizes as a persecution tactic historically used against Jews."}, {"id": "house-785", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-09-17", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… I would hate to see what not delivering results looks like. Even when they do not know where people are, the system still does not work and incompetence still reigns supreme. The government gave citizenship to a terrorist who appeared in an ISIS snuff video and who somehow passed six security checks while plotting an attack in the country's biggest city. It gave a student visa to a guy planning a massacre of Jews on the anniversary of October 7, all while being exposed for not even checking his criminal record, the record check we do for any temporary resident. This was just in the past month. With each successive blow, the confidence among Canadians and our peers abroad in the integrity of our immigration system, in who we gr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/17/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/17/ms-melissa-lantsman-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly states the government gave a student visa to someone 'planning a massacre of Jews,' naming the government as responsible for enabling this threat through failure to check criminal records."}, {"id": "committee-786", "year": 2021, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2021-06-17", "speaker": "Ms. Amira Elghawaby", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you so much, MP Mathyssen, for supporting that motion for a summit on Islamophobia. It is certainly welcome. As MP Wong mentioned, hate cuts across many communities, and we also stand in solidarity with our Asian Canadians, Black Canadians, indigenous Canadians and Jewish Canadians. Sadly, the gamut runs long, and we know that many communities are targeted. In terms of the summit on Islamophobia, I would like to say that solutions that I would put forward would help address hate across communities, so to essentially address the poison that is impacting on many communities. To begin wit …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/6/17/ms-amira-elghawaby/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/6/17/ms-amira-elghawaby/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jewish Canadians as one of several communities targeted by hate, but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame anyone for inaction, dispute claims, or use coded language. They simply describe the situation factually.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-787", "year": 2021, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2021-06-17", "speaker": "Ms. Amira Elghawaby", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… uzhat to speak more to that, I would also just like to urge the committee—it's why I tried to stay around, and Samya has raised it as well very eloquently. It would be such a powerful statement from this committee for it to condemn Quebec's Act Respecting the Laicity of the State, which is essentially state-sanctioned discrimination against Muslim women, as well as other visible minority communities including Jewish Quebec communities, the Sikh community and anyone who wants to wear a religious piece of clothing and to continue to contribute, as any other Quebecker has the right to do. When we're telling our children that they can grow up to be whoever they want to be, to participate however they want to, that is true for everyon …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/6/17/ms-amira-elghawaby/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/6/17/ms-amira-elghawaby/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names Quebec's Act Respecting the Laicity of the State as responsible for discrimination against Jewish communities and other groups, calling it 'state-sanctioned discrimination.'"}, {"id": "committee-788", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-04-27", "speaker": "The Chair", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nage your requests and give you priority in the order you put your hand up. In accordance with our routine motion, I am informing the committee that all witnesses have completed the required connection tests in advance of the meeting. I now would like to welcome our witnesses. The witnesses are, from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Bernie Farber, chair; from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Richard Marceau, vice-president; and from the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence, Roselyne Mavungu, executive director. We also have, from the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, Michael Levitt, president and chief executive officer, who has a colleague with him. From the Hindu Federation, we have Mr. Roopnauth Sharma, president; from the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, Daniel Panneton, manager; and from Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise, Roderick Brereton an …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/the-chair/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/the-chair/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage only lists witnesses and their organizational affiliations without describing, discussing, or taking any position on hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-789", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-04-27", "speaker": "Mr. Bernie M. Farber (Chair, Canadian Anti-Hate Network)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you, all members of the committee, for inviting me to participate. I will try not to take up too much of your time, other than just to preface my remarks by saying that I speak to you in two capacities—one as the chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and the other in a much more personal capacity as a child of a Holocaust survivor. My father was the sole survivor of his Polish town, the sole Jewish survivor out of 750 Jews. That means that his wife, his two children, his seven brothers and sisters, and all the Jews of Bothki, Poland, were murdered as a result of Nazi genocide. The swastika, the crooked iron cross, is what we came to view as one of the most evil symbols in modern history. We address today the need to understand the importance of these symbols. I do so as a child of the kingdom of death. I had no paternal family whatsoever, and that one particular symbol is a symbol that drove evil, drove …", "… in the Criminal Code. They're identifiable groups by race, creed, colour, nationality or sexual orientation. There must be exceptions for good faith educational use, as well as for opposition to the banned symbols. For example, you don't want to ban books like Maus , which is an excellent source for understanding the Holocaust, or crossed-out swastikas, where we're saying “no swastikas”. We have to be careful about that as well. This will be a very carefully thought out law. In the end I want us to consider the victims, consider those who have survived great genocides, great mass murders and slavery. Consider how they feel when they see the symbols that in fact targeted them in the first place. This …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-bernie-m-farber-chair-canadian-anti-hate-network/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-bernie-m-farber-chair-canadian-anti-hate-network/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chair, Canadian Anti-Hate Network", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Nazi genocide and the swastika as 'one of the most evil symbols in modern history' and emphasizes the need to understand the importance of addressing such symbols, without naming a specific contemporary person or group responsible for current hostility."}, {"id": "committee-790", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-04-27", "speaker": "Ms. Jaime Kirzner-Roberts (Director of Policy, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n the symbol of the swastika today. Yes, it is only one of many dangerous hate symbols that our society contends with, but it is also one that reflects some of the worst, most evil and most dangerous ideas that human beings are capable of conjuring up. Today, here in Canada, we are too often confronting this symbol of hate. Almost every single day we receive reports from schools that swastikas have been painted on walls and on books in the library. We see it painted on synagogues and other Jewish spaces. We see it on signs and flags at protests and rallies. Perhaps most often, we see it on social media. The swastika is used as a symbol to intimidate and to terrorize. The meaning rings out loud and clear. To those in our community who survived the Holocaust, the swastika is a sharp memory of what it means to be stripped of one's humanity and to become a slave and a number. It's a reminder of what it is like to never get a chance to say goodbye to one's loved ones. To those from Canada's great generation who fought so courageously to defeat Hitler, the swastika is a reminder of their y …", "… to see the swastika proudly displayed outside of neo-Nazi clubhouses. We see it used as a vile political statement to demonize political leaders, including members of Parliament. Last May, during the escalation of conflict between Israel and the terror group Hamas, we saw it used at anti-Israel rallies to degrade the Jewish nation and its people. Could our hate laws be written more clearly so that law enforcement has a more explicit directive with respect to the inclusion of hate symbols in the conception of illegal hate speech? Yes, absolutely, but the solution must go deeper. Hate crimes are growing dramatically in our country from one year to the next. The Jewish community remains one of the most likely minority groups to be victimized by it. At the same time, we are seeing hate crimes continuing to stand out from other kinds of crime as the least likely to be cleared, the least likely to see law enforcement identify a perpetrator and the least likely to result in charges and convictions. This is nothing less than justice denied, not just for the direct victims of hate crimes but for our entire soci …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/ms-jaime-kirzner-roberts-director-of-policy-friends-of-simon-wiesenthal-center-for-holocaust-studies/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/ms-jaime-kirzner-roberts-director-of-policy-friends-of-simon-wiesenthal-center-for-holocaust-studies/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the use of swastikas and hate symbols targeting Jews, describing them as evil, dangerous, and used to intimidate and terrorize, without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-791", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-04-27", "speaker": "Mr. Farley Flex (Executive Director, Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… with respect to race relations. Canada has the opportunity to lead in this area globally, but it will take a cohesive effort to do so, one that includes measurable strategies, programs and outcomes. The work we do is intentionally disruptive and takes into account all that I have mentioned. The reason we recognize the swastika as a hate symbol in the eyes of our Jewish brothers, sisters and others, is that we associate it with the experiences that are associated with the symbol itself. Blackface, nooses and many other symbols are rightly associated as hate symbols and images, but what of police symbols? If we were to ask survivors of the civil rights movement what police symbols mea …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-farley-flex-executive-director-urban-rez-solutions-social-enterprise/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-farley-flex-executive-director-urban-rez-solutions-social-enterprise/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the swastika as recognized as a hate symbol by Jewish people and explains the reasoning (association with historical experiences), but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame anyone for enabling it, dispute the characterization, or use coded language. It is a straightforward description of a symbol's recognition and meaning."}, {"id": "committee-792", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-04-27", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ht—is the beginning of Yom HaShoah, when we remember all the six million Jews who were victims in the Holocaust, murdered by the Nazis. How appropriate it is that we're having this discussion in the Canadian Parliament on the very anniversary of that date. This week as well, B'nai Brith's audit showed that even though Jews make up about 1.25% of the Canadian population, Jews are the victims of 61% of religious hate crimes in Canada. There's something weird, and awesomely bad, about that. Mr. Panneton, I want to ask a question about social media. When it comes to social media, we see that wherever it goes, whether it was right before the insurrection last year, QAnon, George Soros, or whatever else seems to be happening, Jews are always …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-anthony-housefather/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/4/27/mr-anthony-housefather/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites a B'nai Brith audit statistic about hate crimes against Jews and describes the prevalence of antisemitic tropes on social media, presenting factual information without explicitly condemning anyone or assigning blame."}, {"id": "committee-793", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-05-05", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["We both do, and that is how it's felt generally within the Jewish community. As a community, we've been complaining for years that if this is allowed on campus, if you are allowed to discriminate and if universities are not enforcing their own policies to protect their students, their faculty and their administration, then eventually we will see spillover into general society. We saw that happen—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/5/mr-michael-mostyn/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/5/mr-michael-mostyn/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is describing complaints and concerns from the Jewish community about discriminatory treatment on campuses and predicting potential spillover effects. They are reporting/citing the community's position without explicitly condemning it themselves or naming specific responsible parties in this passage.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-794", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-05-05", "speaker": "Mr. Marvin Rotrand", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ty, within a reasonable amount of time, not only to take down hateful literature but to find a way to modify their algorithms. It's not an area that I'm personally an expert on. However, we can see on a daily basis—and we are getting more and more complaints from our community—about what's online and how that leads to vandalism and violence in our streets that are aimed at Jews."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/5/mr-marvin-rotrand/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/5/mr-marvin-rotrand/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "National Director, League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hateful literature online and vandalism/violence against Jews, expressing concern about the problem without naming a specific person or entity as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-795", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-05-10", "speaker": "Mr. Dane Lloyd", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["You're saying the Canadian government is only funding you to look into Islamic or Daesh related extremism and far-right extremism. Is there no funding from the Government of Canada to deal with environmental extremism or bigotry against Christian or Jewish groups in Canada?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/10/mr-dane-lloyd/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/10/mr-dane-lloyd/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sturgeon River--Parkland", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Iran", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is asking a question about government funding allocation for different types of extremism research, including mention of potential bigotry against Jewish groups, without taking a position on any hostility or condemning/blaming anyone."}, {"id": "committee-796", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-05-10", "speaker": "Mr. Mohammed Hashim", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nment and the justice system. The level of intelligence that the system gains as a whole by centring the voices of victims is pivotally important. Who do we see as victims? As I said, in terms of online hate, we've seen women, women of colour and particularly young people, as those who are being targeted the most, but hate is an evolving target. Sometimes you see Muslims. Sometimes you see members of the Jewish community. The highest numbers have typically been Black and indigenous communities, and now you see anti-Asian racism rising in very high levels. I think it evolves over time."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/10/mr-mohammed-hashim/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/5/10/mr-mohammed-hashim/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jewish communities as one category of online hate that exists, mentioning it alongside other groups targeted, without condemning it, naming specific actors responsible, or taking a particular position on the phenomenon itself."}, {"id": "committee-797", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-10-26", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… cial media literacy campaign. Given the role that social media platforms play within society today, we think that an exceedingly important target is educating Canadians on what constitutes fair speech and responsible speech and use of social media platforms, versus those who abuse it in ways that serve to marginalize, threaten, bully, intimidate and exclude different segments of society. For us, the experience that we go through as a Jewish community is not just about us. It's instructive about what other marginalized and at-risk communities feel, because what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. We should take the statistics to heart and move prophylactically to put into place those things that are going to provide Canadians with adequate defe …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/26/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/26/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes harassment and bullying directed at the Jewish community through social media, using it as an example to illustrate broader patterns of marginalization, without naming specific perpetrators or accusing anyone of responsibility."}, {"id": "committee-798", "year": 2022, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2022-10-26", "speaker": "Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I think different forms of hate are understood differently, so there isn't a level playing field that way. There are those that are very obvious and those that are less obvious. It is self-evident that marginalized communities within the BIPOC basket are experiencing some very real challenges and discrimination. Look at a Jew, who typically looks white, and you have a perception of Jews as being successful and being part of white privilege—if we can use “woke” terminology. For many, it doesn't satisfy the criteria of discriminated or marginalized communities. Education is an important part."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/26/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2022/10/26/mr-shimon-koffler-fogel/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes how Jews face discrimination and perception problems (viewed as white and privileged rather than as a marginalized group), but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame enablers, or dispute the discrimination itself. They are reporting on how discrimination against Jews is understood differently than discrimination against other groups."}, {"id": "committee-799", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-05-29", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Very good. Thank you. Your mandate letter also mentions that you need to do work to support faith-based communities across the country. We have seen more than 68 Christian churches burned to the ground, vandalized or desecrated here in Canada, as well as many Jewish synagogues, some mosques and other religious places of worship. I would be interested to know what actions you have taken as part of your mandate to ensure that people can freely worship, whatever their denomination."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/5/29/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/5/29/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalism and desecration affecting Jewish synagogues along with other religious sites, then asks what actions have been taken. This is factual reporting of the situation without condemning, naming a specific perpetrator, or taking an evaluative stance on hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "committee-800", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-10-05", "speaker": "Mr. Taleeb Noormohamed", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… th traditions allow us to behave in these ways. These are personal questions. Whether you're Muslim, Jewish or Christian, “love thy neighbour” is an important concept. The idea that we think about the well-being of others—these are important concepts. No one should have to worry about their church, mosque, gurdwara or synagogue being burnt down or attacked. It is unacceptable. I agree with you that it is absolutely unacceptable for any place or worship or any place of gathering to be attacked or burnt down. However, the idea that we should put ourselves in a place where that is left unchecked is something that does cause me a tremendous amount of concern. With respect to C-11 , I'm sure we will have lots of conversations about this. My goodness, though, as somebody who worked in tech for over a decade, I d …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/5/mr-taleeb-noormohamed/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/5/mr-taleeb-noormohamed/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 9—Parliamentary Review Committee pursuant to the Emergencies Act", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that attacks on synagogues are 'unacceptable' and 'absolutely unacceptable' without naming any specific person or party as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-801", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-10-24", "speaker": "Dr. Gregory Stanton (President, Genocide Watch)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. It's a great honour for me to be here with you today. I speak behalf of Genocide Watch and the World Hazara Council, which approved my statement. The Hazaras are the Jews of Afghanistan. The Taliban and ISIS have marked them for extermination. The Hazara people are among the most persecuted peoples in the world. The Hazara are an ethnic and religious minority who have been facing systematic persecution and genocide in Afghanistan for over 100 years. The Hazara make up a quarter of the population of Afghanistan. Outside Afghanistan, Hazaras are one of the largest Afghan refugee groups in the world. UNHCR …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/dr-gregory-stanton-president-genocide-watch/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/dr-gregory-stanton-president-genocide-watch/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes persecution and genocide of Hazaras and compares them to Jews ('The Hazaras are the Jews of Afghanistan'), but does not condemn antisemitism, name specific perpetrators of hostility toward Jews, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute such characterizations. The passage reports on a situation without taking a position on hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "committee-802", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-10-24", "speaker": "Dr. Gregory Stanton", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… arily, it will have a big impact inside Afghanistan. My major recommendation, as I said in the talk I just gave, is to greatly increase the number of visas that you specifically earmark for Hazaras from Afghanistan to come to Canada—that has not been done yet—specifically recognizing them as a religious and ethnically persecuted community, just the way the Jews were during the Holocaust."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/dr-gregory-stanton/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/24/dr-gregory-stanton/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews during the Holocaust as a comparison point for current persecution of Hazaras, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews themselves or making claims about contemporary actors."}, {"id": "committee-803", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-07", "speaker": "Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to apologize to committee for my outburst and provide just a little context. I had just come from the House, where, when I was asking a question very important to me on hate crimes against the gay community, I was heckled by a member of the Conservative party with, “What about the Jews?” I found that extremely troubling. People will know around this table that I am among the most collegial and among the most respectful—at least I think that's my reputation. I'm not a heckler in the House. That was what was behind that, but I also want to say that respect also means respect for the work of the commit …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/7/mr-randall-garrison-esquimaltsaanichsooke-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/7/mr-randall-garrison-esquimaltsaanichsooke-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Justice", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names a specific Conservative party member's heckling as hostile toward Jews (using 'What about the Jews?' as deflection during gay hate crimes discussion), characterizing it as 'extremely troubling' conduct."}, {"id": "committee-804", "year": 2023, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2023-12-06", "speaker": "Ms. Heather McPherson", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. I would also like to ask a question about what's happening in the West Bank. We are seeing an increase in violence. Yesterday the United States announced that it will be imposing travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in recent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. Will Canada be undertaking the same?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/6/ms-heather-mcpherson/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/12/6/ms-heather-mcpherson/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Edmonton Strathcona", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Strathcona, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes US actions and asks a factual question about Canadian policy without taking a position on the hostility toward Palestinians or characterizing anyone as responsible for it."}, {"id": "committee-805", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-02-08", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I absolutely agree that there's been an increase in hate and violence towards the 2SLGBTQ community, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't broaden this out, because as Mr. Housefather has already pointed out, there's a huge rise in hatred towards Jews. People are calling “death to Jews” across the country. It's totally unacceptable. At the same time, many communities have a rise in Islamophobia. We've had 80 Christian churches torched in this country. A Hindu community in my riding is really terrified. They're being threatened, and they're receiving hate as well. I'm disappointed that we wouldn't br …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/8/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/8/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hatred toward Jews described ('death to Jews' calls), calling it 'totally unacceptable,' without naming specific individuals or groups responsible for it."}, {"id": "committee-806", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-02-13", "speaker": "Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Let's just change pace, then. In terms of the aftermath of this incident, of course this is having a great deal of impact on the Jewish communities in Canada. In meetings that I've had with them in my local area, many communities have been calling for your government's online hate legislation to be brought forward. It was promised to be brought forward within 100 days of your government coming to power. We have not seen that. I would ask what consideration your government has given to this, considering this incredible incident and the harm that's been done, and considering that groups like the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/13/ms-lindsay-mathyssen/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/13/ms-lindsay-mathyssen/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "London—Fanshawe", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "London—Fanshawe, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Pink Shirt Day", "subject": "law", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the government for not bringing forward promised online hate legislation, implying the government has responded too weakly to hostility toward Jews despite harm done to Jewish communities."}, {"id": "committee-807", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-02-13", "speaker": "Hon. Steven MacKinnon", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you for the question. I know that on multiple occasions, the fact that the Jewish community had a right to feel especially hurt by this incident was singled out and apologies were offered. I know it continues to be the case that we are horrified by the impact of this incident on the Jewish community and I think we all need to remain humble in the face of that. With respect to the anti-hate legislation, I would just point you to the minister and the fact that it remains a significant commitment of this government. Beyond that, I won't say much more—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/13/hon-steven-mackinnon/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/2/13/hon-steven-mackinnon/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges an incident hurt the Jewish community and references apologies and anti-hate legislation without naming a specific perpetrator or taking a clear stance on the incident itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-808", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-04-30", "speaker": "Mr. Matthew Green", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rspective. If there's anything missing, what should we be considering at this committee as recommendations to help provide better legislative, regulatory and, in some instances, perhaps criminal responses to accountability for the willful spread? I give reference to the way in which these are sometimes used to instill hate, incite political and social violence and target minority groups. I referenced the trans community, the indigenous community, the Black community, the Jewish community and the Muslim community, you name it. Could you reflect on how we can better hold people accountable? This could include platforms or corporations, more broadly."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/mr-matthew-green/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/4/30/mr-matthew-green/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton Centre, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Special Committee on Canada-People’s Republic of China Relationship", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the spread of hateful content that targets minority groups including the Jewish community, and seeks legislative and accountability measures without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-809", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-02", "speaker": "Mrs. Rachael Thomas", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Through you, Chair, I understand the member likes to throw accusations my way and insinuate why I would do something. My motives were pure. I believe the Jewish community is under attack in this country and that we need to stand for them. This government has put forward an anti-racism strategy, and they need to abide by that."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/2/mrs-rachael-thomas/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/2/mrs-rachael-thomas/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states belief that 'the Jewish community is under attack in this country' and calls for standing for them, objecting to the hostility without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "committee-810", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-09", "speaker": "Mrs. Rachael Thomas", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ommunities that have been selected here by the Liberal Party of Canada, including “journalists, women, indigenous peoples, Black and racialized communities, members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community and religious minorities”. As you can see from this list, there many folks who are omitted. Among them, of course, would be the Jewish community in Canada, which is actually the most harassed community in our nation at the moment and has been for quite some time. If we look at the crime rate and the hate crimes that are committed against folks, certainly Jewish individuals are the most targeted. Therefore, I'm confused as to why they're not on this list. Nevertheless, the amendment we have moved here today calls for a two-meeting study. The reason for that is this: This committee is already undertaking quite a bit of work. The Liberal members have said again and again that t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mrs-rachael-thomas/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mrs-rachael-thomas/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lethbridge", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Lethbridge, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Liberal Party of Canada as responsible for omitting the Jewish community from a list of selected communities, implying they are responsible for this discriminatory oversight given that Jews are 'the most harassed community' and 'most targeted' for hate crimes."}, {"id": "committee-811", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-09", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Coteau", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… l extremism out. The far right has been growing over the last decade in this country. During COVID, we saw a rapid rise of not only extremism, but misinformation and disinformation. We know all forms of extremism impact all communities, including the Black community, indigenous people and religious minorities like the Jewish community and the Muslim community. It's our job as politicians to call these things out. The only way extreme hate and extremism on the far right grows is when we're silent on these issues. This was a very simple motion. I want to go through the motion just quickly because a member of the Conservatives actually said that this motion was partisan. To me, that is unacceptable because the motion is very clear. I want to thank the mem …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mr-michael-coteau/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/9/mr-michael-coteau/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Don Valley East", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Don Valley East, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker identifies far-right extremism as impacting Jewish communities and states 'it's our job as politicians to call these things out,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-812", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-23", "speaker": "Ms. Melissa Lantsman", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I want to put on record that—when this committee is making recommendations—some of the Canadian anti-racism materials that are cited as additional reading come from workbooks. One of them is entitled “Dismantling Racism”, and this is what it says. It does mention Jews, but only as a quick aside to say that Jews have opted to become white in order to benefit from white supremacy: “Becoming white involves giving up [parts] of your original culture in order to get the advantages and privileges of [belonging to a] white group.” This is the stuff that is cited by the Government of Canada in teaching people about racism. I cannot …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/ms-melissa-lantsman/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/ms-melissa-lantsman/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Thornhill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Speech from the Throne — Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply", "subject": "education", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies a specific Canadian anti-racism workbook titled 'Dismantling Racism' as responsible for making a problematic statement about Jews and white supremacy, attributing this to material cited by the Government of Canada."}, {"id": "committee-813", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-23", "speaker": "Dr. Ted Rosenberg", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… toba, was the silence from our colleagues. Not only was there silence, but there were social media attacks on students who said they wouldn't sign the petition. It was terrible for us. I can tell you, as an academic who has spent 30 years teaching and who loves teaching, I was truly afraid of an accusation of implicit harassment by these students, just by virtue of the fact that they may have found out that I'm Jewish and that I support the State of Israel. There's no way to defend ourselves against that harassment and that accusation. I'll make one last comment. I was in touch with physicians from Ontario yesterday. Over 110 physicians from Ontario, who are academic physicians, are almost certainly going to withdraw their affiliation with the University of Toronto because they are so ashamed. What we're looking at is a medical …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/dr-ted-rosenberg/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/dr-ted-rosenberg/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Doctor, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies colleagues' silence and social media attacks as hostile actions toward Jewish students and an academic who is Jewish and supports Israel, describing fear of accusations based on Jewish identity."}, {"id": "committee-814", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-23", "speaker": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… sses for joining us today and helping inform this committee on its study into this very difficult subject. In a perfect world, universities are a place where we should be able to have difficult conversations on a wide range of subjects. I think all of our witnesses have clearly differentiated between that and the vile hatred that exists for so many Jewish students on campuses across Canada. Thank you for that. I think your comments, coming from the academic perspective, mirror and echo what this committee has heard from students, so thank you for adding that important perspective. I'd like to turn my first question to the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics. We're de …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/mr-alistair-macgregor/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/23/mr-alistair-macgregor/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Department of Justice—Main Estimates, 2024-25", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to 'vile hatred that exists for so many Jewish students on campuses across Canada' without naming specific individuals or parties responsible for it."}, {"id": "committee-815", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-27", "speaker": "Hon. Marco Mendicino", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Indeed, so am I, and we've heard it from Jewish students themselves. My next question is for Mr. Miller. On behalf of Universities Canada, can you inform members of this committee whether or not any disciplinary proceedings have been commenced on the grounds that students have committed some of the hate speech we've heard directly from Jewish students themselves?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/27/hon-marco-mendicino/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/27/hon-marco-mendicino/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker references hate speech directed at Jewish students as something 'we've heard directly from Jewish students themselves' and asks whether disciplinary proceedings have been commenced, without condemning the hostility, naming responsible parties, blaming anyone for inaction, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-816", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-05-27", "speaker": "Mr. Gabriel Miller", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you very much for that important question. The point I would make on this is that we often talk about academic freedom and freedom of expression as being in balance with the need for respect and for preventing discrimination, but I think it's also important to see how much these complement each other. The message we've been hearing in talking to Jewish students and scholars is that one of the consequences of not equally applying codes of conduct and other policies is that it deprives them of their academic freedom and their proper freedom of expression. That's when a university in our society begins to really experience difficulties, because it's premised on all peo …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/27/mr-gabriel-miller/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/5/27/mr-gabriel-miller/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "President and Chief Executive Officer, Universities Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker argues that universities are not equally applying codes of conduct and policies, which deprives Jewish students and scholars of academic freedom. This is criticizing inadequate institutional response to hostility/discrimination rather than naming who is responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-817", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-03", "speaker": "Mr. Shaffni Nalir (General Manager, Toronto Islamic Centre and Community Services)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… community's experience with Islamophobia and hate-motivated violence targeting our places of worship. I'm the general manager at the Toronto Islamic Centre and Community Services, the first and only mosque on Yonge Street and the only mosque in the University—Rosedale riding. On October 10, 2020, our mosque received a threatening email from an individual claiming to be associated with the Jewish Defense League, or JDL, an organization listed as terrorist by the FBI. Some of the content of the threatening email included, “We will [kill] every muzzie. We have the guns to do a Christchurch all over again”. We reported this threat to local law enforcement, and they advised us to close the mosque for a few days as they assessed the threat. For four long weeks, our mosque was closed to the public and to our congregants. The …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/3/mr-shaffni-nalir-general-manager-toronto-islamic-centre-and-community-services/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/3/mr-shaffni-nalir-general-manager-toronto-islamic-centre-and-community-services/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes receiving a threatening email and reports it to law enforcement without accusing the Jewish Defense League or any specific person of responsibility for the threat itself, nor condemning the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-818", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e being bombarded. We have something in our psychology called the illusory truth effect. If we see something frequently, we think it's more likely to be true. That's part of the reason that when we are being bombarded with hate content, we end up concluding there can be no smoke without fire, and we start to normalize hateful attitudes, conspiracy theories and lies. The great replacement theory specifically is the theory that Jews are encouraging migration of Muslims and Blacks to destroy the white race through intermarriage and interbreeding."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-imran-ahmed/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-imran-ahmed/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the great replacement theory and its antisemitic claims about Jews without condemning it directly in this excerpt, presenting it as an explanation of how hate content spreads psychologically."}, {"id": "committee-819", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Brown, I'm going to come back to you, if I may. We have differing opinions on Bill 21, but that debate is for another time, since we only have two minutes. Over the past few weeks, members of the Jewish community have appeared before the committee. They told us that Jews in Canada were being discriminated against, including by hate groups. Now people from the Muslim community have told us essentially the same thing. In both cases, I find it deplorable. In my opinion, it should not be happening. We're looking for solutions. I gather from your remarks that you don't see Bill 21, the state secularism law, as a solution. I'm not sure I understand yo …", "… iminal Code should be eliminated. We are looking for solutions, in any event, and the ones we've proposed are not perfect. They're certainly not the only ones. We do need to recognize Islamophobia, but I think we've already done that. Beyond that, do you see a reasonable, effective solution for combatting all forms of discrimination in Quebec and Canada, against the Muslim community, the Jewish community or any other community? I'd like to hear your comments on that."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states that discrimination against Jews by hate groups is 'deplorable' and 'should not be happening,' expressing clear objection to this hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "committee-820", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Randall Garrison", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Can you make some comment on the use of the Internet by white supremacist organizations to promote hatred against both Muslims and Jews?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-randall-garrison/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-randall-garrison/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Justice", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker asks for comments on white supremacist use of the Internet to promote hatred, but does not themselves condemn, blame, name specific actors, or dispute the characterization."}, {"id": "committee-821", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Imran Ahmed", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Yes. Look, white supremacists absolutely crucially understand that this is an opportunity for them to spread hatred against Muslims and Jews and to play them off against each other. I think what's been so dispiriting about the last nine months since October 7 has been seeing the way that platforms, algorithms and sometimes groups themselves have played the tune of white supremacists, who hate all of us, frankly."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-imran-ahmed/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-imran-ahmed/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive, Center for Countering Digital Hate", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names white supremacists as responsible for spreading hatred against Jews and for exploiting the situation to divide communities. They also name platforms, algorithms, and groups as having 'played the tune of' white supremacists in this effort."}, {"id": "committee-822", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Emon, I'm sorry to interrupt. I know it's very rude and I hate to do it, but as you know, we're limited to six minutes each. I've already used up more than four minutes of my time. I understand the financial issue, but do you feel that something should be done to curb hate against the Jewish community, something that would also be useful in curbing hate against the Muslim community? In our fight against all forms of hatred based on religion, race, gender, sexual orientation or anything else, do you feel that something tangible should be done? We have a minute and a half left."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/6/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hate against the Jewish community and calls for action to curb it, without naming any specific person or party as responsible for the hate itself."}, {"id": "committee-823", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-10", "speaker": "Mr. Asif Khan (National Secretary, Public Relations, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a, were to use their influence—which they have—to put an end to the hostilities in the Holy Lands, the heightened purpose of this conversation would mostly be resolved. With the recent issues in Canada, several effects have been observed, which this body is fully aware of. Some of those observations are an increase in hate crimes, community vigilance, a mental health impact, political and social advocacy, interfaith solidarity and solidarity with Jewish Canadians. With regard to the mental health impact, I point out that the stress and trauma from witnessing violence in Gaza combined with experiencing or fearing Islamophobic incidents have affected the mental health of many Muslims in Canada in a way far greater than has ever been observed before. Also of note is the increase in political activism and advocacy among Canadian Muslims. Communities and organizations are calling for stronger protections against hate crimes, greater representation in political spheres and more robust actions to address and combat Islamophobia. In a powerful display of unity, numerous Jewish Canadians have fiercely opposed the actions of the Netanyahu administration in Gaza. They have joined protests, signed petitions and engaged in interfaith initiatives to support the Palestinian cause and combat Islamophobia. This solidarity has fostered a profound sense of unity and mutual understanding between Jewish …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-asif-khan-national-secretary-public-relations-ahmadiyya-muslim-jamaat-canada/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-asif-khan-national-secretary-public-relations-ahmadiyya-muslim-jamaat-canada/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes observations and effects of recent issues in Canada, including hate crimes and their impacts on communities, without taking a position on or condemning the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-824", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-10", "speaker": "Mr. Boufeldja Benabdallah (Co-Founder and Spokesperson, Centre culturel islamique de Québec)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… elytize or to show that Islam is vindictive, on the contrary. Despite that, one segment of society—not the majority—started sending us hate messages, threatening messages, messages calling on the neighbourhood to ban the presence of this mosque, and saying that Muslims must leave and go home. These people even sprayed graffiti on our walls, swastikas. Imagine, we are being confused, once again, with the Jews. Since the Jews have suffered atrocities, we are also being threatened with atrocities if we do not leave. They even found a pig's head and feces at the door of the mosque. In addition, trash radio stations have been ranting about Muslims. Instead of talking about Muslims belonging and contributing to society, they are portraying us as agitators and people coming in with ideas from the o …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-boufeldja-benabdallah-co-founder-and-spokesperson-centre-culturel-islamique-de-québec/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-boufeldja-benabdallah-co-founder-and-spokesperson-centre-culturel-islamique-de-québec/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of hate messages, swastikas, and threats without explicitly condemning the hostility or naming specific perpetrators responsible for it. The passage recounts events factually rather than taking a clear evaluative stance."}, {"id": "committee-825", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-10", "speaker": "Mr. Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Madam Chair. Ms. Macfarlane, I haven't had a chance to ask you any questions yet. In your opinion, should we not put an end once and for all to discrimination, violence against the Muslim and Jewish communities, and all other forms of discrimination based on race, skin colour, gender or any other form? Have we not reached the point where we must ban all expressions of hatred from the public space? In short, shouldn't the promotion of hatred in Canada be prohibited, regardless of the reason given, including a religious text or an editorial?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/10/mr-rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to discrimination and violence against Jewish communities, calling for an end to hatred and discrimination without naming any specific person or group as responsible."}, {"id": "committee-826", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-06-13", "speaker": "Mr. Tom Kmiec", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["On a daily basis, the answer is no. My three children know that I travel and take pictures. Those of my children who are allowed to have an account follow me on social media. I don't actually take my children to many public events. However, I worry about the fact that my children are part Chinese and part Jewish. When I see street protests and anti‑Asian racism, I have concerns about our country's culture and the harmful effects that these kinds of campaigns, led by foreign agencies against us, will have on our culture and our society."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/13/mr-tom-kmiec/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/6/13/mr-tom-kmiec/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Shepard", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Calgary Shepard, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses worry and concern about anti-Asian racism and harmful campaigns, objecting to these phenomena without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-827", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-09-23", "speaker": "Mr. Francesco Sorbara (Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… consultation conducted over more than four years. We have heard from countless organizations that represent victims on the essential nature of this legislation. The groups in support of this bill range from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection to the National Council of Canadian Muslims, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Victims of exploitation and hatred and those who advocate on their behalf are asking all of us to do more. It is time we meet their call and meet their demands. The Leader of the Opposition forgets these facts. He is not serious about helping kids. He is not serious about stopping hatred online or not online. Conservatives are abandoning victims who ar …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/23/mr-francesco-sorbara-vaughanwoodbridge-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/23/mr-francesco-sorbara-vaughanwoodbridge-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vaughan—Woodbridge", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Change to Standing Order 30 Regarding the Prayer", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker lists organizations supporting legislation, including those representing Jewish interests and victims of hatred, without taking a position on any specific hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it."}, {"id": "committee-828", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-10-09", "speaker": "Ms. Niki Ashton (Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. Welcome, Minister. In the foreword of the current anti-racism strategy you said: ...since the events of October 7, 2023, we have seen unprecedented levels of hate towards Jewish, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities right here in Canada. This is unquestionably true. Since then, we've seen a worrying explosion of hate and anger directed at members of these communities. The reality is that no Jewish family should worry about the safety of their kids when they drop them off at Hebrew school. No Muslim should fear violence as they walk into a mosque. We have a responsibility as legislators to do everything in our power to protect communities from hate. This is why I don't understand why your Liberal government steadfastly refused to define anti-Palestinian racism. You acknowledge that it's a problem, and the strategy explicitly recogniz …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/9/ms-niki-ashton-churchillkeewatinook-aski-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/9/ms-niki-ashton-churchillkeewatinook-aski-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker acknowledges hostility toward Jewish communities exists and then criticizes the Liberal government for refusing to define anti-Palestinian racism, implying they have not adequately responded to or addressed this specific form of discrimination.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-829", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-10-09", "speaker": "Mr. Taleeb Noormohamed (Vancouver Granville, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n Centre, which was a specific line item in the budget. They voted against funding for the expansion of the Jewish Community Centre in my riding. They voted against funding for the Hellenic community in my riding. They voted against funding for the Canada community safety program that has affected gurdwara, masjid and Jewish temples in my riding. What message does it send to Jews, Muslims, indigenous people, Asian Canadians and so many others when Conservatives talk about fighting racism and don't show up where it matters in the votes that matter to Canadians?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/9/mr-taleeb-noormohamed-vancouver-granville-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/9/mr-taleeb-noormohamed-vancouver-granville-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Granville", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Vancouver Granville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 9—Parliamentary Review Committee pursuant to the Emergencies Act", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker attributes responsibility for discriminatory action to Conservatives by stating they 'voted against funding' for Jewish Community Centre and other minority community protections, framing this as a failure to combat racism affecting Jews and other groups."}, {"id": "committee-830", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-10-31", "speaker": "Mr. Eylon Levy (Former Israeli Government Spokesman, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e members to find any Palestinian speaker who would embrace a vision of two states for two peoples. Also, the Palestinian movement is backed by an Iranian regime that has surrounded Israel with a ring of fire, arming proxy armies to wage war on seven fronts, and would seek to exploit any further vacuum to continue its attacks on Israel. Now the challenge for policy-makers is to strengthen the voices that seek peace by accepting Israel's permanent existence and the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their ancient homeland. Currently, international practice is empowering those who are committed to waging a forever war against the Jewish state. World leaders must aim to induce the Palestinians to abandon that forever war against Israel. That means, for example, ending the far …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/31/mr-eylon-levy-former-israeli-government-spokesman-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/31/mr-eylon-levy-former-israeli-government-spokesman-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Palestinian movement's opposition to Israel and characterizes it as a 'forever war against the Jewish state,' but does not explicitly condemn hostility toward Jews, name specific actors responsible for anti-Jewish hostility, blame others for enabling it, or dispute claims of hostility. The passage reports on political positions and conflicts without addressing antisemitism or anti-Jewish prejudice directly."}, {"id": "committee-831", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-11-07", "speaker": "Ms. Pam Damoff", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… he Conservative Party. If it's not a priority for the Liberal Party, I welcome them to put that on the record. It certainly seems so, given they've been filibustering and trying to avoid the 106(4) about the potential.... The idea that there was almost a bombing on Parliament Hill...the Leader of the Opposition , many Jewish Canadians and others.... This is a series of thwarted terrorist attacks on the Jewish community, Mr. Chair."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/7/ms-pam-damoff/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/7/ms-pam-damoff/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies the Liberal Party as responsible for not prioritizing action against hostility toward Jews, implying they have been filibustering and avoiding dealing with terrorist attacks on the Jewish community."}, {"id": "committee-832", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-11-18", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Geist", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… peace bond for speech in this context. We use these kinds of things in other contexts. If we're concerned about domestic violence and it's imminent, we might get an order to ensure that it doesn't happen or to try to prevent it from taking place. This would similarly be an attempt to prevent certain kinds of potential hate from taking place. As I mentioned off the top, the Jewish community has seen an unprecedented number of shootings and targeting at synagogues and at schools. If we knew they were coming, a bond might be able to try to stop some of those kinds of activities from taking place. I think, though—and Professor Laidlaw mentioned this before—that both the Criminal Code and the Human Rights Act provisions in the legislation run the risk of overreach. Frankly, the bi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/18/dr-michael-geist/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/18/dr-michael-geist/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about 'hate' and 'shootings and targeting at synagogues and at schools' affecting the Jewish community, describing these as 'unprecedented,' without naming specific perpetrators but objecting to the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-833", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-11-20", "speaker": "Mr. Stéphane Sérafin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… I would have, let's say, with the online harms bill, is that the groups most likely to weaponize this are actually both of those groups in particular, at least in the current context. The moment that provision comes into effect, if it comes into effect, I would anticipate a number of complaints filed on both sides, by Jewish and pro-Palestine groups. I would suggest that having this mechanism that requires the state to decide these disputes as an expression of hate on one side or the other, is not a healthy approach to resolving these issues. There need to be more means-based approaches to dealing with these issues. For example, on-campus protests should be permitted, but we should also recognize that there are limits to what on-campus protests can do."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/20/mr-stéphane-sérafin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/20/mr-stéphane-sérafin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker argues against characterizing complaints from Jewish and pro-Palestine groups as hate speech, suggesting that using state mechanisms to decide such disputes as expressions of hate is 'not a healthy approach,' thereby disputing the framing of these disagreements as hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-834", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-11-21", "speaker": "Ms. Pam Damoff", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["So you went to Russia to stir up hatred against Jews?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/21/ms-pam-damoff/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/11/21/ms-pam-damoff/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is posing a question to someone about an alleged action, not making a statement that condemns, names responsibility, blames, disputes, or uses coded language. It's presented as an inquiry rather than a declarative statement taking a position on hostility."}, {"id": "committee-835", "year": 2024, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2024-12-10", "speaker": "Hon. Kamal Khera", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Shame on them to pretend to care about hate in this country, when every chance they've had, they've voted against it, including supports for Jewish Canadians in this country."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/12/10/hon-kamal-khera/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/12/10/hon-kamal-khera/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton West", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — International Development", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies 'them' as responsible for failing to support Jewish Canadians and voting against measures to combat hate directed at them."}, {"id": "house-836", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-04-22", "speaker": "Mr. Deepak Obhrai (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… he situation in various parts of the world where individuals, including Ahmadis, Baha'is, Chaldeans, Christians, Copts, Falun Gong practitioners, Jews, Muslims, Rohingyas, Sufis, and Zoroastrians, among others, experience difficulty in their ability to worship and practise their faith in peace. We strongly condemn all attacks on places of worship, whether at temples, synagogues, shrines, mosques, gurdwaras, or churches. Canada cannot and will not condone such cowardly acts. It is of utmost importance that every individual is able to practise their faith in safety and security. Our advocacy on the issue of religious freedom has been steadfast and ongoing. As others have already mentioned, we …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/4/22/mr-deepak-obhrai-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/4/22/mr-deepak-obhrai-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states 'We strongly condemn all attacks on places of worship' including synagogues, and affirms that Canada will not condone such acts against religious groups including Jews."}, {"id": "house-837", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-03-28", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… people across Canada, in Israel and around the world commemorating Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day. For 68 years, since the end of the Second World War, we have memorialized the victims of one of the darkest periods of history. During Yom Hashoah, we remember those whose lives were so brutally taken during the Holocaust. They died solely because they were Jewish or Roma, disabled, or members of the gay and lesbian community. Each was a victim of Nazi hatred. Today we remember the survivors, women and men whose profound courage and example taught us that love and life are possible, even after facing the most unspeakable of horrors. History tells us that those who promote bigotry for political advantage plant the very seeds for crimes against humanity. When we say “never a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/3/28/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/3/28/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker commemorates Holocaust victims and condemns the Nazi hatred that killed them, and warns against promoting bigotry without naming any current specific person or group as responsible."}, {"id": "house-838", "year": 2013, "chamber": "house", "date": "2013-01-29", "speaker": "Mr. Costas Menegakis (Richmond Hill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… handful of exceptional cases each year, where there are no other legal grounds to keep despicable people out of our country. Among others, immigration lawyer Julie Taube testified that she not only supported the bill but also its new ability to deny entry to those who pose a risk. She said: This is just a question of hate-mongers.... Anybody wanting to promote hatred in Canada, be it against homosexuals, Jews, women, Muslims, etc.—they should all be barred. I agree with Julie Taube. The faster removal of foreign criminals act is common sense legislation. It would make it easier for the government to remove dangerous foreign criminals from our country and make it harder for those who pose a risk to Canada to enter the count …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/1/29/mr-costas-menegakis-richmond-hill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/1/29/mr-costas-menegakis-richmond-hill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Richmond Hill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Richmond Hill, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject", "act"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Yom HaShoah", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a lawyer's testimony about hate-mongers and those promoting hatred against Jews, then expresses agreement with the legislative proposal, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any specific instance of hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-839", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-12-12", "speaker": "Hon. Jim Karygiannis (Scarborough—Agincourt, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hy don't we open our door to accept some of the refugees?” I wish I could answer Motaz's question, but I cannot. Maybe the minister can. Canada has a long history of opening its doors to refugees. In recent history, we have opened our doors to: 12,000 Czech refugees after the Prague Spring; 13,000 Chileans fleeing the persecution and the authoritarian rule of General Pinochet; 20,000 Soviet Jewish refugees who were being denied the right to express and practise their religion; 4,420 Ugandan Asian refugees following Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda; 60,000 Vietnamese boat people; 5,000 Bosnian Muslims who were victims of the Yugoslavian civil war, which was characterized by ethnic cleansing and genocid …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/12/12/hon-jim-karygiannis-scarboroughagincourt-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/12/12/hon-jim-karygiannis-scarboroughagincourt-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough—Agincourt", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Scarborough—Agincourt, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Points of Order — Comments by Member for Oak Ridges--Markham", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker cites historical examples of refugee admissions including Soviet Jewish refugees denied religious rights, describing the situation factually without condemning or blaming anyone for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-840", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-12-04", "speaker": "Mr. James Lunney (Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this past week, the UN voted 138-9 in a symbolic gesture recognizing the state of Palestine. It was 65 years to the day since the celebrated UN vote on partition that gave rise to the modern state of Israel. Having accepted partition, the tiny nation was attacked by five surrounding armies. To this day, the Palestinian charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, formed during what it likes to call the Al-Nakba , the disaster. Hamas official Osama Hamdan stated that, “A Palestinian state without an armed struggle against Israel is an illusion”. Nevertheless, Hamas welcomed the statehood bid “because it reflected the international community's readiness to fix what it cor …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/12/4/mr-james-lunney-nanaimoalberni-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/12/4/mr-james-lunney-nanaimoalberni-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Nanaimo--Alberni", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Holocaust Memorial Day", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical events, UN votes, and statements from Palestinian leaders and Hamas without taking a position condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing hostility toward Jews. The passage is presented as factual context."}, {"id": "house-841", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-11-08", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise on the eve of the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when, in 1938, Nazi troops stormed Jewish neighbourhoods in Germany, vandalizing Jewish homes and businesses, desecrating synagogues and cemeteries, arresting some 30,000 Jews, murdering others and burning books, as a precursor to burning people and the atrocities to come. We commemorate Kristallnacht on the eve also of Remembrance Day when we honour the brave men and women who fought for Canada and for freedom, including those instrumental in defeating the Third Reich. This week is also Holocaust Education Week, wherein the lessons of the Holocaust are transmitted to generations of Canadians will resonate globally with Canada as incoming chair of the International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance and Education. The lessons of the Holocaust are universal. We remember the dangers associated with cultures of hate and the importance of speaking out against injustice. Tonight, I will attend a commemoration of Kristallnacht and, on Sunday, Remembrance Day ceremonies in my riding. As we remember the horrors of the past, let us ensure that the world will never experience such horrors again. Lest we forget."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/11/8/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/11/8/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Nazi hostility toward Jews during Kristallnacht in condemning terms, emphasizing dangers of hate and importance of speaking out against injustice, without naming specific current perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-842", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… may not have a criminal record abroad, but who may actually be coming here to incite hatred and violence, or to incite terrorism. I will give the example of two British nationals, I believe, named Abdur Raheem Green and Hamza Tzortzis. Last year, they came to Canada even though they had a horrible record of promoting hatred against women, homosexuals, gays and lesbians, Jews and certain other minorities. A number of Canadians were afraid that the men intended to come to Canada to incite hatred, violence and perhaps even terrorism. Under current laws such persons cannot be prevented from entering Canada. For example, in some countries, it is not a crime to promote hatred against Jews or homosexuals. This bill would give the minister the discretion, with certain limits, to prevent certain foreign nationals from entering Canada if they plan to promote violence, even though it is not a crime in their country of origin. This is something we will have to study in more detail when the bill is before the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/9/24/hon-jason-kenney/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/9/24/hon-jason-kenney/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Abdur Raheem Green and Hamza Tzortzis as individuals with 'a horrible record of promoting hatred against...Jews' and other groups, directly attributing hostility toward Jews to these specific persons."}, {"id": "house-843", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-06-01", "speaker": "Ms. Joyce Murray (Vancouver Quadra, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ial in confronting the scourge of discrimination that transgendered people continue to face in our society and might also guide educational efforts in the broader community. We know well that having clarity and being able to measure and compile statistics has been essential in Canada's efforts to reduce other forms of discrimination against Jews, against people who are other-abled and in many other cases. What we do not measure, we cannot have objectives to improve. When we do not have objectives, we will be unlikely to achieve that goal. I am proud that in 1996, guided by the principles of equality, justice and the fundamental need to protect vulnerable grou …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/6/1/ms-joyce-murray-vancouver-quadra-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/6/1/ms-joyce-murray-vancouver-quadra-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vancouver Quadra", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Quadra, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker references past discrimination against Jews as a historical example of discrimination that Canada has measured and addressed, without describing current hostility or taking a position on any specific instance."}, {"id": "house-844", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-17", "speaker": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… how Roma refugees would be negatively affected by having EU countries designated as safe. She spoke about how disheartening and insulting it was to hear our Minister of Citizenship refer to them as bogus and she explained why he was wrong. I want to pause there and say that we are all very intimately familiar with the persecution, the genocide, against the Jewish people in World War II. What is less commented upon is the fact that Roma, along with the disabled, were also targeted for their ethnicity, rounded up, tortured, medically experimented upon, detained in concentration camps and murdered simply because they were Roma. This is not just any ethnic group. It is an ethnic g …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/17/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/17/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Roma and Jews during WWII without making any statement about current hostility toward Jews or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "house-845", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s in Iran have suffered a systematic relentless campaign of persecution. Over 200 Baha'is have been killed, hundreds more imprisoned, and the Baha'is in Iran face social, economic and cultural restrictions. Iranian authorities continue to undermine the rights of freedom of religion through the persistent and pervasive persecution of religious minorities such as Baha'is, Christians, Jews, Sufis and Sunni Muslims. Members from all sides of the House will come together this evening to participate in an important and timely debate on the human rights situation in Iran. We continue to urge Iran to uphold its international obligations to allow for freedom of religion and to respect the fundamental rights f …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-james-bezan-selkirkinterlake-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-james-bezan-selkirkinterlake-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Selkirk--Interlake", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Selkirk—Interlake, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names Iranian authorities as responsible for persecution of Jews and other religious minorities, stating 'Iranian authorities continue to undermine the rights of freedom of religion through the persistent and pervasive persecution of religious minorities such as Baha'is, Christians, Jews, Sufis and Sunni Muslims.'"}, {"id": "house-846", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s in the sponsorship of terrorism abroad, so it exports human rights abuses. Finally, and perhaps most significant of all, there is the incitement to genocide and the overt stated goal of the Iranian regime, the Ahmadinejad regime, of wiping Israel off the face of the earth by killing as many Israeli citizens, as many Jews, as possible. Let me go through some of these things now systematically. I will start with religious persecution. With good reason we have heard about the terrible persecution of the Baha'i in Iran. The Baha'i religion began in Iran and has had its home there for a long time, although Baha'is exist worldwide. The Baha'i religion is a post-Koranic religion. On the basis of it being post-Koranic the minimal legal and constitutiona …", "… weapons. It seeks to develop a delivery mechanism through missiles in order to destroy Israel. To give a sense of just how absurd, but also how dangerous, this really is, let me just read a bit about what has been said by the Iranian regime. Israel is referred to as a “cancerous tumour”. We have heard that an Iranian attack on Israel would seek to kill as many as five million Jews. The estimate was that if Israel responded by dropping its own nuclear weapons, Iran might lose as many as 15 million people but that would be, as representatives of the regime put it, a small price to pay, a small sacrifice, because there are a billion Muslims in the world. This kind of grotesque rhetoric obviously h …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenaclennox-and-addington-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-scott-reid-lanarkfrontenaclennox-and-addington-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly attributes the hostility (incitement to genocide, goal of wiping Israel off earth, killing Jews, calling Israel a 'cancerous tumour') to the Iranian regime and Ahmadinejad regime specifically."}, {"id": "house-847", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… social pariahs to be shunned by the regime. The propaganda is shocking in its volume and vehemence. Its scope and sophistication is calculated to stir up and antagonize the whole population, to stir them in a way that has only happened one other time in history, which was very similar to this. It happened against the Jews in Germany. After 30 years of hate propaganda, the Baha'is have become a kind of all-purpose scapegoat, a smear of convenience, which the Iranian government uses against any individual or group it disapproves of as though the mere mention of the word Baha'i conjures up the most lurid forms of immorality that one can imagine. Of course, with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, the situation has only worsened. A …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes propaganda and persecution patterns without directly condemning or naming specific actors as responsible for hostility toward Jews; uses historical comparison as descriptive context", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-848", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. Stephen Woodworth (Kitchener Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nd the executions, mutilations and torture that go on. I will be speaking about that myself in a few moments. I would like to ask my colleague across the way about a new initiative of the Canadian government, the office of religious freedom. What we find around the world is that much persecution is driven by religious prejudice. In Iran, of course, the Baha'i are suffering persecution. In China, it is the Falun Dafa, and in other places, Christians. In the Middle East, Jews are often subject to persecution. I wonder if the member opposite would be able to endorse, join in and support the new initiative by the government, the office for religious freedom? I understand it will have high-ranking ambassadorial status to investigate and speak out against religious persecution around the world."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-stephen-woodworth-kitchener-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-stephen-woodworth-kitchener-centre-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes persecution of Jews in the Middle East as one example among several religious persecutions worldwide, without condemning it, naming responsible parties, or taking a position beyond stating it as fact."}, {"id": "house-849", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-05-14", "speaker": "Mr. Russ Hiebert (South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s death by hanging. That sentence has been upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. As we have heard in testimony before our subcommittee, despite the fact that the Iranian constitution recognizes and protects the nation's pre-Islamic religious minorities, including Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, in practice these groups face discrimination and persecution. Christians are subject to harassment and close surveillance by police. The government has a policy of prohibiting proselytizing and monitors the activities of many churches, acts to close churches and arrests Christian converts. Members of some congregations are required to carry membership cards that must be provided to police on request, and church off …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-russ-hiebert-south-surreywhite-rockcloverdale-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/5/14/mr-russ-hiebert-south-surreywhite-rockcloverdale-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes discrimination and persecution against Jews and other religious minorities in Iran without taking a position on the hostility itself; it states facts about government policies and practices without condemning, blaming, naming specific actors, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "house-850", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-04-23", "speaker": "Mr. Brian Masse (Windsor West, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today many of my colleagues and I will walk with a Canadian Holocaust survivor on this national Holocaust Remembrance Day. I shared in the same honour last Thursday, remembering with Windsor's Jewish community at our local ceremony. The Holocaust refers to a specific genocide event, the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary targets and victims—six million were murdered—but targets also included gypsies, the handicapped and Polish citizens because of racial, ethnic and national reasons. Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi …", "… indifference and to shatter the conspiracy of silence. As an international community, we must stand together and act to prevent future genocide, not stand idly by and intervene when it is too late. Today, by reflecting on this annihilation, we break that silence and honour the memory of the victims. As Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, said: ...I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endured suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/23/mr-brian-masse-windsor-west-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/23/mr-brian-masse-windsor-west-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Windsor West", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Brian Masse (Windsor West, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Supply", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust historical facts and quotes Elie Wiesel without making accusations against any specific present-day person, party, or institution for current hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-851", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-04-04", "speaker": "Mr. Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… y that saw far too many. On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are all called to contemplate the truth of the genocide: the brutal murder of six million Jews simply because they were Jewish, of six million women, men and children, in addition to the millions who were displaced and hunted just because they were Jewish. Today, we remember, but we also must remember to act against intolerance, racism and hatred of any kind."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/4/mr-thomas-mulcair-outremont-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/4/4/mr-thomas-mulcair-outremont-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Outremont", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Outremont, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the genocide and hatred against Jews, calling to 'act against intolerance, racism and hatred of any kind' without naming specific perpetrators in this passage."}, {"id": "house-852", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-03-29", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Adler (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… anti-Israel bias is, sadly, alive and well at the United Nations. Last week we saw, yet again, Israel being singled out by members of the United Nations Human Rights Council in a simplistic and one-sided resolution. I call on members from all parties to join me in expressing extreme disappointment with this continued hate-on for the Jewish state. There is no shortage of pressing human rights matters that the UNHRC should be addressing. These types of actions are counterproductive to the efforts of negotiating a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Our government believes that status issues must be negotiated between the two parties, not the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/29/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/29/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly attributes hostile actions to specific entities: the UN Human Rights Council members for 'singling out Israel' and passing a 'one-sided resolution,' describing this as a 'hate-on for the Jewish state.'", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-853", "year": 2012, "chamber": "house", "date": "2012-03-06", "speaker": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… safe. Right now the far-right government of Hungary is currently passing laws before its parliament to have the power to pass laws in 24 hours, with 6 minutes of debate accorded to the opposition parties. It is amending the constitution. There is the situation of the Roma in Europe. Everyone knows in World War II that Jews were rounded up because of their faith and ethnicity. Roma were rounded up because of their ethnicity as were disabled and communists. These were historically discriminated against, including Roma. There is a long history of established discrimination against Roma, and those people come from Hungary. They come from the Czech Republic, from Romania, from countries that are members of the EU in some cases and those people have a right to make their claim. The minister has thrown out the pa …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/6/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2012/3/6/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jews and Roma without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing; they are citing historical facts and context to support an argument about refugees' claims."}, {"id": "house-854", "year": 2011, "chamber": "house", "date": "2011-10-03", "speaker": "Ms. Paulina Ayala (Honoré-Mercier, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… y and the internment of Germans, Turks, Bulgarians and Japanese Canadians during the two world wars in the 20th century. The government's new approach recalls two other particularly ugly moments in Canadian history. In 1914, a Japanese plane carrying 400 passengers from India landed in Vancouver, but the refugees were denied entry to Canada and were deported to India. Twenty of them were killed upon their return. Twenty-five years later, a ship carrying over 900 Jews fleeing the Nazis was turned away, forcing the refugees back to Europe, where over a third of them would die in the Holocaust. These communities, whether South Asian or Jewish, which are now considered pillars of Canadian society, have experienced their share of discrimination and stigmatization. It is inconceivable in 2011, when Canada is not at war or threatened by mass immigration, that the government would propose new measures that amount to profiling and discrimination. It is even less conceivable that these initiatives would be considered urgent, in contrast to Canada's values and com …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/10/3/ms-paulina-ayala-honoré-mercier-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2011/10/3/ms-paulina-ayala-honoré-mercier-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical incidents of discrimination against Jewish refugees (the 1939 ship rejection) without attributing responsibility to any specific current actor or taking a position on whether the described actions constitute hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-855", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-02", "speaker": "Mr. Sylvain Abitbol (Co-President, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… of the luckier ones since I was born in a Muslim country that is relatively tolerant. Morocco is one of the rare Arab countries in which Jews live and have lived in relative peace, thanks to the leadership of several successive sultans who behaved nobly. Yet, even in Morocco, despite its tolerant attitude, only 3,000 Jews remain there today out of a population of approximately 265,000 in 1948. Others were not so lucky. During the 20th century, large Jewish populations were persecuted and finally, displaced, in countries such as Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria. A little later, you will hear experts tell you about massive human rights violations against Jews: persecution, violence, mandatory arrest and detention—and I myself have been arbitrarily detained—expulsions, expropriation of community assets and of Jewish personal assets. The list of injustices is as long as it is varied. These measures, taken in many Arab countries, did not take place spontaneously nor in a vacuum. Documents have been discovered by JJAC in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/mr-sylvain-abitbol-co-president-justice-for-jews-from-arab-countries/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/mr-sylvain-abitbol-co-president-justice-for-jews-from-arab-countries/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical persecution and displacement of Jews in Arab countries and mentions that experts will discuss human rights violations, without stating a position on whether these actions were justified or condemning them explicitly in this passage."}, {"id": "committee-856", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-02", "speaker": "Dr. Stanley Urman (Executive Director, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… c rules, Jews and Christians were considered “ dhimmi ”, a privileged minority but still second-class citizens. Jews were, for a period of time, permitted limited religious, educational, professional, and business opportunities, but this changed dramatically in the 20th century, as witnessed by a widespread pattern of persecution and the mass violations of the human rights of Jewish minorities in Arab countries. The deterioration in their status was precipitated by official decrees and legislation that denied human and civil rights to minority populations, that expropriated properties, and that removed minorities from civil service and other forms of employment. Edicts of expulsion were enacted i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/dr-stanley-urman-executive-director-justice-for-jews-from-arab-countries/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/dr-stanley-urman-executive-director-justice-for-jews-from-arab-countries/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical persecution, discriminatory decrees, and human rights violations against Jews in Arab countries without attributing responsibility to any named person, party, or institution, or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-857", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-02", "speaker": "Mr. David Matas", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… country in many cases that was voting against these resolutions and making statements about it. I think Canada now has an important and significant history to live up to in this area of standing up against the delegitimization of Israel. Part of it is the focus on the Palestinian refugees as a victim population to the exclusion of Jewish refugees, which plays into this I would say false narrative of the Jews as perpetrators."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/mr-david-matas/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/mr-david-matas/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Member of the Board of Directors, Rights and Democracy", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the delegitimization of Israel and the false narrative characterizing Jews as perpetrators, without naming a specific person or entity as responsible for these hostilities."}, {"id": "committee-858", "year": 2013, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2013-05-02", "speaker": "Dr. Stanley Urman", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I think there is a narrative but it's not an individual narrative. The narrative is that Jews had lived in this region for centuries before the advent of Arab states. To varying degrees in different countries, Jews were persecuted or Jews were allowed to live benignly under the ruling of enlightened despots. Jews around the time of the founding of Israel were subjected to persecution and state-sanctioned repressions. Irrespective of the country in which they resided, Jews ultimately left. By way of example, we spoke about Morocco. Morocco is the example of a country we point to where tolerance rules the day and the benevolence of a succession of Moroccan kings has really allowed Jews to live there in peace. Yet in Morocco where there were 265,000 Jews, today there are fewer than 3,000, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/dr-stanley-urman/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2013/5/2/dr-stanley-urman/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical persecution and state-sanctioned repression of Jews in various countries without attributing blame to specific actors or taking a position on the hostility itself—merely presenting it as historical narrative."}, {"id": "house-859", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-04-02", "speaker": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the federal caucus of the New Democratic Party, I wish to extend warmest wishes to members of the Jewish community as they gather to celebrate Passover with songs, wine, and a meal shared with family and friends. Families will gather to retell the powerful story of the exodus of the Jewish people out of slavery and celebrate the victory of freedom, faith, and hope over oppression, persecution, and hate. As families and friends gather together across the country at their Seder tables to share the story of their rich culture, faith, and traditions, it is also a time to reflect on the many blessings we have here in Canada and to remember those around the world who are still struggling to find the peace and security we …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/4/2/mr-pat-martin-winnipeg-centre-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/4/2/mr-pat-martin-winnipeg-centre-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Winnipeg Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker extends warm wishes and describes Passover traditions without addressing any hostility toward Jews or taking a position on discrimination."}, {"id": "house-860", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-03-26", "speaker": "Hon. Chris Alexander (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e largest exoduses of humanity ever recorded. In Iraq and Syria, we see Sunni and Shia being victims, especially when they are in minority positions on the territory of the other, on the territory of their armed enemies. We see Alawites and Ismailis suffering, having to protect themselves, vulnerable. We see Kurds and Jews being slaughtered in indiscriminately. These are only the cases where it is documented. There are very few journalists in Syria. It is increasingly difficult for journalists to cover what is happening in Iraq unless the ISIL media make a video and post it on YouTube. We know that the atrocities are on a much larger scale than we have even recorded so far. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/26/hon-chris-alexander-minister-of-citizenship-and-immigration-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/26/hon-chris-alexander-minister-of-citizenship-and-immigration-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ajax--Pickering", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Jews being slaughtered in Iraq and Syria alongside other groups, presenting this as factual reporting of documented atrocities without taking a position on the hostility itself or naming/blaming specific actors."}, {"id": "house-861", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-03-26", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Strahl (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ack to the time of the first apostles are being systematically erased from the landscape. These Christians are among the last people on earth still using Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ. It is estimated that 100,000 Christians have been driven from their ancestral lands. Religious artifacts have also been desecrated, and ancient manuscripts dating to the first century have been destroyed by ISIL. In a disturbing parallel to the Nazi practice of marking property owned by Jews, ISIL marked the homes of Christians in Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, with the Arabic letter “N” for Nazara, an early Islamic term for Christians. Once identified, Christians were given the choice to convert to radical Islam, pay a massive fine, or face death by the sword. Most chose to flee for their lives. Canon Andrew White, known as the vicar of Baghdad, has described the situation in Iraq as “the worst reality of religious persecution since the Holocaust.” Amnesty International investigator Donatella Rovera has said: The massacres and abductions being carried out by the Islamic State provide harrowing new evidence that a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities is sweeping across northern Iraq. William Youmaran, president of the Assyrian American National Federatio …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/26/mr-mark-strahl-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-aboriginal-affairs-and-northern-development-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/3/26/mr-mark-strahl-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-aboriginal-affairs-and-northern-development-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes persecution of Christians by ISIL, including marking homes and forced choices, without making accusations about hostility toward Jews specifically or taking a position on antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-862", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Chair, it has been 70 years since Auschwitz was liberated. It is troubling to us all to see the amount of hate and xenophobia in many communities around the world aimed not only at the Jews but also at others, such as the Rohingyas in Burma; and it has been 30 years since the Golden Temple. As the member will know, if we look from place to place there appears to be a movement of hate almost institutionalized at different levels with different people. I am sure there is one word that the people watching tonight may not understand. It took me a while to understand it. I wrote it down because I thought I would raise it here. The word is pogrom, which is a violent riot aimed at massacre or persecuting a particular ethnic group or religious group. However, the definition adds “especially of Jews”. I found it striking that whoever put that dictionary together saw to it that the leading evidence of what a pogrom is was with respect to how the Jews have been treated. What does the current government see as its role in educating Canadians to prevent the growth and spread of this evil?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/mr-wayne-marston-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'hate and xenophobia' aimed at Jews and others, calls it 'evil,' and asks what government will do to prevent it, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-863", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ed which in many cases is absolutely overt. There is no attempt to mask using the buzzwords of the hate-mongers to mask their intentions to the point that on several university campuses across the country, Concordia 10 years ago and the university across the street from my riding, York University in Toronto, have seen Jewish students refuse to take part in student activities, the normal part of university years, simply because they are intimidated. Some of them even have gone so far as to remove any vestiges that would reveal their Jewish identity. In today's incidents that we saw in Montreal, again this is the more overt manifestation, the vile graffiti, the intimidating bullets. Again, we need to hear voices raised in the community in Montreal tomorrow, which denounce today's events."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/hon-peter-kent/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/hon-peter-kent/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility described (intimidation of Jewish students, graffiti, bullets) and calls for voices to 'denounce today's events,' without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "house-864", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Hon. Joe Oliver (Minister of Finance, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e in Canadian history. On the one hand, individually and collectively, and especially in the western democracies, the Jewish community is achieving unparalleled acceptance and an ability to contribute to society in the same way as other citizens in each of the countries in which they live. We see that in Canada, where Jewish institutions are strong and the Jewish community is able to participate at every level in every field of human endeavour. As well, Israel, although threatened, has emerged as a strong cultural, scientific, military presence in the Middle East that can contribute to, and has contributed to, the advancement of health, education, and literature around the world. On the other hand, we are seeing the emergence of an old hatred, a hatred that we all thought could not possibly re-emerge, a hatred that means Jewish people cannot safely walk through the streets of some of the most civilized capitals of the world if they are dressed identifiably as Jewish. They risk their physical lives, and the social and psychological oppression that they face on a daily basis in some of these capitals is quite chilling indeed. At the same time, Israel's existence is now threatened by those who deny its very right to exist and who both deny the existence of the Holocaust and at the same time are determined to repeat it. What is the genesis of this hatred? What are the reasons, be they psychological, historical, theological, or political? What is the genesis of this hate, and what is the reason it has been perpetuated over the millennia? To the extent that we can reach children, we can deal with it and prevent it from spreading, yet we have not been successful in doing …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/hon-joe-oliver-minister-of-finance-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/hon-joe-oliver-minister-of-finance-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Finance, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Rise in anti-Semitism", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the 'old hatred' against Jewish people, describing antisemitic violence and oppression without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-865", "year": 2015, "chamber": "house", "date": "2015-02-24", "speaker": "Mr. Wayne Marston", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tion. If we talk to seniors in a Tim Hortons, they will tell stories of things they have read on the Internet that they absolutely believe. Nobody can say why they believe those things. Hatred is one of the things. Xenophobia is another one of the things. The communication factor that we have today plays a role in the hatred that is spewed out there, uncontrolled, against many different people, but particularly the Jewish people. It is unbelievable and it is sad. Again I come back to the fact that we have hate laws. If hate is purveyed by anybody on the Internet, it should be addressed. The problem we get into when trying to track these things is that they use shadow locations, going through three different servers, to get that message out. There are some people who are very sophisticated in delivering these messages. What we are seeing …", "… Those videos, as horrific as they are, are professionally planned and orchestrated. The people who are purveying hate on the Internet are doing precisely the same thing. I think that is one of the keys to the explosion that is happening. In hard times, in Europe and in those capitals where people are rising up and the hatred is boiling again, people are unemployed and there is high youth unemployment. That winds up scapegoating many people. In the old stories, the Jews are the people with money and the Jews are the business people who are affecting capital around the world. All of those stories that have been perpetuated for generations bubble back up again, but in a different context."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/mr-wayne-marston/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2015/2/24/mr-wayne-marston/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs", "subject": "media", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred and xenophobia against Jewish people, calling it 'unbelievable and sad' and advocating for hate laws to address it, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-866", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-11-28", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Adler (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, for 2,500 years Jews lived in Arab lands, but in the 20th century many Arab regimes expropriated the property of Jews, stripped them of their citizenship, and expelled, arrested, tortured, and murdered scores in some of the most vicious pogroms ever perpetrated against the Jewish people. Some 850,000 Jews were displaced. It is imperative that under international law, these people be determined to be refugees. Our own House of Commons standing committee on foreign affairs agrees. In its report from 2013, it recommended that: ...Canada officially recognize the experience of Jewish refugees who were displaced from states …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/28/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/28/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names Arab regimes as responsible for expropriation, stripping citizenship, expulsion, arrest, torture, and murder of Jews, describing these as vicious pogroms."}, {"id": "house-867", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-11-18", "speaker": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, early this morning in Jerusalem, two Palestinian men wielding knives, axes, and guns stormed a synagogue, killing four people and injuring eight, including one Canadian. This brutal attack is part of a recent escalation in terrorist violence. Indeed, on the day of the terrorist attack in this House, a terrorist attack killed a three-month-old baby in Jerusalem, and others since. Moreover, this escalation cannot be divorced from the incitement to hate and violence and the glorification of terror propagated by much of the Palestinian media and leadership. Palestinian authority officials have praised terrorists as “heroic martyrs” and declared that Jerusalem needs blood to purify itself of Jews, while Hamas celebrated the attack and President Abbas' party's Facebook page today announced that candy was being distributed in celebration of it. I join with all hon. members in offering our heartfelt condolences to the victims of today's attack, while we call for an end to incitement, an end to the glorification of terror, an end to the terror itse …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/18/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/18/hon-irwin-cotler-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mr. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Canada", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Palestinian media, Palestinian leadership, Palestinian Authority officials, Hamas, and President Abbas' party as responsible for incitement to hate and violence against Jews, and names Palestinian men as perpetrators of the attack on the synagogue."}, {"id": "house-868", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-05-06", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Adler (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r. Speaker, today Israel is celebrating Yom Ha'atzmaut , the 66th year of the state's independence. The story of Israel is a great example to the world. It is a story of a people who have overcome great suffering, from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 to the Khmelnytsky massacres of 1648-1650 to the countless number of pogroms, all culminating just 70 years ago in the Shoah, when six million Jewish men, women, and children, including my father's entire family, were brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Born out of the ashes of the ghettos and concentration camps, Israel serves as a beacon of hope, and our government stands with Israel. Just this past January, our Prime Minister stood in the Isr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/6/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/5/6/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (Inquisition, massacres, pogroms, Holocaust) as context for celebrating Israel's independence, but does not condemn, blame, or name any current actor responsible for hostility."}, {"id": "house-869", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-04-28", "speaker": "Hon. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Yom Hashoah is a day of profound reflection, not only for Jewish communities in Canada and around the world, but for all Canadians and all members of the human race. Holocaust Remembrance Day provides the global community with an opportunity to remember the unthinkable evil of the Holocaust, to reject the hatred and inhumanity that fuelled it, as well as the indifference that allowed it to happen. It is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that this dark moment in human history is never forgotten. Today, my Liberal colleague, the member for Mount Royal , is in Auschwitz to mark this solemn day of remembrance by lighting a memorial torch with the grandniece of Raoul Wallenberg, and to address the March of the Living. Today I urge all Canadians to recommit that we will never allow such horrors to be repeated. We will not hate. In the words of Holocaust survivor and Noble Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness”."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/4/28/hon-carolyn-bennett-st-pauls-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/4/28/hon-carolyn-bennett-st-pauls-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker rejects 'the hatred and inhumanity that fuelled' the Holocaust and calls on Canadians to ensure such horrors are never repeated and that 'we will not hate.'"}, {"id": "house-870", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-25", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Adler (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rd movement of displaced United Empire Loyalists seeking refuge from the American Revolution. It should come as no surprise that our country has had a long history and tradition of providing protection to those who need it. We were a haven for African Americans fleeing slavery before the American Civil War; for Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians fleeing oppression in the 1800s and the first decades of the 20th century; and for Hungarians, Czechs, Chinese, Tibetans, Vietnamese, Afghans, and others fleeing communist oppression in the middle of the last century. Later in the last century, and more recently, we have embraced refugees from South America, Africa, the Middle East and …", "… ecame part of a new diaspora that for the most part has not been fully embraced. Not surprisingly, most Jewish refugees do not wish to return to their country of origin, while some Palestinian refugees long for the places they or their ancestors left. This difference in outcomes does not, however, change the fact that Jewish refugees left their homes as a result of discrimination, intimidation, and fear. When they left, individual and communal properties were seized or confiscated without any compensation. Judaism is indigenous to the Middle East, with the biblical narrative unfolding from Mesopotamia to Egypt. Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities, both inside and outside Israel, have, or had …", "… underneath the dangling corpses. Ms. Shashoua said, “You can just imagine the sheer terror that dominated our daily existence after that horrid day”. Ms. Daoud reports still having nightmares about being back in Baghdad and reliving the anguish of those days. The overall result of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and discrimination and intimidation practised against Jews in various countries in the region was summarized by Dr. Bensoussan in his testimony. He said, “...Jews who had been present in Arab Muslim countries for a thousand years were squeezed out in the span of one generation...”. Dr. Urman informed the committee that nearly 650,000 Jews immigrated to Israel, while more than 200,000 Jews found safe haven in countries other than Israel, including Canada. Raising awareness of th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/25/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/25/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical discrimination, intimidation, and fear experienced by Jewish refugees, citing specific testimonies and examples, without condemning or blaming any particular actor for these actions."}, {"id": "house-871", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-04", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tionals living in their respective countries. The United Nations is preparing, yet again, to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people on this 60th anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution, but will ignore the plight of Jewish refugees. Indeed, evidence contained in a recent report, Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: The Case for Rights And Redress, documents for the first time a pattern of state-sanctioned repression and persecution in Arab countries—including Nuremberg-like laws—that targeted Jews, and resulted in denationalization, forced expulsions, illegal sequestration of property, arbitrary arrest and detention and the like. These massive human rights violations were reflective of a collusive blueprint, as embodied in the Draft Law of the Political Committee of the League of Arab States. This is a story th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/4/mr-kevin-lamoureux/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/4/mr-kevin-lamoureux/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg North", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews in Arab countries by citing a report and documenting specific violations, without accusing any currently named individual or entity of responsibility or condemning current actors.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-872", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-03-04", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Adler (York Centre, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of State for Multiculturalism . Last week at the University of Windsor, an anti-Jewish referendum was held and it was a one-sided resolution to endorse the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. During the referendum campaign, acts of vandalism took place, which police have described as hate crimes intended to target and discriminate against Jewish students. Would the minister please inform the House as to the government's response to this racist referendum and these unacceptable crimes of hate?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/4/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/3/4/mr-mark-adler-york-centre-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Rosh Hashanah", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies specific actors (University of Windsor, referendum organizers) and their actions (anti-Jewish referendum, vandalism/hate crimes) as hostile toward Jews, then calls for government response to these named incidents."}, {"id": "house-873", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-01-27", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ernational Holocaust memorial day and to commemorate the victims of the Shoah. Last week I had the honour of joining the Prime Minister on his historic tour and visit to the Middle East, where he laid a wreath at Yad Vashem in memory of the six million men, women and children brutally murdered simply because they were Jewish. I reflected again on the dangers of such hatred and the importance for us and future generations to draw lessons from this dark chapter of world history. I am proud that Canada has become a global leader in Holocaust education, culminating in a successful chairmanship year of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. I especially want to note the good work of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. I encourage everyone to visit the centre's Tour for Humanity mobile tolerance education centre here on the Hill. Through remembrance and reflection about the tragedy of the Holocaust, we commit ourselves to fighting all forms of hatred and to fulfill our promise: “never again”."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/27/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/27/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about the Holocaust and commemorative activities, and expresses general commitments to fighting hatred and remembrance, without addressing any specific contemporary hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-874", "year": 2014, "chamber": "house", "date": "2014-01-27", "speaker": "Hon. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nprecedented evil of the Holocaust, including many Jewish Canadians; the importance of their stories; and the many who have endured unimaginable suffering with strength and courage. This year marks the 69th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and we pledge that never again will we be indifferent to the incitement of hate or silent in the face of evil. In spite of everything we have come to learn of the Holocaust, we as a society must never stop working to educate others and combat hatred and bigotry in all its forms. While this is a day for solemn remembrance, it is also a poignant opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to never again allow such horrors to occur."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/27/hon-carolyn-bennett-st-pauls-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/1/27/hon-carolyn-bennett-st-pauls-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "St. Paul's", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ms. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker pledges to never be indifferent to incitement of hate, commits to combating hatred and bigotry, and reaffirms commitment to prevent such horrors from recurring."}, {"id": "committee-875", "year": 2014, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2014-11-25", "speaker": "Hon. Mauril Bélanger", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… in South Sudan, and in the Congo is absolutely horrendous. That's also going on currently in the South African Republic, where it is Christians who have sometimes been persecuting and extremely violent toward Muslims, moderate Muslims in some instances. So I would not want to generalize that only Christians are being persecuted. They are, but there are Muslims who are persecuted, Jews who are persecuted, and Falun Gong in China, if you're going to go beyond Africa. You have 43 students who have just been killed—well, we all believe they've been killed—in Mexico by the drug lords. Persecution is an unfortunate worldwide phenomenon, not only religious-based. It's sometimes economic, sometimes politically driven, someti …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/25/hon-mauril-bélanger/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/11/25/hon-mauril-bélanger/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ottawa--Vanier", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Ottawa—Vanier, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Rise in anti-Semitism", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jews being persecuted as part of a broader descriptive list of persecuted groups worldwide, without taking a position on any specific incident or expressing condemnation of the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-876", "year": 2014, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2014-02-10", "speaker": "Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… of the night and these types of Soviet-style tactics. We have committed to being very vigilant in ensuring that this type of intimidation and persecution of one particular church neither continues nor spreads to other faith communities in Ukraine. Just around the time I was there, perhaps a couple of days before, two Jews were attacked in Kiev. That's another issue we're focusing on. A very good initiative is the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, actually led by two Canadians, that has brought together Christian leaders in Ukraine, Jewish leaders, and also some Muslim leaders around advancing that dialogue between Christians and Jews. That's something else we're monitoring. The situation there is very concerning, especially given the influence of ce …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/2/10/dr-andrew-pw-bennett/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/2/10/dr-andrew-pw-bennett/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Ambassador, Office of Religious Freedom, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes an incident of two Jews being attacked in Kiev without taking a position on it, then mentions monitoring initiatives and dialogue efforts without condemning or naming specific actors responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-877", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-06-07", "speaker": "Hon. Erin O'Toole", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… that he was knowingly advocating or promoting violence against an identifiable group, that would have been enough. In fact, combined with my last point, it would have been “likely to prevent”. That could have stopped someone in that circumstance. All communities, particularly religious communities like the Muslim and Jewish communities that face threats and see horrific things online, should not want these aspects of Bill C-59 to pass, and that is what the Conservatives have consistently been advocating in the interest of public safety, in the interest of all Canadians. The Senate agrees on the issue of counselling the commission of an offence. Most advocacy groups a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/7/hon-erin-otoole/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/7/hon-erin-otoole/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker expresses concern about threats and 'horrific things' affecting Jewish communities and advocates against legislation (Bill C-59) that they believe inadequately protects against violence, without naming specific perpetrators of the hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-878", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-06-06", "speaker": "Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, D-Day veteran Martin Maxwell, now 95 years old, made this profound and relevant statement in the days leading up to today: If these young men [killed at Normandy] could look at the world and what is happening, not only against the Jews—mosques are being attacked, churches are attacked—they would say: “What the hell have you done with the tomorrows we gave you?” Fourteen thousand Canadian soldiers landed on Juno Beach 75 years ago today. D-Day was the turning point in the fight from oppression, the fight for freedom, the fight for valuing human life, the fight for human dignity and the fight for dem …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/6/mr-john-brassard-barrieinnisfil-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/6/6/mr-john-brassard-barrieinnisfil-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Barrie--Innisfil", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. John Brassard", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Points of Order — Oral Questions", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a D-Day veteran's statement that mentions hostility toward Jews alongside attacks on other religious sites, but does not themselves condemn, name a perpetrator, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization."}, {"id": "house-879", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-05-30", "speaker": "Mr. Matthew Dubé (Beloeil—Chambly, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 981, in Merritt, BC. Around 3 a.m., an explosion occurred at an East Indian church. Firefighters speculated that someone had thrown dynamite through the window. Obviously, given the time, no one was in the building. One can only imagine what that represents to the community and it people, seeing their place of worship attacked. In 1985, the Temple Shalom in Vancouver was firebombed. The damage was significant, $400,000. It also threatened a Jewish funeral chapel. Communities too often feel under attack by individuals who put forward bigotry and hatred. That fear is certainly exacerbated by these types of attacks. There have been firebombings in Mosques in Calgary and Hamilton and in synagogues in Edmonton. A Hindu temple in Hamilton suffered an arson attack. That attack was mentioned earlier in debate today. There were attacks on a synagogue in Saskatoon and a Mosque in Edson. A Sikh temple in Vancouver suffered an arson attack. Someone who douses gasoline on temples creates a climate of fear and hatred. These acts obviously create a climate of fear and hatred and cause physical harm. They can lead to the kind of physical attacks we have seen committed against people. This brings me to the next example, the attack at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec on January 29, 2017, which we are unfortunately all too famil …", "… s of acts. When we list all these heinous acts, all the attacks against places of worship and people of faith, the list is unfortunately far from exhaustive. However, these examples show that there has been an increase in religiously motivated hate crimes in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, police reported that hate crimes increased by 47% from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, just two years ago, there were 2,073 incidents, 664 more than in the previous year. Jewish Canadians, as we unfortunately know, continue to be the most targeted community for religiously motivated hate crimes, and incidents increased from 221 in 2016 to 360 the following year. Muslim Canadians see a growing trend of hate crimes committed against them, with incidents increasing by over 150% in that same span from 2016 to 2017, for a total of 349 police reported hate crimes. That is an important distinction. We can only imag …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/30/mr-matthew-dubé-beloeilchambly-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/30/mr-matthew-dubé-beloeilchambly-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Beloeil—Chambly", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Beloeil—Chambly, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—ISIS Fighters Returning to Canada", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes multiple incidents of attacks on religious sites including synagogues, provides statistics on hate crimes, and contextualizes the incidents without directly naming or blaming specific individuals or parties for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-880", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-05-30", "speaker": "Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… eted. I often say, when it comes to helping those in need, that Canadians all have the same DNA. It is a part of who we are as people. Whether here at home or around the world, Canadians have always answered the call to help those in need, to stand up for those who are unable to stand up for themselves and to call out bigotry and discrimination wherever it is found. Whether it is discrimination against Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, any other religious group, or those who do not have a religious belief, as Motion No. 153 makes clear, faith-based violence and bigotry is not compatible with our shared vision of a free, peaceful and pluralistic Canada. I believe it is important that we recognize this by naming January 29 of each year the national day of solidarity with victims of anti-religious bigotry and violence. When it comes to such an important issue, creating a day of solidar …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/30/mr-ziad-aboultaif-edmonton-manning-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/30/mr-ziad-aboultaif-edmonton-manning-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Manning", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Manning, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker calls out bigotry and discrimination against Jews and other groups as incompatible with Canadian values, without naming specific perpetrators of such hostility."}, {"id": "house-881", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-04-29", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ans, we unequivocally condemn this act of violence and hatred toward Christians and the targeting of religious minorities throughout the world. It was less than two months ago that we stood in this chamber to mark the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. Over this past weekend, we heard again of a heinous and murderous attack on Jews marking Passover at a synagogue in California. In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, it is easy to become desensitized to these attacks. We are shocked at the news footage as it comes in, but soon our attention is lost. We must never get used to this kind of hatred and violence. We must never forget. Together, we must resist those who attack someone because of their religious beliefs. As Canadians visit our respective places of worship for our various …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/29/hon-andrew-scheer-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/29/hon-andrew-scheer-leader-of-the-opposition-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker unequivocally condemns the attack on Jews at a synagogue and violence against religious minorities, without naming specific responsible parties or accusing anyone of enabling it."}, {"id": "house-882", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-04-29", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… d peace between communities. People of all communities must seek to participate in this work. However, I note in this context in particular, the way in which this idea of forgiveness and reconciliation in the context of the events of Easter is what drives Christians to be involved in this work. We hear of instances of violence against Christians, Muslims, and Jews in countries where the media is able to identify and cover these events. However, let us not forget, as well, the destruction of houses of worship and the persecution of believers in authoritarian nations where often these stories cannot be told. The persecution of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and other believers in the People's Republic of China, a place where it has been state policy to mandate the physical destruction of houses of worship, like the Golden Lampstand Church or L …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/29/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/4/29/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes instances of violence against Jews (among other groups) and persecution in various countries without taking a position on these incidents or assigning responsibility to any specific actor."}, {"id": "house-883", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-03-19", "speaker": "Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ine. I also want to say that our thoughts are with the first responders and their families, because we know through the work we have been doing with respect to post-traumatic stress disorder that these incidents will stay with them and have a dramatic impact on their lives in the days, weeks, months and years to come. Violent extremism has no place in our society. We must stand and act against systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and all other religious communities. We need to build a world where people of every faith can live in freedom and peace together. I had an opportunity this weekend to speak at an event in Ottawa called ILEAD 2019. It was an event that was organized by Islamic and Muslim youth in the Ottawa a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/3/19/mr-todd-doherty-caribooprince-george-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/3/19/mr-todd-doherty-caribooprince-george-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against Jews and other religious communities, stating 'we must stand and act against systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination' without naming any specific person or party as responsible."}, {"id": "house-884", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-12-11", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, on this 70th anniversary of the UN adoption of the genocide convention, we live in a world where this most atrocious of crimes still exists. This House has recently recognized that Yazidis and Rohingyas were victims of genocide, but even in our own land we are seeing increases in hate crimes targeting the Jewish, Muslim and black communities. Concerns and fear have increased. Action is needed. Genocide must be taught in our schools. I want to congratulate the Foundation for Genocide Education, founder Heidi Berger, and members Lucy Shapiro and Marcy Bruck, who convinced the Quebec education ministry to create a genocide teach …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/12/11/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/12/11/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to increases in hate crimes targeting Jewish communities without naming specific actors responsible for those crimes."}, {"id": "house-885", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-12-05", "speaker": "Hon. Rob Nicholson (Niagara Falls, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Jewish people and the celebration of Hanukkah. The word “Hanukkah” is Hebrew for dedication. The holiday commemorates the festival of lights, when one day's supply of olive oil miraculously lasted for eight days during the dedication of the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Last Sunday, I was honoured to be asked by Rabbi Zaltzman to light the first candle on the menorah in Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls. At a time when people of faith are being persecuted around the world, celebrating our heritage and religions is critical. I would like to thank Rabbi Zaltzman, from Chabad in the Niagara region, for putting together this event each year. As the word Hanukkah denotes dedication, may we dedicate ourselves to ensuring religious freedom in Canada and around the world. I would like to take this opportunity to wish a happy Hanukkah to my colleagues in this House and acro …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/12/5/hon-rob-nicholson-niagara-falls-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/12/5/hon-rob-nicholson-niagara-falls-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Niagara Falls", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a Hanukkah celebration event and mentions persecution of people of faith in general terms, but does not describe any specific hostility toward Jews, nor take a position condemning or addressing antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-886", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-30", "speaker": "Mr. Marco Mendicino (Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today on Jewish Refugee Day, I wish to commemorate the nearly one million Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Iran and other Arab countries due to religious persecution. These Jewish families were devastated as they were forced into exile and forced to experience injustices, the most egregious human rights violations, systemic violence and even genocide. Fortunately, some were able to flee to Israel, Europe, South America, and even here in Canada where their vibrant communities today exemplify their strength and resilience. While the community continues to thrive, we remember these refugees and their lived experiences, as many suffer similar injustices around the world today. On this day, let us reflect and recognize the persecution and the sacrifices of these Jewish refugees and what they had to endure. Let us also celebrate their accomplishments and resilience, all of which are a testament to the strength of this community."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/30/mr-marco-mendicino-eglintonlawrence-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/30/mr-marco-mendicino-eglintonlawrence-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the religious persecution, human rights violations, systemic violence and genocide experienced by Jewish refugees without naming specific perpetrators, instead focusing on commemorating the refugees and their suffering."}, {"id": "house-887", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-07", "speaker": "Mr. Bob Bratina (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Remembrance Day this year falls in the dark shadow of the recent attack on Jewish Americans at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Hateful impulses arise mostly from ignorance and the failure to understand, for instance, how Jews fought side by side with their fellow Canadians and Americans to ensure our freedom. In my city of Hamilton, some of the leading Jewish citizens were veterans, people like businessmen and philanthropists Irving Zucker and Norm Levitt, and prominent lawyer David Goldberg, who flew Spitfires against Germany and earned t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/7/mr-bob-bratina-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/7/mr-bob-bratina-hamilton-eaststoney-creek-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the 'hateful impulses' and 'dark shadow' of the attack on the synagogue, while attributing the hostility to ignorance rather than naming specific perpetrators or groups responsible."}, {"id": "house-888", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-11-07", "speaker": "Mr. Joël Godin (Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… oud to do so. Today is a very special day. Earlier in the House, we spared a very special thought for those of the Jewish faith. We reflected about them, apologized, and acknowledged the fact that they, as a people, experienced one of the greatest human tragedies and are still standing. I have a lot of respect for the Jewish people. Unfortunately, on October 27, a synagogue in Pittsburgh was attacked. That is unacceptable. It reminds me of the massacre at the mosque in Sainte-Foy, where people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time fell victim to barbaric acts. These types of attacks are unacceptable in a civilized society. The government needs to put measures in place to eliminate as much as possible these …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/7/mr-joël-godin-portneufjacques-cartier-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/11/7/mr-joël-godin-portneufjacques-cartier-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the Pittsburgh synagogue attack and similar violence, calling them 'unacceptable' and 'barbaric acts' without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-889", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-10-29", "speaker": "Hon. Jim Carr (Minister of International Trade Diversification, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nt, we horrifically saw why when on Saturday, 11 worshippers were killed in Pittsburgh only because they were Jewish. Jewish people have been in Canada since 1759 and now our community of more than 350,000 continues to contribute impressively to our national mosaic. My grandparents came to Canada in 1906, escaping the pogroms of the tsar. They were persecuted only because they were Jewish. That is yet another reason to underline the importance of security to the State of Israel. I have visited Israel many times and made my first trip as Canada's Minister of International Trade Diversification in August. Canada and Israel have forged a partnership that continues to deepen with each passing year. Strengt …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/10/29/hon-jim-carr-minister-of-international-trade-diversification-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/10/29/hon-jim-carr-minister-of-international-trade-diversification-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Refugees", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the killing of 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh, characterizing it as 'horrific' and emphasizing they were killed 'only because they were Jewish,' without naming specific individuals as responsible for the attack."}, {"id": "house-890", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-10-29", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, it is an honour to speak to Bill C-85 , an act that would amend and strengthen a free trade agreement between Canada and the only democracy in the Middle East. I speak with particularly passionate solidarity with Jews in Israel, around the world and in my riding of Thornhill tonight because this debate is taking place in the shadow of the hate-driven outrage in Pittsburgh on the weekend. I will speak more directly of that in a few moments. First, I will speak to Bill C-85 . Canada's original formal free trade agreement with Israel came into force in 1997. Negotiations to update it began under Prime Minister Harper in 2014. The legislation we have before us …", "… es that should improve the economic and social environment for an eventual negotiated peace agreement, which would see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in a peaceful co-existence that has, for most of the past century, been obstructed by tyrants and terrorists who would rather continue the futile, tragic, hateful obsession with eliminating the State of Israel and the Jewish population with it. I have been to Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the neighbouring countries of the Levant many times over the years. My first visit was to have been in June 1967, as a journalist assigned to cover the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. However, that conflict was so short, six days, and Israel so decisively defea …", "… the Palestinian intifadas, the Gaza war and, until today, Iran's proxy-sponsoring of continued terrorist rocketing and attempted terrorist infiltration from Gaza. In fact, this past weekend, we saw dozens of rockets fired from Gaza by Islamic Jihad on orders from Iran's Quds Force, coincidentally only hours before the hate-driven, deadliest attack on a Jewish community in North America at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue. Most of the rockets from Gaza were intercepted, shot down by Israel's Iron Dome defence system. Israel responded with air strikes against 80 sites across Gaza. In North America, in my home riding of Thornhill and across Canada, as across the United States, there have been heartfelt condolences offered to victims of the weekend atrocity, and today, to the victims of the Pittsburgh murder, declarations of unity against hate and plans for multi-faith vigils. Nonetheless, this weekend's events are a terrible reminder that Israel and Jewish communities in the diaspora remain under constant threat from individuals and organizations that would destroy it and destroy them. This brings me to happier recollections of visits to Israel as a member of Parliament and as a minister, as a member of Prime Minister Harper's historic visit to Israel and his powerful restatement of Canada's commitment to Israel, through fire …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/10/29/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/10/29/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses 'passionate solidarity with Jews' and refers to the Pittsburgh synagogue attack as 'hate-driven' and 'deadliest attack on a Jewish community,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for systemic hostility."}, {"id": "house-891", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-13", "speaker": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… , which are then used to attack a woman's right to choose. We believe that public funds should never be used to actively fight against the rights of Canadians, and we will ensure that no money from the Canada summer jobs program is re-funded to organizations that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that use hate against other Canadians of any type, whether they be women, Jewish community groups, or LGBTQ—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/13/right-hon-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/13/right-hon-justin-trudeau-prime-minister-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to use of hate against Jewish community groups and states public funds should not support organizations that use such hate, without naming a specific organization or person as responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-892", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["moved: That the House: (a) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; (b) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; (c) call on the government to (i) abandon its current plan and immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations, (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently de …", "… selves into the councils of the world. I moved a motion today specifically about Canada's foreign policy towards Iran. This motion calls for a a clear condemnation of the Iranian regime's aggression throughout the Middle East, including the sponsorship of terrorism, and specifically its support for Hamas during recent violent clashes on the Israel border. It calls for a clear condemnation of the Iranian regime's advocacy for a second Holocaust; that is, for the complete destruction of the world's only Jewish state. It calls for a response from the Canadian government to the actions of Iran, the total abandonment of its plan to negotiate the restoration of diplomatic relations with Iran, for aggressive and consistent advocacy for Canadians imprisoned in Iran …", "… nment when it fails to properly support our close allies. Aside from the supreme leader's tweet, the Iranian role in these events should be eminently clear. The Palestinian ambassador to France has specifically identified the role of Iran in fomenting and supporting these protests in Gaza. Iran and Hamas seek a second holocaust. My grandmother was a survivor of the first Holocaust, and she instilled in us the necessary sensibility towards those who threaten violence against the Jewish people. It is a sensibility rooted in that historic memory. When people say they are trying to kill us, believe that they mean it and stop them before it is too late. Never expect critics around the world to have the same commitment to our security that we do. Israel will not wait until it is too late to respond to Ir …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly names the Iranian regime and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as responsible for hostility toward Jews, specifically citing Khamenei's statements calling for genocide against the Jewish people and describing Iran's advocacy for 'a second Holocaust' and destruction of Israel."}, {"id": "house-893", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s pushing the government on that. Boeing has said it will not sell any type of aircraft to the regime, at a time when more global attention is being paid to Iran, as it should be, because the international community has to condemn the actions of the regime. Just last week, the supreme leader called for genocide on the Jewish people. The Iranians have tried to normalize their positions of hate. We have to be very careful that in this rush, as the Prime Minister naively said in his first few months as the Prime Minister, of responsible engagement with the Iranian regime, we are not somehow normalizing that regime. I would point my friend the parliamentary secretary , who is listening to this debate, to the c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/hon-erin-otoole-durham-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/hon-erin-otoole-durham-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states the international community 'has to condemn the actions of the regime' in reference to the supreme leader's call for genocide against Jewish people, expressing clear objection to this hostility without naming a specific individual as responsible."}, {"id": "house-894", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-06-11", "speaker": "Mr. Frank Baylis (Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I enjoyed two points made by my colleague. First, he did a very good job of stating the difference between the regime and the people of Iran. I congratulate him in saying that the regime is responsible for the activity that is happening. We all know the regime has intolerable behaviour toward Jewish people and disseminate hate. However, he also touched on another religious minority, the Baha’í . I would like him to expand on what the regime is doing toward Baha’í and how that is unacceptable behaviour as well."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/6/11/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly states 'the regime is responsible for' intolerable behavior toward Jewish people and hate dissemination, naming the Iranian regime as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-895", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-05-09", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in 1939, the MS St. Louis was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany seeking to escape persecution. To Canada's everlasting shame, the government of the day refused to provide that sanctuary. The refugees returned to Europe, where many were killed in the Holocaust. Since being elected, I have worked alongside my colleagues for our government to recognize that tragic event. Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced what our government will do to recognize the wrongs of the past. Can he share this with the members of the House?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/5/9/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/5/9/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Canada's 1939 refusal to admit Jewish refugees as 'everlasting shame' and a 'wrong,' without naming a specific current person/party responsible for the historical hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-896", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-29", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Lord Reading Law Society on its 70th anniversary. Lord Reading, which was created in 1948, was founded with the mandate of lobbying for fair representation of Jewish attorneys within the Quebec Bar and on the bench following decades of discrimination. As discrimination against Jewish attorneys was gradually eradicated, Lord Reading turned its attention to fighting for the rights of all minorities, including Quebec's English-speaking attorneys and judges. I would ask all my colleagues to help me honour this terrific organization. Its president David Ettedgui, vice-president Inna Nekhim, as well as …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/29/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/29/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jewish attorneys as context for the organization's founding, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute anything—merely states facts about the organization's creation and evolution."}, {"id": "house-897", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-27", "speaker": "Mr. Dan Albas (Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e House. In this Parliament, I will recall the passionate words from the member for Mount Royal who spoke against the BDS movement. In my view it was a proud moment in the House when 229 members of Parliament on both sides opposed and condemned the BDS movement. The BDS movement serves as a reminder that those who are Jewish still face challenges here in Canada to this very day. In fact, we know of the groups most frequently targeted for hate crimes in Canada the Jewish population is among them. I know all members of this place are concerned about that. Does the bill fix that? No, it does not. However, the bill serves as an important reminder. Here in Canada, we have always known it is our diversity that makes us unique, but despite that diversity, we all have a common love for this …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/27/mr-dan-albas-central-okanagansimilkameennicola-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/27/mr-dan-albas-central-okanagansimilkameennicola-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker condemns BDS movement and acknowledges challenges/hate crimes faced by Jewish people in Canada, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-898", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-03-21", "speaker": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, March 21 is the day for the elimination of racial discrimination. The fight against racism and discrimination is re-emerging as one of the defining struggles of our generation. From systemic racism experienced by the first peoples, to hate incidents like the horrific attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, to the series of bomb threats at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, we have all felt the rising tide. Last March, as a Canadian of Chinese heritage, I was told by racists to go back to my country. From 2014 to 2016, hate crimes in Canada have been on the rise, increasing from 1,295 reported hate crimes to 1,409. We must work hard to send a strong and clear message that we stand firm and united against racism. We must find the courage to speak up and speak out against hate, even if it …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/21/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/3/21/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the bomb threats at the Jewish Community Centre as part of a broader condemnation of hate incidents and racism, without naming any specific person or party responsible for the threats."}, {"id": "house-899", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-01-29", "speaker": "Mr. Guy Caron (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… almost 250 hate crimes were reported in 2017. That is almost one every day, just in Montreal. Furthermore, we know that a large number of hate crimes go unreported. Silence is a common refuge for those who are tired of hate. Because hate is becoming so prevalent in our society, too many are tuning out, but this is how hate prevails and why we, as parliamentarians, have a special responsibility to speak out. Hate has always found a target. In the past, it was the Irish, Jews or Italians; today, it is Muslims or Arabs. Who knows which group will be targeted tomorrow? History is watching us. I am a white man, and as a white man I do not know what it is like to face racism. I will never be the victim of xenophobic acts, but some of my neighbours, friends, constituents, fellow MPs, and staff …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/1/29/mr-guy-caron-rimouski-neigettetémiscouatales-basques-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/1/29/mr-guy-caron-rimouski-neigettetémiscouatales-basques-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Rimouski-Neigette--Témiscouata--Les Basques", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — Public Safety", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and prevalence of hate in society, calling for parliamentarians to speak out against it, without accusing any specific person or group of being responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-900", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-02-09", "speaker": "Mr. Kelly McCauley (Edmonton West, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… le goes on to cite an official Saudi report that stated that the Saudis have donated millions in Canada, including for the Salaheddin centre, which runs “a mosque and private elementary school where the Khadr family and other...radicals linked to [Al Qaeda] belong, and where the organization's website preaches against Jews and Christians.” Here is a delightful statement from that website, which is funded with help from the Saudis: Why do we hate the Jews? We hate them for the sake of our Lord, we hate them for the sake of Allaah because they slandered Allaah and they killed and slandered His Prophets. Here we have Saudi funding coming into Canada promoting hate. I want to chat more about the Saudis for a moment. Saudi attacks in Yemen have led to over 4,000 civilian casualties, hitting homes, hospitals, and schools …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/9/mr-kelly-mccauley-edmonton-west-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/9/mr-kelly-mccauley-edmonton-west-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton West", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton West, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies the Salaheddin centre (funded by Saudis) as responsible for preaching against Jews, quoting hateful statements from its website and explicitly stating 'Here we have Saudi funding coming into Canada promoting hate.'"}, {"id": "house-901", "year": 2018, "chamber": "house", "date": "2018-01-29", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ere have been discussions among the parties, and I hope you will find the unanimous consent of the House for the following motion that the House recognize that acts of violence and bigotry directed against religious believers, such as the June 23, 1985, bombing of Air India flights 182 and 301; the September 15, 2001, firebombing of the Hindu Samaj Temple and the Hamilton Mountain Mosque; the April 5, 2004, firebombing of Montreal's United Talmud Torah Jewish school; and the January 29, 2017, murder of Muslims at the Quebec City Islamic cultural centre, are inimical to a free, peaceful, and plural society, and declare January 29 of every year as a national day of solidarity with victims of anti-religious bigotry and violence."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/1/29/mr-scott-reid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/1/29/mr-scott-reid/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to acts of violence and bigotry directed against religious believers, including the firebombing of a Jewish school, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for these acts."}, {"id": "house-902", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-12-11", "speaker": "Hon. Kevin Sorenson (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… to happen. By November of this year, Liberal members on the justice committee agreed to allow section 176 of the Criminal Code to remain operable. This was a victory for all faith communities in Canada. It was an important victory, because hate crimes with respect to religious communities happen all around the world. Hate crimes are on the increase and, unfortunately it is the same here in Canada, whether it is the Jewish faith, Judaism, attacks on synagogues, the Christian faith, or the Muslim faith. Bill C-51 was introduced by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada just days before the parliamentary recess, on June 6, 2017. Clause 14 of Bill C-51 proposed to repeal section 176 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which makes it a crime to unlawfully obstruct, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/12/11/hon-kevin-sorenson-battle-rivercrowfoot-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/12/11/hon-kevin-sorenson-battle-rivercrowfoot-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Battle River—Crowfoot", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes against Jewish communities and religious groups generally, describing them as increasing in Canada, without naming specific perpetrators of the hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-903", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-11-30", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today we commemorate Jewish Refugee Day. I specifically want to call everyone's attention to some forgotten refugees, the approximately 850,000 Jews who had to leave Arab countries and Iran due to religious persecution. Their families lived in these countries for many centuries, but in the years leading up to and following the establishment of Israel, anti-Jewish sentiment and violence dramatically increased. In some of these countries, Jewish communities faced organized killings and systemic violence. Many countries stripped them of their property and revoked their citizenship. Countries that had Jewish communities in the hundreds of thousands today only have a handful of Jewish residents, and willingly or unwillingly, their Jewish communities found refuge in Israel and in western countries like Canada. I ask all my fellow members to join with me and those Jewish Canadians who found refuge from Arab lands and Iran in …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/30/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/30/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical persecution of Jews in Arab countries and Iran, including anti-Jewish sentiment, violence, and discriminatory policies, without accusing any current named person, party, or institution of responsibility for these actions or calling for a specific response to them."}, {"id": "house-904", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-10-03", "speaker": "Hon. Mélanie Joly (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the government is committed to building a more inclusive society, and the National Holocaust Monument commemorates the six million Jews, as well as the five million other victims, who were murdered during the Holocaust. It stands as a reminder of the dangers of hatred, racism, and intolerance, while affirming respect for human rights, dignity, and resilience. The plaque has been removed and will be replaced with language that reflects the horrors experienced by the Jewish people."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/3/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/3/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Holocaust Monument, its commemoration of victims, and a plaque replacement without objecting to, naming perpetrators of, blaming others for, or disputing any hostility toward Jews. It's a factual statement about government action."}, {"id": "house-905", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-10-03", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Nantel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nce, who arrived in New France in 1738 and declared her Jewish origins to the authorities, who were mainly from the Church. It was not until Aaron Hart settled in Trois-Rivières in 1761 and the first synagogue in Montreal was founded on what is now known as the corner of Boulevard Saint-Laurent and Rue Notre-Dame that Jewish culture truly took root in Quebec. The Jewish community also faced prejudices during the election of Ezekiel Hart, who was twice elected the member for Trois-Rivières, but barred from taking a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada because of his Jewish faith. The Jewish community would forever be part of Quebeckers' future when Louis-Joseph Papineau, one of the great figures of our h …", "… ich is just as heartbreaking and intimate; and then finally here in Ottawa, just steps from Parliament, where we finally inaugurated a monument in memory of the millions of Holocaust victims. We were the only country among the Second World War allies that did not yet have a monument to commemorate the suffering of the Jewish people, even though the Jewish community has deep roots in Canada. Today, we have a place to remember the genocidal violence of unimaginable proportions that took place during those years. The monument also serves as a reminder of our dark role in those events, since our government, here in Ottawa, chose to admit less than 5,000 Jewish refugees during that time and turned away many others, despite the horrors that were occurring in Europe. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/3/mr-pierre-nantel-longueuilsaint-hubert-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/3/mr-pierre-nantel-longueuilsaint-hubert-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes historical instances of prejudice against Jews (Ezekiel Hart's exclusion, Holocaust) and Canada's restrictive refugee policy, but presents these as historical facts without explicitly condemning or blaming any current actor for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-906", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-21", "speaker": "Mr. Frank Baylis (Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ow citizens who spread intolerance, or a global narrative that accuses a single group of causing all our problems, but we would be wrong. Each one of us must bear a small part of that blame, because we have all been caught in the trap of describing a human being as the other, distinct from ourselves. We have all heard intolerant speech without saying a word. We have all stood silent when a fellow citizen’s identity—gay, Black, Jewish or Muslim—was used as a weapon against them. By staying silent, we contributed to a climate that made this hate crime that occurred here possible. We cannot remain silent in the face of discrimination. Motion 103 asks the government to undertake a study to combat systemic racism and religious discrimination including lslamophobia. According to Statistics Canada, Jews are the people most targeted for their religion when it comes to hate crimes. Sadly, I have seen this first-hand in my own riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard. A local synagogue, the Gutnick Mazal Jewish Centre, was defaced with hateful graffiti last summer. When that happened, I reached out to Rabbi Yarmush to let him know that our government and the whole of our community stood with him in condemning this cowardly act. The year before, during my election campaign, as I was driving home at the end of a night I passed one of my posters that was defaced with a swastika. I did not have any clippers with me to take that poster down, so I called my campaign manager and asked him to take it down first thing the next morning. However, when he got there, the poster was already removed. That is when I first learned about this incredible young man, Corey Fleischer. Corey has made it part of his life's work to take down hateful graffiti in any form, whenever and wherever it shows up, in Montreal. Whether it is a synagogue, a mosque, or a church, people know they can call Corey Fleischer and he will show up and deal with it. My heart is warmed to know that this young man is out there. However, there is much more work to be done. When it comes to hate crimes, the rate of crimes against Muslims has more than doubled over the last three ye …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/21/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/21/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly condemns the hate crime and cowardly act of defacing the synagogue, and praises an individual who actively removes hateful graffiti targeting Jewish and other religious sites."}, {"id": "house-907", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-03-21", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ich included discussion of the need to define Islamophobia. We support the motion's intended objective of combating anti-Muslim hate in Canada, which should be unanimously endorsed. However, we are concerned with the potential validation of any restriction placed on criticizing those manifestations of Islam that drive hatred and violence against Jews, Muslims and other Canadians... Following the anticipated adoption of the motion, critics and proponents alike must set their disagreement aside and ensure that any parliamentary initiative that follows is unifying. It is not too late for the mover of the motion to do the right thing and amend it so we can have unanim …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/21/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/3/21/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker supports combating anti-Muslim hate but criticizes the motion for potentially restricting criticism of manifestations of Islam that drive hatred against Jews, implying the motion's proponent has not adequately addressed this concern and should amend it."}, {"id": "house-908", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nowledge my friend from Nepean for his hard work and his leadership in moving this legislation. Bill C-305 seeks to amend section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code, which relates to mischief against religious property. Section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code makes it an offence for an individual to commit an act of mischief motivated by hate targeted at a place of worship such as a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple. In addition to section 430(4.1), there is also a section of the Criminal Code that deals with mischief targeted toward general property. The reason section 430(4.1) was added to the Criminal Code to deal specifically with acts of mischief motivated by hate targeted at religious property was in recognition of the fact that such acts of mischief were different than acts of mischief to general property. Take, for example, someone who sprays graffiti on the back wall of a restaurant. In such a case, the victim is the owner of the restaurant. Take the example of someone who sprays hateful graffiti on the back wall of a mosque or synagogue. That is an act that targets an entire community. It affects an entire community and it victimizes an entire community. Bill C-305 would amend section 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code by expanding the categories of properties to not only include places of worship, but to include the likes of schools, community centres, a …", "… gious community centres or religious seniors facilities. We have seen many examples of hate crimes that have been perpetrated against schools and community centres. We saw a few years back the horrific fire bombing of the United Talmud Torah School in Montreal. More recent in Ottawa a string of mischief incidents were motivated by hate, which targeted a mosque and two synagogues, but also targeted a Jewish learning centre as well as the Ottawa Muslim Association. Bill C-305 is good legislation. Its objective is laudable. It was why I was proud to speak in strong support of the bill at second reading. It is why I am proud to speak in strong support of Bill C-305 at this stage of the legislative process. Bill C-305 , upon …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-michael-cooper-st-albertedmonton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "St. Albert--Edmonton", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies specific instances of hate-motivated mischief against Jewish properties (fire bombing of United Talmud Torah School, incidents targeting synagogues and Jewish learning centre) and attributes these acts to perpetrators motivated by hate.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-909", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Mr. Marco Mendicino (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s historical moment. Allow me first to set the bill in the context of recent past events. As has been mentioned recently in the House, in January of this year, six people were murdered in a Quebec City mosque, an event that shocked and appalled the nation. In Ottawa there has been a troubling spike in the incidents of hate graffiti on synagogues over the past several months. Such incidents should cause us as legislators to consider how we wish to confront and prevent the commission of hate crimes in our society. Bill C-305 is an important response to strengthen the ability of the criminal law to adequately denounce and deter hate crimes. It proposes to expand the scope of the current hate-motivated mischief offence now found in subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code. That provision, entitled “Mischief relating to religious property”, currently prohibits mischief committed against buildings or structures primarily used for a religious purpose, such as a church, mosque, synagogue, or cemetery. The offence must be committed out of hatred, prejudice, or bias based on religion, race, colour, or national or ethnic origin. The current provision carries a maximum punishment of 10 years of imprisonment when prosecuted by indictment and a maximum penalty of 18 months in jail when prosecuted by way of a summary conviction. The Criminal Code presently has a sentencing pr …", "… ings primarily used as educational institutions, including a school, day care centre, or college or university; used for administrative, social, cultural, or sports events or activities, including a town hall, community centre, playground, or arena; or used as a seniors residence. Upon passage of this bill, therefore, vandalism committed against a Jewish or Muslim community centre would be caught by the expanded hate crime mischief offence and not just vandalism committed against a synagogue or a mosque. I should note that a major concern for our government was expressed during the debate at second reading. The concern was that the definition of property that it proposed to add to the current offence was overly broad. The list of new properties caught by the bill appeared to be much broader than we believ …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-marco-mendicino-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-marco-mendicino-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Eglinton—Lawrence", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Eglinton—Lawrence, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate graffiti on synagogues as 'troubling' and proposes Bill C-305 to 'confront and prevent' hate crimes, without naming specific perpetrators or groups responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-910", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-05-03", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nding Committee on Justice and Human Rights. With the goal of ensuring that we can complete debate within this hour, I will be very brief in my remarks. As chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, I want to say how important this bill is. The member for Nepean took incidents in his own community of vandalism against community centres—a Jewish community centre, a Muslim community centre—and saw that there was an opening in the law, a hole in subsection 430(4.1) of the Criminal Code creating offences for hate-motivated mischief. He saw that the law currently covered only churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious institutions. He said that it had to cover more. It had to cover community centres, schools, and seniors centres. One of the reasons I wanted to speak was to highlight the co-operation of the member, all the witnesses, all the members of the standing committee, and the government. We have …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/3/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes vandalism incidents against a Jewish community centre and identifies a legal gap, without condemning the vandalism itself or taking a position on the hostility. The focus is on explaining the legislative response needed."}, {"id": "house-911", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. David Anderson (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["moved: That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …", "… can express anything but our deepest condolences and our revulsion at what happened there. People were attacked while they were praying. Over a dozen people were shot, and several were killed. Therefore, our motion begins where it must, which is by recognizing them. Our motion moves on to condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities. What stands out here is the inclusiveness of this motion. Although it lists the half-dozen largest faith groups in Canada, it obviously includes all religious communities in Canada. There is no sense in excluding any of them. We know that this is important, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-david-anderson-cypress-hillsgrasslands-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-david-anderson-cypress-hillsgrasslands-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Cypress Hills--Grasslands", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — University of Regina", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly condemns all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Jews and other religious communities, without naming any specific person or entity as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-912", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-21", "speaker": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I have two questions for my hon. colleague. First, he made mention today in question period and previously of the concept of an illegal refugee. I would like him to explain more about that. If refugees are fleeing for their lives, the definition of refugee being someone who has a well-founded fear of persecution or often the loss of his or her life, and I am thinking of, say, Jews leaving Nazi Germany in the dead of night and trying to make their way into Switzerland, if they make it to another country, and they are in between border points and try to cross the border to get to safety, I am having difficulty understanding why he terms that illegal. If I were a refugee fleeing for my life and be …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/21/mr-don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a historical example of Jewish persecution (Jews fleeing Nazi Germany) to illustrate a point about refugee definitions, without expressing a position on hostility toward Jews or taking any other action regarding it."}, {"id": "house-913", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Gérard Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… or faith. Terrorism is the worst side of society. It is an attack on all people and all religions. No one religion is better than another. Every religion is equal. Unfortunately, yes, there are despicable people who deserve to be severely condemned. That is why our motion talks about condemning “all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. I am quoting the motion here because it is important, and words have meaning. The motion then calls upon the House to instruct a parliamentary committee to find a way to eliminate all types of discrimination in Canada and to better reflect the enshrined rig …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-gérard-deltell-louis-saint-laurent-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-gérard-deltell-louis-saint-laurent-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, calling perpetrators 'despicable people who deserve to be severely condemned,' without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-914", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ouse believe it is fundamentally important to name Islamaphobia for what it is. I want to read something to the member and ask him a question. Some have suggested Motion 103 signals out Canadian Muslims for special treatment. This is not true. The House of Commons has long had a tradition of passing motions denouncing discrimination and hatred against particular groups, especially religious minorities. For example, in recent years the House of Commons has adopted similar motions regarding Jews (February 22, 2015), Yazidis (October 25, 2016) and Egyptian Coptic Christians ( October 17, 2011). That is a statement from the member for Wellington—Halton Hills . I want to ask my friend opposite about those comments, whether he agrees with the statement by the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, and why Islamophob …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-arif-virani-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-canadian-heritage-multiculturalism-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-arif-virani-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-canadian-heritage-multiculturalism-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites a previous motion regarding Jews (February 22, 2015) as a factual example in a series of similar motions the House has passed, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews itself."}, {"id": "house-915", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Hon. Mélanie Joly (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… eard about their successes, their challenges, and their ambitions. It was really an uplifting conversation. I learned a great deal from this conversation and I was surrounded by people from different religious backgrounds. Everyone there condemned Islamophobia. No one was afraid to speak out against it. Even though as Jews, Sikhs, indigenous peoples, or black persons they are part of a minority, they stood behind the Muslim community. Having often been victims of discrimination themselves, they acknowledged that Islamophobia is a problem in Canada. The same thing happened in my riding. In Ahuntsic-Cartierville, I had the opportunity to meet with several leaders from different religious backgrounds, including Armenians, Coptic Christians, Maronites, or even Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and at …", "… age my colleague across the way to support Motion No. 103. I would also like to seek unanimous consent for the following motion. That the motion be amended, first, by deleting the words “the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct” and substituting the following: “, in the opinion of the House, the government should, (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear, (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious d …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes people condemning Islamophobia and condemnation of 'all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination' including discrimination of Jews, without naming specific actors as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-916", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… an was filmed hurling abusive and racial slurs. He said. “You [bleeping] Paki. Go back to [bleeping] India. You camel-rider.” The individual then clearly states, “White power” as part of the exchange. Other incidents include flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan being found outside homes in British Columbia. Spray painted swastikas were recently found on a rabbi's door at a synagogue in Ottawa. A racist rant was caught on film in transit in Toronto. Racist posters also went up in the University of Alberta targeting the Sikh community. Jewish Canadians are still the most targeted religious group in Canada though those types of attacks have dropped while attacks on Muslims have increased. Hate crimes against Muslim Canadians have more than doubled in three years, even as the total number of hate crimes has dropped, which is why Motion No. 103 is important and ought to be supported. No matter in which community hate and discrimination is being targeted, we have a duty to stand up against this kind of despicable beh …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes multiple incidents of hostility and hate crimes (swastikas on synagogue, racial slurs, KKK flyers) and provides statistics on attacks against Jewish Canadians without taking a position on any specific actor's responsibility or condemning the hostility directly."}, {"id": "house-917", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Hon. Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… gan. All of these events have thrust adherents of Islam, as well as those who kill, torture, rape, and maim in state-sanctioned actions in the name of Islam, to the front of the world's mind. We now turn to Islamophobia. As opposed to Motion No. 103, the motion before us today asks us to “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. In using these words, it respects the state's obligation to protect the rights of the faithful to practise their faith because it refers to individual adherence of faith. It does not ask Parliament to condemn the practice of speaking against any particular …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-michelle-rempel-calgary-nose-hill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-michelle-rempel-calgary-nose-hill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Nose Hill", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Calgary Nose Hill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Religious Freedom", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes a motion that includes Jews among religious communities to be protected from discrimination, but the speaker is reporting on the motion's content and language rather than taking a position on hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "house-918", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I certainly agree with many of the sentiments the member expressed in his speech. I do not know how he feels about commitment, but I hope he will commit to supporting our motion today, which clearly talks about discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, and Hindus. It is interesting that he talked in his speech about discrimination against Sikhs and the importance of calling a problem by its name. Our motion calls a problem by its name by speaking very specifically about discrimination against individuals. Instead, when he talks about calling the problem by its name, he wants to use a word that is actually unclear and undefined. How is it strong …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to discrimination against Jews (among other groups) and advocates for clearly naming and addressing such discrimination through their motion, without accusing any specific person or party of being responsible for it."}, {"id": "house-919", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Harold Albrecht (Kitchener—Conestoga, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ly state that everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association. Whether it be the most recent attack on Muslims in Quebec City, the drawing of hateful images on Jewish synagogues in Ottawa, or the persecution of Christians in many regions of the world, these acts of hatred toward one another need to be stopped, and it is up to us as elected officials to stand up to this destructive climate. It has long been stated that freedom of religion is one of the most basic freedoms a society can give to its citizens. The United Nations has enshrined this freedom in its Declaration of Human Rights …", "… ues from all parties. Therefore, let me remind all members, indeed all Canadians who are watching today, of the inclusive nature of the motion before us today. Today's motion reads: That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-harold-albrecht-kitchenerconestoga-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-harold-albrecht-kitchenerconestoga-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Kitchener—Conestoga", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Kitchener—Conestoga, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Canadians", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hateful acts toward Jews (drawing of hateful images on synagogues) and explicitly states the motion 'condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-920", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Dianne L. Watts (South Surrey—White Rock, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House to speak to this opposition motion, which states: That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …", "… se rights for all Canadians. It is important to highlight this, because there is a perception by many that Canada is immune, or has been immune, to the kinds of hate crimes and violence against religious groups that have been witnessed around the world. We saw tragically, only a few weeks ago in Quebec City, an act of violence that has changed us forever. I believe that Canada must always stand firmly behind the principles of religious freedom, be it the Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, or Hindu faith, or whatever faith or non-faith one chooses to follow. Violence against any religious group is an attack on the universal values all Canadians cherish and protect. We must continue to do all we can to safeguard the expression and practice of faith in Canada and around the world. This issue is not new to the House. Freedom of expression and freedom of religion have been a priority for the Conservatives. Under our governme …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-dianne-l-watts-south-surreywhite-rock-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-dianne-l-watts-south-surreywhite-rock-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly condemns discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, and states violence against any religious group is an attack on universal values, without naming any specific perpetrator as responsible."}, {"id": "house-921", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Dianne L. Watts", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the member's comments and question are exactly what I was saying. If there is an issue in any of our communities, if there is hatred perpetrated upon the Islamic population, or if there is hatred perpetrated upon the Jewish population, it is incumbent upon all of us to deal with those issues. We look at our first nations, and it is absolutely correct. From a holistic perspective, we have to look at our communities in context and really have measures in place where we can assist those people who are vulnerable. In my community, 95 languag …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-dianne-l-watts/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-dianne-l-watts/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states it is 'incumbent upon all of us to deal with' hatred perpetrated upon the Jewish population, expressing obligation to address such hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-922", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . It is absolutely unacceptable, and I appreciate her sharing that. My hon. colleague mentioned a former member of Parliament, Irwin Cotler, who suggested that the word “Islamophobia” be removed and substituted with “anti-Muslim”. We see acts of racism and hate crimes throughout our country. Indeed, if members Google “hate crimes in Canada”, it comes up with attacks against Sikhs, attacks against first nations, and attacks against the Jewish community as well. During the summer, I went to Punjab, India, and visited the Golden Temple so that I could better understand that religion, and I am offended by the comments by government members that somehow we are racist, by putting forth this motion that mentions that we condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities. This is not a watered-down motion. It is simply capturing and standing up, as leaders, as we should all be doing. I believe our hon. NDP colleague mentioned that we should be standing together. How is this motion going to protect one person? As a matter of f …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-todd-doherty-caribooprince-george-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-todd-doherty-caribooprince-george-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate crimes and attacks against the Jewish community and affirms a motion condemning discrimination against Jews and other religious communities, without naming specific actors responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-923", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… afraid I must say that, given the attempts by some Liberal MPs to misrepresent both the content and the motivation of the motion, it is worth revisiting the text. The motion reads: That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and (c) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating all types of discrimination in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered foc …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and describes the text of a motion that condemns discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, without taking a position on the hostility itself or accusing anyone specific of it."}, {"id": "house-924", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Canada. We battled a long time for the equality of women. The days when women were not allowed in nightclubs or had to use a separate entrance are long gone. That sort of discrimination cannot be permitted in Canada. Earlier in this Parliament we saw a motion concerning the BDS movement, which was allowed to encourage discrimination in Canada against the state of Israel, a Jewish state. This movement is contrary to our freedoms under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, because it has consequences for our Jewish Canadian friends and because it promotes discrimination. When I was in the business world, I travelled to many countries around the world, and it was clear that when I was in those countries, I had to obey their laws. The same principle holds in Canada, but I think we should do more to ensure that our laws are respected. Many parliamentarians have also expressed a desire t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the BDS movement as responsible for encouraging discrimination against Jews in Canada, stating it 'was allowed to encourage discrimination in Canada against the state of Israel, a Jewish state' and has 'consequences for our Jewish Canadian friends.'"}, {"id": "house-925", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… sorry the member is experiencing these kinds of hate tweets and posts. When I was running my campaign, I also received a huge number of hate tweets and hate posts on Facebook, to the point that I had to shut down both my Facebook and Twitter accounts because I was being attacked for being a Christian. My point is that hate crimes and these attacks are happening across different faiths. I talked in my speech about the BDS movement and its attack on Jewish people. That is why we brought our motion today, because I think that we have to up the love and down the hate in our country. If we are going to do a study, we should be studying across all the faiths that are represented. A member from the NDP talked about the discrimination that exists against aboriginals and the things that they believe. I think we need to broaden the discussion."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/ms-marilyn-gladu/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and attacks against Jewish people, and mentions the BDS movement's attack on Jewish people as part of calling to 'up the love and down the hate,' without naming a specific responsible party."}, {"id": "house-926", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I appreciate hearing my colleague's thoughts on our motion as well as some of the larger context. Looking at the text of the motion, it says very clearly that we “condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities”. Members have talked about the importance of calling out discrimination by name, and our motion very clearly does that. There is no ambiguity in our motion. That is one of the clear differences and one of those things that is particularly important. Also, the timeline allows us to move forward earlier and more quickly with the committee study. Our motion does not just suggest a committee …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states the motion 'condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination' against Jews and other religious communities, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-927", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… o be very complete. This motion accurately reflects what we, as a society, think we should and should not do when it comes to hateful acts. My colleague's motion reads as follows: That the House: ( a ) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; ( b ) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; and ( c ) instruct the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to undertake a study on how the government could... For those who are not as familiar with the work of the House, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage is a committee of parliamentarians fr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-luc-berthold-méganticlérable-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-luc-berthold-méganticlérable-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker describes and endorses a motion that explicitly condemns discrimination against Jews and other religious communities, without naming specific persons or entities as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-928", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Gérard Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… They may follow different faiths, but they are driven by the same desire to understand others. To come back to the member's question, I wonder if my colleague from Mégantic—L'Érable could explain how that member could say that we have ignored Islam, when the motion states, and I quote: ...condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; How could the member have done such selective reading?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-gérard-deltell-louis-saint-laurent-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-gérard-deltell-louis-saint-laurent-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker cites a motion condemning discrimination against Jews and other religious groups, objecting to the accusation that Islam was ignored."}, {"id": "house-929", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-16", "speaker": "Mr. Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… en hostile, to those we do not know. We need to break down some barriers and get to know each other a little better. After all, religious discrimination is not directed at only one group. I am sure my Sikh and Hindu colleagues in the House could tell of how they have been at times met with suspicion, as members of the Jewish and Muslim communities could tell tales of discrimination suffered by their members in all parts of this country. How widespread is religious discrimination in Canada? Can we as parliamentarians do more than just lead by example? That is what we are asking the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to find out. Allowing people to believe what they want and to practise that belief is a cornerstone of our society. Here in Canada we treat others with respect. That is the Ca …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-ziad-aboultaif-edmonton-manning-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/16/mr-ziad-aboultaif-edmonton-manning-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Edmonton Manning", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Manning, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes discrimination against Jewish communities as a fact without condemning it, blaming anyone, or naming specific perpetrators—simply noting it exists alongside discrimination against other groups."}, {"id": "house-930", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-15", "speaker": "Mr. Frank Baylis (Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… My own family's history has been touched by the fight against systemic racism. More than 50 years ago, my mother, Gloria Leon Baylis, a young black immigrant from Barbados, was denied a job because of her skin colour, because of her race. When that happened, she did not throw a rock through a window at night or write graffiti on a wall. No, she took them to court. She found a young Jewish lawyer, who told her he would stand with her and take on the case. Remember that this was over 50 years ago, when such discrimination was commonplace and, quite frankly, accepted. Her case would take over 12 years to be settled, and when it was done and she won, the perpetrators were fined the measly sum of $25, some $25 for a 12-year case. However, the case was never about money. Her case would be the first in Canada to be fought and won against ra …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/15/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/15/mr-frank-baylis-pierrefondsdollard-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a historical instance where a Jewish lawyer supported a Black woman against racial discrimination, presenting this as a positive example of solidarity without making claims about hostility toward Jews or taking a stance on antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-931", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Mr. Murray Rankin (Victoria, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… oved, and passed into law. Canada is thought of, at home and abroad, as an inclusive nation, a place that welcomes all people, regardless of culture, language, or religion, with equality and respect. It is a country where diversity is not just accepted but celebrated. We strive to make Canada a nation free from racial intolerance and xenophobia, but recent events remind us that we still have more work to do. Here in Ottawa, right here in the nation's capital, we have seen mosques, synagogues, and a Jewish community centre vandalized. We have seen discrimination in communities right across Canada, and in Quebec City this weekend, we saw where hatred can lead. In Canada, racial and ethnic discrimination motivates about half of all police-reported hate crimes. Another quarter of these crimes are driven by prejudice towards religion, and that number, sadly, is rising. In just the last three years, hate crimes against Muslim Canadians have more than doubled. These st …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-murray-rankin-victoria-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-murray-rankin-victoria-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Victoria", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Victoria, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to vandalism of synagogues and Jewish community centers, and discrimination against Jews, without naming specific responsible parties. Uses clear language like 'hatred' and 'discrimination' to describe the hostility."}, {"id": "house-932", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-02-02", "speaker": "Mr. Chandra Arya (Nepean, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… blic foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. He stated: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. Bill C-305 would recognize that hate motivated by bias based on gender identity and sexual orientation would carry the same weight as crimes committed against religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin. The bill would expand it to include schools, day care centres, colleges or universities, community centres, seniors' residences, and cultural centres. The i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/2/mr-chandra-arya-nepean-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Nepean", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Nepean, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Criminal Code", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a historical statement about persecution of Jews and then describes what Bill C-305 would do regarding hate crimes, without taking a personal position condemning or blaming anyone for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-933", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-01-31", "speaker": "Hon. Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e purport to be, we should not preclude someone from entering our country solely on the grounds of his or her religious belief or country of origin. For eons we have been killing each other based on religion. In Canada, our pluralism is sustained by laws which separate church and state and harshly punish murder, rape, hate speech, and other actions which are often carried out in the name of one god or another. I am a Christian. My closest friends are Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim. We talk about the fact that there are extremists in all of our faiths, for example, those who believe in creating inequality for and persecuting LGBT and women. In Canada, our freedom of religion allows us to believe whatever we want, but it does not afford us the right to act on those beliefs if they are criminal. Therefore, in that, completely shutting our doors to new immigrants is wrong. Should we have an open and transparent debate about how many newcomer …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/hon-michelle-rempel-calgary-nose-hill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/hon-michelle-rempel-calgary-nose-hill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Calgary Nose Hill", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Calgary Nose Hill, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Religious Freedom", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to religious persecution and discrimination generally, including implied hostility toward Jews as part of broader religious intolerance, without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-934", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-01-31", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… en the United States has been more welcoming than Canada. We should not congratulate ourselves on just being better than everyone else. There was a period of time when Chinese were excluded from the right to immigrate to Canada. So were other Asians, Sikhs, Hindus, and people from all over Asia. Eastern Europeans were discriminated against. Southern Europeans were discriminated against in the 1920s and 1930s. I come from the Jewish community. We all remember that when the Jewish community needed Canada the most, in the thirties, when Hitler was in power, the doors of Canada were closed to Jewish refugees. Irving Abella's None is Too Many is a wonderful book that explains what happened; but let us talk about the process of the St. Louis . The St. Louis was a ship that came out of Hamburg in Ma …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jewish refugees without condemning, naming specific actors, or blaming anyone in the present. They cite a historical event (St. Louis) and reference a book documenting what happened, presenting facts about the past without taking a position on responsibility."}, {"id": "house-935", "year": 2017, "chamber": "house", "date": "2017-01-31", "speaker": "Mr. Mark Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hat in other parts of the world. We are seeing countries pull back. Canada has had numerous examples of where we have not made that decision and instead where we have been the welcoming beacon of hope for many different refugees throughout the world. As a new country in the early 20th century, we accepted thousands of persecuted Jews. Between 1947 and 1952, one-quarter of a million displaced Europeans came to Canada. In 1956, 37,000 Hungarians escaped Soviet tyranny. In 1968 and 1969, we welcomed 11,000 Czech refugees. Between 1970 and 1980, more than 60,000 boat people found refuge in Canada after the Vietnam war. In 1999, Canada took over 5,000 …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/mr-mark-gerretsen-kingston-and-the-islands-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/1/31/mr-mark-gerretsen-kingston-and-the-islands-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's historical acceptance of persecuted Jews and other refugees without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or condemning discrimination."}, {"id": "house-936", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-12-14", "speaker": "Mr. Omar Alghabra (Mississauga Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… h prejudice would erode the values on which our society is built. Our kids will stop believing us if we tell them that all they need to do is work hard and fair to accomplish anything they want, regardless of their background. We have a responsibility to set an example that we stand together, united against labels and hate. Think about this. What other country brings Jewish and Muslim politicians together to celebrate Christmas and declare solidarity against discrimination? The world is watching. We need to show the best of ourselves. On that note, Mr. Speaker, I want to wish you, my colleagues, and all Canadians a peaceful and rewarding holiday season."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/12/14/mr-omar-alghabra-mississauga-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/12/14/mr-omar-alghabra-mississauga-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to prejudice and hate/discrimination generally, advocating for standing united against these problems, without naming specific perpetrators or acts."}, {"id": "house-937", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-12-05", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… an Jewish community groups were supported by citizens across the religious spectrum in condemning a Green Party resolution to embed BDS as official party policy. This weekend, the Green Party passed a rewritten so-called compromise resolution that is in fact its most anti-Israel position yet. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, CIJA, said that the resolution confirms that the Green Party has been co-opted by extreme activists who, in an obsessive campaign of prejudice against Israelis, threaten the party's own credibility and relevance in Canadian politics. Earlier this year, by a large majority, the House formally condemned the demonization of the state of Israel. I hope MPs will reaffirm that powerful statement today."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/12/5/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/12/5/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker attributes hostility toward Jews to the Green Party and 'extreme activists,' saying they conducted an 'obsessive campaign of prejudice against Israelis' and that the party has been 'co-opted' by them, thereby naming specific entities as responsible for the prejudice."}, {"id": "house-938", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-11-28", "speaker": "Hon. Ralph Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the representations made by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, and others. There is no place in Canada for racist and hateful conduct like we have seen, sadly, in recent weeks. This morning, I announced a stronger security infrastructure program, which funds up to half of the cost of security projects for non-profit community institutions. The program is now more accessible and broader in scope to help protect Canada's diverse communities. A …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/28/hon-ralph-goodale-minister-of-public-safety-and-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/28/hon-ralph-goodale-minister-of-public-safety-and-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'racist and hateful conduct' targeting Jewish institutions without naming specific perpetrators; announces security funding in response."}, {"id": "house-939", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-27", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the United Nations agency created to celebrate education, science, and history has embarrassed and disgraced itself yet again, allowing itself to be used as a tool for hate. At the annual meeting of UNESCO's annual world heritage committee, a resolution was passed that effectively denies Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, and that ignores the importance of Jerusalem to the three monotheistic religions that share its history. As the site of two biblical temples, Temple Mount is the holiest place in Judaism, as well as the Muslim holy site of the al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Haram al-Sharif. Denying the existence of the Jewish temples is only a blood libel step away from denying the existence of Jews. Canada must strongly protest and condemn this latest hateful manipulation of our shared history."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies UNESCO and its world heritage committee as responsible for hostile action toward Jews by passing a resolution that 'denies Jewish...ties to Jerusalem's Temple Mount' and characterizes this as 'hate' and 'hateful manipulation.'"}, {"id": "house-940", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-27", "speaker": "Mr. Nathan Cullen", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… funding going to the kid who happens to be going to a school on reserve. In some places, that is an across-the-street situation. However, in rural and remote first nation communities, there is no across the street; there is only the first nation's school. We say, and the Human Rights Tribunal has said, that these are racist and discriminatory policies, end of sentence. If this was against African Canadians, Jewish Canadians, or any other identified group of Canadians, we would all be up in arms asking how this could be possible. However, it is first nations kids, and that is the way it has been for 150 years of Liberal and Conservative governments. The Liberal government is looking to blame somebody, and saying that it is someh …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/mr-nathan-cullen/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/27/mr-nathan-cullen/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Skeena—Bulkley Valley", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Skeena—Bulkley Valley, NDP", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion--Government Spending", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker condemns discriminatory policies by stating they are 'racist and discriminatory,' and uses Jewish Canadians as a comparison group to illustrate how seriously such discrimination should be treated, without naming any specific person or party as responsible for hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-941", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-26", "speaker": "Hon. Candice Bergen (Portage—Lisgar, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, in light of the motion that was just adopted by the House, and given that tomorrow is International Religious Freedom Day, I would like to seek the unanimous consent of the House for the following motion. I move: That, this House condemns all forms of persecution against all religious groups including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/26/hon-candice-bergen-portagelisgar-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/26/hon-candice-bergen-portagelisgar-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Portage—Lisgar", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Portage—Lisgar, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Office of Religious Freedom", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states 'I move: That, this House condemns all forms of persecution against all religious groups including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims.' This directly objects to persecution/hostility against Jews and other religious groups without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-942", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-10-17", "speaker": "Hon. Mélanie Joly (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s commitment to the National Holocaust Monument. It will serve as a vital and sobering reminder to all Canadians of the tragedy of the Holocaust. It will honour those six million Jews and millions of others, including Roma, homosexuals, and disabled people, who lost their lives. We must never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and we must continue to fight the hatred and disregard of humankind."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/17/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/10/17/hon-mélanie-joly-minister-of-canadian-heritage-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Ahuntsic-Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Supplementary Estimates (B), 2021-22", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'hatred and disregard of humankind' associated with the Holocaust without naming specific perpetrators or contemporary actors responsible for current hostility."}, {"id": "house-943", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-09-22", "speaker": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Calgary Midnapore, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… very in the United States to achieve freedom in this country, sometimes with the scars of slavery on their backs. There were the Highland clearance Scots, who founded Cape Breton. There were the famine Irish, including some of my ancestors—and members can see that the Kenneys have recovered from the famine. There were Jewish victims of the pogroms before the Second World War, in the early 20th century, and the victims of the Shoah, who came after the Second World War. There were the eastern Europeans, the men in sheepskin coats who fled political oppression to pursue new opportunities in settling the Canadian Prairies; the Hungarians of 1958; the Czechs of 1968; and the Vietnamese of 1979. With the Chinese premier here today, we should also remember the Uyghurs and Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners and those who stood at Tiananmen Square. There are so many others rig …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/9/22/hon-jason-kenney-calgary-midnapore-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/9/22/hon-jason-kenney-calgary-midnapore-cpc/", "party": "Canadian Alliance", "riding": "Calgary Southeast", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mr. Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Canadian Alliance)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Attack on the United States", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Jewish victims of pogroms and the Shoah as part of a historical listing of immigrant groups who came to Canada, without expressing approval or disapproval of the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-944", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-06-09", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tranquillity of life, in this context, the relative potential tranquillity of Canadian international diplomatic relations. During our previous Conservative government we regularly put the pursuit of justice ahead of tranquillity in international relations. We stood for what was and is right. We stood for the rights of persecuted religious, ethnic, and linguistic minorities. We stood for the right of self-determination for any peaceful community. We stood for the right of the Jewish people to a safe and secure homeland. We stood for the right of the Russian people to know that human rights abusers from their country will not be able to travel to and invest in the west. We stood for the rights of Chinese Uighurs, Afghan Sikhs, Crimean Tatars, and yes, Yazidis, Christians, Kurds, Turkmen, Shia Musl …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/6/9/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/6/9/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes their government's past positions supporting Jewish rights and a safe homeland, stating facts about their stance without condemning hostility toward Jews or naming/blaming specific actors for antisemitism."}, {"id": "house-945", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-05", "speaker": "Hon. Jim Carr (Minister of Natural Resources, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… and pride of place, as all of us in the House feel. We bring that pride of place to something that is greater than our own identities or the places in which we live: to the great country that is ours. I rise with gratitude because I am here due to the courage of my grandparents. They left Russia in 1906, escaping the pogroms of the czar, Jewish people who were not at home in the Pale of Settlement, who could not exercise freedom, who could not own property, who had no sense of opportunity for their children or grandchildren. They came to Canada, where there was a single relative to welcome them. They came with no English, no money, and really no prospects. W …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/5/hon-jim-carr-minister-of-natural-resources-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/5/hon-jim-carr-minister-of-natural-resources-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements by Members — Jewish Refugees", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical pogroms and Jewish persecution in Russia without taking a position on any current hostility or making accusations; this is historical context for their family narrative."}, {"id": "house-946", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-04", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… pproaches. It is the day we remember the victims of the Holocaust; the men, women, and children who were executed in the fields of Ukraine; those who were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Treblinka; those assigned to slave labour who starved to death in Dachau. More than 6 million Jews and millions of non-Jews perished. My predecessor, Irwin Cotler, often quoted the phrase, “Holocaust did not begin in the gas chamber, it began with words.” This is true. Words led to incitement to hatred, which led to pogroms and murder. We must never remain silent in the face of incitement to hatred. The Holocaust took place over 70 years ago, and few survivors remain. It is our sacred duty to ensure that all Canadians know what happened. We should never forget."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/4/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/4/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to incitement to hatred and antisemitic violence (pogroms, murder, Holocaust) and emphasizes the duty to remember and never remain silent in the face of such hatred, without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "house-947", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-04", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . In York Centre, which has one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors in Canada, remembrance ceremonies will be held in schools, synagogues, and community centres. Every year, we must continue to remember and reflect on one of history's darkest periods: the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews during the Second World War. Each and every one of us must consider the unfathomable suffering and loss of life, the deep-seated hatred from which it took root, and the incredible strength, courage, and resilience of those who survived. Our remembrance is an act of rejection of the evil that fuelled an attempt to extinguish an entire people, an evil we all bear a collective responsibility to ensure is never forgotten."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/4/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/4/mr-michael-levitt-york-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — International Holocaust Remembrance Day", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker characterizes the Holocaust as 'evil' and describes remembrance as 'an act of rejection of the evil,' expressing moral opposition to the hostility without naming specific contemporary actors as responsible."}, {"id": "house-948", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-05-02", "speaker": "Hon. Ralph Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, our government celebrates Canadian diversity as a tremendous source of strength, and the Jewish community in Canada is an integral part of that. We will always stand firm against intolerance and hate, as we continue to build an open, inclusive society. With respect to the admissibility of a particular individual, border security officers make those determinations on the basis of the facts at ports of entry in accordance to Canadian law. I would point out that past criminality is a factor that is certainly taken in …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/2/hon-ralph-goodale-minister-of-public-safety-and-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/5/2/hon-ralph-goodale-minister-of-public-safety-and-emergency-preparedness-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states government will 'stand firm against intolerance and hate' and affirms the Jewish community as integral to Canadian diversity, expressing principled opposition to hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-949", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… For example, a recent project gave $290,000 to the Aga Khan Foundation for development and distribution of children's books that promoted pluralism among school-aged children in Bangladesh. Working through a Muslim organization, this project also particularly is important to the atheist community, which faces growing persecution in Bangladesh. Non-Christian groups, in fact, Sikh, Jewish and Muslim leaders in Canada have taken the lead on calling for the renewal of this office. Earlier this year, representatives from these three communities sent a joint letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs pleading with him to do the right thing and to renew this office. A vast range of communities are represente …", "… s bear no responsibility whatsoever for colonization. They have as much right to live in peace and security as anyone else. When I talked to other non-Christian faith groups, strikingly they often raised the increasingly desperate plight of Christians as a matter of significant concern. CIJA, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, for example, has been vocal in support of the plight of persecuted Christians, and we should listen to what it has to say in this respect. This office does not focus uniquely on Christians but does not ignore them either. A fifth and final objection that I hear to the Office of Religious Freedom is that its work is in some way colonialist. A recent commentary piece in the Toronto Sta …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/mr-garnett-genuis/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/mr-garnett-genuis/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage mentions Jewish leaders calling for renewal of an office on religious freedom and references CIJA's advocacy work, but does not describe or object to any hostility toward Jews, nor does it blame anyone for enabling such hostility."}, {"id": "house-950", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Ms. Cheryl Hardcastle (Windsor—Tecumseh, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… is simple: politics. To get a sense of what I mean, we only need look at the actual record of the Office of Religious Freedom. In an analysis of the ORF by Samane Hemmat, published in OpenCanada, Hemmat notes that, “Christian minorities have garnered almost twice as much of the attention...as compared with Muslim and Jewish communities”. This is not to suggest that Christians are not being persecuted in the Middle East, because they are. This is why, during the previous Parliament, the NDP supported a study by the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the human rights violations against Egyptian Christians. We also supported the committee's all-party statement condemning this violence against Christians, c …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/ms-cheryl-hardcastle-windsortecumseh-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/ms-cheryl-hardcastle-windsortecumseh-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker cites an analysis documenting that Jewish communities received less attention from the Office of Religious Freedom compared to Christian minorities, presenting this as a factual observation without condemning anyone or assigning blame for the disparity."}, {"id": "house-951", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-03-21", "speaker": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ition or fundamentally change it within 150 days. That should concern Canadians. That should concern people who voted for this new government. In fact, in Mr. Ignatieff's remarks in response to his support for the creation of this office, he mentioned, and many of my friends have mentioned, that these groups have been persecuted abroad, for years and in some cases centuries. He mentioned the Coptic Christians in Egypt. He mentioned members of the Bahá’i faith in Iran, Jews, and Christians. He mentioned China, where the rights of religious freedom are heavily restricted. Therefore, the previous Liberal leader supported the creation of this office, and it is sad that we have to bring a debate to the floor today. After just a few years, but in an exceptional mandate, Ambassador Bennett has …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/hon-erin-otoole-durham-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/3/21/hon-erin-otoole-durham-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Durham", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Durham, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jews among persecuted groups (Coptic Christians, Bahá'i, Christians, people in China) when citing Ignatieff's remarks supporting creation of an office. This is descriptive/contextual reference without taking a position on any hostility."}, {"id": "house-952", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "Hon. Tony Clement (Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… discourse that is uniquely reserved for pariah states, and apply this standard, uniquely and singularly, to the Middle East's only Liberal democracy and the world's only Jewish state. It is clear that the intent of those in favour of this movement is not to resolve the conflict but to single out Israel and contest the Jewish state's right to be treated with fairness. I would put it before this House that this BDS movement is actually a form of discrimination. In targeting all Israelis, BDS is a present-day blacklist and a form of discrimination, strictly based on national origin. Just like boycotts have targeted Jews throughout history, today BDS activists call on boycotting people who come from the Jewish state. I would stress that it is in no way pro-Palestinian; it is in fact anti-Israel. I would put it to my colleagues and members of this chamber that BDS actually undermines peace. It does nothing to bring the two sides together, to promote peace or improve the quality of life for Palestinian citizens. Indeed, BDS a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/hon-tony-clement-parry-soundmuskoka-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/hon-tony-clement-parry-soundmuskoka-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly identifies the BDS movement as 'a form of discrimination' that targets Israel/Israelis based on national origin, and compares it to historical boycotts targeting Jews, directly attributing discriminatory intent and action to BDS."}, {"id": "house-953", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-19", "speaker": "Hon. Stéphane Dion (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this government is certainly determined to strengthen all the programs that will educate Canadians against racism and intolerance, and to have a more tolerant and open-minded country, especially regarding our Jewish community. This being said, the attempt of the Conservatives to divide the House on this issue failed yesterday, and it will always fail as long as we have this government in place."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/19/hon-stéphane-dion-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/19/hon-stéphane-dion-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Laurent--Cartierville", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Lib.", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Privilege — Content of Flyer", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker expresses the government's determination to strengthen programs against racism and intolerance, and emphasizes creating a more tolerant country regarding the Jewish community, which objects to hostility without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-954", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "Mr. David Sweet (Flamborough—Glanbrook, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, although often in the House there is good deal of cordiality in saying “I appreciate the speech of my colleague”, I really do appreciate the speech of my colleague. In 1939, Canada had a policy of “none is too many” regarding Jews. The St. Louis was turned away and it is a stain on our history. Those kinds of things happened because people said hateful things and nothing was ever said about that. I would like to ask the following of my colleague in regard to the broader conversation today and with respect, without any kind of partisanship or any effort to rail against another party, but simply to ask on this issue: when do we start saying no? When does the House beg …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/mr-david-sweet-flamboroughglanbrook-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/mr-david-sweet-flamboroughglanbrook-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Westdale", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Human Rights Act", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Canada's 1939 policy on Jewish refugees as 'a stain on our history' and references 'hateful things' without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible; expresses disapproval of the historical hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-955", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-18", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ge of weapons, and incitement to violence against Israel in UNRWA-operated schools. B'nai Brith Canada says Canadian aid for Arab Palestinian welfare should go only to specific humanitarian programs and peaceful infrastructure projects. UN Watch has accused dozens of UNRWA staffers of using their official positions to incite Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks against Israeli Jews. My Thornhill constituents ask: Why can the Liberals not find more appropriate ways of delivering humanitarian aid rather than simply handing it to terrorist sympathizers?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/18/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "funding", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes accusations and incidents (B'nai Brith Canada's position, UN Watch's accusations, constituents' concerns) without directly condemning the hostility or naming specific responsible parties. The speaker is reporting what these organizations have said and what constituents are asking."}, {"id": "house-956", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-04", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… und programs and initiatives to alleviate religious persecution in various countries (toward which the majority of the Office's modest $5 million is allocated). While these projects do not always make headlines, we believe they laudably reflect a practical and effective role Canada can play in mitigating the plight of persecuted religious minorities around the world. Those are the words of Canada's Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim leaders speaking together. In response on the letter, the minister told the House that they valued religious freedom, they just did not want it to be isolated. Comments like this suggest that unfortunately the minister is not even aware of what the office does. This office is not a silo of activity a …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/4/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/4/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the minister for not being aware of what the office does and for treating religious freedom in an isolated way, suggesting inadequate understanding or response to religious persecution issues including those affecting Jews."}, {"id": "house-957", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-02-04", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 0 signatures on a petition urging the Quebec government to add education about the horrors of genocide to the school curriculum across the province. Next week, I will be accompanying the foundation to the Quebec National Assembly, where they will submit their petition. My predecessor, Irwin Cotler, often said that the Holocaust did not begin in the concentration camps; it began with words, the ferocious anti-Jewish and racist lexicon of the Nazi regime. It is essential that students across Canada be educated about all of the different genocides of human history in order to ensure it never again becomes a reality."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/4/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/2/4/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker opposes anti-Jewish hostility by supporting genocide education and quoting Cotler's warning that anti-Jewish rhetoric preceded the Holocaust, without naming specific current actors responsible for present hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-958", "year": 2016, "chamber": "house", "date": "2016-01-27", "speaker": "Ms. Rachel Blaney (North Island—Powell River, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… must bear witness. As Elie Wiesel said, today we bear witness to six million Jews, a third of the Jewish population, who were killed alongside countless others due to their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. As Canadians, we must bear witness and demonstrate action against racial, ethnic, and religious intolerance. Canada has been profoundly shaped by the 40,000 Holocaust survivors who settled in this country after the war. We must not forget this history. We must teach our children about the victims of the Holocaust and continue to fight all forms of discrimination. We must never forget."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/1/27/ms-rachel-blaney-north-islandpowell-river-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/1/27/ms-rachel-blaney-north-islandpowell-river-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "North Island—Powell River", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "North Island—Powell River, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Committees of the House — Foreign Affairs and International Development", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to historical hostility toward Jews (Holocaust) and calls for action against intolerance and discrimination without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "committee-959", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-05-28", "speaker": "Ms. Elizabeth Moore", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I certainly second what Faisal and Avi have mentioned. I would like to see the addition of something very specific to deal with false news within section 13. If you have something that is inciting violence or inciting hatred and if a person is, let's say, using altered or doctored videos or photographs of a Jewish politician, for example, that would be given specific consideration. You're not just promoting hatred; you're also, literally, putting words in someone else's mouth, potentially. That needs to be addressed as well."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/28/ms-elizabeth-moore/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/28/ms-elizabeth-moore/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to false news and doctored videos/photographs inciting hatred against Jewish politicians, calling for specific legal consideration of this as a form of hostility, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-960", "year": 2019, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2019-05-28", "speaker": "Ms. Dahabo Ahmed Omer", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… g public safety for marginalized communities such as mine while also threatening national security. This is made clear by a recent report by the military police criminal intelligence section that reveals white supremacist infiltration of the Canadian Forces by paramilitary groups that use the web to recruit and spread hate. With terrorist attacks on the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec; recent vandalization of black, Muslim, Jewish and Sikh places of worship; and the global context of coordination among white supremacist groups worldwide, more and more Canadians of all backgrounds believe that the time is now for Parliament to act more forcefully and deliberately against hate, which undermines public safety and transnational security. Canadians …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/28/ms-dahabo-ahmed-omer/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/5/28/ms-dahabo-ahmed-omer/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalization targeting Jewish places of worship among other communities, and mentions white supremacist infiltration and hate coordination, but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame officials, or dispute these characterizations—simply presenting them as documented facts to support an argument for action."}, {"id": "committee-961", "year": 2018, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2018-04-25", "speaker": "Mr. Glen Motz", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I agree with that statement; however, we had groups here during testimony.... We had a Jewish group here that said the changing of this legislation will be a problem for them when dealing with hate issues and hate crimes. That could be stretched to the extent—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/4/25/mr-glen-motz/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/4/25/mr-glen-motz/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Public Safety and National Security", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes testimony from a Jewish group regarding concerns about legislation, without taking a position on the hostility itself or naming/blaming anyone for it."}, {"id": "committee-962", "year": 2018, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2018-02-08", "speaker": "Ms. Pam Damoff", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… th of you when we were looking at that, so I appreciate your coming back. It always concerns me when our discussions on terrorist attacks focus solely on ISIS and not on the attacks on our Muslim community and by right-wing groups. That has come up. I think I mentioned the last time you were here that when there is an attack on the Muslim community, I am always struck by the fact that the first people to step up are from the Jewish community. I think it's because of that long history of hatred towards the Jewish community that you recognize the impact. Certainly in my own community, I know there's Halton Interfaith Council and tremendous co-operation, and that it is the Jewish community that is always the first to step up when there is an attack on the Muslim community. I just want to thank you for that and make sure that our conversation is on the broader terrorism threat, not just on ISIL. We had the Minister here—and this is directed to B'nai Brith, because you were talking about advocacy versus counselling—and law enforcement here, and I believe there wer …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/8/ms-pam-damoff/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/2/8/ms-pam-damoff/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Oakville North--Burlington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Adjournment Proceedings — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the focus on ISIS terrorism while neglecting attacks on Muslim communities by right-wing groups, and acknowledges 'that long history of hatred towards the Jewish community' as a serious concern worthy of recognition and solidarity."}, {"id": "committee-963", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-01", "speaker": "Mr. Don Hutchinson (Author, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… fear of mistreatment or punishment for doing so. Statistics Canada confirms that our nation's largest identifiable religious community comprises simply the largest minority religious community in the country. Catholics, including Roman Catholics, comprise under 40% of Canadians. We are a nation of minorities. Data on hate crimes from 2015 notes that 35% of reported incidents were motivated by anti-religious bias. Of anti-religious incidents, 37% were directed against the Jewish community, which comprises 1.1% of the Canadian population, and 34% were directed against the Muslim community, which comprises 3.2% of the Canadian population. This brief historical tour and commentary is offered in a context expressed by a Mi'kmaq friend. Look back to learn how the issue has been considered in the p …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/1/mr-don-hutchinson-author-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/1/mr-don-hutchinson-author-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage cites Statistics Canada data on hate crimes against Jewish communities without taking a position on the hostility itself or naming/blaming specific actors responsible for it."}, {"id": "committee-964", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-11-01", "speaker": "The Chair", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the heritage committee is studying systemic racism and religious discrimination in Canada. In our second hour, we have the Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims with Barbara Landau, co-chair, and Shahid Akhtar, co-chair. As well, we have the Assembly of First Nations, and it's our honour to welcome Grand Chief Perry Bellegarde and Jed Johns to this table. We shall begin. You have 10 minutes within which to give your presentation, and then we will go to a question …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/1/the-chair/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/11/1/the-chair/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage introduces a parliamentary committee studying systemic racism and religious discrimination, and identifies witnesses who will testify. It describes the subject matter without taking a position on any specific hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-965", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-30", "speaker": "Dr. Janet Buckingham (Professor, Laurentian Leadership Centre, Trinity Western University, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rategy. When someone wants to target religion, he or she does not spray-paint anti-Jewish comments on a bridge but on a synagogue. This happened in the city of Ottawa just last year. A mosque and a United Church were also targeted. The church was particularly targeted because its pastor is black, so it was an issue of racism in that case. If someone wants to target a religious group, it is the house of worship, be it a synagogue, a mosque, a church, or a temple. Let me be clear. The freedom to worship is protected by section 2(a) of the charter, guarantee for religious freedom, and it is important to protect sacred spaces. If there are people or groups who seek to protest a religious group, they will demonstrate or protest near a house of wor …", "… have seen a rise in hate crimes on the basis of religion in Canada. The most recently reported hate crimes on the basis of religion are from 2015. Those against Muslims increased by 60%, an increase from 99 to 159. Catholics also experienced an almost 60% increase, from 25 to 55. However, the number of police-reported hate crimes motivated by religion remains highest for Jews in Canada. With close to 500 reported hate crimes on the basis of religion, why would Parliament remove protection for religious services? It does not make sense. I also note the new legislation in Quebec, Bill 62, that bans Muslim religious practice. Women who wear a niqab, a face veil, will not be able to access public services, including riding on public transit. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/dr-janet-buckingham-professor-laurentian-leadership-centre-trinity-western-university-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/dr-janet-buckingham-professor-laurentian-leadership-centre-trinity-western-university-as-an-individual/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Professor, Laurentian Leadership Centre, Trinity Western University, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalism targeting synagogues and other houses of worship, cites statistics on hate crimes against Jews and other religious groups, and references Quebec legislation, without explicitly condemning or attributing blame to specific actors for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-966", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-30", "speaker": "Mr. Bruce F. Simpson", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rance just seemed almost to not exist. I think we went through several decades where arguably Canada was the most tolerant place in the world for different religious opinions. Unfortunately things sometimes change, and although I think the overwhelming majority of Canadians are religiously tolerant, we've had a lot of hate lately. Muslims, of course, are the primary objects of late, but as the professor pointed out, Catholics and of course Jewish people remain targets of hatred. I don't pretend to understand why, but it's so. I think it's important to say that we view as important the right of people to go to their place of worship and to be free from being interfered with while they're there. I don't think you'll find anybody who actually thinks you ought to disrupt these things, but I don' …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-bruce-f-simpson/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/30/mr-bruce-f-simpson/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred directed at Jewish people and others, and affirms the importance of religious freedom and safety at places of worship, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-967", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-23", "speaker": "Dr. Idris Elbakri", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Yes, for sure. Some of the statistics we referenced were from the Statistics Canada study, which showed that hate crimes against Canadian Muslims increased by 253% between 2012 and 2015, that the most targeted racial group was the black community, that the most targeted group of all was the Jewish community, and that there was an 86% increase in hate crimes targeting gay and lesbian Canadians."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/dr-idris-elbakri/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/dr-idris-elbakri/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Past President, Manitoba Islamic Association", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is citing statistics from a Statistics Canada study about hate crimes against various groups, including Jews, without taking a position on the hostility or attributing responsibility to anyone."}, {"id": "committee-968", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-23", "speaker": "Ms. Julie Dzerowicz", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ry to develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing and eliminating systemic racism and discrimination. My colleague Ms. Kwan mentioned a national action strategy, and I think we're all talking about that. We've had the black community come before us, we have talked about the indigenous community, we have had the Jewish community come before us, and we've had lots of letters from Christians saying they're discriminated against. We have to set some priorities in a national action plan, and I know that both of you have made a series of recommendations. Could tell us what we should be prioritizing? Just to give you a little context, Ontario has put an anti-racism action plan into place. They've had to set some priorities on what to beg …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/ms-julie-dzerowicz/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/ms-julie-dzerowicz/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions that the Jewish community has come before them to discuss discrimination, but does not condemn, blame, name perpetrators, or take any position on the hostility itself—only that it has been presented as part of a broader discussion on systemic discrimination."}, {"id": "committee-969", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-23", "speaker": "Mr. Faisal Mirza (Advocacy Committee Member and Criminal Law Barrister, South Asian Bar Association)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… aults and threats, and that the sentencing sections in the code indicate that crimes committed for bias or hate are aggravating factors on sentencing. As a criminal barrister I embrace the repeal of redundant criminal laws, but timing is everything. We cannot be blind that the current climate of increased incidents of hate, specifically at places of worship, supports that religious leaders may be in need of more, not less, focused protection. There is no doubt that synagogues, mosques, and temples are being targeted by hate groups. Those institutions also house schools where many children spend their days. For instance, in March 2017 a bomb threat was called into Toronto's Downtown Jewish Community School, a kindergarten to grade 6 school located inside Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. In the preceding weeks, 20 bomb threats were called in across North America to various Jewish centres, including in Vancouver. Similarly, the massacre at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec, which killed six and injured 19 in January 2017, is a stark reminder that religious institutions and their leaders are a focal point of hatred. Some people may counter that other criminal laws are able to deal with those heinous acts. However, keep in mind that the mass shooting at the mosque in Quebec was predated by a pig's head being left at the door of the same mosque six months earlier. The mistreatment of religious minorities is a growing problem in the greater society of Canada. For instance, racist comments inscribed on the walls at York University and Concordia University and the vandalism at synagogues and mosques are stark reminders. Bill 62 in Quebec may add fuel to this fire. Indeed, this is becoming a North American problem, and something for which the greater context has to be considered. The 2012 shooting massacre at a Wisconsin Sikh temple and another shooting a few weeks ago at a church in Tennessee are furt …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/mr-faisal-mirza-advocacy-committee-member-and-criminal-law-barrister-south-asian-bar-association/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/23/mr-faisal-mirza-advocacy-committee-member-and-criminal-law-barrister-south-asian-bar-association/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes multiple incidents of hostility toward Jews (bomb threats, vandalism at synagogues) and other religious minorities, presenting them as evidence for a policy argument, without condemning or blaming any specific actor for the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-970", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-10-18", "speaker": "Mr. Michael Mostyn", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… no statute of limitations according to the Criminal Code for the criminal act that was done. In contrast, in Montreal—so again in Quebec—a man was arrested recently and criminally charged this year, and quite rightly so, for a single tweet in which he called for Muslims to be killed. Muslims should not be targeted for hate, but neither should Jews. There should be no double standard in the law, so I think it's an excellent point that you made about law enforcement getting together, having a first ministers meeting, and having common definitions, because the law is not being evenly enforced. Different police forces have different understandings of hate acts in t …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/18/mr-michael-mostyn/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/10/18/mr-michael-mostyn/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names law enforcement and the legal system as responsible for uneven enforcement of hate laws, specifically stating that hostility toward Jews is not being treated equally compared to hostility toward other groups like Muslims.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-971", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… was raised was, to my understanding and I think committee members could correct me if they like, the increase of incidents that had been experienced by people from the Muslim community. In fact, we had a presentation from the assistant deputy minister from the Department of Canadian Heritage who cited a recent police hate crime statistics report that there was: ...a 5% increase in reported incidents from 2014 to 2015. While hate crimes targeting black and Jewish populations remain the most common types of hate crimes related to race or ethnicity and religion, hate crimes against those of the Muslim faith increased by 61%, from 99 in 2014 to 159 in 2015. Those are official statistics. Unofficially, the lived experiences of discrimination and hate for many people are happening in our communities. In fact, I was at an event where that had occurred in Vancouver East, which was extremely d …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-jenny-kwan-vancouver-east-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver East", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver East, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites official police hate crime statistics and mentions hate crimes targeting Jewish populations as context, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute anything regarding hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "committee-972", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Dan Vandal (Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you very much. I'm going to be sharing my time with Arif Virani. Getting away from definitions, I think there is nobody who can question the fact that hate crimes are on the rise for the Muslim community. From 2015 to 2016, they increased by 61%. For the black community, indigenous community, first nations, Métis, Jewish, hate crimes are on the rise. What do we do as government leaders? I'll go to Mr. Cameron."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-dan-vandal-saint-bonifacesaint-vital-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-dan-vandal-saint-bonifacesaint-vital-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites statistics on hate crimes against Jewish communities and other groups without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning responsibility to anyone."}, {"id": "committee-973", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani (Parkdale—High Park, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… also ask if you could tell us why we should prefer your testimony on the point of the impact of radio stations in Quebec in fomenting hatred, as opposed to the testimony that we heard from a CSIS officer in Quebec who has been on the ground studying this very issue. You said that we should be “wary of assuming” rising intolerance. I would ask you to comment specifically on the statistics put to you by Ms. Kwan as to the rise of hate crimes against Jews and Muslims in this country. I would ask you to specifically tell us where in this motion, in its language.... You keep reiterating that it's asking us to legislate, which it is not. Where does the actual text of the motion indicate to us that we should be legislating, that we should be criminalizing speech, or someho …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-arif-virani-parkdalehigh-park-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-arif-virani-parkdalehigh-park-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker references statistics about rising hate crimes against Jews and Muslims, and describes previous testimony about radio stations fomenting hatred, without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning blame."}, {"id": "committee-974", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Ms. Raheel Raza (President, Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the state should have no business in religious matters. M-103, as it stands, with usage of the term “Islamophobia” has divided Canadians into us and them. By singling out one faith community in this motion, it seems that Islam and Muslims are exclusive and demand special attention when in fact, statistics show us that hate crimes against the Jews, the black community, and the LGBTQ communities are the highest. Polls also show that more than 70% of Canadians don't agree with motion-103. As for Muslims, let's see how badly they're really treated. There are over 100 mosques and 50 Islamic organizations just in the greater Toronto area, where I live. There are 11 …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza-president-council-for-muslims-facing-tomorrow/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza-president-council-for-muslims-facing-tomorrow/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "President, Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "International Human Rights (subcommittee)", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker argues that singling out Islamophobia is inappropriate by asserting that hate crimes against Jews are actually higher in statistics, implicitly disputing that the motion's focus is justified."}, {"id": "committee-975", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Ms. Raheel Raza", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s in which this issue is being discussed, regarding the concerns or the way that we can deal with it. One of the recommendations was interfaith dialogue, which is an important component. I'm very involved in that as well, where the communities talk to each other. We need to speak with those communities that have faced racism and discrimination before us. Every immigrant community that has come into Canada—the Italians, the Jewish community, the Irish community—faced its own sets of challenges. We need to sit with them and figure out how they dealt with it. There were no laws in place. There were no motions in place to help them. I don't believe that a government motion or any kind of a study is going to help this. I believe we have to take res …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical discrimination faced by Jewish communities and other immigrant groups without condemning current hostility, naming perpetrators, or blaming anyone for inadequate responses."}, {"id": "committee-976", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Ms. Raheel Raza", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… They are taught to do it. Now we have certain religious institutions here that have been giving messages of hate. I think this is where the government should be involved. There should be an accountability of these organizations and institutions, and there are specifics of certain mosques in Toronto and in Quebec where hate...and even the Quebec imam asking for the Jews to be killed. This is not something that we should have happening in Canada, because that is where the hate comes from. No one is born a terrorist. They are radicalized. We have to go to the heart of where the radicalization is taking place, and those hate messages, if the government is aware of them, should be stemmed at the core because this Canada is not a place where we want messages of hate."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker specifically names mosques in Toronto and Quebec, and a Quebec imam, as responsible for spreading hate messages including calls for Jews to be killed."}, {"id": "committee-977", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Dan Vandal", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… The motion reads: (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear; (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of the House of Commons' petition e-411 and the issues raised by it.... You are aware that we're not just talking about hatred against Islam and Muslims. We're talking about all forms of hate. Indigenous, black, Jewish, ethnic—we are going to address all of it. Are you understanding that?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-dan-vandal/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/mr-dan-vandal/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes a motion addressing hate and discrimination including against Jews, without taking a position on any specific incident or actor's responsibility for the hostility.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-978", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-27", "speaker": "Ms. Raheel Raza", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I'm aware of that, but the motion does not mention the other communities by name. Why is only the Muslim community mentioned by name? That is my question and that, I think, is the entire focus here. It's not mentioned that we are going to look at racism against the Jewish, the LGBTQ, or the black communities. In the list of hatred against communities, there is also the white man, if you look at the statistics. It doesn't mention any of them by name. Why are only Muslims mentioned by name? Are they the only community in Canada? Are they a special community? Are they a specific community? Are they an exclusive community? Is the racism against the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/27/ms-raheel-raza/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker questions why only Muslims are named in a motion while arguing that other communities, including Jewish people, are not mentioned by name, implying that singling out Muslims is improper or that the omission of other groups (including Jews) means the motion unfairly treats Muslims as exceptional."}, {"id": "committee-979", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-20", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e simply terrified at addressing any issue. Here I am telling you that 500 mosques 20 times a day are ridiculing Jews and Christians and those mullahs come in to tell you that there is Islamophobia. I dare anyone to come up and ask, not do anything, but ask that you take away the charitable status of a mosque in which hatred toward Jews and Christians is pervasive. If it comes to Hindus, you won't even know the language of what is uttered about the Buddhists or the Hindus. And atheists, my God. I'm astounded at what goes on. I have recorded things. I've gone to 50 mosques and I have everything on tape of what is said. Even when hatred toward non-Musl …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names mosques and mullahs as responsible for ridiculing Jews and Christians, and describes hatred toward Jews as 'pervasive' in these institutions."}, {"id": "committee-980", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-20", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["You address issues of bigotry against Muslims or Jews or Hindus or the aboriginal. You embrace the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois in fighting racism. You cannot apply that to ideas and say that because there is bigotry toward Muslims, and I have witnessed that, and even now bar anyone from discussing the ideology that created hatred toward it. Would you blame anyone in Montreal today who is following the terror trial that is going on there? Any ordinary citizen, non-political person, is asking questions of me or coming over and aski …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes witnessing bigotry toward Muslims and references a terror trial in Montreal, but does not condemn hostility toward Jews, name specific responsible parties, blame anyone for enabling such hostility, or dispute characterizations of anti-Jewish sentiment. The passage reports circumstances and asks rhetorical questions without taking a clear position on hostility toward any group."}, {"id": "committee-981", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-20", "speaker": "Mr. Tarek Fatah", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Chair, I find it quite disturbing that despite the evidence I produce over here of how Jews and Christians are attacked in Muslim mosques, it doesn't seem to ring a bell with anyone. Now, if the members of the governing party, the members of Parliament over here, are quite comfortable supporting the very people and institutions that generate hate, not just against Jews or Christians, but Hindus and atheists and Sikhs, then we are at a stage where we are playing politics with the approach. We are not talking about what the future of Canada will be and what sort of an issue is there. I would have hoped that somebody would ask what's the difference between a Muslim and an Islamist. Tha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-tarek-fatah/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Founder, Muslim Canadian Congress", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker accuses members of Parliament and the governing party of 'supporting the very people and institutions that generate hate' against Jews and other groups, directly naming them as responsible for enabling hostility."}, {"id": "committee-982", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-20", "speaker": "Mr. Arif Virani", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Okay. Then I have two very quick questions. Are other provinces interested in what you're doing at the Ontario anti-racism directorate? Ms. Mandhane, since hate crimes are on the rise against Jews and Muslims, do you think there's a role to play for interfaith dialogue, and building up that in terms of addressing this newest, most violent form of discrimination?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-arif-virani/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/20/mr-arif-virani/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker reports that hate crimes are rising against Jews and Muslims, and asks a question about potential responses. No position is taken on the hostility itself—it is stated as a factual premise for a question about interfaith dialogue."}, {"id": "committee-983", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-18", "speaker": "Ms. Iqra Khalid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["A lot of people have walked into not only my offices, but also, I'm sure, those of many of the members around this table. I'll give you an example. I had a conversation with the local rabbi of my riding, Rabbi Pollack. We had a very lengthy conversation about the discrimination the Jewish community faces in Canada and specifically in my riding. She talked about those trials and tribulations and about how unified a community is can really affect how we can help each other. Having these kinds of stories really defines how we take this study forward. I think we can do better by Canadians. We can work to e …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/ms-iqra-khalid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/ms-iqra-khalid/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mississauga—Erin Mills", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Mississauga—Erin Mills, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a conversation with a rabbi about discrimination faced by the Jewish community, presenting it as an example of feedback received, without condemning, naming responsible parties, blaming officials, or disputing the claim."}, {"id": "committee-984", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-18", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… as very similar in wording. It did not use the word “Islamophobia”, but it did contain a few passages that were absent from motion 103. It specifically included the following words: That the House: (a) recognize that Canadian society is not immune to the climate of hate and fear exemplified by the recent and senseless violent acts at a Quebec City mosque; (b) condemn all forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities; When you were asked about this, you said, “Well, I agree with most of this. After all, I wrote 98% of it.” This is the 2% you didn't write. I'm going to guess that you also agree with this part. Would I be correct?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/mr-scott-reid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/mr-scott-reid/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is quoting and describing passages from motions without taking a position on hostility toward Jews. They are presenting text for discussion rather than condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing hostility."}, {"id": "committee-985", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-09-18", "speaker": "Mr. Scott Reid", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… mons. Much of that wording was lifted directly from motion 103. This was the part that was not lifted from motion 103. It was added in. We felt that it was important. I'm just trying to establish.... I have a suspicion that you actually agree as well with this part that I just read: that we should try to fight against discrimination against Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and all religious communities, and also that we should single out senseless acts of violence as the paradigmatic thing against which we are fighting. Are you comfortable with being in agreement with those things?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/mr-scott-reid/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/18/mr-scott-reid/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Statements By Members — Sam Filer", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes wording from a motion that calls for fighting discrimination against multiple religious groups including Jews, and quotes/paraphrases this language without taking a position on it. The speaker is trying to establish agreement on these principles rather than condemning or blaming anyone for hostility."}, {"id": "committee-986", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-23", "speaker": "Mr. Glenn Gilmour", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… vernment, of which I'm a member, during the election and since it. It's there because B'nai Brith, for example, has told the Department of Justice that there are now over forty organized hate groups in Canada actively at work every day of the week. He went on to say: When someone goes onto my property and spray-paints graffiti on the side of my house, that is a crime that should be dealt with accordingly. I am the victim. But if they walk into the grounds of a synagogue and spray-paint a swastika on the side of the wall, the attack is not only against that property and that owner; it's against the Jewish faith as a whole. Every member of the Jewish faith is intended to feel intimidated and more vulnerable because of it. That is what distinguishes crimes motivated by hate —presumably from other regular crimes that are not so motivated. I put that on the record to indicate that when the sentencing provision was enacted in 1995, it was because of a strong feeling that Canada needed to enact special legislation to deal with hate crimes and to more appropriately denounce the seriousness of …", "… e organizations that came before the House of Commons and the Senate and argued that it should be expanded to include other kinds of property. I'd like to correct what appears to be a misconception that occurred in the testimony given the other day by Mr. Arya. There was a question asked about a house of worship being vandalized and the maximum punishment of 10 years in jail for that. If a Jewish community said it had been vandalized, the maximum punishment would be two years in jail. In case there is any misconception, that is incorrect. The way that the general mischief offence works in the Criminal Code is that it can either be prosecuted by way of indictment with a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, or simply by way of summary conviction, wh …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/mr-glenn-gilmour/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/mr-glenn-gilmour/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and attacks on synagogues/Jewish communities, emphasizing the serious impact of hate-motivated vandalism on Jewish people without naming a specific perpetrator as responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-987", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-23", "speaker": "The Chair", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… chief now. We're not dealing with other types of hate crime. You talked about the original rationale that Parliament had many years ago. They believed that there would be a chilling effect on religion and that's why they chose to single out houses of worship. How is singling out houses of worship...? For example, as a Jew, I don't know how I would react any differently if it were an attack against a synagogue or a temple versus a Jewish community centre or a Jewish school. What is the rationale for excluding a Jewish community centre and a Jewish school, or a Mennonite community centre with a Mennonite school versus the church? I don't understand that."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/the-chair/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/the-chair/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the exclusion of Jewish community centres and schools from hate crime protections, expressing concern about this gap in coverage for Jewish institutions and communities.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-988", "year": 2017, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2017-02-23", "speaker": "Mr. Glenn Gilmour", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… is that the reason it was originally limited to property primarily used for religious worship was that, in particular, could interfere with the freedom of religion in the charter. In a sense, it was tied to the charter right of freedom of expression. You're absolutely right in terms of how a community feels, that if a Jewish community centre were attacked, we've heard testimony that the impact on that community is the very same as if a synagogue were attacked. I do not dispute that at all. Of course, at the end of the day, it is up to you as parliamentarians to decide whether there is a need to change the original rationale for what is now the current law into something broader."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/mr-glenn-gilmour/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/2/23/mr-glenn-gilmour/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes testimony about attacks on Jewish community centres and synagogues and their impact on the community, but takes no position on the hostility itself—merely acknowledging the community's experience while leaving the legislative decision to others."}, {"id": "committee-989", "year": 2016, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2016-07-20", "speaker": "Mr. Rabea Allos (Director, Catholic Refugee Sponsors Council)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… risk, LGBT communities, atheists, converted and secular Muslims. Historically, the problem of the most vulnerable groups in the Middle East is compounded whenever the government of the day is too weak to implement the law or condones going after certain groups. In the 1940s, for example, the Iraqi government condoned attacks on the Jewish community, and many were forced to flee after their properties were confiscated. According to an Ottoman census in 1917, the Jewish community in Baghdad was about 20% of the total population. Today, there are only five. Historically, going after religious and ethnic groups was common. It happened to the Jewish community before happening to other religious groups today. The Iraqi Jewish community were mostly resettled in Israel and other countries …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/7/20/mr-rabea-allos-director-catholic-refugee-sponsors-council/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/7/20/mr-rabea-allos-director-catholic-refugee-sponsors-council/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Describes historical incidents of attacks on Iraqi Jews and government inaction without explicitly condemning or blaming any current actor"}, {"id": "house-990", "year": 2019, "chamber": "house", "date": "2019-12-06", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Kent (Thornhill, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this is not simply a matter of another Liberal foreign policy train wreck to be shrugged off. Canada has broken faith with the only democracy in the Middle East, given comfort to tyrants and hate-mongers, and betrayed the Canadian Jewish community after offering election campaign promises of solidarity, as when the member for Mount Royal earnestly offered that the Liberal record spoke for itself. Yes, it does. Is this faithlessness of Liberal Canadian foreign policy merely in reckless pursuit of tainted Security Council votes?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/12/6/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2019/12/6/hon-peter-kent-thornhill-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Thornhill", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), CPC", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Foreign Affairs", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly names the Liberal Party and its members as responsible for breaking faith with the Jewish community, betraying them, and giving comfort to those described as 'hate-mongers,' directly attributing hostile actions toward Jews to this political entity."}, {"id": "committee-991", "year": 2020, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2020-07-24", "speaker": "Ms. Ruth Goba (Executive Director, Black Legal Action Centre)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… built on racism and discrimination. The theft of land and the genocide of indigenous people, the denial of the right to vote for women, the exploitation and enslavement of black people to enrich others, the abuse and murder of Chinese people to build railroads, the internment of Japanese Canadians, the turning away of Jews trying to escape Nazism, the persecution of members of the LGBTQ2S+ community—these are but some of the examples that reveal Canada's history of violence, racism and exclusion. In furtherance of the global call to end police violence perpetrated against black people and in furtherance of our mandate to combat anti-black racism, BLAC has made the following demands. We've made these demands elsewhere and we repeat them to this committee. Develop a nationwide mandatory policy on …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/7/24/ms-ruth-goba-executive-director-black-legal-action-centre/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/7/24/ms-ruth-goba-executive-director-black-legal-action-centre/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical hostility toward Jews (turning away of Jews escaping Nazism) as part of a historical catalogue without taking a position on it or naming responsible parties in this context."}, {"id": "committee-992", "year": 2020, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2020-06-17", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Scheer", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… 't bring himself to criticize dictators and despots around the world who abuse human rights, and we know that he likes to fund UNRWA to curry favour with nations that are ideologically opposed to Israel's right to exist. Not only has UNRWA helped the terrorist organization Hamas and provided educational materials that attack Jews, but just last year its leaders were found to have been involved with “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives”. Why is the Prime Minister funding UNRWA?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/6/17/hon-andrew-scheer/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/6/17/hon-andrew-scheer/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Regina—Qu'Appelle", "province": "SK", "side": "government", "role": "The Speaker", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names UNRWA as responsible for providing educational materials that attack Jews, and identifies this as problematic behavior by a specific organization."}, {"id": "committee-993", "year": 2020, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2020-02-26", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Minister, Ms. Laurendeau, Mr. Piché, it is a pleasure to welcome you to our committee. In the last parliament, I had the pleasure of chairing the Committee on Justice and Human Rights. In that setting, we did a study on online hate. That study was requested by a number of groups, all over Canada, specifically in the Jewish, Muslim, and gay and lesbian communities. There were a number of groups in Quebec as well as in the other provinces. We considered the broad strokes of the problem. When we were coming out with recommendations, we came out with recommendations on education, on defining hate online, and making sure that we applied defi …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/2/26/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2020/2/26/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a past study on online hate that included concerns from Jewish communities, but does not condemn, name responsible parties, blame anyone, dispute claims, or use coded language about the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-994", "year": 2021, "chamber": "house", "date": "2021-05-03", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, last week at committee the Minister of International Development claimed that hateful content in UNRWA-produced materials was not produced by UNRWA and was removed last year, but a February impact report demonstrates the continuing presence of hateful content in UNRWA-produced study materials, which denounce Arab states over the Abraham Accords and call for the banishment of Jews from Israel. Could the minister confirm that she is now aware that hateful content persists in UNRWA-produced materials and tell the House what she intends to do about it?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/5/3/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2021/5/3/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "subject_alt": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names UNRWA as responsible for producing materials containing hateful content that denounces Arab states and calls for banishment of Jews from Israel, and challenges the Minister on this specific institution's actions."}, {"id": "house-995", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-09-27", "speaker": "Mr. Kevin Vuong (Spadina—Fort York, Ind.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canada and the world will soon observe the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists against innocent Israeli citizens. For almost a year, the Liberal government has turned a blind eye to numerous pro-Hamas rallies that incite violence and hatred. Jewish-owned Canadian businesses have been vandalized, schools and synagogues shot at, and people assaulted. Even my wife was stalked, and our home targeted with posters falsely claiming that I support genocide. I support the rule of law. However, hate promoters like Samidoun, an entity outlawed in Germany with its leader banned from the EU, are free to have a rally in Vancouver to celebrate a terrorist act. Other rallies w …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/27/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/9/27/mr-kevin-vuong-spadinafort-york-ind/", "party": "Independent", "riding": "Spadina--Fort York", "province": "ON", "side": "independent", "role": "Spadina—Fort York, Ind.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Diversity and Inclusion", "subject": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker accuses the Liberal government of turning 'a blind eye' to pro-Hamas rallies and hate promoters, claiming the government ignored or failed to respond adequately to hostility toward Jews rather than perpetrating it themselves."}, {"id": "house-996", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-07", "speaker": "Hon. Arif Virani (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today is October 7, the anniversary of a horrific attack on Jews, with 1,200 people killed and over 200 people taken hostage. Our solidarity is with Jews in Israel and with Jewish people in Canada and right around the world. What we stand up against, absolutely, is the amount of hatred that we have seen in this country and countries around the world. People have targeted Jewish Canadian schools, day cares and synagogues for acts that they have a problem with on another side of the world. We are better than that in this country. We need to stand up against that kind of hatred in support of Jewish people and for all people who defend their ability to worship how and whom they choose."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/7/hon-arif-virani-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/7/hon-arif-virani-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Parkdale--High Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Private Members' Business — Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred targeting Jews and Jewish institutions (schools, daycares, synagogues) without naming specific individuals or groups as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-997", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Ruby Sahota (Secretary of State (Combatting Crime), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… particularly corrosive. They do not just harm bodies. They attack identities. Their impacts ripple outward, damaging families' and entire communities' sense of safety and belonging. Let me offer one powerful example. In 2024, Bais Chaya Mushka Girls Elementary School in Toronto was targeted in three separate shooting attacks. Luckily, no one was harmed, as the shootings occurred at times when the school was empty, but the emotional toll was severe. Students, staff and the broader Jewish community felt their sanctuary violated and their sense of security shattered. In response, every Jewish institution across the greater Toronto area reviewed security plans, training and monitoring. That is not just reaction; that is the cost of hate, even when physical violence is averted. These attacks remind us that hate does not wait for opportunity. It strikes where people feel safe. It breeds anxiety, forces communities into defensive postures and thins the line between public life and fear. When hate is expressed as intimidation, threats, harassment and tar …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-ruby-sahota-secretary-of-state-combatting-crime-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-ruby-sahota-secretary-of-state-combatting-crime-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton North", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Brampton North, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Systemic racism and religious discrimination", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes shooting attacks on a Jewish school as 'corrosive' and 'hate,' emphasizing the harm and emotional toll without naming specific perpetrators responsible for the attacks."}, {"id": "house-998", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rafted it, and it is my duty today to explain why. First, we need to talk about timing. Where was this legislation almost two years ago? We are about to approach the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel. Where was this government in terms of advancing legislation? Literally overnight, we saw an expansion of hatred directed towards Jewish people. It was not just in large cities; it penetrated the entire country. Jewish Canadians were targeted in their communities. Students were harassed simply for going to school. Synagogues across this country were being shot at and firebombed on a regular basis and had to increase their level of security. Where was the Liberal government to address these criminal acts? Where were the Liberals as Islamophobia rose in Canada, when mosques were threatened and Muslim families felt unsafe simply walking in their neighbourhood? Let us not forget that there is ab …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/larry-brock/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/larry-brock/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Crime", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly identifies the Liberal government as responsible for inaction/negligence in addressing hostility toward Jewish people, asking 'Where was the Liberal government' in response to specific hostile acts (firebombings, shootings at synagogues, harassment of Jewish students)."}, {"id": "house-999", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Ruby Sahota (Secretary of State (Combatting Crime), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ving to have the charge cleared through the Attorney General made it so cumbersome that no charges were ever laid. Although there are currently provisions for hate crimes, although not a stand-alone one like the one the bill would create, they were very rarely enforced, and the community felt oftentimes threatened and intimidated, feeling like they were victims of hate crimes that were never prosecuted in court. I want to know what my colleague feels about those comments that came from Jewish organizations."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-ruby-sahota-secretary-of-state-combatting-crime-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/hon-ruby-sahota-secretary-of-state-combatting-crime-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton North", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Brampton North, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Systemic racism and religious discrimination", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews (hate crimes, threats, intimidation) and cites Jewish organizations' concerns, but does not condemn, blame, name, or dispute the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1000", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "John-Paul Danko (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… itment to protecting all Canadians from intimidation, harassment and the very real threat of hate in their communities. The legislation embodies our values as a society and recognizes that when people are afraid to attend their places of worship, schools or cultural centres, the very fabric of our communities is under attack. We are witnessing a troubling increase in hate across Canada, with Jewish Canadians receiving a disproportionately high amount of hate, along with Muslim, queer and racialized communities across this country. In Hamilton, Jewish Canadians account for less than 1% of the general population but are subject to over 80% of religious-based hate crimes, highlighting the urgent need for targeted protections. I want to thank the Hamilton Jewish Federation and the Sri Radha Krishna Temple, and their communities, for their valuable input and advocacy in shaping the legislation, and, of course, thank the broader Hamilton Jewish and Hindu communities for their valuable input. I also want to extend my gratitude to the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety for their leadership and commitment to addressing hate in all its forms. In particular I would like to recognize the Minister of Public Safety, who visited Hamilton earlier this year to visit with the Hamilton Jewish community, Jewish leaders and Hamilton police. Recent data from Statistics Canada shows that police-reported hate crimes have more than doubled in the past six years, rising by 169%. This is not just a statistic; it represents families that fear sending their children to school, communities that fear gathering to celebrate or pray, and individuals whose very identities are being targeted. There have been physical assaults and harassment in places of worship, targeted shootings at religious schools, and attacks and bomb threats directed at synagogues, mosques, temples, churches, schools and community centres. In response to these alarming developments, there have been calls from across the country for stronger protections. Bill C-9 would respond to these calls by introducing new offences to criminalize intimidation and obstruction, enhancing the legal framework fo …", "… hate propaganda offences and the new offences, while safeguards remain through the discretion of the Crown prosecution, which assesses the reasonable prospect of conviction and public interest before proceeding with charges. This bill is about taking action when action is needed. When Canadians fear walking into their synagogue, mosque, church or school, we must act. When individuals are attacked because of who they are, we must act. When speech is used to promote hatred and violence, we must act. With Bill C-9 , the combatting hate act, we are taking action. We are acting to protect our communities, defend the fundamental values of our country and affirm that Canada is a country that says no to hate and yes to safety and dignity for everyone. I will acknowledge that it is unfortunate that this le …", "… ure that it passes promptly. This is an important step in fulfilling our Liberal government's commitment to strengthen community safety and uphold the fundamental rights of Canadians. In my conversations with residents across Hamilton who have been subject to hate, it is absolutely heartbreaking to hear the stories of intimidation and hatred that they have faced in their communities. In particular, I want to thank representatives from the Hamilton Jewish Federation for sharing their stories with me, being frank and forward and sharing exactly what it is like to be a member of their community in the city of Hamilton when there are incidents of hate. Again, I recognize that it is unfortunate that we have to proceed with this legislation, but in consultation with those g …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 6—Proceedings on Bill C-9 — Consideration of Government Business No.6", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hate crimes and harassment targeting Jewish Canadians, describing them as 'troubling' and 'alarming,' and supporting protective legislation, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-1001", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-24", "speaker": "John-Paul Danko", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… personally have quite a bit of agreement with my colleagues in the Bloc. I personally have issues when religious texts are used at times as a justification for hatred against LGBTQ and queer communities in particular. However, we are trying to reach a balance between freedom of expression and making sure the targeted hate we are seeing in communities is addressed. Once again, this legislation is supported by municipalities, the local Jewish and Hindu communities, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. We welcome further discussion in committee."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/john-paul-danko/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/24/john-paul-danko/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 6—Proceedings on Bill C-9 — Consideration of Government Business No.6", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions hatred against LGBTQ communities and support from Jewish community organizations, but does not condemn, name, blame, or dispute any hostility toward Jews specifically. They report the context of the legislation and support without taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1002", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-09-22", "speaker": "Shuvaloy Majumdar (Calgary Heritage, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the Palestinian Authority runs a program perpetuating generational genocidal hate with penchants for terrorists who murder Jews. The PA, the PLO and Fatah all embed terrorism into their institutions. The PLO founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a listed terrorist entity responsible for the attacks on October 7. If recognition of statehood is to have any real meaning, will the Prime Minister designate this as a state sponsor of terrorism?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/22/shuvaloy-majumdar-calgary-heritage-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/9/22/shuvaloy-majumdar-calgary-heritage-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly identifies the Palestinian Authority, PLO, and Fatah as responsible for perpetuating 'genocidal hate' toward Jews, embedding terrorism into their institutions, and founding terrorist entities. The speaker directly attributes hostility toward Jews to these named organizations and states."}, {"id": "house-1003", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-10-01", "speaker": "John-Paul Danko (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, we have the real Conservative A-team this afternoon. We have heard repeated Conservative conspiracy theories over and over in the House. If we want to talk about real hate crimes, and I am not quoting alt-right so-called alternative news, there are Jewish members in my community who are covering up their Jewish identity in public. That is the hate we are talking about that this bill seeks to address. I am trying to understand what the member opposite's real objection is to this legislation. When Conservatives talk about freedom of expression, it seems more and more likely that what they are talking about is freedom for Conservative members to say whatever they …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/1/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/1/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 6—Proceedings on Bill C-9 — Consideration of Government Business No.6", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hatred targeting Jews (members covering up their identity due to fear) as 'real hate' that needs to be addressed, without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1004", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-10-06", "speaker": "Mike Dawson (Miramichi—Grand Lake, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, across Canada tomorrow, rallies are being planned to celebrate the martyrs of Hamas. Let us be honest about who they are celebrating. They are not martyrs; they are monsters. They raped, tortured and murdered nearly 1,200 innocent Jews on October 7, 2023, and now their supporters plan to dance in our streets. This is not free speech; it is hate speech meant to intimidate. This is not protest; it is glorifying terror. Eighty years ago, the world said “never again”. The Nuremberg laws showed us that hate begins where it ends. When people cheer for those who slaughter Jews, history is repeating itself in real time. If Canada cannot call evil by its name, then we have lost more than our moral compass: We have lost our soul. I will not stay silent. I say shame on the Liberal government; shame."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/6/mike-dawson-miramichigrand-lake-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/6/mike-dawson-miramichigrand-lake-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Miramichi—Grand Lake", "province": "NB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Miramichi—Grand Lake, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Hamas supporters as responsible for planning rallies to celebrate terrorists and engage in hate speech/glorifying terror against Jews, and names the Liberal government as failing to call this evil by its name."}, {"id": "committee-1005", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-09", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ttorney general consent. Now, yes, the Crown may withdraw or stay charges, but the complainant could appeal either the Justice of the Peace's or the Crown's decision to stay the charges and drag an innocent person into divisional court on judicial review. Do you really fail to see how allowing private prosecutions for hate offences without the attorney general's consent could be weaponized against innocent Canadians, including members of the Jewish community?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a hypothetical scenario about hate offence prosecutions and mentions the Jewish community as a potential target of weaponization, but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame anyone for enabling hostility, or dispute claims of antisemitism."}, {"id": "committee-1006", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-09", "speaker": "Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["You are probably aware of the events that took place about a year ago, when an individual named Adil Charkaoui gave a speech in Montreal inciting hatred against Jews and calling for the extermination of every last one of them, and so forth. I cannot recall the exact words that he used, and I do not want to put words in his mouth, but it was a speech that everyone I know considered hateful and unacceptable. Everyone was convinced that this individual would eventually be prosecuted …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/9/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes an incident of alleged hostile speech by a named individual (Adil Charkaoui) without explicitly condemning it themselves or accusing anyone of responsibility; they are recounting what happened and noting others' reactions ('everyone I know considered hateful') but not taking a personal stance or blaming anyone."}, {"id": "committee-1007", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Deidre Butler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Too many Canadian professors and students promote violence and hatred, express support for the ideologies of designated terrorist organizations and demand the exclusion of Zionists. Their definition of Zionist is defamatory and bears no resemblance to the real meaning of Zionism that is an integral part of Canadian Jewish identity. Hate directed against Zionists is hate directed against 94% of Jews in Canada."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/deidre-butler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/deidre-butler/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies Canadian professors and students as responsible for promoting violence and hatred toward Jews (by targeting Zionists, equated with 94% of Canadian Jews), and accuses them of expressing support for terrorist ideologies and demanding exclusion."}, {"id": "committee-1008", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Deidre Butler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… rotest with posters showing a foot smashing through glass to evoke the historical trauma of the Holocaust. At one university, faculty and students sheltered in offices under security but still had to walk through a screaming crowd to attend classes. Just two weeks ago, an angry mob of students swarmed a small group of Jewish students who were holding a memorial for those murdered on October 7. Across Canada, student groups on social media continue to call for the exclusion of all Zionists from campus."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/deidre-butler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/deidre-butler/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Associate Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes incidents of hostility toward Jewish students (protests, mobs, calls for exclusion) without the speaker taking a position on whether these actions are wrong, condemning them, naming specific perpetrators, or disputing whether they constitute hostility."}, {"id": "committee-1009", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Cary Kogan", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["The glorification of terrorism and anti-Jewish hate work together on our campuses. Consider how an encampment sign demanding resistance against the Zionist entity by any means necessary was prominently featured while a masked man proudly flaunted a Hamas bandana. To be clear, Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization. Hamas' charter calls for the obliteration of Isr …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/cary-kogan/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/cary-kogan/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Professor, Network of Engaged Canadian Academics", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies specific instances (encampment signs, masked man with Hamas bandana) and names Hamas as responsible for anti-Jewish hate, calling it a terrorist organization and linking it directly to anti-Jewish hostility on campuses."}, {"id": "committee-1010", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Brandon Silver (Director of Policy and Projects, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a real crisis of hatred. Hate crimes have more than doubled here over the past five years, with nearly 20,000 incidents reported by the police. Most of these crimes target Canadians based on their race, religion or sexual orientation. This rapid rise is underpinned by what feels like a culture of impunity surrounding incitement to hate. History has taught us that the most unspeakable of crimes begin with incitement. The Holocaust did not begin with the gas chambers. It began with words and the stereotyping and dehumanization of Jews, in the same way that the killing fields of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda started with radio propaganda calling them cockroaches. The Supreme Court of Canada enshrined this principle in law, affirming that Léon Mugesera, who was then living in Quebec, was responsible for participating in the genocide agains …", "… ading form of incitement today. These hate symbols represent violence and are anti-democratic in nature. Such expression vilifies and excludes targeted minorities, incites harm against them and undermines broader human rights norms. Neo-Nazism and any of the designated terrorist groups are a danger to Canadians. Their hate symbols send a clear message. A Nazi symbol tells Holocaust survivors they are not safe or equal in Canada and encourages white supremacists to act against them. The ISIS flag tells Yazidi and minority Muslim survivors of terrorist atrocities such as the Ahmadiyyah and Ismailis that they are targets in Canada and encourages Islamist extremists to act against them. These are ha …", "… eek to dismantle democracy. That is what their symbols represent. Criminalizing the intimidation or the impeding of access to a community institution associated with a minority group, such as a day care, seniors' residence or place of worship, protects the freedoms of vulnerable people. No Canadian, whether they are a Jewish toddler being dropped off at a day care, a Muslim going to mosque, or an LGTBQ+ person attending an event at their community centre, should face hateful harassment and obstruction in their neighbourhoods. There are always legitimate legal debates surrounding any legislation being proposed. However, saying that one’s constituents cannot express themselves without resorting to wilfully promoting hate in Nazi or terrorist symbols or obstructing access for vulnerable groups to their …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/brandon-silver-director-of-policy-and-projects-raoul-wallenberg-centre-for-human-rights/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/brandon-silver-director-of-policy-and-projects-raoul-wallenberg-centre-for-human-rights/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director of Policy and Projects, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hatred, hate crimes, incitement to hate, and hate symbols as crises and dangers without naming specific perpetrators as responsible, instead focusing on the harms of the hostile environment itself and the need for legal protections against it."}, {"id": "committee-1011", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-23", "speaker": "Mark Sandler", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… the offence of inciting hatred against an identifiable group likely to lead to a breach of the peace. I heard the position was taken that he was expressing a view on a religious subject. That's nonsense. The defence would not be available to him. It wasn't made in good faith, and it was simply the wilful promotion of hatred. It was no defence that he also used the term “Zionist” as opposed to “Jews”. He was using it as a proxy for “Jews”, and frankly, it was a profound and disturbing call for the extermination of Jews and should have been treated as such by the police."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/mark-sandler/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/23/mark-sandler/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chair, Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, As an Individual", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies a specific person as responsible for wilful promotion of hatred against Jews, characterizing their statements as a 'profound and disturbing call for the extermination of Jews' and stating police should have treated it as such."}, {"id": "house-1012", "year": 2024, "chamber": "house", "date": "2024-10-25", "speaker": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… on. There is Bill C-11 , the censorship bill, by which the government-appointed CRTC can take down an individual's content if it finds the content objectionable. Let us also talk about Bill C-63 , which is the online harms bill. It would put someone in jail for life if the government thought that person might commit a hate crime in the future. That is utterly chill on freedom of expression. Let us talk about freedom of religion. There are people crying “death to Jews” from coast to coast to coast. The government has done nothing to stem the flow of vandalism and harassment that is happening at synagogues and at Jewish businesses in our country. The Hindus are being persecuted by the Khalistanis; again, the government has done nothing. There are 112 Christian churches that have burned. The government has said nothing. Therefore, there is no protection for freedom of religion from the Liberal government. If we want to go down the list of other freedoms, let us talk about mobility rights. Eve …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/25/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2024/10/25/ms-marilyn-gladu-sarnialambton-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker says the government 'has done nothing to stem the flow of vandalism and harassment' at synagogues and Jewish businesses, accusing the government of failing to respond to hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-1013", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-12-04", "speaker": "Larry Brock (Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Complaints about them were investigated, and the RCMP prepared a report. It was reviewed by three Crown prosecutors, who concluded that no charges were warranted. As Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions put it, “The evidence does not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the words spoken constitute incitement to hatred against an identifiable group” under Sec. 3 19 of the Criminal Code. One may argue that “Zionist” was just code for “Jews.” One may also believe that praying for death is morally abhorrent. But the decision not to charge Charkaoui turned on the basic threshold of incitement to hatred, not on the religious defence [under section 319]. That is a very important distinction that the Bloc never repeats and that the Liberal government has never cited. There was no indication for the prosecution service that the religious defence was an impediment to prosecute or that it was even considered. Logically sp …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/larry-brock-brantfordbrant-southsix-nations-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/larry-brock-brantfordbrant-southsix-nations-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Crime", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the RCMP investigation, Crown prosecutors' conclusions, and the legal threshold for incitement charges without taking a position on whether the conduct was hostile toward Jews or condemning/blaming anyone."}, {"id": "house-1014", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-12-04", "speaker": "Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I just want to reassure my colleagues: The Bloc Québécois is not on a mission against people of faith, believers or those who represent different religions. That is not the case at all. The Bloc Québécois wants to remove a provision of the Criminal Code that makes it possible to incite hatred under the guise of religion. Take, for example, Mr. Charkaoui. Unless I am mistaken, the members who rise the most in the House to support the Jewish community are my Conservative colleagues. The Jewish community in Quebec was extremely concerned about what he did, but criminal charges have not even been brought against him. Many people are saying it is because of the religious exemption in the Criminal Code. Quebec's Jewish community supports the Bloc Québécois in …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/alexis-brunelle-duceppe/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/alexis-brunelle-duceppe/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Lac-Saint-Jean", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Religious Minorities in China", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hostility toward Jews (Charkaoui's actions concerning the Jewish community) and mentions criminal charges not being brought, but does not condemn the hostility, name who is responsible for it, blame anyone for weak response, or dispute the characterization."}, {"id": "house-1015", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-12-04", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… no regard for taxpayer money. The budget that was just passed proposed a $78-billion deficit, so they should not lecture me about taxpayer dollars. What these Liberals are now trying to do is shield this bill from clear sight by all Canadians who now understand that this is beyond Liberal platitudes. This is not about hate. This is not about defending the Jewish community. There are ample examples of how we can defend the Jewish community. They should set the right tone and have the Attorney General write to the provincial attorney generals and the police forces to say we have laws on the books called incitement to violence and to enforce them. The misinformation is coming from that side of the aisle, and—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker dismisses the Liberal characterization of the bill as being about defending the Jewish community against hate, claiming this framing is inaccurate and that the real issue is about enforcing existing laws rather than the bill's stated purpose.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1016", "year": 2025, "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-12-04", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… a religious text would have been punishable by labour camp. The Bais Chaya Mushka school for girls in my riding has been shot at three times. When we first came to Canada 30 years ago, we came to the intersection of Sheppard and Bathurst, and now, at that very intersection, every Sunday, a group of mass thugs come to incite violence against the Jews. We do not need this legislation. We need to enforce existing legislation on incitement to violence and assault."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/4/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the hostility described (shooting at a school, weekly incitement to violence against Jews) without naming specific individuals or organizations responsible for these acts."}, {"id": "committee-1017", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-01", "speaker": "Nicholas Opiyo", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… d allied organizations. In our case, part of the reason we were suspended and closed by the government of Uganda in 2021 was that we were working with the LGBTI community. The accusations against us for money laundering came because the funding was coming from an American LGBTI funding organization called the American Jewish World Service. The law and the court systems, which are supposed to be tools of protection, have become tools of punishment and persecution against the LGBTI community. I've appeared in many cases in which judges and magistrates quoted the Bible, not the law, in condemning LGBTI folks to imprisonment or detention. In so many instances, the use of the small LGBTI minority in Uganda as a political tool has become commonplace. Just two days ago, the speaker …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/1/nicholas-opiyo/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/1/nicholas-opiyo/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes accusations and persecution without taking a position on whether the hostility toward the Jewish organization (American Jewish World Service) was justified or unjustified, or condemning it. They are recounting what happened to them."}, {"id": "committee-1018", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-02", "speaker": "Marcus Kolga (Founder and Director, DisinfoWatch)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… n influence operations are equally aggressive and extensively documented. Ukrainian and Baltic communities in Canada have long been targeted by Kremlin narratives designed to dehumanize them, falsely branding them as fascists and enemies of Canada, just as Russia has attempted to smear Ukraine's democratically elected Jewish president with the same slur. These narratives are a form of incitement to hate that has fuelled real-world harassment and vandalism in Canada. Much of the danger comes from the use of local Canadian proxies, some knowingly and others drawn in by pressure or ideology, as well as profit. Moscow has relied on recruiting susceptible Canadians for nearly a century, a pattern revealed in the 1945 Gouzenko affair. Without credible deterrence—meaning tran …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/2/marcus-kolga-founder-and-director-disinfowatch/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/2/marcus-kolga-founder-and-director-disinfowatch/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to Russian narratives that smear Ukraine's Jewish president with fascist slurs, characterizing these as incitement to hate that fuels harassment and vandalism, without naming a specific person as the perpetrator beyond Russia generally."}, {"id": "house-1019", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-05-09", "speaker": "Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… little more about that as well. I just want to say, to Canadians of Chinese descent, Chinese Canadians who are watching this speech right now, that I want them to know that the Conservative Party of Canada stands with them. We will always stand with them. Just like my grandparents came here 100 years ago to avoid the pogroms in Ukraine perpetrated against Jewish communities, they came here to avoid the oppressive freedom-hating regime in Beijing. On behalf of all my colleagues, I want to thank them for being here and I want them to know that we will always stand up for their rights as citizens of this country. So many stories have come out of this about Chinese communities in ridings across this country, where, as the leader s …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/5/9/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/5/9/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Proposed tax changes", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker mentions historical pogroms against Jewish communities in Ukraine as a comparison point but does not take a position on contemporary hostility toward Jews; it's used as a historical analogy to establish solidarity with Chinese Canadians."}, {"id": "house-1020", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-02-03", "speaker": "Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I ask all members to join me today in expressing solidarity with the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Tseshaht First Nation after two incidents of racist vandalism at the “Every Child Matters” orange bridge in Port Alberni in just one week. Swastikas and hateful slurs defaced this important site of remembrance. This was not random vandalism. It was an attack on survivors, on indigenous families, on Jewish communities and on the truth of what happened at the Alberni Indian Residential School. For generations, indigenous children were taken across this bridge from their families. Painting it orange was an act of remembrance, education and reconciliation. Hate will not erase the truth. I thank the many volunteers who repa …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/2/3/gord-johns-courtenayalberni-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/2/3/gord-johns-courtenayalberni-ndp/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the vandalism and hateful slurs without accusing any specific person or group of responsibility; focuses on the wrongness of the act itself."}, {"id": "house-1021", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-01-29", "speaker": "Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Canada is facing an unprecedented threat to our sovereignty from Donald Trump and his administration. This is the most serious external danger for our country in decades, but we also face challenges to Canada's unity from within. Actions and words that sow division, spread hatred and foment violence are scourges that undermine and damage society. This week we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a sombre commemoration of the genocide that took the lives of six million Jews and damaged the lives of millions more. Today is the national day of action against Islamophobia and remembrance of the Québec City mosque attack that killed and injured 25 Muslims at prayer. Together, these profound memorials remind us of the deadly effects of racism and the need to confront it, and defeat it, every day. New Democrats will always stand with those fighting for the equality, dignity, safety and respect of all Canadians."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/1/29/don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/1/29/don-davies-vancouver-kingsway-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Vancouver Kingsway", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Vancouver Kingsway, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred, division, and racism as damaging societal scourges without naming specific parties responsible, while affirming commitment to equality and dignity for all."}, {"id": "house-1022", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-02-13", "speaker": "Hon. Ruby Sahota", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, is it true? Did we just heard the member say that Bill C-9 is unnecessary? That is our hate crime legislation. Worshippers in Canada today have felt intimidated and threatened going to their place of worship. We are trying to protect Canadians from that threat, that fear for their lives. The Jewish community has been asking for this bill for a long time, and it seems like the member does not care."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/2/13/hon-ruby-sahota/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/2/13/hon-ruby-sahota/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Brampton North", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Brampton North, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Systemic racism and religious discrimination", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker attributes responsibility to a named member for not caring about protecting Jews from intimidation and threats at places of worship, characterizing their opposition to Bill C-9 as indifference to Jewish community concerns."}, {"id": "house-1023", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-06-01", "speaker": "Mr. Francesco Sorbara (Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, today, Italian Canadians are proudly part of the chamber and of the broader italo-canadese community ingrained in Canada’s social fabric. However, the journey was not an easy one. In 1933, 90 years ago, the Christie Pits riot brought together Jews and Italians to fight against discrimination. From 1940 to 1943, nearly 31,000 Italian Canadians were considered “enemy aliens”, and almost 700 were sent to internment camps. On March 17, 1960, the Hogg’s Hollow disaster claimed the lives of five Italian Canadian construction workers who were installing a water main under the Don River in the city of Toronto. Ne …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/1/mr-francesco-sorbara-vaughanwoodbridge-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/6/1/mr-francesco-sorbara-vaughanwoodbridge-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Vaughan—Woodbridge", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Vaughan—Woodbridge, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Change to Standing Order 30 Regarding the Prayer", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical incidents of discrimination and hardship affecting Italian Canadians and mentions Jews fighting alongside them against discrimination in 1933, but does not condemn, blame, or name specific actors responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-1024", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-09", "speaker": "Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… em and I want to tell them that no one has a monopoly on faith-based hate crime. In 2023, a total of 1,284 hate crimes were committed against a specific religion, 516 more than in 2022. These crimes were not necessarily triggered by a cleric's remarks. That is not what I am saying. However, each of these crimes was an attack on freedom of religion, freedom of worship and the freedom to go to a mosque, church or synagogue. These crimes are also a much more serious attack on freedom of religion than what the Conservatives are claiming about Bill C‑9 . The 45% increase in hate crimes in 2023 worries me a lot more. It was largely the result of the increase in hate crimes reported by police against Jewish populations. Jewish communities experienced a 71% rise in hate crimes. For Muslim communities, the increase was 94%. This is what needs to be addressed. What does this bill do? I want to remind the Conservatives that we have a time allocation motion before us. Earlier, they said that that the committee dragged its feet at until two in the morning and that it had wasted everyone's time b …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/jean-denis-garon-mirabel-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/jean-denis-garon-mirabel-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim communities ('worries me a lot more'), describing them as serious attacks on freedom of religion, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "house-1025", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-09", "speaker": "Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… se he might have a different point of view. As I said, I know of no religion that does not claim to be a religion of love. Therefore, I do not see why anyone who is committed to a religion and practises their faith would disagree with the idea of eliminating the possibility of using religious conviction as grounds for inciting hate or calling for violence against a particular group. People often cite the infamous Adil Charkaoui, who called for the wholesale murder of Zionist Jews in a speech he delivered right in downtown Montreal a few years ago. People often use him as an example, but letting people use religion as a shield in order to call for such acts of violence is abominable. I do not know anyone—not personally, anyway—who would say that that particular protection should remain in place …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the use of religion to incite hate and violence against Jews, calling it 'abominable,' without accusing the speaker of being responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1026", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-09", "speaker": "Cheryl Gallant (Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… housing construction sector in Canada.” Now, attentive listeners might have noticed that this is the same purpose behind the failed affordable housing innovation fund I mentioned earlier. I have quoted a Greek philosopher and a Roman politician, but on the issue of building houses, maybe we should heed the words of a Jewish carpenter's son, who said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” No one can serve two masters, and no bill should have two purposes. While I could not find a quote to fit, I am sure we can all agree that Jesus would look unfavourably at a policy that treats lower-in …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/cheryl-gallant-algonquinrenfrewpembroke-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/9/cheryl-gallant-algonquinrenfrewpembroke-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Christianity", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Jesus and references him as 'a Jewish carpenter's son' in the context of discussing housing policy and serving two masters. This is a neutral reference to Jesus's religious identity used as part of a policy argument, without describing any hostility toward Jews or taking a position on such hostility."}, {"id": "house-1027", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-11", "speaker": "Hon. Gary Anandasangaree (Minister of Public Safety, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have had the opportunity to visit two of the synagogues that were attacked last week. It is deeply heartbreaking to see that their sense of security has been breached. As a government, we are taking decisive action, including $10 million that was just announced to ensure the coordination of security efforts in places of worship as well as other community centres within the Jewish community. …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/11/hon-gary-anandasangaree-minister-of-public-safety-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/11/hon-gary-anandasangaree-minister-of-public-safety-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Scarborough--Rouge Park", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses dismay at attacks on synagogues ('deeply heartbreaking') and describes government's protective response without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-1028", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-11", "speaker": "Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ies with it certain consequences about the inadmissibility of certain individuals. Their files are reviewed and the people who are not allowed to remain in Canada will in fact be removed. The concern underlying the questions in the House of Commons today have to do with the safety of Canadians, including the safety of Jewish Canadians to practise their faith freely in a context where synagogues are being shot up. There is a piece of legislation, the combatting hate act, Bill C-9 , that has been before the House. We have an opportunity to offer the protection communities are asking for. It is a shame that the party opposite will not listen to Jewish Canadians and do what they are asking."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/11/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/11/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker accuses the opposition party of not listening to Jewish Canadians' requests for protection, implicitly naming them as responsible for failing to address the safety concerns of Jewish Canadians facing attacks like synagogue shootings.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1029", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the government has a history of violating the charter rights of Canadians, from freedom of expression to freezing their bank accounts under the illegal Emergencies Act, etc. Thirty million people of faith in Canada are expressing concern about Bill C-9 and removing the religious exemption under the hate speech law. We have heard from Christian evangelists, the Catholic Church, Muslim associations and Jewish associations. They all say that this bill is going to cause them to not be able to read their religious texts, because somebody will find them offensive and they will end up in prison. Why does the minister not care what 30 million people of faith in this country think?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker reports that Jewish associations, among other religious groups, have expressed concerns about Bill C-9 and its potential impact on religious freedom. The speaker describes their stated worry without taking a position on whether hostility toward Jews exists or condemning such hostility."}, {"id": "house-1030", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Madam Speaker, I actually want to specify that, specifically with respect to the Jewish community, since the election of the Liberal government 10 years ago, hate crimes against the Jewish community have more than quadrupled. Shame on them for that. With respect to the specific question that the member is asking, I would like to clarify for the benefit of the House that this is not politics; this is law. We had Mark Sandler saying that the bill would do nothing new with respect to intimidation and obstruction. If someone intimidates me from entering a synagogue or an educational institution, that is intimidation contrary to section 423. If someone is obstructing my entrance physically, that is an assault. This is all common sense. With respect to the hate-motivated offence, in sentencing, the hate-motivated offence is already factored in. If it is hate motivated, it will be caught in sentencing, but what the bill's hate-motivated offence would do is criminalize hatred with respect to any civil offence contrary to any …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes responsibility for the quadrupling of hate crimes against Jews to the Liberal government, saying 'Shame on them for that.'"}, {"id": "house-1031", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette—Manawan, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… demonstration: “Allah, take care of these Zionist aggressors. Allah, take care of the enemies of the people of Gaza. Allah, identify them all, then exterminate them. And don't spare any of them.” Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions said that he did not have the tools to make an arrest following these hatred-promoting remarks. According to Eta Yudin, the vice-president of the Quebec branch of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, this shows clear gaps in the Criminal Code, which has not been adapted to protect the public from hate speech. Here is my question for my colleague: Should the government take action in that regard?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker quotes a named demonstration with calls for extermination and identifies the Quebec director of criminal prosecutions as saying he lacks tools to arrest those making such remarks, thereby naming specific officials/institutions as responsible for inadequate response to the hate speech."}, {"id": "house-1032", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ement of the Criminal Code is provincial, and most of that is carried out by municipal police. The idea that the federal government can interfere with enforcement, which is a provincial jurisdiction, when it is mostly carried out by municipal police that we do not hire or fire, is a fantasy. What we can do is what the Jewish organizations across this country have asked us to do, which is to improve the Criminal Code to give police more tools to prosecute people who are creating hate in this country. That was done in consultation with police groups across the country. I cited hearings of police officers from Toronto, Montreal and other places, who told us that they wanted the tools in this bill. We are doing what we are supposed to do. We are rewriting the Criminal Code to make things better for p …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/anthony-housefather/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/anthony-housefather/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes what Jewish organizations have asked for and what the government is doing in response (improving the Criminal Code), without explicitly condemning the hostility or blaming anyone for it.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1033", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Anju Dhillon (Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nd hours and hours to debate. They have had the opportunity to propose amendments throughout many, many months. What they do not have is the right to stall Parliament indefinitely, because while this chamber debates procedure, something else is happening outside these walls. Communities across Canada are facing rising hate and intimidation. We see it in the data. We see it in police reports, and we see it on the news. Just recently, shots were fired at a synagogue in the greater Toronto area. Shots were fired at a place of worship, a place where people gather and pray, a place where families bring children, a place where Canadians should feel free and protected. That incident is not isolated. Jewish communities have reported rising threats. Mosques have reported rising threats and facing intimidation, and many other religious institutions have been subjected to hate crimes. Community centres from all backgrounds have been targeted, and hateful symbols have appeared outside schools and cultural institutions. These are not theoretical concerns. They are real events affecting real people. When Canadians see incidents like this, they expect Parliament to respond with seriousness and efficiency. They expect Parliament to strengthen protections, and they expect Parliament to act. Bill C-9 is part of that response. The legislation does three simple things. First, it creates an offence to prevent people from blocking or intimidating others who are trying to enter places like synagogues, mosques, churches, schools, community centres and any other places of worship. Second, it creates a stand-alone, hate-motivated offence, so that when crimes are committed because of hatred toward a person's identity, the law recognizes that harm clearly. Third, it addresses the public display of symbols used to promote hatred and intimidate communities. These are practical measures. They are targeted measures, and they respond directly to what …", "… e delay continue? That is a question members of the opposition should answer, because Canadians expect Parliament to deal honestly with the facts, and the facts are clear: Freedom of religion is protected, and peaceful religious expression is protected. This legislation targets something entirely different. It targets intimidation. It targets harassment. It targets the deliberate promotion of hatred. When people block the entrance to a synagogue, to a mosque or to any other place of worship to frighten worshippers, that is intimidation. When people surround a mosque, shouting threats, that is intimidation. When hateful symbols are displayed outside synagogues, schools or community centres to frighten families, that is intimidation. Canadians are asking Parliament to respond to that intimidation. There is another consequence to this ongoing delay that we must acknowledge. Parliament's time is not unlimited. Every hour spent delaying one bill is an hour that cannot be spent advancing other legislation, including legislation addressing public safety, legislation addressing justice reform and legislation address …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/anju-dhillon-dorvallachinelasalle-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/anju-dhillon-dorvallachinelasalle-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostile acts against Jewish communities (shots fired at synagogue, rising threats) and other groups without naming specific perpetrators as responsible, then advocates for legislative action to address the hostility."}, {"id": "house-1034", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette—Manawan, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the amendment is based on the Criminal Code's prohibition against promoting hatred, which is a criminal offence. There have been situations, like that of imam Charkaoui, for example, who promoted hatred against the Jewish people. He was not prosecuted because of the religious exemption. Eta Yudin, vice-president of the Quebec chapter of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said that this demonstrates clear shortcomings in the Criminal Code, meaning that, in its current form, the legislation is incapable of protecting the public ag …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically names imam Charkaoui and states he 'promoted hatred against the Jewish people,' directly attributing responsibility for hostility toward Jews to this named individual."}, {"id": "house-1035", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Marc Dalton (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, yesterday, coming from the airport, I had the cab driver tell me, unsolicited, that he wanted Israel wiped off the map, and I have to assume Jews also. What we are seeing in Canada is an 800% increase in hate speech. This craziness has happened under the Liberal watch in every respect. An Iranian dissident I knew was killed in Vancouver last month. This is going on. The Liberals have not been enforcing the laws that are there, so they come up with this bill that censors religious speech. I wonder if the member could speak to the …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marc-dalton-pitt-meadowsmaple-ridge-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marc-dalton-pitt-meadowsmaple-ridge-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge", "province": "BC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Routine Proceedings — Petitions — Public Safety", "subject": "israel", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker reports hostility (cab driver's statement, hate speech increase) then explicitly states the Liberals 'have not been enforcing the laws' in response, characterizing this as a failure to address the problem.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1036", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I can think of a few examples where religious texts have been used to incite hatred. For example, one time, someone said that Jews were the worst of humanity and should be massacred on judgment day. There have been several such examples. In Quebec, for instance, Adil Charkaoui once prayed for the death of Jews. The director of criminal and penal prosecutions wanted to lay charges and investigate the matter. However, he decided not to, indicating …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mario-beaulieu-la-pointe-de-lîle-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mario-beaulieu-la-pointe-de-lîle-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "La Pointe-de-l'Île", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of hostility toward Jews (statements calling for massacre, prayers for death) and mentions that authorities considered but decided against charges, without taking a clear evaluative position on the hostility itself or assigning blame."}, {"id": "house-1037", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "John-Paul Danko (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments from the member opposite, especially those drawing on his experience in policing and the need for clear laws and enforceable rules. These are exactly the requests that the Hamilton police have made in our consultations about the combatting hate act. There has been a 35% increase in hate-related crimes in Hamilton, primarily against Black, Jewish and LGBTQ individuals. White supremacist rallies with hate symbols are routinely going through municipalities across Canada, including in Hamilton. My question for the member opposite is this: Will he listen to the requests from law enforcement across the country or the extremist wing of his party?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/john-paul-danko-hamilton-westancasterdundas-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Government Business No. 6—Proceedings on Bill C-9 — Consideration of Government Business No.6", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a 35% increase in hate-related crimes against Jewish individuals and mentions white supremacist rallies with hate symbols, presenting these as factual incidents without condemning the hostility itself or accusing a specific party of responsibility for it."}, {"id": "house-1038", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, for the last two years, there have been attacks on the Jewish community. There have been 113 Christian churches burned to the ground. There are already laws against these things, and the government has done nothing to enforce the rule of law. Being a former police officer, I wonder if my colleague could comment on what resources are available if the police are having difficulty …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "The speaker states that attacks on the Jewish community have occurred and that 'the government has done nothing to enforce the rule of law,' characterizing the government's response as inadequate rather than attributing the hostility itself to any specific actor."}, {"id": "house-1039", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Dan Albas (Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… to be a history lesson. This is a bill that the Liberals like to tell us is from the new Liberal government, even though it is beginning to act and sound, quite frankly, a lot like the previous Liberal government. Let us pause for a moment here. It is not a secret that we already have existing laws that can deal with hate and that are completely and totally ignored right now. There are laws that are in force. When those groups, and lately it is often Jewish Canadians, look to government for leadership, they are not getting answers, accountability or action. Instead, they are getting Bill C-9 , which is a classic way for the government to attempt to say, “We are doing something, and this is what we are doing.” It is a process, but there is nothing concrete. As we all know …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/dan-albas-okanagan-lake-westsouth-kelowna-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/dan-albas-okanagan-lake-westsouth-kelowna-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker says government is failing to provide 'answers, accountability or action' to Jewish Canadians seeking leadership on hate issues, despite existing laws; characterizes Bill C-9 as ineffective response."}, {"id": "house-1040", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e Bloc to remove the religious exemption from the hate speech law. It has been in place for 50 years. There was no controversy about it. It was not in the original text of the bill. There was no reason for them to align with the Bloc and cause this political hot potato. Everybody recognizes that we have a problem with hate crimes in Canada. In the last few years, hate crimes have increased hugely. We see, in the Jewish community, synagogues being shot up, businesses being vandalized and “death to Jews” being called in the streets, with no enforcement of existing laws. We have seen over a hundred Christian churches torched and not a word from the government. We have seen mosques desecrated. We have seen Hindus intimidated and harassed. We know there is a problem. There is no argument in the House that there is a problem with hate crimes in this country. The problem is not that we need Bill C-9 . The problem is that we are not enforcing existing laws. It is already illegal to shoot up a synagogue. It is already illegal to vandalize a business. It is already illegal to utter death threats to people. There is no enforcement. All day long, I have heard the government say, “Well, that's not our responsibility federally. That's provincial. There is nothing we can do about it.” That is absolutely not true. The federal government, the Attorney General and the Minister of Justice have a responsibility to ensu …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu-sarnialambtonbkejwanong-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the government (Attorney General and Minister of Justice) as responsible for failing to enforce existing laws against hostility toward Jews, including attacks on synagogues and 'death to Jews' rhetoric.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1041", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Marilyn Gladu", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The religions we have in Canada are religions of love, not religions of hate. We do not see, for example, the Christian church trying to hate on people. We do not see the Jewish church trying to hate on people. That is not at all what it means to have faith in this country. The freedom is to have that faith, even if other people find what one says offensive. Being offended is not a charter right, but freedom of religion and freedom of expression are."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/marilyn-gladu/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sarnia--Lambton", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sarnia—Lambton, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker dismisses concerns about hostility toward Jews by characterizing Canadian religions as 'religions of love' and arguing that being 'offended' is not a charter right, implicitly downplaying or rejecting characterizations of anti-Jewish hostility as illegitimate grievances.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1042", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Karim Bardeesy (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… sals that we have proposed on this side of the House in not just one generation but several generations. The bill is coming from a place of real concern and need with respect to the growth in hate crimes in Canada. Statistics from Statistics Canada show that from 2022 to 2023, there was a 32% increase in the number of hate crimes. There were almost 5,000. There were 1,284 crimes targeting religion in 2023, which was a 67% increase. Nine hundred of them focused on Jewish people and 211 of them focused on Muslims. Hate crimes related to sexual orientation over that year, between 2022 and 2023, according to Statistics Canada, were up 69% to 860 such crimes. We are in a situation supercharged by social media, supercharged by, I believe, some of the postpandemic effects on people and supercharged by, yes, things that are happening in the worl …", "… play of those symbols in those contexts. The charter rights would continue to be protected in all respects, but the display of these hate symbols, unfortunately, is something we have seen more of and, I think, requires this level of extraordinary intervention. I have just cited some of the statistics about the rise in hate crimes. We know that synagogues in the greater Toronto area in particular are being targeted. In recent weeks, I have had the chance to visit or be in conversation with leaders from the Jami mosque in Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park, Toronto's oldest mosque, along with the Albanian mosque on Annette Street and the Hamza mosque in Parkdale. I have also …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/karim-bardeesy-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-industry-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/karim-bardeesy-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-industry-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker cites statistics on hate crimes targeting Jewish people (900 of 1,284 religion-based crimes in 2023) and mentions synagogues being targeted, presenting factual data without taking a moral stance against the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1043", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Mario Simard (Jonquière, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, my colleague said in his speech that the government had not presented any cases where hate speech had been uttered based on religious principles. In Quebec, there is the case of Adil Charkaoui, who called for the death of Jews. The director of criminal and penal prosecutions decided not to prosecute him because of the religious exemption. My question for my colleague is very simple. Does he agree that Adil Charkaoui can call for the death of Jews without being prosecuted in court? Tonight, that is exactly what he is defending."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mario-simard-jonquière-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mario-simard-jonquière-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Adil Charkaoui and states he 'called for the death of Jews,' attributing this specific hostile act to him. The speaker also names the director of criminal and penal prosecutions as responsible for the decision not to prosecute based on a religious exemption."}, {"id": "committee-1044", "year": 2026, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Mike Fegelman", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… journalists have a solemn duty to hold the powerful to account, not to act as their water carriers, but that's what they've done, promoting hard line anti-Israel disinformation and acting as unpaid publicists for an immense web of extremist actors in Canada. This media coverage directly contributes to a spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes. When Israel is painted as a genocidal and pariah state and opponents are widely silenced, a target is drawn on the backs of Canadian Jews. The incessant demonization of Israel—and, by extension, of Jews—has led to an unprecedented attack on the Jewish community, with terrorist rallies now a regular occurrence on Canadian streets and with Jewish schools and synagogues, as we saw this past week, shot at, all while far too many elected leaders and law enforcement ignore this cancer in our midst. Over the past two years, our media has promoted ideology over facts. In the case of the CBC, it did so at the taxpayer's expense. I'm happy to recount numerous examples of Canadian media bias …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mike-fegelman/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mike-fegelman/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Executive Director, HonestReporting Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly attributes responsibility for anti-Jewish hate crimes to journalists and media outlets (CBC, Canadian media generally) by stating their coverage 'directly contributes to a spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes' and that the 'demonization of Israel...has led to...attack on the Jewish community.'"}, {"id": "committee-1045", "year": 2026, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2026-03-10", "speaker": "Mike Fegelman", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… relates to the CBC, is the elevation of radical voices—giving them a platform and giving them undue legitimacy, which we feel really serves to elevate fringe and marginal voices that are traditionally on the fringe and are trying to work their way into the mainstream. It then serves fundamentally to fan the flames of hatred against Israel and the Jewish community. HR Canada Charitable Organization and Innohives did a long-term, two-year study on the Hamas-Israel war that found there was an asymmetry in the CBC's coverage. Most specifically, they found it elevated radical voices like Independent Jewish Voices Canada, which is a radical, anti-Zionist hate group. Giving them this platform bestows a kind of credibility, which they don't deserve. I'll allow Dr. Haran Shani-Narkiss and Amanda Eskenasi to speak in more detail about their work."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mike-fegelman/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/10/mike-fegelman/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Executive Director, HonestReporting Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly accuses the CBC of elevating radical voices and thereby fanning hatred against Jews; names Independent Jewish Voices Canada as a 'radical, anti-Zionist hate group'; and attributes responsibility for this hostility to CBC's editorial choices."}, {"id": "house-1046", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-23", "speaker": "Hon. Robert Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the parliamentary secretary for his thoughtful speech. This morning, I listened to the debate from the Conservative Party talking about somehow believing our government was not standing with victims of violence and crime. This bill stands with victims of violence and crime, particularly hate crime. How is it possible that Conservatives are not supporting this bill, which would stand with Jews who have been targeted for hate crimes, with Muslims who have been targeted for hate crimes, and with people like me, gay and lesbian people, who have been targeted with hate crimes? Is this not a victim-centred approach to actually address hate head-on?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/hon-robert-oliphant-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/hon-robert-oliphant-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-foreign-affairs-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Conservatives as not supporting a bill that would protect Jews targeted for hate crimes, implying they are failing to stand against hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1047", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-23", "speaker": "Aaron Gunn (North Island—Powell River, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… sincerely held religious beliefs and to criminalize the reading of certain religious texts just seems so outrageous, so absurd and so fundamentally un-Canadian. This is not an exaggeration. The Liberal chair of the justice committee at the time literally singled out specific passages from both the Christian Bible and Jewish Torah, declaring them hateful in the context of further criminalizing religious speech. Beyond the obvious issues with infringing on the charter rights of Canadians, there is another issue. It is that this bill ignores, deflects and distracts from the very real and the very same challenges in Canada today that it purports to address. There is an i …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/aaron-gunn-north-islandpowell-river-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/aaron-gunn-north-islandpowell-river-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies the Liberal chair of the justice committee as responsible for singling out specific passages from the Jewish Torah and declaring them hateful, characterizing this as a hostile act toward Jewish religious texts and practice."}, {"id": "house-1048", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-23", "speaker": "Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… promotion of hatred if they are expressing in good faith an opinion on a religious subject or a belief based on a religious text. These safeguards were not incidental. They were deliberately included in Canada's Criminal Code to ensure that laws remained consistent with the charter. There has been a sharp increase in hate crimes and violence in Canada. Mosques have been shot up, businesses have been vandalized, churches across our country have been burned and Jewish Canadians are facing a lot of hatred right now, which is completely unacceptable. However, we have not reached this point due to a lack of legislation. Many parts of this bill, whether they are banning hate symbols or protecting access to places of worship, are already covered under current law. Rather, the refusal to enforce our existing laws has create …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/brad-vis-missionmatsquiabbotsford-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/brad-vis-missionmatsquiabbotsford-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker states that hatred faced by Jewish Canadians is 'completely unacceptable,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific perpetrators or blaming particular actors for enabling it."}, {"id": "house-1049", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-23", "speaker": "Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tering and if we had been able to discuss a serious and sensitive bill like grown-ups. That said, the Conservative member, in his speech, and even in his answer to my colleague from Winnipeg North , talked about good faith. He used the words “in good faith”. How can anyone in good faith, using their religion, call for hatred, foment hatred and incite violence against specific groups, like Jews, for example, as the preacher Adil Charkaoui did a few years back during a demonstration in Montreal? How does my colleague justify—and how does his faith justify—spreading hate through violent remarks that explicitly incite acts of violence? That is what we are talking about, and nothing else. I would like my colleag …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/martin-champoux-drummond-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Drummond", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Drummond, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Adil Charkaoui specifically and attributes to him calling for hatred, fomenting hatred, and inciting violence against Jews during a Montreal demonstration."}, {"id": "committee-1050", "year": 2026, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2026-03-23", "speaker": "Dr. Michael Doran (Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute, As an Individual)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Swedish prime minister publicly accused Iran of directing this plot. Very few states on earth, perhaps none, weaponize diplomatic immunity, diplomatic pouches and foreign ministry institutions to conduct terrorism. No other state outsources coercive operations to criminal networks for deniability. The Islamic Republic attacks Iranian opposition targets, carries out revenge plots against the U.S. and against Israeli officials and engages in religious persecution of Jewish communities that have no connection to Israel. Hostage-taking sits at the centre of Iran's coercive system. In the current crisis, Iran's prosecutor general publicly warned on March 9 that diaspora Iranians who sympathize, support or co-operate with the United States and Israel would face confiscation of their propert …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/dr-michael-doran-senior-fellow-and-director-center-for-peace-and-security-in-the-middle-east-at-hudson-institute-as-an-individual/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/23/dr-michael-doran-senior-fellow-and-director-center-for-peace-and-security-in-the-middle-east-at-hudson-institute-as-an-individual/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names Iran as responsible for 'religious persecution of Jewish communities' and describes specific hostile actions Iran 'engages in' toward Jewish communities."}, {"id": "committee-1051", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Noah Shack (Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. I'm grateful to be here with you today representing vibrant Jewish communities across Canada that contribute immensely to Canadian society, and advocating for a brighter future for Jewish communities and all Canadians. Since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on October 7, we've witnessed an alarming surge in hate, extremism and violence across Canada. Numbers alone cannot capture the full picture of what we're facing—schools shot at, synagogues firebombed, community members stabbed and assaulted, and terror plots targeting our community. These are not isolated incidents. They're the result of growing extremism, open support for terrorism and radicalization. What was once confined to the dark corners of our society is now found on our streets, in our workplaces, in schools, on university campuses and in our ne …", "… nces, work together toward consensus and refine this bill to maximize its impact. This is essential not only to strengthen our laws but also to send a clear message to Canadians about who we are and what we must to do safeguard this incredible country that we share. Action is needed to address the hate, harassment and intimidation that has targeted our community over the last two years. In Montreal an aggressive mob of anti-Israel demonstrators blocked the entrances to the Jewish community centre, damaged property, yelled “Death to Jews” and barricaded 100 community members inside, with no one permitted to enter or exit. The police did not remove them. Here in Ottawa, anti-Israel activists gathered not outside the Israeli embassy but outside a seniors residence at the local Jewish community ce …", "… roup, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but charges were withdrawn by the Crown because it “cannot prove the mental element of this offence, namely the intent to incite hatred against any one or group by displaying this flag”. A Toronto man charged with 29 criminal counts, including promotion of genocide, arson and vandalism targeting the Jewish community, found in possession of multiple firearms, loaded firearms and a switchblade knife, was immediately granted bail. Enforcement matters, but without clear laws to drive consistent enforcement, we can expect more of the same, and even greater threats to public safety. We welcome Bill C-9 and recognize the need …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/noah-shack-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/noah-shack-chief-executive-officer-centre-for-israel-and-jewish-affairs/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names specific actors responsible for hostility: Hamas, extremists, anti-Israel demonstrators, anti-Israel activists, and a Toronto man charged with crimes targeting Jews. Also names police failure to act in Montreal incident."}, {"id": "committee-1052", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["I'm glad you mentioned that. I know that CIJA has been subject to incredibly defamatory accusations of basically defending genocide by virtue of being a Zionist organization. I know Jews have found themselves on lists by activists that have been accusing them of a great many things. Is there a concern on your part that lowering the threshold for hate and making it easier for hate charges to be laid is going to allow the process to be weaponized against Jews, the very people who some of the supporters of Bill C-9 are purporting to want to protect?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/andrew-lawton/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/andrew-lawton/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes accusations and lists targeting Jews and CIJA without explicitly condemning or endorsing the hostility, instead framing it as a concern about potential consequences of Bill C-9."}, {"id": "committee-1053", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Wade Chang", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you, Chair. Mr. Sikkema, we have seen far too many examples across Canadian communities, including Jewish, Muslim and queer Canadians, of people facing threats to their safety and security. Bill C-9 represents a strong national standard that hate has no place here in Canada, and that our laws must give law enforcement the clear tools to act when it does occur. Marginalized groups and 2SLGBTQI+ Canadians continue to face some of the highest rates of hate-motivated incidents in this country. Would you agree that, by maintaining a clear, narrowly defined legal st …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/wade-chang/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/wade-chang/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Burnaby Central", "province": "BC", "side": "government", "role": "Burnaby Central, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Canadian Identity and Culture", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to threats and hate-motivated incidents targeting Jewish Canadians and other groups, stating 'hate has no place here in Canada' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-1054", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Philip Lawrence", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Thank you. I'll start out by acknowledging the hatred that Hindus, Jews and Christians have all experienced over the last years. It's been truly and utterly unacceptable. Never did I think in the Canada that I know and love I would ever see a synagogue shot at, churches burned or gurdwaras similarly affected. I just think it's an absolute shame on our country and something we need to get …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/philip-lawrence/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/philip-lawrence/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Northumberland—Clarke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Northumberland—Clarke, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Public Safety", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hatred experienced by Jews and describes incidents like synagogues being shot at as 'unacceptable' and 'a shame on our country' without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "committee-1055", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Vijaykumar Jain", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… l that was done by the education department of Oregon state, U.S.A. It's more a matter of an education. If we educate the media, officers of the law and police personnel, I think this can be very well addressed. People will not be charged for that as long as they know the intent here is religious in purpose and not to incite hatred against the Jewish community or any community."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/vijaykumar-jain/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/vijaykumar-jain/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Director, Canadian Hindus for Harmony", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "education", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a situation involving potential hostility toward Jews and discusses education and enforcement approaches, but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute characterizations of it."}, {"id": "committee-1056", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-10-30", "speaker": "Noah Shack", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["It's not just me saying so; all available public opinion research data reinforces that the vast majority of Jewish Canadians have a clear and close identification with the people of Israel. There is one Jewish people around the world. The majority of Jewish people in the world live in Israel. That's a clear bond that we share. Anybody who would suggest otherwise is engaging in tokenism and, frankly, outright racism."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/noah-shack/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/10/30/noah-shack/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker accuses those who suggest Jewish Canadians don't have close identification with Israel of 'engaging in tokenism and outright racism' — directly naming a specific act as racist/hostile toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-1057", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-25", "speaker": "Right Hon. Mark Carney (Prime Minister, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, that is a false dichotomy. The Bloc Québécois just made a choice about Bill C-9 . It is Parliament's responsibility to protect the rights of religious communities, such as the Jewish community here in Canada, against hate. I am puzzled: Why did the opposition member support Bill C-9, which addresses this issue?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/right-hon-mark-carney-prime-minister-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/right-hon-mark-carney-prime-minister-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states Parliament's responsibility to protect Jewish community against hate, expressing disapproval of hate directed at them without naming a specific actor as responsible for the hate itself."}, {"id": "house-1058", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-25", "speaker": "Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, it seems the Conservative strategy when they lose an argument is to blame the media and throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Let us actually talk about the facts. Bill C-9 , the combatting hate act, from inception, was designed to protect religious freedoms, to combat hate crimes that were taking place in this country, to protect the ability of the Jewish community to go to their synagogues and the Muslim community their mosques and Christian communities their churches, and to ensure people could pray freely without fear of intimidation or obstruction. We heard loud and clear that people are sick and tired of hate crimes in this country and want their government to do something about it. The Conservative option is to send out fundraising emails. We are—"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/hon-sean-fraser-minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-and-minister-responsible-for-the-atlantic-canada-opportunities-agency-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Central Nova", "province": "NS", "side": "government", "role": "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Justice and Human Rights", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate crimes affecting Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities and references Bill C-9 as designed to combat such crimes, but does not condemn the hostility, name perpetrators, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute its existence.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1059", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-25", "speaker": "Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette—Manawan, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… hese are not trivial matters, differences of opinion or insults. Promoting hatred is no trivial matter. The issue here is eliminating the religious exemption in the Criminal Code for this offence. That means that we continue to guarantee freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but not to the extent of promoting hatred. I would remind the House that, in October 2024, the preacher Adil Charkaoui called for the death of Jews in his prayer at a protest in Montreal. Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions determined that he could not prosecute him. That is why this change is being made. We support freedom of expression and religion, but not to the extent of allowing the offence of promoting hatred. Does my hon. colleague believe that the preacher Adil Charkaoui had a right to call for the death of Jews in his street prayers?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Adil Charkaoui as having called for the death of Jews and uses this specific incident to argue for eliminating a religious exemption in the Criminal Code."}, {"id": "house-1060", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-03-25", "speaker": "Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette—Manawan, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, we are currently witnessing a spike in hateful acts and hate speech. Promoting hate is a criminal offence. The first groups targeted by hate speech and hateful acts are members of the Jewish faith followed by members of the Muslim faith. In October 2024, preacher Adil Charkaoui called for the death of Jews in a prayer he gave at a protest. Under the Criminal Code, this constitutes the offence of promoting hatred. Why should we allow the religious exemption to be used as an excuse for promoting hatred? Why not ban it in all its forms?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/3/25/gabriel-ste-marie-joliettemanawan-bq/", "party": "Bloc", "riding": "Joliette", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Joliette, BQ", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names a specific person (Adil Charkaoui) and identifies his specific act (calling for the death of Jews in a prayer in October 2024) as promoting hatred and a criminal offense under the Criminal Code."}, {"id": "committee-1061", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Patricia Lattanzio (Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… have told us here in committee quite clearly that the problem they are facing is the open display of hateful symbols like the SS bolts. Narrowing the offence, and this specific amendment, would ignore what they've asked for. Limiting the offence to listed terrorist entities would leave out many of the symbols that the Jewish, Muslim, Black, LGBTQ+ communities and others have told us are being used to threaten and harass them, and it is really going against the spirit of this bill. The terrorist entity list is small and slow to update, and this approach would make the offence far less useful and far less responsive to what is actually happening on the ground and in our streets. We want this law to be practical for police and meaningfu …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/patricia-lattanzio-saint-léonardsaint-michel-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/patricia-lattanzio-saint-léonardsaint-michel-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the display of hateful symbols like SS bolts and the harassment of Jewish communities, without naming a specific person or entity responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "committee-1062", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… sickle represented collective oppression. If I could, I'll summon my thoughts here, because this is definitely interesting. I'm not sure if Mr. Lawton mentioned that it is estimated that, subsequent to the world war, more than 20 million Soviet citizens were murdered by the Communist regime. It wasn't just confined to Jews; it was everyday people: Ukrainians, intelligentsia, anyone who had any type of microphone, press members and educators. I view it as a hate symbol. I believe that it is a hate symbol because it drives the extreme of collectivist ideology where the state says, “Not my way or the highway, but my way or murder.” I hope that all of my friends around the table will support this amendment."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hammer and sickle as a hate symbol and references Soviet atrocities against Jews and other groups, but does not name or blame any specific person or party present for the hostility."}, {"id": "committee-1063", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Andrew Lawton", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… alize has a very distinct political context in Quebec that it is responding to. I realize that three of my Liberal colleagues hail from Quebec as well, and I don't know to what extent that is going to influence their decision. Evidently, there has been no desire to listen to the concerns raised by Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus or Buddhists—there are potentially other groups that have raised concerns, as well, that I have not yet heard—that this will come as a direct threat to their ability to practise their faith. When we hear the example of Charkaoui brought up, a man prosecutors in Quebec did not claim was spared from prosecution because of anything to do with the religious defences that this amendment would take away.... The religious defences do not apply to any of the sections of the Criminal Code pertaining to incitement, pertaining to calls for genocide or pertaining to threats. When Mr. Charkaoui was talking about death to Jews, even if it was determined that it was in good faith—and no call for violence can ever be made in good faith—this religious defence would not even have applied to the sections of the Criminal Code that would have been engaged had there been political leadership and, I would say, courage by prosecutors in that case. To invoke Charkaoui to justify eroding long-standing religious protections from …", "… is a red herring. It is a misrepresentation, either deliberate or unintentional—I won't speculate—of what the law says. However, we do know what this will mean for people of faith. Your predecessor, Mr. Chair, who's now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture , sat in that very chair and said that Christians and Jews who preach from books of the Bible and the Torah in ways that he finds hateful should be subject to prosecution. Prosecutors should, according to Minister Miller, be able to “press charges” against people who dare to invoke scriptures the government finds offensive. Earlier today, Minister Fraser issued a statement in which he tried to claim that this isn't going to have anything to do with reli …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/andrew-lawton/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/andrew-lawton/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Elgin—St. Thomas—London South, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Act", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies Charkaoui as responsible for hostility toward Jews ('death to Jews') and names Minister Miller as advocating prosecution of Christians and Jews based on religious preaching the government finds hateful."}, {"id": "committee-1064", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Larry Brock", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Complaints about them were investigated, and the RCMP prepared a report. It was reviewed by three Crown prosecutors, who concluded that no charges were warranted. As Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions put it, “The evidence does not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the words spoken constitute incitement to hatred against an identifiable group” under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. One may argue that “Zionist” was just code for “Jews.” One may also believe that praying for death is morally abhorrent. But the decision not to charge Charkaoui turned on the basic threshold of incitement to hatred, not on the religious defence. And even if it had involved the defence, one inflammatory prayer at a political rally is not a justification for dismantling a safeguard that protects millions of Canadians from state intrusion into matters of faith. The religious defence has also been essential to the constitutionality …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/larry-brock/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/larry-brock/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Combatting Hate Crime", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes an investigation, prosecution review, and legal decision without taking a position on whether the conduct was actually hostile toward Jews. It presents the Crown prosecutors' conclusion and legal reasoning neutrally.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "committee-1065", "year": 2025, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2025-12-09", "speaker": "Kurt Holman (London—Fanshawe, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… Fellowship, said, “The courts have been very clear that one cannot simply embed a hateful message in a so-called prayer and expect to receive the benefit of that defence. The courts have specifically said that is not permitted.” The second quote is from Noah Shack, chief executive officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. He said, “I'll just say that the jurisprudence is clear that the religion defence cannot be used, as a Trojan Horse, to allow otherwise hateful speech to come through”. Another statement in regard to imam Adil Charkaoui comes from Mark Sandler, one of Canada's most respected and prominent criminal lawyers. He said: He committed at least two offences. There's the wilful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group, and he also committed the offence of inciting h …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/kurt-holman-londonfanshawe-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2025/12/9/kurt-holman-londonfanshawe-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes legal experts and advocates discussing court rulings and statements about hateful speech and an imam's alleged offences, without the speaker themselves taking a position on the hostility described."}, {"id": "house-1066", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-05-07", "speaker": "Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… e Canada Revenue Agency targeting 11 Jewish schools in Montreal and Toronto. These schools are essential pillars of Jewish life in Canada. They exist to teach language, history, culture and identity, just as faith-based schools across this country do. For months, there has been a coordinated effort to mis-characterize Jewish schools, to strip them of funding and to undermine their place in Canadian society. Let me be clear: Attacking Jewish schools or Jewish day camps is a direct attack on Canadian Jewish life. The CRA must be unequivocally clear that it will not allow tax laws to be weaponized against any group. Jewish schools in this country have already faced serious threats, including repeated gunfire attacks. All Canadians have a right to be safe and feel safe; this includes Canadian Jews and this includes Canadian children. I hope all members of the House will join me in denouncing these attacks on Jewish community institutions."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/5/7/anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/5/7/anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly names the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as responsible for targeting Jewish schools, characterizing this as a 'direct attack on Canadian Jewish life' and stating the CRA 'will not allow tax laws to be weaponized against any group.'"}, {"id": "committee-1067", "year": 2026, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2026-04-28", "speaker": "Amir Epstein", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… they consistently present information that is on one side of a war, it's impossible to present Canadians with the information from the other side of the war. There's never one party in a war. When a war is started by one group against another, and then they're the ones who are vilified, it really does create a lot of animosity. The thing that's strange—and I've mentioned this—is that the Jewish people in Canada are somehow responsible for what happens with Israel and Gaza, Israel and Hezbollah and Lebanon, Israel and the Houthis in Yemen, and it continues on and on and on. Israel is never presented as defending itself, which it has on every single front. It didn't start a war with Lebanon. Hezbollah was rock …", "… hnic community in Canada—more than anyone—so we have to ask why. Why did that happen suddenly, right after October 7, and the entire world decided it was okay? We can see the influence of extremism in the media, and I mentioned mainstream schools and universities. This continues, so the suffering will continue and the hostility will continue. I can tell you that the Jewish community is speaking very seriously about leaving Canada. Most Canadians don't even know this. We, Tafsik, have started a plan B initiative."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/4/28/amir-epstein/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/4/28/amir-epstein/", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Chief Executive Officer, Tafsik Organization", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "israel", "subject_alt": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names specific entities responsible for hostility toward Jews: mainstream media, schools, universities, and 'extremism' in these institutions. The speaker states these institutions created conditions where 'the entire world decided it was okay' to blame Jewish Canadians for Israeli actions, thereby identifying them as responsible for the hostility and animosity directed at Jews."}, {"id": "house-1068", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, it seems pretty clear. No one can tell me that it is possible to spread hate in good faith or to interpreting a religious text to read that hate is a good thing. The same goes for hating Jewish people, Muslim people, Christians, Catholics, Black people, white people or God knows who else. It may be possible, but can we agree that all of it is done in bad faith? Spreading hate in good faith is impossible, and doing it based on religious writings is even more impossible."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to hating Jewish people and spreading hate toward them, rejecting the possibility of doing so 'in good faith' without naming any specific person or group as responsible."}, {"id": "house-1069", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Jacob Mantle (York—Durham, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I have been troubled by the Bloc's position, and I am hoping my hon. colleague can help me a little. One of the examples that Bloc members have continually used to defend the removal of the good-faith exemption is the example of Mr. Charkaoui, who quite rightly was condemned for inciting hatred against Jews in Quebec. My colleague spoke about reading the law carefully, and if he were to read the Criminal Code carefully, he would see that this type of activity is already prohibited. It was not because the religious exemption is in the law now that police were prevented from charging. It was that the police chose not to. I …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/jacob-mantle-yorkdurham-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/jacob-mantle-yorkdurham-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Mr. Charkaoui and states he 'was condemned for inciting hatred against Jews in Quebec,' directly attributing this hostile act to him."}, {"id": "house-1070", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Rhéal Éloi Fortin", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tion. He raises a good point. The Adil Charkaoui case shocked everyone in Quebec at the time, and probably everyone across Canada. I do not have the text in front of me, but this individual used biblical texts to say something along the lines of “Lord, eliminate all of Allah's enemies, spare no one”. It was clearly an incitement to hatred against Jews. However, the Attorney General did not bring any charges in this case. It seems that my colleague has information that I do not have. He seems to know why no charges were brought. I do not know. I do know one thing, though. I practised law for 30 years before I came to Parliament, and I know one thing. There are quite …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/rhéal-éloi-fortin/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that Adil Charkaoui's use of biblical texts was 'clearly an incitement to hatred against Jews' and names him as responsible for this hostility. The speaker also names the Attorney General as failing to bring charges in response to this hostility."}, {"id": "house-1071", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Natilien Joseph", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, this is a surprising question coming from my colleague, a lawyer. Bill C‑9 is meant precisely to better protect Canadians from hate and intimidation, whether they are Black, Muslim, Jewish or members of any other community. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, to live in safety and, above all, to have peace and tranquility. That is the law."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/natilien-joseph/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/natilien-joseph/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker affirms that everyone deserves respect, safety, and peace, and that law protects Canadians from hate and intimidation against Jewish people and other communities, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-1072", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Cheryl Gallant (Algonquin—Renfrew—Pembroke, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… ven desecrated the Canadian flag with the Nazi hooked cross as a way of illustrating their point that the Liberals were acting like Nazis. When one of those protesters walked behind a Conservative MP doing an interview with the CBC, the Liberals pounced. They accused us of supporting Nazis. Trudeau literally accused a Jewish MP of standing with people who wave swastikas. The Liberals were more than happy to deploy misinformation and disinformation around the use of a hate symbol to score cheap political points. The CBC worked hand in glove with the government to push this fake narrative. No one needs to agree with protesters' views comparing the Liberals to the Nazis, but if we want to keep our democracy, we have to protect the right to express those views. Instead, the Liberal‑funded …", "… ns. I agree with my Liberal colleagues when they say hate has grown under the Liberal government. Before the Liberals were elected, there had not been a documented case of a noose in a workplace in decades. Now the Liberals claim it is so common the symbol must be banned. Between 2021 and 2023, there were 238 recorded arson attacks on churches. There are regular hate marches through Jewish neighbourhoods. Liberals even claim their own communities are hotbeds of hatred, where white supremacist rallies are held on a regular basis. Ever since the Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker introduced the Canadian Bill of Rights and restored voting rights to indigenous Canadians, which the Liberals had removed, this country had been on a steady march toward greater inclusion. That all …", "… andon Canada's multicultural approach in favour of an imported American ideology of racial essentialism is at the root of the problem. When combined with out-of-control immigration and soft-on-bail policies, we see the inevitable result. We see the Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents hiring contract killers to shoot up synagogues. We see hate marches in our streets. We see places of worship burned to the ground. Stubbornly, the Liberals still refuse to admit their mistakes on this file. They have admitted they were wrong about carbon taxes. They have admitted they were wrong about the need for tougher bail. They have admitted they were wrong about the need …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/cheryl-gallant-algonquinrenfrewpembroke-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/cheryl-gallant-algonquinrenfrewpembroke-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Christianity", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names the Liberal government and CBC as responsible for deploying misinformation about hate symbols and accusations toward a Jewish MP, and names Liberals as responsible for policies contributing to hate incidents including attacks on synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1073", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Roman Baber", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… would not, but enforcing existing laws would. That would send a message. We should do that, instead of sending another $100 million to Palestine and instead of hearing the Prime Minister accusing the state of Israel, which is engaged in a lawful, self-defence war, of engaging in genocide in Gaza. That, in fact, fuels hatred against the Jewish community. The Prime Minister fuels violence and hatred against the Jews by engaging in the greatest libel of the 21st century, which is that the state of Israel is engaging in genocide. The Prime Minister recognized the state of Palestine on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. We will never forget that. It was all for electoral politics. We should all be ashamed of the government for the way it is treating the Jewish community and …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/roman-baber/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/roman-baber/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "York Centre, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements by Members — Anti-Semitism", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly states that the Prime Minister 'fuels hatred against the Jewish community' and 'fuels violence and hatred against the Jews' through specific statements about Israel, naming the PM as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-1074", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Ryan Turnbull (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue and to the Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions), Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… this bill. I know that all members on this side of the House take this bill very seriously. In my community of Whitby, we have seen acts of hate, including a swastika burned into the playground lawn in a local park behind a school. We saw a woman wearing a hijab almost get set on fire in a local library. These acts of hate are things that our government is seeking to address through this important legislation. Definitely, we had requests from the Jewish community at the outset, but also from many other communities that are impacted by hate. Could the member opposite speak to how important it is to get this legislation done?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/ryan-turnbull-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-finance-and-national-revenue-and-to-the-secretary-of-state-canada-revenue-agency-and-financial-institutions-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/ryan-turnbull-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-minister-of-finance-and-national-revenue-and-to-the-secretary-of-state-canada-revenue-agency-and-financial-institutions-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes acts of hate including antisemitic acts (swastika burning) and expresses support for legislation to address hate, without naming specific perpetrators or institutions responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1075", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Kurt Holman (London—Fanshawe, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, hatred is real. Jewish Canadians have faced ongoing intimidation, including gunfire, firebombings and repeated threats against synagogues, schools and community institutions. Muslim Canadians have seen the tragic consequences when hatred turns deadly. Just a week ago, I joined Londoners in remembering the Afzaal family, four members of which were murdered five years ago because they were Muslim. Churches across the country have been vandalized, desecrated and, in far too many cases, burned to the ground. Members of other communities have also faced ha …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/kurt-holman-londonfanshawe-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/kurt-holman-londonfanshawe-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes hostility toward Jews (intimidation, gunfire, firebombings, threats) without naming specific perpetrators or accusing anyone of responsibility, while objecting to the hatred described."}, {"id": "house-1076", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Bienvenu-Olivier Ntumba (Mont-Saint-Bruno—L'Acadie, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Winnipeg South Centre . I rise to speak to Bill C‑9 , the combatting hate act, at a time when Canadians are looking to us for clear, serious and determined action to better protect them from hate and intimidation. I will begin by clearly describing the context we are currently in. Across Canada, Black, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ, indigenous and other communities are feeling extremely vulnerable. The rise of hate is far from theoretical. It is a palpable, painful and disturbing reality that we are seeing in schools, on the street and even in places of worship. I cannot give this speech without mentioning the events that recently took place in Montreal. We live in a country of rights and freedoms. What we are experiencing right …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/bienvenu-olivier-ntumba-mont-saint-brunolacadie-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/bienvenu-olivier-ntumba-mont-saint-brunolacadie-lib/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes the current context of hate affecting various communities including Jewish people, mentioning specific incidents (Montreal events) and the reality of hate in schools, streets, and places of worship, but does not condemn, name perpetrators, blame specific actors, dispute claims, or use coded language.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1077", "year": 2026, "chamber": "house", "date": "2026-06-16", "speaker": "Ben Carr (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… . All of the major Jewish advocacy groups in the country have spoken in support of the bill, whether that be B'nai Brith, CIJA, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center or a variety of grassroots members. I know because they have put pressure on me and my colleagues in the Jewish caucus on this side of the aisle, and on Jewish leadership across the country, to take action. The question is, of course, why? Well, the reason for this is that we have seen a significant increase in hate in this country. It is not just targeted at the Jewish community, but we know that those in the Jewish community, representing less than 1% of the Canadian population, are the victims of more than three-quarters of reported religiously motivated hate crimes in this country. I am going to, in a moment, speak to the amendment that the Senate put forward vis-à-vis a particular hate symbol, but there are a couple of arguments I have heard, put forward by my colleagues in the opposition, that I just do not quite understand. I welcome the opportunity for them to perhaps add so …", "… k at the Senate amendment that was put forward, the subject of our debate today, it is very important to note a couple of things. The first is that members opposite, including the member for York—Durham , yesterday suggested something that I am still struggling to understand, which is that the noose in Canada is not a hate symbol. Here is something I find interesting. Two weeks ago, when a noose was put around the neck of an effigy of a Jewish leader being burned on a street in Montreal, members across the way were, rightly so, up in arms, and they should have been, but now the member for York—Durham is saying that the very symbol placed around the neck of that Jewish leader, which he and his colleagues condemned, is not, in fact, a symbol of hate worthy of being included in this legislation. Again, I do not understand. We have heard the noose described by colleagues across the way as an American problem, as though it is a relic from somebody else's history. They have said that it is wrong for the Senate to have asked for that amendment. The request to have the …", "… nclusion, that it is critical they listen to the testimony and experiences of our colleagues in Parliament, as well as those of Canadians from across the country, who are experiencing this form of hate. I do not understand why my colleagues opposite would not support the inclusion of this clearly problematic symbol of hate as an important amendment to the bill. It is a bill that I am proud to stand here, as a member of Parliament, as a Jewish member of Parliament and as a Canadian, in support of."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/ben-carr-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/16/ben-carr-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker identifies the member for York—Durham as responsible for contradictory and problematic statements denying the noose is a hate symbol, despite condemning its use against a Jewish leader."}, {"id": "committee-1078", "year": 2026, "chamber": "committee", "date": "2026-06-15", "speaker": "Xavier Barsalou-Duval (Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, BQ)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… oday. You spoke about the rise in crime and acts against the Jewish community, and so I would like to start by saying that I share your concerns regarding this growing problem. We are happy to see the results of the efforts taken by the Bloc Québécois to prohibit the use of religion as a tool to commit acts or promote hatred, which we find unacceptable. We know that these acts have targeted Jewish communities, among others. I am underscoring that because I think it's important, even though it's not directly connected to the issue at hand. Furthermore, I'm sure that as the representative of the Jewish community, you champion the interests of your members and the people you represent, in compliance with the law, …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/xavier-barsalou-duval-pierre-boucherles-patriotesverchères-bq/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/6/15/xavier-barsalou-duval-pierre-boucherles-patriotesverchères-bq/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses that acts/hatred against Jewish community are 'unacceptable' and shares concerns about 'growing problem,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "house-1079", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nd taking hostage over 100 more. We must stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel as it defends itself from the criminal and barbarous acts of Hamas. Among the dead are seven Canadians. May their memories be a blessing. At least one Canadian is still missing and presumed held hostage. All hostages must be released. More Jews were killed in Saturday's attack than on any single day since the Holocaust. They were children, babies, men and women intentionally slaughtered in their homes. They were young people, just out listening to music at a dance party. This was an unprecedented, brutal, intentional attack. As we speak, Hamas is threatening to execute innocent hostages. This outrage cannot and must not stand. Do no …", "… other country would. Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, was famous for saying, “If you will it, it is no dream.” In 1948, that dream became a reality, a homeland in Israel, the promised land. Working together, Israelis turned a desert into an oasis, an island of democracy surrounded by a sea of autocracy, a Jewish state where Jews could live in peace, free from fear and persecution. Let there be no doubt: Israel is the ancient and indigenous homeland of the Jewish people. Many politicians will stand with Israel when it is easy, but listen to what they say when it is hard. They will talk about both sides. I am here to say that there is only one side: the side of morality, the side of democracy, the side that Israel is on. Too often we see politicians at the United Nations unfair …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-marty-morantz-charleswoodst-jamesassiniboiaheadingley-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia--Headingley", "province": "MB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Proposed tax changes", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes Hamas attacks as 'criminal and barbarous acts' and 'unprecedented, brutal, intentional attack' killing Jews, calling it an 'outrage' that 'cannot and must not stand,' without naming specific individuals or groups as responsible for enabling the hostility."}, {"id": "house-1080", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Ms. Rachel Bendayan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… nment will continue to devote itself to keeping all Canadians safe. For me that means two things: bringing our people home and keeping our country free from the hateful rhetoric and violence that flourishes anywhere and everywhere whenever we pit one community against another. I have been horrified by the explosion of hate here in Canada and around the world; in Germany there are apartment buildings where Jewish people live that were marked with a star of David, a horrific echo of Nazi persecution; in Australia, a crowd of so-called protesters shouted “Gas the Jews” over and over again, and in the United States, a Palestinian boy, a boy just six years old, was fatally stabbed 26 times. In Montreal, less than 48 hours after the massacre in Israel, a demonstration was held to celebrate the terrorist attack by Hamas as an act of resistance. A few days ago, some young people from th …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/ms-rachel-bendayan-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-of-finance-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/ms-rachel-bendayan-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-of-finance-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Outremont", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Situation in Ukraine", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses horror at hate incidents targeting Jews and other communities, objects to hateful rhetoric and violence, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1081", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… s being held in Gaza whose fate is unknown and the innocent Palestinian civilians who suffer because of Hamas. Yet, there are pro-Hamas demonstrations in our own country celebrating this depravity. I hope the entire House joins me in denouncing those who are celebrating the death of innocent Israelis and those who are inciting violence against Jewish Canadians. My heart is broken. I am devastated. I stand with our ally Israel. I stand with the people of Israel. Am Yisrael Chai."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-anthony-housefather-mount-royal-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Mount Royal", "province": "QC", "side": "government", "role": "Mount Royal, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker denounces pro-Hamas demonstrations celebrating deaths of Israelis and explicitly condemns inciting violence against Jewish Canadians, without naming specific individuals or groups as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1082", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Hamas launched a number of terrorist attacks on Israel last week. Many civilians were killed or taken hostage. The terrorists committed rape, decapitated children and launched numerous rockets, hoping to kill as many Jews as possible. In response to the murders and violence perpetrated by Hamas, the Iranian foreign affairs minister warned Israel to stop defending itself, saying that the war could spread to other parts of the Middle East. In other words, Iran wants Israel to quietly accept the murder of its own citizens and do and say nothing. Israel has the right to defend itself against …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes terrorist attacks by Hamas that targeted Jews, Iran's response, and Israel's right to self-defense. The passage reports events and statements without condemning hostility toward Jews explicitly, naming a specific responsible party for anti-Jewish hostility, or taking a clear position on whether the described actions constitute hostility toward Jews per se."}, {"id": "house-1083", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Ben Carr (Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, the tragic loss of life at the hands of Hamas's evil has made us angry, sad and filled with unimaginable grief as we are left trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. These terror attacks are the cruellest against the Jewish people, my people, since the Holocaust. It is possible to live in a world where we strive for peace in the Middle East while at the same time being able to state in no uncertain terms that we condemn the rape, murder and kidnapping of innocent women, children and the elderly. We must be able to say this without the word “but” inserted to serve as the catalyst for some moral justification. There is no morality to be found in what it has done. Even the lives of people whose interests Hamas claims to represent mean nothing in its pursuit of hatred and the eradication of the Jewish people. There is no question that we must uphold the value of all human life and extend to one another a sense of kindness and dignity as we struggle together in the days ahead."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-ben-carr-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-ben-carr-winnipeg-south-centre-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "Winnipeg South Centre", "province": "MB", "side": "government", "role": "Winnipeg South Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly condemns Hamas's terror attacks against Jewish people and states 'we condemn the rape, murder and kidnapping' without accusing any specific Canadian person, party, or institution of responsibility for the hostility."}, {"id": "house-1084", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Hon. Ya'ara Saks (Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Lib.)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… engers from the first flights from Israel. After they have experienced such trauma and devastation, our priority is ensuring that they are back to safety and home with their loved ones. We will continue to do what we can to bring those we love home. As we look forward, I still worry what will be in the coming days for Jews, Muslims, Israelis and Palestinians. I fear for the people of Gaza who are victims of Hamas and its unrelenting oppression, which serves only to perpetuate the unending cycle of violence in the region. I also worry for our communities here at home, for our children who are afraid to go to school and for our places of worship, which are afraid to be open. There are so many who fear for their safety. We must come together in unity to fight back hate and to combat terror. As I end my speaking notes tonight, I will share this thought. We say this in Hebrew: [ Member spoke in Hebrew ] [ English ] May we be shielded by loving kindness, enveloped in peace and bestowed upon with light and truth. May we bring that together both in this chamber and for those who are in this crisis at this moment."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-yaara-saks-minister-of-mental-health-and-addictions-and-associate-minister-of-health-lib/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-yaara-saks-minister-of-mental-health-and-addictions-and-associate-minister-of-health-lib/", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "York Centre, Lib.", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Oral Questions — Canadian Heritage", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses worry about hostility toward Jews, calls for unity to 'fight back hate,' and urges protection of Jewish communities and places of worship without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-1085", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… tablishment of a Palestinian state in the place of Israel and rejects all agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Hamas has a military branch that has led many anti-Israeli attacks in Israel and in Palestinian territories since the 1990s. Hamas continues to refuse to recognize Israel or to abandon its violent resistance against Israel. It proactively encourages and leads terrorist attacks and does everything it can to sow hatred against Jews. As a result, the American government designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in 1997, and Canada followed suit in 2002. Hamas's explicit mission is to murder Jews and to eradicate Israel and replace it with a Taliban-type theocracy. Videos distributed primarily by Hamas and posted on social media document acts o …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-pierre-paul-hus-charlesbourghaute-saint-charles-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles", "province": "QC", "side": "opposition", "role": "Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly states that Hamas 'does everything it can to sow hatred against Jews' and has 'an explicit mission to murder Jews,' directly naming Hamas as responsible for hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "house-1086", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Kyle Seeback (Dufferin—Caledon, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r safe zones, a humanitarian corridor and an ability to evacuate foreign nationals. All these things should occur, because it is the responsible thing for Canada to advocate for. We also have to make sure that none of the issues that are going on, whether in Israel or Gaza, happen here in Canada. We have to combat any hate in this country. In speaking to my friends in the Muslim community and the Jewish community, there is a lot of fear right now here in Canada, and the government has to take the lead on this. There are people who are afraid to go to their place of worship, whether it is a mosque or a temple. The government has a responsibility to ensure that Canadians feel safe in their places of worship, which is w …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-kyle-seeback-dufferincaledon-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-kyle-seeback-dufferincaledon-cpc/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objectively opposes hate and fear targeting Jewish communities, advocating for government action to ensure safety at places of worship without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-1087", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… national terrorism threat level. When Parliament Hill was attacked In October 2014, which was the last terrorist attack here on Canadian soil, it was set to medium, which is that a terrorist attack could occur. Does the hon. member not think it is a good idea for the Government of Canada to update Canadians about the threat level that communities like the Jewish community, like the Muslim community, might be facing and either to reaffirm the threat level at medium or to upgrade the threat level to high, a likely chance of an attack occurring, in order to either reassure Canadians or arm them with the information they need to protect their religious and cultural communities?"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-michael-chong-wellingtonhalton-hills-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-michael-chong-wellingtonhalton-hills-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Wellington--Halton Hills", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Canada's Actions to Promote Peace in the Middle East", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes threats facing Jewish and Muslim communities and asks a question about whether threat levels should be communicated, without condemning hostility, naming perpetrators, blaming officials for inaction, or disputing the threat."}, {"id": "house-1088", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… r, I know my colleague cares deeply about his constituents and the community. Like him, I have been hearing horrific tales and stories about people. The mother of one of my colleagues was speaking Urdu, and my colleague had to tell her mom to stop speaking that and to go home, because she was so worried there would be violence perpetrated against her. The entire Jewish community is afraid. The entire Palestinian community is afraid. I am deeply worried that there is going to be an increase in violence in this country, that we are going to see an increase in hate crimes and that people are going to get harmed. I wonder if the member could talk about how he sees his government taking action on this and what can be done to protect people."], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/ms-heather-mcpherson-edmonton-strathcona-ndp/", "party": "NDP", "riding": "Edmonton Strathcona", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Edmonton Strathcona, NDP", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "Oral Questions — COVID-19 Protests", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses deep worry about hostility and violence toward communities (Jewish and Palestinian), describes horrific incidents, and calls for government action to protect people, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "house-1089", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the member, since he is part of the ministerial party, about a question I asked one of my colleagues earlier. There is a lot of fear, as he has mentioned, in both the Jewish and Muslim communities across Canada, that they may be attacked individually or that their cultural, religious or educational institutions may be attacked. The government's integrated terrorism assessment centre has assessed Canada's national terrorism threat level at medium since October 2014. Does he not think it would be useful for the integrated terrorism assessment centre to indicate to the public if the level remains at medium or to assess it at a different level …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-michael-chong-wellingtonhalton-hills-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/hon-michael-chong-wellingtonhalton-hills-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Wellington--Halton Hills", "province": "ON", "side": "opposition", "role": "Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Canada's Actions to Promote Peace in the Middle East", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes fear in Jewish and Muslim communities about potential attacks and discusses terrorism threat assessments without condemning hostility, naming responsible parties, or taking a clear position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "house-1090", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["… defend itself by targeting Hamas terrorists who have attacked it, and all steps should be taken to minimize harm to civilians. Hamas must be called out for how they intentionally, constantly, put Palestinian as well as Israeli civilians in harm’s way. The latest fighting began after Hamas launched a horrific terrorist attack, killing over 1,000 Israeli civilians in the most brutal ways imaginable and taking well over 100 hostages. This was the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. As the descendent of Holocaust survivors and the descendent of some who did not survive, this is deeply personal for me. There can be no equivocation about the horror of what happened or about the need to hold the killers responsible. No other country, after facing such an attack, would be expecte …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-garnett-genuis-sherwood-parkfort-saskatchewan-cpc/", "party": "Conservative", "riding": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan", "province": "AB", "side": "opposition", "role": "Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Government Orders — Business of Supply — Opposition Motion—Israel", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Hamas as responsible for attacking and killing Israeli civilians, characterizing it as a 'horrific terrorist attack' and 'the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust,' thereby naming a specific group as responsible for hostility toward Jews.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "house-1091", "year": 2023, "chamber": "house", "date": "2023-10-16", "speaker": "Mr. Shuvaloy Majumdar", "source": "openparliament", "passages": ["Mr. Speaker, Israel has always been held to a separate standard compared to other states. For some reason, when Israelis and Jews and those who live within its sovereign borders are attacked, they are immediately compelled to restrain themselves and find ways to be more civil, even though, as a democracy and as a professional military, they go above and beyond the standards that are required, compared to what most countries do. Therefore, we find that Israel is constantly singled out as a country internat …"], "url": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-shuvaloy-majumdar/", "url_official": "https://openparliament.ca/debates/2023/10/16/mr-shuvaloy-majumdar/", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the unfair treatment of Israel and Jews by being held to a separate, higher standard than other states, characterizing this differential treatment as unjust without naming a specific actor responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1092", "year": 2010, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2010-03-10", "speaker": "Hon. Donald H. Oliver", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ooden cross was erected and burned on the lawn of a Black family near Windsor, Nova Scotia. At the top of the cross was a hangman's noose for lynching. As it burned, the family was further threatened with screams of race hatred: \"Die nigger, die.\" This is Canada in 2010. What can this incident mean? It means that race hatred is still alive and thriving in Canada. We know that the Ku Klux Klan hates Catholics, Jews and Blacks. We all hope this incident is not the beginning of another wave of racism, hatred and discrimination against these groups. This frightening incident took place in February, which is African Heritage Month: the month when we are reminded of the countless contributions that African-Canadians have made to this country; the month when their glorious history deserves recognition. As honourable senators know, it was in 192 …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/004db_2010-03-10-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/004db_2010-03-10-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes a hate incident and mentions that the KKK hates Jews among other groups, but does not condemn, name specific perpetrators, blame anyone for inaction, dispute the characterization, or use coded language. The passage reports facts about the incident and context."}, {"id": "senate-1093", "year": 2025, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-06-03", "speaker": "Hon. Kristopher Wells", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Kristopher Wells: Honourable senators, hate continues to be on the rise globally and also here in Canada. Most recently, we have seen the Jewish community become the target of horrendous attacks that took the lives of innocent embassy staff. These atrocities are message crimes designed to instill fear and terror in all minority communities. Action must be taken. Canada should lead by example and protect the most vulnerable. In the recent federal election, the government promised legislation to protect our cri …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/005db_2025-06-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/005db_2025-06-03-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker characterizes attacks on Jewish community as 'horrendous' and 'atrocities,' expresses opposition to hate and calls for protective action, without naming specific perpetrators."}, {"id": "senate-1094", "year": 1999, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1999-11-16", "speaker": "Senator De Bané", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator De Bané : Honourable senators, Émile Shoufani was born in Nazareth in 1947. As an Arab Christian in the State of Israel, Émile Shoufani spent 52 years as a witness, through his life and work, to the possibility of reconciling centuries of opposition and violence. His life is a testament to the peaceful coexistence of Jews, Arabs, Muslims and Christians in a region that desperately needs a model of peace and reconciliation. Émile Shoufani learned, through personal tragedy, the true meaning of forgiveness and respect for others. He serves as a model for others to do the same. Both his grandfather and uncle were killed in the war of 1948, …", "… Émile decided to pursue his second goal, a pioneer project of dialogue with \"Lyada\", a leading Jewish school attached to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in order \"to give our youth the tools for full integration in the State of Israel while retaining their identity.\" A three-year exchange program between Arab and Jewish youth was introduced through which the pupils now learn \"to meet the other, erase prejudice, learn to discuss their rights democratically, and work together for peace.\" Although this exercise is always a painful and a liberating one, today both schools find this program indispensable. Today, the mission for St. Joseph's Seminary is \"Education For Peace.\" Father Shoufani has declared often: I feel I belong to …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/007db_1999-11-16-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/007db_1999-11-16-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The senator describes Shoufani's work on Jewish-Arab dialogue and reconciliation, including efforts to 'erase prejudice,' but does not take a position condemning hostility, naming responsible parties, blaming inaction, or disputing characterizations of antisemitism."}, {"id": "senate-1095", "year": 2025, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-06-05", "speaker": "Hon. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… emphasis on attracting skilled workers, international students and entrepreneurs with the hope that they will settle permanently in our province. While immigration is vital to our future, we must also confront the more challenging aspects of our immigration history including policies like the Chinese head tax and the exclusion of Jewish refugees during World War II. Those serve as painful reminders that Canada’s immigration system has not always lived up to the ideals of inclusivity. These examples are critical for us to remember. They must motivate us to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated. Bill S-215 is important because it contin …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/007db_2025-06-05-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/007db_2025-06-05-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes exclusion of Jewish refugees as a 'painful reminder' of failure to live up to ideals of inclusivity, and calls for ensuring 'mistakes of the past are not repeated,' expressing disapproval without naming a specific contemporary actor responsible.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "senate-1096", "year": 2006, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2006-05-03", "speaker": "Hon. Yoine Goldstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Honourable senators, 58 years ago today, according to the Jewish calendar, the state of Israel was born. I am particularly proud that Canada played a highly significant role in the discussions and negotiations at the United Nations which led to the resolution calling for the partition of what was then Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Israelis immediately accepted the partition. Over half a dozen Arab countries attacked. That scenario, only somewhat attenuated, continues to exist today. While the attacks do not come from armies, they do come from terrorists, suicide bombers, a Hamas-led government in a neighbouring place and, potentially, from sabre-rattling Iranian extremists who call for the annihilation of Israel. Canadians contin …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/009db_2006-05-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/009db_2006-05-03-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical and ongoing attacks against Israel without attributing them to antisemitism or hostility toward Jews specifically. The passage reports facts about attacks and threats without taking a position on whether these constitute antisemitism or prejudice."}, {"id": "senate-1097", "year": 2007, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2007-11-14", "speaker": "Hon. Yoine Goldstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Yoine Goldstein: Honourable senators, last week we commemorated the sixty-ninth anniversary of Kristallnacht, which occurred on November 10, 1938. Kristallnacht, literally the \"night of glass,\" commemorates that night sixty-nine years ago when organized groups of Nazis and other hooligans systematically attacked Jews, their synagogues and other institutions throughout Germany — an evening best symbolized in the memory of those who are able to remember by the picture of the Great Synagogue of Berlin in flames and enveloped in smoke. November 10, 1938, marked the more formal beginning of the brief and painful march to the Shoah — the systematic annih …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/011db_2007-11-14-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/011db_2007-11-14-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the historical event of Kristallnacht and Nazi attacks on Jews without taking a position on contemporary hostility or making accusations beyond historical fact-stating."}, {"id": "senate-1098", "year": 2007, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2007-11-14", "speaker": "Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette (Leader of the Opposition)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… fficials tolerate its continued legality and social acceptance in so many states and in our country? [ Translation ] In May 2006, the World Conference of Religions for Peace, in cooperation with UNICEF, brought together leaders and experts from more than 30 countries with different beliefs: Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. The delegates to the conference adopted a joint declaration to combat violence against children by calling on governments to pass legislation to put an end to corporal punishment. This declaration was approved at the eighth Religions for Peace World Assembly that took place in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2006. It is important to note that 800 religious leaders from 100 countries attended the assembl …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/011db_2007-11-14-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/011db_2007-11-14-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes a conference and declaration involving Jewish leaders among others, focused on combating violence against children through legislation against corporal punishment. It presents factual information about the event without taking a position on any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1099", "year": 2004, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2004-11-04", "speaker": "Hon. Anne C. Cools", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… es, labour relations, universal suffrage, representative and responsible government and even a federation of the British West Indies. Honourable senators, the assassination of this British Minister Resident in the Middle East while Britain and the Empire were fighting a vicious war against the Nazi Germans, with their persecution of the Jews, shook British Barbados profoundly. Barbados was the home of the oldest Jewish communities in the British Americas, because after the Portuguese inquisitions, many Jews sought refuge in the British possessions in the 1620s. There is Jewish blood in many Barbadians, including myself. Lord Moyne was murdered exactly five months after D-Day, June 6, the day of the British and Allied assault to re-enter and recapture Europe from Nazi occupation and to conquer Germany. Many Barbadian men, my parents' friends, fought on the beaches of Normandy that day. I salute them. Honourable senators, Lord Moyne, of the famous Guinness family, of whom one member owned Porters Plantation Great House in Barbados, had sail …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/013db_2004-11-04-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/013db_2004-11-04-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical facts about Nazi persecution of Jews, Lord Moyne's assassination, and Jewish communities in Barbados without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning blame.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "senate-1100", "year": 2020, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2020-12-01", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ution, Canada is providing ammunition to those who seek to delegitimize and demonize the State of Israel, which ultimately sets back the prospects for peace in the region. Honourable senators, I am standing today in support of Michael Levitt of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal, CIJA, B’nai Brith and members of Canada’s Jewish community who are hurt and disappointed by the hostility expressed by our government against Canada’s friend and ally, Israel."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/014db_2020-12-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/014db_2020-12-01-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies 'our government' as responsible for 'hostility expressed...against Canada's friend and ally, Israel,' thus naming a specific actor (the government) as responsible for the hostile action."}, {"id": "senate-1101", "year": 1997, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1997-11-05", "speaker": "Hon. Ron Ghitter", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ications that pervert the values of their religion. This issue is about equality, compassion and fairness. It is about understanding and an acceptance of others that is not based on stereotyping, prejudice and ignorance. As one intervenor suggested before the court yesterday, to be silent and neutral is to condone the intolerance. If today it is gay men or lesbians, then tomorrow could it be Sikhs, Muslims, Jews or aboriginals? Too often, silence has resulted in horrible consequences. Yesterday, I must say that my pride and esteem for the judicial system and our legal process soared. My gratitude and respect knew no bounds for those in the legal profession who gave of their time and energies pro bono to advance a cause. My ap …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/016db_1997-11-05-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/016db_1997-11-05-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to intolerance and prejudice generally, warning against silence in the face of discrimination that could target Jews among other groups, without naming any specific person or entity as responsible for hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1102", "year": 1996, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1996-05-15", "speaker": "Hon. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… of Canada, under section 15 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, prohibits any discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [ English ] Honourable senators, if someone is facing discrimination on the basis of race or colour, whether black or white, they are protected by human rights legislation. If someone suffers discrimination on the ground of religion, be they Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or otherwise, they are protected by human rights legislation. Some have raised concerns about the impact of this legislation on adoption and marriage. I simply do not understand why people would think that this amendment would apply to that area. This is, after all, an amendment to the federal Human Rights Act …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/019db_1996-05-15-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/019db_1996-05-15-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions Jewish people in a list of religious groups protected by human rights legislation, stating they are covered against discrimination. This is a factual description of legal protections without taking a position on any specific incident of hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1103", "year": 1999, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1999-12-14", "speaker": "Hon. Erminie J. Cohen", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ay 2, 2000. The date of the memorial day will change each year depending on the Jewish lunar calendar and will coincide with Yom Hashoah, a commemorative day observed around the world each year since 1951. The Province of Ontario enacted similar legislation last year and the Government of Prince Edward Island passed a Holocaust Memorial Day law last week. To all of these provinces, I say \"Thank you.\" In tabling the legislation, Mr. MacKenzie said: At the end of the most violent century in human history, we share an obligation to the new millennium to mark and learn the lessons of history. As George Santayana wrote: Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it. The timing of this motion on December 9 was appropriate as the international community marked two important human rights …", "… de Convention that made genocide a violation of international law, and December 10 marks the fifty-first anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am proud of the new legislation by the Lord government acknowledging one of the grossest violations of human rights. The memory of the Holocaust should provide the impetus for active opposition to racism and hatred. We only have to scan the newspapers to read each day of incidents of evil that underscore the dark side of human existence. Honourable senators, because time stills the voices of the survivors, it is incumbent on us to speak out on the lessons of the Holocaust as parliamentarians, as community leaders, and, indeed, a …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/021db_1999-12-14-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/021db_1999-12-14-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Holocaust Memorial Day legislation and historical events without condemning any current hostility toward Jews or naming/blaming specific actors responsible for antisemitism.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "senate-1104", "year": 2025, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-10-07", "speaker": "Senator Woo", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator Woo: Your Honour, I make this speech out of the deepest respect for the Jewish community. I have already stated very clearly how I condemn the horror of October 7, 2023, how I condemn the acts of violence against Jewish people in Canada and around the world. I think it does a disservice to Jewish people to not allow this speech to continue on the grounds that some senators’ sensibilities may be offended. If the case you are arguing is there was no genocide, let that be debated in this chamber, and let me present the evidence for you to consider. Speaker’s Ruling"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Senator explicitly states 'I condemn the horror of October 7, 2023' and 'I condemn the acts of violence against Jewish people in Canada and around the world' without naming specific perpetrators as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1105", "year": 2001, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2001-04-03", "speaker": "Hon. Lois M. Wilson", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ate fiat of holders of despotic political power, and that the perpetrators of genocide employ all the resources of present day technology and organization to make their planned massacres systematic and complete. Among other examples of genocide, the document goes on to say, are the Nazi genocidal policy, the Ukrainian pogrom of Jews in 1919, the Tutsi massacres of Hutu in Burundi in 1965 and 1972, the Paraguayan genocide of Ache Indians prior to 1974, and the Khymer Rouge genocide in Kampuchea between 1975 and 1978. It would seem pedantic to argue that some terrible mass killings are not legalistically genocide, and just a \"tragedy.\" At least 1 m …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/024db_2001-04-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/024db_2001-04-03-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage cites historical examples of genocides including the Ukrainian pogrom of Jews in 1919, presenting these as documented instances without commentary on or judgment of the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1106", "year": 2016, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2016-03-24", "speaker": "Hon. David Tkachuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… volvement. For as long as Iran continues to act as a state sponsor of terror, Canada should continue to list Iran as such and to maintain current sanctions against the regime. Finally, genocide. Let me quote former Liberal MP and Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, an authority on the subject of Iranian state-sanctioned incitement to genocide. He notes the Supreme Court of Canada's finding that: The genocidal horrors of the Holocaust were made possible by the deliberate incitement of hatred against the Jewish people and other minorities. He continues: State Parties to the Genocide Convention already understood this in 1948, in the wake of the Holocaust, such that the Convention prohibits the crime of \"Direct and public incitement to commit genocide.\" Incitement itself is the crime — whether or not genocide follows. The objective is to prevent genocides before they occur, by sounding the alarm on the type of state-sanctioned incendiary incitement that has in the past led us down the path to tragedy and atrocity. The Iranian regime's criminal incitement has been persistent, pervasive and pernicious. The 21st century begins with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling for \"the annihilation of the Jewish State.\" It was followed by the parading in the streets of Tehran of a Shihab-3 missile draped in the emblem \"Wipe Israel off the map, as the Imam says.\" It has continued with the use of . . . metaphors referring to Jews as \"filthy bacteria,\" and Israel as \"a cancer that must be removed,\" reminiscent of the Nazis calli …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/024db_2016-03-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/024db_2016-03-24-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker directly attributes hostile statements and incitement to the Iranian regime and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, naming them as responsible for state-sanctioned incitement against Jews and calls for annihilation of the Jewish State."}, {"id": "senate-1107", "year": 2025, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-10-21", "speaker": "Hon. Tony Dean", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… nd drive out Palestinian farmers and their families, killing many in the process. Against this devastating backdrop, Senator Woo is asking us what we can do about this. (1710) The first is to inform ourselves. The second is to speak out, as I am doing today, which I do not find easy, given the collateral damage to our Jewish friends here in Canada and around the world. The second is to speak out against harassment and violence against Jews. It is repulsive that schools and synagogues across this country have been attacked and damaged. It is repulsive that our Jewish friends and colleagues feel intimidated and threatened, and every effort must be made to respond to this. Third, I note the findings of the International Court of Justice that Israel has violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. To this, we add efforts such as Senator Woo’s motion, the goal of which is to ensure that our gover …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/025db_2025-10-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/025db_2025-10-21-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "israel", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states harassment and violence against Jews is 'repulsive' and calls for efforts to respond to attacks on schools and synagogues, without naming specific perpetrators as responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1108", "year": 2009, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2009-04-22", "speaker": "Hon. David Tkachuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ership in boycotting the United Nations' so-called world conference against racism was validated by the despicable remarks of the conference's opening speaker, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Prime Minister Harper predicted, the Iranian president disgraced himself and the United Nations with a tirade against Jewish people and the state of Israel. The fact that such an infamous and unapologetic bigot was chosen to kick off a conference that is ostensibly against racism is more than ironic. It is a damning statement about the failure of the United Nations as an organization to stand against the most dangerous and offensive forms of racism. In January 2008, Canada became the first country in the world to announce that it would not attend Monday's conference. Many other nations followe …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/027db_2009-04-22-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/027db_2009-04-22-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "israel", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker identifies Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as responsible for hostile remarks 'against Jewish people and the state of Israel,' calling them 'despicable' and describing him as 'an infamous and unapologetic bigot.'"}, {"id": "senate-1109", "year": 2016, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2016-04-14", "speaker": "Hon. Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… t's all scripted with victims it's vicious Give us your victims then call us the killers You play the system to make us the villains How can you kill a man and call it religious Mothers, children Burnt down buildings More afraid of dying Than they're thankful for living You've killed Muslims without any affliction You attacked Paris with no inhibitions So swing swords and try to break our convictions Call yourself Muslim, or Jewish, or Christian But don't think we're foolish enough that we'll listen When we lost lives, you lost religion You can twist words and quote the Quran But I know for damn sure this is not Islam So the next time you go on and mention a God Pray for forgiveness and pray we move on They are not me Please believe I live with …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/027db_2016-04-14-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/027db_2016-04-14-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes or cites a song/poem that addresses conflict and religious identity without the speaker taking a clear position on hostility toward Jews specifically. The passage presents accusations and arguments without the speaker themselves condemning, naming blame, or disputing claims about antisemitism."}, {"id": "senate-1110", "year": 2020, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2020-06-25", "speaker": "Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Maru , a boat carrying 376 prospective immigrants from India, was prohibited from making port in Vancouver in May 1914, only because the passengers were Sikh. People of Ukrainian descent were designated as enemy aliens during the First World War and were interned in camps. The MS St. Louis , a ship carrying 907 German Jewish refugees that arrived in Canadian waters in 1939, after being denied entry into Cuba and the United States, was also denied entry into Canada. The ship returned to Europe, where at least 255 of its passengers later died in the Holocaust. There was the internment, relocation, property confiscation and deportation of Japanese and Italian Canadians between 1939 and 1945. As for our Indigenous populations, we should note that the Indian Act was only changed in 1960 to allow First Nations people to vote in federal elections without losing their legal Indi …", "… shouting racist remarks and spitting on individuals of Asian descent on the street. The Vancouver police department noted a 600% increase in reported hate crimes targeting the Asian community. There is no place for this kind of intolerance in Canada. According to a Canadian Press article, the number of police-reported hate crimes reached an all-time high in 2017, largely driven by incidents targeting Muslim, Jewish and black people. Statistics Canada indicates that hate crimes have been steadily climbing since 2014 but increased by an alarming 47% in 2017. The latest data show that the numbers have remained elevated. In the same article, it is noted that 2,073 hate crimes were reported this 2017, and this number only reflects reported crimes. How many more hate crimes have occurred without …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/431/debates/027db_2020-06-25-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/431/debates/027db_2020-06-25-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical and contemporary incidents of discrimination and hate crimes, including the MS St. Louis denial of entry to Jewish refugees and statistics on hate crimes targeting Jewish people, without explicitly condemning or assigning responsibility to specific actors."}, {"id": "senate-1111", "year": 1997, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1997-12-10", "speaker": "Hon. Donald H. Oliver", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ly two weeks ago, we were again reminded of the ugly outburst of former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who, as honourable senators will recall, in the aftermath of the Quebec referendum in October 1995, blamed \"ethnics\" for the defeat of the referendum. In Calgary a few weeks ago, Mr. Parizeau again lit the torch of hatred by defining those ethnics, namely Italians, Jews and Greeks. With this type of insensitivity coming from our political leaders, we do indeed have a long way to go in Canada. Honourable senators, I should like to conclude this statement by calling upon all senators to help equalize the opportunities for all Canadians - to help ensure our human rights are protected - …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/029db_1997-12-10-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/029db_1997-12-10-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly identifies Jacques Parizeau as responsible for hostile acts toward Jews, stating he 'lit the torch of hatred by defining those ethnics, namely Italians, Jews and Greeks' and characterizes his statements as 'insensitivity' from a political leader."}, {"id": "senate-1112", "year": 2005, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2005-02-01", "speaker": "Senator St. Germain", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator St. Germain: The statement was widely reported in newspapers. If the honourable senator has not seen it, I am sure he will do whatever research is required. Numerous churches, including the Catholic Church, the Jewish Orthodox Church and various others, feel that their institutions and the freedom of their religion is clearly under attack. I will continue this line of questioning tomorrow, if I may. The Environment Kyoto Protocol Commitments—Cost Analysis"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/029db_2005-02-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/029db_2005-02-01-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The senator describes that churches feel their institutions and religious freedom are under attack, but does not condemn the hostility, name responsible parties, blame enablers, or dispute the characterization. The statement simply reports what various churches believe."}, {"id": "senate-1113", "year": 2021, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2021-03-26", "speaker": "Hon. Paula Simons", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… imons: Honourable senators, why is this week different from all other weeks? The Jewish holiday of Passover begins tomorrow evening at sundown. It is a festival of freedom, hope and promised new beginnings. It is a holiday where families gather together to sing songs and tell stories of the deliverance of the enslaved Jews from bondage and persecution. Last year my family, like many, celebrated our Passover Seder dinner via Zoom. The Seder storybook, the Haggadah, recounts with grim detail the plagues that God brought down to help convince Pharaoh to let the Jewish people go. As we faced our first COVID Passover, the recitation of those plagues — the boils, the fro …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/033db_2021-03-26-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/033db_2021-03-26-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Passover traditions and historical Jewish experiences (deliverance from bondage and persecution) in a factual, commemorative manner without addressing any contemporary hostility toward Jews or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "senate-1114", "year": 2025, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-11-19", "speaker": "Hon. Kristopher Wells", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Kristopher Wells: Minister, as of 2024, the most recent data we have from Statistics Canada indicates that the number of police-reported hate crimes has increased six years in a row, up an exponential 169% since 2018. Sadly, hate appears to be on the rise in Canada. Among the most frequent victims of police-reported hate crimes are members of the Jewish, Black and 2SLGBTQI+ communities. Hate crimes are message crimes. They say to every member of a community that they are at risk of violence and victimization. Over the course of the last two parliaments, the government has attempted to take action to address this disturbing trend through legislation designed to strengthen Canada’s hate-crime laws. Minister, with the introduction of Bill C-9, we are close to finally having the urgently needed tools to comb …", "… Canada Opportunities Agency: Certainly. The short answer to your question is yes, we are committed to working across party lines and with participants in Parliament and both chambers to advance these important laws. Specifically, you pointed out there were different groups who were disproportionately being targeted by hate crimes in this country. You mentioned the Jewish community, the LGBTQ2IA+ community and the Black community. This bill started out as a campaign commitment that was targeting hate directed toward religious communities. Very quickly, when we started to engage, we realized that hate is not limited to the doorsteps of our religious institutions. For that reason, as a result of that feedback, we decided to include a stand-alone crime of hate that would layer on top of all other crimes that are moti …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/035db_2025-11-19-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/035db_2025-11-19-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes statistics on hate crimes and mentions that Jewish communities are among the most frequent victims, but does not condemn the hostility, name specific perpetrators, blame anyone for inaction, or dispute the characterization. The focus is on reporting data and legislative responses."}, {"id": "senate-1115", "year": 1998, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1998-02-10", "speaker": "Senator Grafstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… mitment to his ideas and his integrity that he named a township in Northern Ontario after him. J.B. held the seat for the St. Andrew's riding until 1955, when he lost in one of the most bitter electoral campaigns in Canada. At the height of the Cold War, J.B. was accused of complacency if not complicity towards Soviet persecution of Jews in Russia. When rumour about purges and prosecutions emanated from Stalin's Soviet Russia, J.B. remained mute, neither opposing nor defending the horrendous stories seeping out from behind the Iron Curtain. J.B. was a true believer. After he lost the provincial election, he travelled to Moscow in 1956 to learn firstha …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/036db_1998-02-10-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/036db_1998-02-10-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes J.B. for remaining 'mute' and not opposing Soviet persecution of Jews, implying he failed to respond adequately to hostility toward Jews rather than being responsible for causing it."}, {"id": "senate-1116", "year": 2000, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2000-03-21", "speaker": "Hon. Vivienne Poy", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… oor and fatherless at age seven, he managed to graduate magna cum laude with a Doctorate in Political Economics from the University of Munich. He then entered into the Foreign Service of the Chinese Republic and was posted to Vienna in 1937. After the Third Reich's annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938, thousands of Jews swamped Vienna's foreign consulates, desperately seeking visas that would enable them to flee persecution. Many consulates, including Canada's, carried out discriminatory policies and did not grant visas to Jewish refugees. Consul General Ho, however, issued visas to Shanghai for any and all who asked. Shanghai was then under Japanese occupation, and visas were not required for entry. However, a visa, as proof of emigration, was necessary to leave Austria. The Nationalist Chinese government, which had diplomatic relations with …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/036db_2000-03-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/036db_2000-03-21-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes discriminatory visa policies against Jewish refugees without taking a position on them or assigning blame to specific parties for the discrimination itself."}, {"id": "senate-1117", "year": 2010, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2010-06-15", "speaker": "Hon. Donald H. Oliver", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s-burning incident on the property of a Black family in Nova Scotia. As the cross burned, the family was further threatened with screams of race hatred — \"Die, nigger, die.\" Senators may also remember a confrontation between anti-racism demonstrators and a white supremacist, neo-Nazi group at a rally organized by Anti-Racist Action in Calgary last March. The rally coincided with the UN-sponsored International Day to Eliminate Racial Discrimination. Historically, Jews, Blacks and Catholics have been the principal targets of such hatred. Today, Muslims are also a common target. Only yesterday, Statistics Canada published its latest findings on police-reported hate crimes in Canada. The results are disconcerting. Hate-motivated crimes rose 35 per cent between 2007 and 2008. Blacks are the most commonly targeted racial group. Almost four in ten hate crimes motivated by race are committed against Blacks. This is up 30 per cent from 2007. Jews are still the principal religious group targeted. There were 165 hate crimes targeting members of the Jewish faith in 2008, up 42 per cent. Catholics and Muslims are targets in more than 20 per cent of these crimes. Honourable senators, the questions these facts beg are: What can be done to reduce the rising number of hate crimes in Canada? Why are Blacks the most commonly targeted racial group? Why are members of certain religious faiths, such as Jews, Catholics and Muslims, targeted more than others? These questions need answers. In my view, the Senate is a good place to launch such a dialogue. We should have a thorough debate on racism, diversity and pluralism in Canada. This is why, honourable senators, I intend to begin an inquiry on pluralism and diversity in …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/038db_2010-06-15-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/038db_2010-06-15-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes hate crime statistics against Jews (165 crimes, 42% increase) and frames this as part of a broader pattern requiring dialogue and inquiry, without condemning specific actors or hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1118", "year": 2021, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2021-05-25", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Linda Frum: Honourable senators, in the past days, Canadian cities have seen an unprecedented surge of assaults and attacks upon Jewish Canadians. Our elected leaders may say there is no place for hate of any kind in Canada, but, of course, that’s not true. For people who hate Jews, there’s most certainly a place in Canada. It’s a large place, a growing place and an increasingly comfortable and respectable place. Those who inhabit that comfortable and respectable place might not deface a synagogue themselves or throw a brick at a school, but they create permission for those who do commit those overt acts of hatred. They teach our fellow citizens to think it is perhaps excessive to throw a brick, but those Jews, they brought it on themselves. They deserve it. The real victim is the brick thrower. I want to talk today about one of those teachers. It is, unfortunately, a taxpayer-funded broadcaster, Radio-Canada. In recent weeks, one reporter at Radio-Canada has embarked on a campaign against a former ambassador of this countr …", "… ny of the most inflammatory social media posts about this were issued from the accounts of the reporter’s colleagues and friends, not the reporter herself. So this is not about a single individual. This is a story about a habit of mind. Professional news organizations usually have standards to prevent this kind of sly defamation. Public broadcasters might be expected to be more professional than most, but when the topic is Jews, Radio-Canada is less professional than any. It’s not a new problem, and it’s not one person’s failure. It is a deep cultural malformation that starts with ancient paranoid fantasies and culminates in violence on the streets of Montreal. Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/040db_2021-05-25-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/040db_2021-05-25-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "Specifically names Radio-Canada as responsible for creating a 'habit of mind' and 'deep cultural malformation' that enables hostility toward Jews, directly attributing organizational responsibility for the problem."}, {"id": "senate-1119", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-03-20", "speaker": "Hon. David Tkachuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. David Tkachuk: Honourable senators, Ernst Zundel is attempting to claim asylum in this country as a political refugee. He is well known as a Holocaust denier and a hate monger, and last year the Canadian Human Rights Commission ruled that he has incited hatred against Jews. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service previously assessed him as being a security risk in our country. Mr. Zundel is a citizen of Germany, where he is wanted on hate crime charges. Mr. Zundel was returned to our country by U.S. authorities on February 19 and is still here. The Canadian Jewish Congress has said that he is making a farce of our refugee process, which is absolutely right. Through the use of a national security certificate, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre has the discretionary power to dismiss any refugee claim involving people deemed a security risk. This power to remove Mr …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/042db_2003-03-20-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/042db_2003-03-20-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "immigration", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names Ernst Zundel as responsible for inciting hatred against Jews, citing a Canadian Human Rights Commission ruling to this effect, and describes him as a Holocaust denier and hate monger."}, {"id": "senate-1120", "year": 2016, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2016-06-07", "speaker": "Hon. Judith G. Seidman", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… rs in the patient's physical and psychosocial well-being. To complement this Jewish heritage, the hospital has always welcomed patients and staff of all religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In fact, the JGH was among the earliest public health care institutions in Quebec to officially adopt a non-sectarian, non-discriminatory policy. (1420) Initially, the hospital served the many immigrant Jewish families who settled nearby in the first half of the 20th century. Over the coming decades, through new waves of immigration, the hospital has continued to safeguard the health and well-being of a multitude of newcomers. It has been estimated that more than half of all immigrants who come to Montreal from other countr …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/044db_2016-06-07-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/044db_2016-06-07-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes the hospital's historical context and policies regarding non-discrimination and welcoming diverse populations, without describing, condemning, or addressing any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1121", "year": 1996, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1996-11-05", "speaker": "Hon. Jacques Hébert", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ast war, as students at the Collège Sainte-Marie, we were under pressure from some of our Jesuit teachers, to whom the war that was yet to come was just another example of British imperialism, hence justifying demonstrations against conscription. This was the kind of demonstration attended by Jean-Louis Roux and not a racist demonstration as claimed by the members of the Bloc and certain journalists. A few hotheads may have broken the windows of shops owned by Jewish and other merchants, but Jean-Louis Roux was not among them. We read Le Devoir , which told us that Pétain was the man of the hour and De Gaulle a miserable rebel and a traitor. To Le Devoir , even the Nazi concentration camps were a product of Allied propaganda. We were innocent teenagers who had no way of hearing an …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/049db_1996-11-05-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/049db_1996-11-05-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes incidents of vandalism against Jewish merchants' shops during a demonstration without taking a position on whether it was hostile toward Jews or condemning it; presents it as factual context for defending Jean-Louis Roux's participation."}, {"id": "senate-1122", "year": 2021, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2021-06-15", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… e Liberal caucus share her maligned views on Israel and that they also consider Israel an apartheid state. Then, yesterday, she reversed herself and issued a statement that was more in line with the one she had rejected from the Green Party, which had prompted her to leave in the first place. Senator Gold, Ms. Atwin’s hateful views toward our ally and the world’s only Jewish state were well known by Minister LeBlanc when he began courting her to join the Liberal government. Given this, why was she welcomed into the government that you represent?"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/049db_2021-06-15-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/049db_2021-06-15-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker directly states that Ms. Atwin holds 'hateful views toward our ally and the world's only Jewish state' and accuses Minister LeBlanc of knowingly welcoming her into government despite these views. This assigns responsibility to named individuals for enabling or accepting hostility toward Israel/Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1123", "year": 1998, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1998-04-01", "speaker": "Hon. Gérald-A. Beaudoin", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice. His reputation was both national and international. [ Translation ] He played a lead role in numerous academic, professional, and legal activities. He left his mark on the Canadian Bar Association, the International Commission of Jurists, and the Royal Commission on Hate Propaganda, which he chaired. The many high honours awarded to him, while too numerous to list, include the Samuel Bronfman Medal for service to the Jewish community, and the John Read Medal for his work within the Canadian Council on International Law. [ English ] Last year, in August, a colloquium on the \"Federalism of Tomorrow\" was held at the University of Ottawa. The proceedings of that colloquium will be published in June. I wish to say that Maxwell Cohen was in go …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/052db_1998-04-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/052db_1998-04-01-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes Maxwell Cohen's career, honors, and involvement with various organizations including work related to hate propaganda and service to the Jewish community, but does not take a position on any hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1124", "year": 2016, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2016-06-17", "speaker": "Hon. Serge Joyal", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… stand for minorities, honourable senators, look at the way the demography of this country is evolving. Who sits in the seat of former Senator James Kerr in this chamber? Who sits in the seat of Cairine Wilson? It is you, Senator Frum, who sits in the seat of Cairine Wilson. You defend the minority that is still being persecuted, and we know how. We are supposedly at war against the Islamic State, and they focus essentially, as we know, on the Jewish people. We are a country of minorities. Look at us individually where we come from, and there will be more diversity in the years to come. If there is no chamber of Parliament in this Canada — not a democracy, a parliamentary democracy; there is a difference between the two. It means that the elected majority cannot d …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/052db_2016-06-17-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/052db_2016-06-17-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes persecution of Jewish people and mentions that ISIS focuses on Jewish people, but does not condemn this hostility, name specific perpetrators, blame anyone for enabling it, or dispute its existence."}, {"id": "senate-1125", "year": 2016, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2016-06-21", "speaker": "Hon. Ratna Omidvar", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… a before the word \"refugee\" ever became part of our legal and policy lexicon. The first movement, in fact, came from the U.S., the free slaves from the South who found a haven, albeit a harsh one, in Canada through the Underground Railroad. They were followed by others such as the Poles and the Ukrainians who fled the pogroms of the Soviet Union; the Irish, who fled the potato famine, hunger and disease; followed then by the Jews after the Second World War, when we eventually opened our doors to them after initially saying that even none were too many; followed then by the Hungarians and the Czechs; then the Chileans fleeing from the fall of Allende, and the Ismailis from Uganda, who fled the madness of Idi Amin. And although we don't tend to …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/054db_2016-06-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/054db_2016-06-21-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes Canada's historical acceptance of Jewish refugees after WWII, noting initial restrictive immigration policies ('even none were too many'), but presents this as historical narrative without condemning or blaming anyone for the past policy."}, {"id": "senate-1126", "year": 2008, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2008-05-01", "speaker": "Hon. Yoine Goldstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Yoine Goldstein: Honourable senators, today, May 1, marks Holocaust Memorial Day, commemorating the wilful, diabolically planned and systematically planned extermination in a most unimaginably brutal way of an entire people — the Jewish people — before and during the Second World War. This extermination was not a by-product of a civil war or an insurrection. It was a planned, intended hate-motivated campaign against Jews solely because they were Jews. I lost nine cousins, a number of aunts and uncles and a grandmother in the Holocaust. I went to Ukraine some years ago and discovered that my relatives had been killed there together with thousands of others in the small village of Mincovici in Kamenetz-Podolsk. They were killed in one of two ways. The first way was for the Nazi soldiers to play a game to see how many people they could kill with one b …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/055db_2008-05-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/055db_2008-05-01-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes the Holocaust as a 'planned, intended hate-motivated campaign against Jews solely because they were Jews' and characterizes it as 'wilfully' and 'diabolically planned' extermination, expressing strong moral objection without naming specific current individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1127", "year": 2026, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2026-03-12", "speaker": "Hon. Pierre Moreau (Government Representative in the Senate)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… up to $10 million to be provided to eligible organizations through the Canada Community Security Program. This investment will assist Jewish communities in enhancing the security of their gathering spaces, including schools, daycares, overnight camps and places of worship. As I mentioned yesterday, any hate-motivated violence, like what we saw in Toronto over the last week, is unacceptable and will not be tolerated anywhere in Canada. The government is working directly with Jewish community organizations to identify and support the specific needs in those communities as far as security is concerned. Combatting Hate"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/058db_2026-03-12-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/058db_2026-03-12-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "funding", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker states that hate-motivated violence against Jews is 'unacceptable and will not be tolerated' and announces government funding to support security for Jewish communities."}, {"id": "senate-1128", "year": 2026, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2026-03-12", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Cardozo", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Andrew Cardozo: Thank you, senator. In a supplementary question, I would like to ask you to update us on a couple of other items with regard to combatting hate faced by Jewish and other communities. One is the status of Bill C-9, the combatting hate act, and the other is the status of the Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, which will report to the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, as was announced a few weeks ago."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/058db_2026-03-12-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/058db_2026-03-12-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes hate faced by Jewish communities and asks for updates on legislative and advisory measures to combat it, without condemning, naming, blaming, or disputing any specific instance of hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1129", "year": 1996, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1996-12-12", "speaker": "Senator De Bané", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… dian policy. Finally, honourable senators, I should like to deal with an argument that was put before us at the committee. The argument was that the Arabs, and particularly the Palestinians, have not voiced objections to the bill. (1640) To that argument, I would say the following: If there is one people who have been persecuted for the last 20 centuries, particularly in the West, it is the Jewish people. If they were apprehensive for many centuries to voice, forcefully, their grievances about their discrimination and to ask for equal rights, should one construe that to mean they were not discriminated against? If they were discriminated against in all walks of life for years in Canada and they did not, as they do today, voice their apprehension, should someone construe from that that they were not the victims of discrimination …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/061db_1996-12-12-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/061db_1996-12-12-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to the argument that lack of Palestinian objection means no discrimination exists, by drawing a parallel to historical Jewish persecution and discrimination. The speaker is condemning discrimination against Jews without naming any specific responsible party."}, {"id": "senate-1130", "year": 1998, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1998-05-26", "speaker": "Hon. Mira Spivak", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… enough. However, they also recognized the great value of the text - and that is my own view - as a history lesson, and as a moral lesson. In less than 14 pages, the Vatican statement recounts this century's unspeakable tragedy. It asks all Christians throughout the world to meditate on the catastrophe which befell the Jewish people, and the moral imperative to ensure that never again will selfishness and hatred grow to the point of sowing such suffering and death. It acknowledges that the failure of some Christians to resist the Holocaust may have been linked to centuries of anti-Jewish attitudes in the church. Also very valuable was Pope John Paul II's brief letter accompanying the statement. He called the Holocaust an \"indelible stain on the history of the century that is coming to a close\" and \"an unspeakable tragedy, which can never be forgotten.\" …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/063db_1998-05-26-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/063db_1998-05-26-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Vatican statement's acknowledgment of historical anti-Jewish attitudes and the Holocaust without personally condemning or naming specific responsible parties; instead, summarizing what the Vatican document itself states about these matters."}, {"id": "senate-1131", "year": 2009, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2009-10-27", "speaker": "Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… d for which I commend her? I have spoken to her and other relatives of Canadian victims who suffered in 9/11. It is curious to me that people do not understand, based on the new conspiracy theories, that somehow this really did not happen; that the Americans did this. It is important to put on the record that Muslims, Jews, Christians, Catholics, Buddhists and practically every religion were involved in 9/11. A list would point out that these terrorist acts were indiscriminate against innocent people of all races and creeds."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/063db_2009-10-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/063db_2009-10-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to conspiracy theories that falsely blame Americans/Jews for 9/11, asserting that victims of all religions including Jews were involved, thus rejecting the hostility/prejudice implied by such theories."}, {"id": "senate-1132", "year": 2012, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2012-03-27", "speaker": "Hon. Donald H. Oliver", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Donald H. Oliver: Honourable senators, March 21 was the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Each year on this day, citizens of the world are reminded of their obligation to combat racism. I rise today to speak about several groups of Canadians who are in need of our special interest. I refer specifically to visible minorities, Jewish, and Aboriginal peoples across Canada who continue to face discrimination. This year's theme was \"Racism and Conflict.'' The United Nations believes that \"in many parts of the world, racism, prejudice and xenophobia create extreme tension and are used as powerful weapons to engender fear or hatred.'' I think, for instance, of the senseless killings that took place in France this month, where a self-proclaimed al Qaeda op …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/063db_2012-03-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/063db_2012-03-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Senator Oliver objects to discrimination faced by Jewish peoples and references racism, prejudice, and xenophobia as problems to combat, without naming specific parties responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1133", "year": 2026, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2026-04-21", "speaker": "Hon. Gary Anandasangaree, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Safety", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ry Anandasangaree, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Safety: Thank you, senator, for that very important question. I have not read the report. However, I will say that my engagement with the Jewish community across Canada over the last 11 months has given me a great deal of understanding of the current realities faced by Jewish Canadians, which is a great deal of fear, a sense of intimidation and a sense that they are not safe in their own country. My work has been to reassure Jewish communities, and Jewish Canadians across the board, that their safety and security is our first priority. Bill C-9, which is now before the House, addresses the fundamental issues that the community has raised with me, Minister Fraser as well as Secretary of State Sahota. It reflects the need for protection at places of worship and gathering of Jewish communities, and for ensuring that symbols of hate are addressed in a way that will guarantee not just their safety and security but those of all minority groups. In addition to that, you will recall that, about a month ago — in an unprecedented way — I released, as part of our Canada Community Security Program, $10 million to Jewish community networks in both Montrea …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "law", "subject_alt": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Minister acknowledges fear, intimidation, and unsafe conditions faced by Jewish Canadians and states government priority is their safety and security, along with legislative and funding responses to address these concerns."}, {"id": "senate-1134", "year": 2009, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2009-11-04", "speaker": "Hon. Marcel Prud'homme", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… bec, accused me in this chamber on March 31, 2009, and in the Canadian Jewish News on May 14, 2009, of making some false claims in my speech on March 24, 2009, in support of the Treaty on Cluster Munitions, in response to the wonderful speech by my distinguished colleague, Senator Hubley. He even said, in the Canadian Jewish News , from Montreal, which is read by a number of my friends, and I quote: I all but called him a racist. [ English ] He went as far as to say that I was engaging in \"misinformation\" that was a \"figment of someone's overactive imagination.\" [ Translation ] Before I leave, I would like to set the record straight. He accused me in this chamber of \"selective sympathy\" for the victims of the conflict in southern Lebanon in J …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/067db_2009-11-04-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/067db_2009-11-04-e", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS REPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY TASK FORCE", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker is recounting accusations made against them by another senator, quoting what was said in the chamber and press, without taking a position on whether the accusations were justified or condemning the accuser's statements."}, {"id": "senate-1135", "year": 2022, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2022-10-17", "speaker": "Senator Plett", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… to come out with a statement. So I don’t know where I partly provided that answer. Senator Gold, according to an article in the National Post : More than half a million dollars has been paid out by Trudeau-led Canadian governments between 2016 and 2021 to an organization fronted by Laith Marouf, a serial dispenser of hatred towards Jews and Israel, among others. While I understand your government tasked itself with cutting off funding following the scandal of Mr. Marouf’s tweets, the fact is that department heads in your government were involved in approving the programs and funding in question. Leader, this reflects serious shortcomings in your gove …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/069db_2022-10-17-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/069db_2022-10-17-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker names Laith Marouf as 'a serial dispenser of hatred towards Jews' and specifically accuses government department heads of approving funding to an organization fronted by him, attributing responsibility for the payments to the government."}, {"id": "senate-1136", "year": 2022, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2022-10-18", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate): Thank you for your question and for raising an important issue about the vile and unacceptable comments directed against the Jewish community of Canada. The comments from this individual were absolutely appalling, and the government condemns the comments — condemns the racism and hatred that lies behind them — as it does in all forms directed at any of our citizens. The government is grateful to the member of Parliament Anthony Housefather for bringing this to their attention. I’m advised that when this issue was raised, the government immediately asked the Department of Canadian Heritage to confirm …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/070db_2022-10-18-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/070db_2022-10-18-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly uses 'condemns' twice regarding the hostile comments, calling them 'vile and unacceptable' and 'appalling,' without naming a specific person or party as responsible for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1137", "year": 2001, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2001-11-27", "speaker": "Hon. Anne C. Cools", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… intolerance is cowardly. It is an attempt to use faith to mask hatred. I did not really understand if she was talking about Senator Banks or me. I was not too sure, as it made no sense. I will move to the next statement wherein she quoted the words of Reverend Martin Niemoller in 1945 Nazi Germany. It is a very famous quotation, which reads as follows: First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up — because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. The quotation is a very famous one. It continues with this statement which is especially obnoxious. To compare a bill or any senators in this chamber to that state of Nazism or that state of fascism is, quite frankly, ridiculous. Finally, at the end of her statement, she said: Honourable senators, we have an obligation and a duty a …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/073db_2001-11-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/073db_2001-11-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "disputes", "act_why": "The speaker argues that comparing a bill or senators to Nazism/fascism is 'ridiculous' and 'obnoxious,' disputing the characterization of hostility toward Jews being invoked in the comparison."}, {"id": "senate-1138", "year": 2009, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2009-12-01", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… a culture of liberty that is open to the world. It is a culture of justice and equality. My devotion to these Canadian ideals has sharpened my concern for the erosion of personal security and religious liberty that I see on our Canadian university campuses. It is a very strange thing that in this haven for the world's persecuted, it should again be true that young Jewish men and women face the fear of physical attack if they express their identity, not in some rough street after dark, but in the public spaces of our institutions of learning. Sixty years after one attempted extermination of the Jews, some of our universities have offered their facilities to activists who urge a second try. When students at these universities seek p …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/075db_2009-12-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/075db_2009-12-01-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the hostility toward Jewish students on campuses (fear of physical attack, erosion of security and religious liberty) without naming specific individuals or institutions as responsible for creating the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1139", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… prosperity — the ILO back in the '30s, NATO in the '40s, OSCD, OSCE and many others. We are joined by our common interest in a peaceful and prosperous continent as a bright beacon to the globe. We should not be deterred when that light flickers or flares from time to time. (1610) On September 11, not only was America attacked, but also Canadians were murdered — 24, and two spouses. Every faith — Christian, Jewish, Muslim and others — shared equality that day. They shared equally murderous treatment. It was an act of ultimate brutality. It was an act against innocence. It jolted and unhinged civil society around the world. Senator Dandurand was an august leader of the Senate after World War I. His majestic portrait adorns our h …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes 9/11 attacks and mentions that people of Jewish faith were among those killed, stating facts about the attack without taking a position on any hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "senate-1140", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Serge Joyal", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… al Code is entitled \"Hate Propaganda.\" Its purpose is to repress hate propaganda against identifiable groups in Canada. Why was that section put into the code? In researching that question, I found that in 1965 a group of Canadian scholars was asked by the then Minister of Justice to study a phenomenon of those days — hate propaganda against Blacks and Jews. At the time, groups promoting hate against Blacks and Jews were multiplying. The report that I have in my hands was put together under the chairmanship of Maxwell Cohen who was then Dean of the Faculty of Law at McGill University. He was an expert who appeared often before the justice committees of both Houses to testify on human rights issues. Our colleague Senator Prud'homm …", "… Blacks and decides to get a group together on a Saturday night, and incites them to go into the streets and attack any Blacks they find and maybe even kill them, that is what we mean by advocating genocide. That is essentially what is prohibited under section 318. Section 318 also protects such identifiable groups as Jews and Aboriginal people. This is a very important section of the Criminal Code because hatred is a feeling that leads to the diminution of value. When you promote hatred against people, you deny their value as human beings, you rob their respect and dignity in our society. It was seen in 1970 as fundamental to the well-being of Canadian society to establish this minimal respect among individuals. What does thi …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical hate propaganda against Jews (1965 phenomenon, Cohen report, Criminal Code section 318) and explains the legal framework created to address it, without condemning or naming any specific actor responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1141", "year": 2026, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2026-06-03", "speaker": "Senator Yussuff", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator Yussuff: The evolution of rights in society comes through struggle and also learning. Six million Jews died in the Second World War. Despite that fact, there are still people who perpetuate the hateful idea that it didn’t happen. I know we must learn. The treatment of Indigenous people in this country is our own responsibility and burden. Is it your hope that, in introducing the amendment, it will help us learn and change our attitudes and behaviours as to how we conduct ourselves and understand the history of this …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Senator describes Holocaust denial as a 'hateful idea' that perpetuates falsehoods, objecting to this form of hostility toward Jews without naming specific responsible parties."}, {"id": "senate-1142", "year": 2009, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2009-12-15", "speaker": "Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… erosity of Canadians who came from coast to coast to coast to demonstrate an act of friendship with the United States when they were in need. I want to commend Senator Wallin for bringing this resolution forward. Twenty-eight innocent Canadians lost their lives during 9/11. Members of every religion, including Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Baha'i, lost their lives. This was an act of indiscriminate terrorism, where innocent people of all faiths lost their lives. I want to support Senator Wallin in this effort and I commend her for bringing this forward."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/083db_2009-12-15-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/083db_2009-12-15-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker mentions that Jewish people were among those who lost lives in 9/11, but is describing the incident itself rather than taking a position on hostility toward Jews. The mention is factual and integrated into a broader statement about victims of all faiths."}, {"id": "senate-1143", "year": 2005, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2005-07-19", "speaker": "Senator Di Nino", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… estion. My guess would be that the process of advancement would be cut off. I suspect that they would probably suffer the consequences of their actions. (1910) We are just beginning to see the effect this legislation — if it is finally passed by this body — will have on a number of areas across this country, including attacks on the church by extreme, homophobic folks on one side of the issue or attacks on other organizations, whether they be Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu. I agree with Senator Kinsella that this issue has raised its ugly head and will probably impact negatively on those who, because of religious beliefs, will not follow the laws of the country as they are written now."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/084db_2005-07-19-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/084db_2005-07-19-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes attacks on Jewish organizations as part of a broader discussion of potential consequences of legislation, without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming specific actors, disputing the characterization, or using coded language."}, {"id": "senate-1144", "year": 2005, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2005-07-19", "speaker": "Senator Milne", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… yone who believes that the gay movement that also supports this legislation is violent has never been to the Gay Pride parade in downtown Toronto. You may argue that the participants are too happy, too over the top, perhaps, too colourful; but violent? I do not think so. Let the record be perfectly clear that the real violence against homosexuals in the 1930s and 1940s came when Hitler attempted to exterminate all homosexuals during his attempted genocide of the Jews, Gypsies and other groups. Make no mistake about it, homosexuals, by and large, are not perpetrators of violence; they have been its victims for centuries. The seventh reason why my support for this bill was bolstered during committee came as a result of the claims of Ms. Gwendolyn Landolt, President of REAL Women Canada. In her testimony, she claimed that, first, there are increased mental health problems within the homosexual …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/084db_2005-07-19-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/084db_2005-07-19-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker references Hitler's genocide of Jews as historical context for discussing violence against homosexuals, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews specifically."}, {"id": "senate-1145", "year": 2022, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2022-11-30", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ted in the region for millennia, contributing enormously to the growth and success of Iran and of Arab nations. In response to the United Nations’ overwhelming vote for Israel’s independence, the Arab states launched a war that they quickly lost, despite overwhelming numerical superiority, and then began a campaign of hate aimed at the Jewish populations within their borders. We should not forget that there were substantial Jewish populations in countries such as Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Syria, and today these communities — for all practical purposes — no longer exist. Where there were hundreds of thousands, today there are almost none. Between 1947 and the mid-1970s, Iran and Arab states fomented violence and discrimination against their Jewish citizens. Many were murdered, and a million became refugees. Israel took in many, but I note that Canada welcomed many of these refugees as well. They have contributed enormously to Canada. The expulsion of Jews from Iran and Arab lands is an enduring refugee crisis that has yet to be resolved. Tens of billions of dol …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/086db_2022-11-30-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/086db_2022-11-30-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "immigration", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states that Iran and Arab states 'fomented violence and discrimination against their Jewish citizens' and launched 'a campaign of hate aimed at the Jewish populations,' directly attributing hostile actions to named entities."}, {"id": "senate-1146", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-10-23", "speaker": "Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein: Honourable senators, as the Leader of the Government is aware, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Mahathir, has made outrageous statements of anti- Semitic rhetoric against Jews and outrageous discriminatory comments against others. We understand that the Prime Minister has chosen not to speak to him about that matter. We will obviously hear from him when he returns, and we have heard from the Leader of the Government in the Senate about the response of the Minister of Foreign Affairs saying that Mr. Mahathir's statement …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/088db_2003-10-23-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/088db_2003-10-23-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker explicitly identifies Mahathir (Prime Minister of Malaysia) as responsible for making 'outrageous statements of anti-Semitic rhetoric against Jews' and 'discriminatory comments.' The speaker directly attributes the hostile statements to a named person and their actions."}, {"id": "senate-1147", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-10-23", "speaker": "Hon. Jack Austin", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… if some other ethnic group were referred to by Prime Minister Mahathir, whether it be the Québecois, the Chinese or some other group, but particularly a minority group, we would be dealing with the same level of sensitivity. There is no question that, as Senator Carstairs has said, those remarks amount to what we call hate propaganda. They identify Jews as a group that is acting contrary to the interests of the international community. There is no such group. We all know that. The problem that Senator Prud'homme is dealing with is moving closer to a clash of civilizations. Mr. Mahathir is encouraging that concept. That concept is not in the interests of the world com …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/088db_2003-10-23-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/088db_2003-10-23-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "Speaker attributes responsibility for hate propaganda to Prime Minister Mahathir, stating 'Mr. Mahathir is encouraging that concept' of a clash of civilizations and characterizing his remarks as hate propaganda that identifies Jews negatively."}, {"id": "senate-1148", "year": 2007, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2007-04-24", "speaker": "Hon. Yoine Goldstein", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… . Yoine Goldstein: Honourable senators, Dr. Arnold Toynbee, a renowned historian, called the Jewish people a fossil of history and predicted their imminent demise. That was a good number of decades ago. He is long gone. We are here. Today marks the fifty-ninth anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, a Jewish homeland for those who wish to be there. Canada, through Lester B. Pearson and many others, played a crucial role in the events leading up to the founding of the Jewish state, and Canada continued its active support of Israel when it was attacked on the day of its independence by all of its Arab neighbours. Canada has continued to play a significant role in the support of Israel throughout its many tribulations. Canada and Israel enjoy a free trade agreement, and institutional cooperation is actively pursued between Canadian and Israeli universities and scient …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/088db_2007-04-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/088db_2007-04-24-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Toynbee's hostile characterization of Jewish people but does so in a historical context to illustrate that such predictions were wrong. The passage reports the statement without condemning it explicitly or naming anyone currently responsible for hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1149", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-10-27", "speaker": "Senator Poulin", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator Poulin: I therefore rise today to sponsor and speak on the bill to establish the Holocaust Memorial Day. [ Translation ] First, honourable senators, what is in this bill? It would establish Holocaust Memorial Day. The preamble to the bill recognizes: That the Holocaust refers to a specific event in history; That six million Jewish men, women and children perished under this policy of hatred and genocide; That millions of others were victims of that policy because of their physical or mental disabilities, race, religion or sexual orientation; That the terrible destruction and pain of the Holocaust must never be forgotten; That systematic violence, genocide, persecution, racism and hatred continue to occur throughout the world; That parliamentarians have a responsibility to protect Canadians and to educate them; That the Day of the Holocaust, as determined in each year by the Jewish lunar calendar, is an opportune day to reflect on and educate about the enduring lessons of the Holocaust and to reaffirm a commitment to uphold human rights. Second, honourable senators, why is a Roman Catholic, francophone woman from northern Ontario rising today to sponsor …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/089db_2003-10-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/089db_2003-10-27-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Senator condemns the Holocaust and hostility toward Jews by sponsoring legislation to establish a memorial day, recognizing the genocide and expressing commitment to ensure it is never forgotten and to protect against future hatred and persecution."}, {"id": "senate-1150", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-11-03", "speaker": "Senator Andreychuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… tors, I have a question for Senator Poulin. I had heard that perhaps there would be an amendment to indicate that the House of Commons and the Senate are committed to using legislation. I will not deal with that one. However, what is the intention of the second paragraph of the preamble? It states: WHEREAS six million Jewish men, women and children perished under this policy of hatred and genocide; The following paragraph states: WHEREAS millions of others were victims of that policy because of their physical or mental disabilities, race, religion or sexual orientation; The first paragraph I quoted talks about perishing, which means dying; it is related to 6 million Jewish men, women and children. …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes and describes the preamble language about the Holocaust and genocide without taking a position on the hostility itself or accusing anyone of it."}, {"id": "senate-1151", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-11-03", "speaker": "Senator Andreychuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator Andreychuk: Given my honourable friend's explanation that millions of others were victims of that policy, why does the second preambular paragraph not say, \"WHEREAS six million Jewish men, women or children perished or were victims under this policy of hatred and genocide\"; and why does the third paragraph not say, \"WHEREAS others perished or were victims\"? [ Translation ]"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Senator questions why a resolution fails to adequately name and distinguish Jewish victims of genocide, implying the document inadequately addresses or responds to antisemitic genocide.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "senate-1152", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-11-03", "speaker": "Senator Andreychuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Senator Andreychuk: I have what is, perhaps, a series of questions. First, whereas 6 million Jewish men, women and children perished under this policy of hatred and genocide, the bill does not refer to Jewish men, women and children who were victims of this policy of hatred and genocide. It simply refers to those who perished. The drafter of this bill and the proponent, the Honourable Senator Poulin, should tell me that the word \"perished\" can include those who died as well as those who suffered physical torture, the emotional and mental consequences of being through it, and the fear and …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/093db_2003-11-03-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "names", "act_why": "Senator Andreychuk identifies a bill and its drafter/proponent (Senator Poulin) as responsible for omitting explicit reference to Jewish victims of genocide, thereby failing to properly acknowledge Jewish suffering."}, {"id": "senate-1153", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-02-07", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Elie Wiesel has said, although not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims. The Holocaust affects all human beings, regardless of religion, colour or creed, because it stands as a symbol of the denial of human rights in its most extreme form. [ English ] How bitterly sad it is, therefore, that just two days after Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, 6 Muslim Quebecers were murdered and 19 others were wounded as they concluded their daily prayers. These acts were an assault on our most fundamental shared values and a rejection of what we stand for as a liberal, democratic and inclusive society. But they are also a reminder — a tragic reminder — that we still have not yet fully learned nor have we fully absorbed the lessons that the Holocaust teaches us. For the Holocaust, like other genocides before it, and sadly and tragically after it, did not happen in a vacuum. It started with the demonization of the Jew as other, the outsider, the threat to the identity and values of the settled majority. It was nurtured by a climate of intolerance and exclusion, a willingness to accept and legitimate hateful words and acts and to defend them in the name of some higher collective good. It was abetted by the silence and acquiescence of otherwise ordinary and good people, who, swayed by the siren song of a populist and racist rhetoric, excused and accepted the slow but steady, systematic erosion of the social and political rights of the Jewish minority in the years preceding the Holocaust. Above all, the Holocaust teaches us — no, it demands of us — that we never be passive or silent in the face of prejudice and intolerance, whether in words or in deeds. The murders in Sainte-Foy were crimes of hate against individual Muslims in their community because of their differences in religious belief and practice, because they were deemed to be the other, the threat to the identity and settled values of the majority. Words are important, but just as words have always failed to do justice to the 6 million Jews and the other victims of the Nazi murder machine, words alone cannot soothe the pain of those who lost loved ones and friends in Sainte-Foy, nor calm the fears of our brothers and sisters of the Muslim faith across this country. And so, as a Canadian, as a Quebecer and as a Jew, I stand here with you in this august ch …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/093db_2017-02-07-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/093db_2017-02-07-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the murders in Sainte-Foy as 'crimes of hate' and 'an assault on our most fundamental shared values,' and emphasizes the lesson that 'we never be passive or silent in the face of prejudice and intolerance.' While drawing parallels to anti-Jewish hatred, the speaker does not name or blame specific individuals or groups for the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1154", "year": 2003, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2003-11-04", "speaker": "Hon. David Tkachuk", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… p requires protection in hate legislation under our Criminal Code. There are those who do not accept the very principle of hate legislation, and there are those who are concerned about the effect of Bill C-250 on freedom of religion and freedom of speech. It is interesting that many of the minority groups protected by hate legislation, Muslims and others, are themselves concerned about the inclusion of the homosexual community in hate legislation under the Criminal Code. Jewish groups, Muslim groups, some Christian groups — themselves minorities — are very vocal in their concern and even, in some cases, their distaste for this bill. Evangelicals, Pentecostals and Catholics join them. At the heart of their argument is the fact that they speak out against the homosexual lifestyle and see it as …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/094db_2003-11-04-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/094db_2003-11-04-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes concerns raised by Jewish groups and others about hate legislation without taking a position on whether hostility toward Jews exists or endorsing/condemning it."}, {"id": "senate-1155", "year": 2012, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2012-06-26", "speaker": "Hon. Art Eggleton", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… people as well. Again, as the Commissioner for Human Rights pointed out that millions of people in Europe are stigmatized and even victims of violence because of their perceived sexual orientation or general identity. They cannot fully enjoy their universal human rights. Honourable senators, this is as it was for many Jews in the Second World War or before the Second World War in Europe and before that, who were greatly persecuted in Europe. It was not always by government entities — certainly by many of them — but certainly starting with a lot of persecution by certain elements of the society. We must be careful not to forget the lessons of history and not to forget these people who might come here in that condition; it may not be a safe count …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/097db_2012-06-26-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/097db_2012-06-26-e", "party": "Liberal", "riding": "York Centre", "province": "ON", "side": "government", "role": "Hon. Art Eggleton (York Centre, Lib.)", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Statements By Members — Toronto Jewish Community", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to persecution and stigmatization of vulnerable groups, drawing a historical parallel to Jewish persecution in Europe to emphasize the serious harm of such discrimination without naming specific current actors as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1156", "year": 2011, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2011-03-24", "speaker": "Hon. Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… light a specific example here. In his October 2008 report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission concerning section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, Professor Richard Moon refers to the 1996 complaint brought against Ernst Zundel, a Canadian resident who oversaw the operation of a U.S.-based website that promoted hatred against Jews. In 1996, section 13 of the Human Rights Act prohibited hate messages that were communicated \"telephonically.\" However, at that time, the term did not specifically apply to the Internet. It was the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, through their work on this matter, that determined that section 13 did in fact apply to the Internet because it operated through the telephone system. …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/098db_2011-03-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/098db_2011-03-24-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes a historical case involving Ernst Zundel and his website promoting hatred against Jews, and explains how a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled on the applicability of section 13 of the Human Rights Act. The speaker presents the facts without taking a position on the hostility itself or evaluating anyone's response to it."}, {"id": "senate-1157", "year": 2012, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2012-06-27", "speaker": "Hon. Doug Finley", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… rather, their apparently noble purpose is to prevent the discrimination of Canadians in employment, residential accommodation and wage situations. Section 13 and its provincial counterparts are well out of line when it comes to meeting the original purpose of these ordinances. Shimon Fogel of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wrote: Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act was created as a shield to protect the most vulnerable members of society from heinous messages of hatred. Historically, it provided an effective tool for Canadians, particularly in the fight against Holocaust denial. Unfortunately, Section 13 and its provincial counterparts have increasingly been used as a sword, brandished to stifle valid criticism and chill legitimate expression. The opportunity for exploitation is too great for these flawed acts to stand without reparation. Anyone can instigate a human rights commission …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/098db_2012-06-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/098db_2012-06-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Shimon Fogel describing how Section 13 was originally created to protect against hatred and Holocaust denial, but now argues it is being misused. The speaker is reporting this critique without directly condemning hostility toward Jews or naming specific instances of such hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1158", "year": 2002, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2002-03-21", "speaker": "Hon. Noël A. Kinsella (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… lahoma City bombing, hate sites have proliferated on the World Wide Web. One organization, the National Alliance, used the Web for its subsidiary, Resistant Records, to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day by launching a video game entitled \"Ethnic Cleansing.\" The goal of that game, hideously, is to kill all non-whites and Jews. This new virtual hatred seeks to attract our youth and create a new generation of hate that will continue practices now deemed repugnant by all but a few. We need to develop software that will filter the hate in cyberspace and keep it from the impressionable young. As honourable senators in this house and as Canadians, we must use the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discr …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/100db_2002-03-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/100db_2002-03-21-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "media", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker specifically identifies the National Alliance and its subsidiary Resistant Records as responsible for creating a video game that targets Jews for virtual killing, explicitly describing their action as hate content."}, {"id": "senate-1159", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-03-01", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s\" that were so created are not simply our bodies — our flesh, our blood, our parts. The \"us\" are also our identities — our minds, our feelings, our spirits, our souls. We all know too well that there are places in this world where it is a crime for Christians to practise their religion, where Christians are vilified, discriminated against and subjected to violence. The same holds true in other parts of the world for Jews, Muslims and other religious minorities. Imagine you were discriminated against in such a way. Would you not feel hurt? Would you not feel aggrieved? Would this not feel hateful to you? Would you not be afraid? Two thousand years ago, a famous religious leader in Jerusalem was asked to summarize the teachings of his religion in one phrase, and this is what he said: That which is hateful u …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/100db_2017-03-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/100db_2017-03-01-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to discrimination and violence against Jews and other religious minorities without naming specific responsible parties, using it as an example of wrongdoing to illustrate a moral principle."}, {"id": "senate-1160", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-03-02", "speaker": "Hon. Betty Unger", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… e state must instead remain neutral in this regard, which means that it must neither favour nor hinder any particular belief and this same holds true for non-belief. The court ruled that the state is obligated to create neither coercion nor exclusion through state endorsement of a religion or a belief. In other words, discrimination against trans persons is prohibited in the same way that discrimination is prohibited against Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists or other beliefs. Each person is free to have their own beliefs and to express them. Furthermore, neither federal nor provincial legislation can mandate others to comply with a belief system in either word or action. The state protects the right to believe but does not endorse or compel belief. (1440) This m …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/101db_2017-03-02-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/101db_2017-03-02-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage cites a court ruling on state neutrality regarding beliefs and discrimination protections. It mentions Jews as one example of groups protected from discrimination, but does not take a position on any actual hostility toward Jews or describe a specific incident of such hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1161", "year": 2002, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2002-04-17", "speaker": "Hon. Yves Morin", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Honourable senators, this year, let us mark World Health Day by encouraging a young person to join us for a walk, a soccer game or a bike ride. Not only will this be good for your own health, it will also do a great service to these young people, who will surely benefit from it for the rest of their lives. [ English ] VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/105db_2002-04-17-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/105db_2002-04-17-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage simply introduces a topic heading 'VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS' without describing any incident, taking a position on hostility, or assigning responsibility. It appears to be a transition or section marker in the Hansard record."}, {"id": "senate-1162", "year": 2002, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2002-04-17", "speaker": "Senator Joyal", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… on session with 58 amendments to the original draft of the Charter, including amendments recognizing the treaty rights of the Aboriginal people and the Metis, and the equality of status of men and women over and above everything in our country. The amendments recognized fundamentally all those minorities that had been excluded in our history. The Jewish people who had been barred from immigrating to Canada during the last world war were recognized. The descendants of the 20,000 Japanese people — 75 per cent of whom were born in Canada — who were interned in the concentration camps during the last world war, were recognized. Those Canadians came to tell us that if we …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/105db_2002-04-17-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/105db_2002-04-17-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical discrimination against Jewish people (immigration bars during WWII) and other groups as part of explaining what the Charter amendments recognized, without condemning, naming specific perpetrators, blaming current actors, or disputing the characterization."}, {"id": "senate-1163", "year": 2002, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2002-04-18", "speaker": "Hon. Marcel Prud'homme", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Israel continues to occupy the territories. The Beirut Summit, which endorsed the Saudi initiative, extended a hand to Israel, so that this region could finally enjoy peace, serenity and the return of the occupied territories, in exchange for full normalization of relations. What does the population want? [ English ] VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/106db_2002-04-18-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/106db_2002-04-18-e", "party": "Liberal", "riding": null, "province": null, "side": "government", "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "GOVERNMENT ORDERS — NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS REPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY TASK FORCE", "subject": "israel", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes violence against Jews as a statement of fact about what the population wants, without condemning, naming perpetrators, blaming enablers, disputing the characterization, or using coded language."}, {"id": "senate-1164", "year": 2023, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2023-04-18", "speaker": "Hon. Paula Simons", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… duty to oversee the government and hold it to account, to protect the Constitution and the Charter, to stand always as a bulwark against majoritarian tyranny and to stand up for the rights of Canadians even, and particularly, when that’s unpopular. It’s especially important to remember that today, on Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust day of remembrance, when we remember the 6 million Jews who died because of hatred run amok and remember, too, the thousands of homosexuals persecuted, imprisoned and murdered by the hate-curdled Nazi regime. On this silver anniversary, I want to thank all the remarkable Edmontonians who fought so hard, so courageously and so successfully for equality and justice for all Canadians. But I also want to ask us in this chamber to do all we can to ensure that the government lives up to the promises of its o …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/112db_2023-04-18-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/112db_2023-04-18-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker references historical hatred that led to the Holocaust and emphasizes the importance of standing against majoritarian tyranny and protecting rights, implicitly condemning such hostility without naming specific current actors responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1165", "year": 2023, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2023-04-27", "speaker": "Hon. Ratna Omidvar", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… eating significant regional instability. Iran is not a bystander in the world but has — again, I am sorry, colleagues — the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a bystander in the world. It has committed terrorist activities around it. As pointed out by Marcus Kolga, the IRGC: . . . has been implicated in embassy bombings, attacks on Jewish people, atrocities against Syrians, and the mass murder of Iranian protesters. It is also responsible for the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, killing all 176 crew and passengers, including 55 Canadian citizens . . . . I should also note that Canadian lives are at risk. The CBC has reported that …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/117db_2023-04-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/117db_2023-04-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "subject_alt": "politics", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker cites Marcus Kolga's characterization of IRGC activities, which includes 'attacks on Jewish people' among other alleged terrorist acts. The speaker presents this as reported information rather than condemning it directly, naming IRGC as responsible, or taking an evaluative stance on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1166", "year": 2002, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2002-06-06", "speaker": "Hon. Consiglio Di Nino", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Consiglio Di Nino: Honourable senators, last evening, the first Simon Wiesenthal Award for Tolerance, Justice and Human Rights was given to a truly remarkable Canadian. Her name is Judy Feld Carr. She was honoured for her dedication and commitment to the cause of Syria's Jewish community. Since the creation of Israel in 1948, Syrian Jews have faced a continuous campaign of persecution and intimidation. Unfortunately, the world has taken little notice of this ongoing tragedy. However, Judy Feld Carr did and 30 years ago she decided to do something about it. Last night, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, an overflowing crowd sat and listened in awe to the incredible story of this courageous, brave and caring woman. …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/121db_2002-06-06-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/121db_2002-06-06-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "topic": "", "subject": "community", "subject_alt": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the persecution and intimidation faced by Syrian Jews since 1948 and Judy Feld Carr's efforts to address it, without condemning any specific actor or taking a position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1167", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-05-16", "speaker": "Hon. Linda Frum", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ng down that sense of suspicion and hostility that is born from a sense of ignorance about other faith communities. In her question to Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B'Nai Brith, Senator Bernard made the observation that, while cultural months, such as Black History Month, which was established in 1995, may seek to reduce prejudice and enhance mutual understanding, it's not clear that they always succeed in that mission. Mr. Mostyn agreed that in order for Canadian Jewish heritage month to be successful, it cannot be an insular celebration, a Jewish community celebration only for the Jewish community. He said: . . . there's no point in any community holding a celebration for itself. He went on to say: We are all part of Canada, and the essence of any heritage day has to be how we commu …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/121db_2017-05-16-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/121db_2017-05-16-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Senator, Ontario, C", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "Canadian Heritage", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes Senator Bernard's observation and Mr. Mostyn's response about heritage months and community celebration, without taking a position on hostility toward Jews or assigning responsibility for it."}, {"id": "senate-1168", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-05-16", "speaker": "Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ure. By creating Canadian Jewish heritage month we can shine a light on the culture and faith through activities and celebrations as unique as the communities where they will occur. We will celebrate and learn from each other and, in doing so, affirm the pluralist nature of Canadian society. When we celebrate Canadian Jewish heritage month, we will also recognize the bravery of a people who historically have faced hate and persecution but proudly and strongly prevailed. As Canadians hear these stories, perhaps they will see parts of themselves reflected. Through my previous work with Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, I was able to recognize my parents' story, though they were neither Ukrainian nor Jewish. As Mennonites, they fled their home in southern U …", "… of freedom and opportunity in Canada, just as their Jewish and Ukrainian neighbours did. Canadian Jewish heritage month will also be an opportunity to find inspiration in a faith and culture that is intrinsically expressed through a commitment to social justice and human rights. Protecting minorities and people facing discrimination, taking responsibility for the \"other,\" is an essential part of Jewish culture and faith. We have only to look at how Canada's Jewish community has mobilized to help and sponsor Syrian refugees coming to Canada to see a recent example of this ethos of caring and inclusion in action. Honourable senators, in Canada, we celebrate the diversity of our faith communities. With Canadian Jewish heritage month, we will chip away at the hostility, ignorance and intolerance to the benefit of all faith groups and those without practising faith. We will affirm the strength of pluralism as we showcase all that the Jewish people have given to Canada. By extension, we will tell all people, from all faith communities, those well- and less-well established, that Canada has a place for all of us, a place where we can celebrate, honour and respect diversity. I encourage us all to vote for this bill. (On motion of Senator Hubley, for Senator …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/121db_2017-05-16-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/121db_2017-05-16-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "community", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to 'hostility, ignorance and intolerance' toward Jews and proposes Canadian Jewish heritage month as a remedy to 'chip away at' these problems, without naming specific actors responsible for the hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1169", "year": 1999, "chamber": "senate", "date": "1999-03-24", "speaker": "Hon. Lois M. Wilson", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… several statements in this chamber last week that referred to human rights, racial discrimination and, in particular, the situations in Cuba, East Timor and Tibet. Today, we heard about the situation in Kosovo. Last week, I attended an Ottawa seminar that looked at Canadian policies around the prevention of religious persecution within the framework of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress, representatives from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Baha'i religious communities in Canada were present, among others. The Holocaust was a pivotal historical tragedy. It was the genesis of the modern human rights movement and it sparked a large investment of energy and time in creating, within the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, a sect …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/124db_1999-03-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/124db_1999-03-24-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes a seminar on religious persecution prevention and mentions the Holocaust as historical context without taking a position on any specific hostility toward Jews or accusing anyone of it."}, {"id": "senate-1170", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-06-07", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… orship are not the only places that have been so targeted. For various reasons, members of religious, racial, ethnic and cultural communities established their own places where they meet and engage with one another, and the same is true for members of the LGBTQ community. Sadly, all have been the targets of hate-based vandalism. I will not attempt to catalogue all of the incidents that have occurred, but let me simply recall a few examples. Schools have been targeted, such as when a Jewish elementary school in Montreal was firebombed in 2004. Community centres have been the targets of hate-based crimes. In July 2016, a Jewish community centre in the West Island of Montreal was vandalized, and in February and March 2017, Jewish community centres in Calgary, Toronto and London, Ontario were evacuated after receiving bomb threats. In June 2016, someone painted a swastika on the front doors of the Vancouver Arts and Leisure centre, an organization that works with the LGBTQ community to present art projects and public events — this, just one week after the massacre in the Orlando gay bar. In December 2016, vandals targeted a Sikh gurdwara in Calgary, a place not only of worship, but a p …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/129db_2017-06-07-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/129db_2017-06-07-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes multiple incidents of hate-based vandalism and threats targeting Jewish institutions and communities without taking a position on the hostility itself or assigning blame to any specific actor."}, {"id": "senate-1171", "year": 2015, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2015-06-23", "speaker": "Hon. Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… he generosity of aid groups or occasional shopping trips to markets outside the ghetto. George Soros, a financier and philanthropist who has been active in promoting democracy, visited Myanmar in January. In a conference on the Rohingya in Oslo a few weeks prior, he described what he saw as parallels to his youth as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe. He explained: The most immediate threat to Burma's transition is the rising anti-Muslim sentiment and officially condoned abuse of the Rohingya people. . . . they are forced to remain segregated in a state of abject deprivation. The parallels to the Nazi genocide are alarming. You see, in 1944, as a Jew in Budapest, I too was a Rohingya. Seemingly, the Rohingya have two rather hopeless options: either live in their land in camps behind barbed wires and call it a home, or take a chance boarding over-capacity boats to find another life in an unwelcoming neighbouring country. In either situation, the Jewish Journal described the Rohingya to be the \"world's least wanted people\" as they are continuously persecuted, adrift and unwelcome. Similarly, the BBC described the Rohingya as unwanted with an unending plight. Honourable senators, as we bring greater awareness to this issue, there also needs to be greater affirmative change. The Myanmar government has yet to take any action or provide any guidance on putting an end to the c …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/158db_2015-06-23-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/158db_2015-06-23-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage quotes George Soros's comparison between anti-Rohingya persecution and Nazi treatment of Jews, and reports on the Rohingya situation, but does not take a stance on hostility toward Jews itself or condemn/name/blame anyone for antisemitism."}, {"id": "senate-1172", "year": 2017, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2017-11-30", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… r of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. His All-Holiness was born in 1940 on the Island of Imvros. In 1961, he graduated with highest honours from the Theological School of Halki, which unfortunately remains closed by Turkish authorities. Since becoming Ecumenical Patriarch in 1991, and in spite of religious persecution, he has transformed the highest see of the Orthodox Church. He has spearheaded inter-Christian collaboration, he has led a dialogue of love with Jewish and Muslim leaders, and he has been a leader on the environmental issues, earning him the title of “green patriarch.” His All-Holiness also convened and chaired the historic Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in June 2016 on the Greek island of Crete. On behalf of all Orthodox Christians in Canada, I extend …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/164db_2017-11-30-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/164db_2017-11-30-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "community", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes the Ecumenical Patriarch's positive interfaith work, including dialogue with Jewish leaders, without addressing any hostility toward Jews or taking a position on it."}, {"id": "senate-1173", "year": 2013, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2013-06-26", "speaker": "Hon. James S. Cowan (Leader of the Opposition", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… e it was based on old labour law which operated on the basis of not seeking punishment, but being corrective and allowing us, as a matter of public policy, to grow our country where equality rights are protected by statutory law. Honourable senators, these are good, valid objectives. Sadly, Canada is not free from the threat of hate speech. We cannot say that section 13 is no longer needed. Bernie Farber, former head of Canadian Jewish Congress, wrote an article for The Huffington Post after the other place voted to repeal section 13. He wrote: As a result of . . . Bill to repeal S13, consequences and remedies we once had under a civil rule of procedure to deal appropriately with the promulgation of hatred is no longer. Where a complaint under S13 could result in cease and desist orders or at most a fine, today the only tool left to guard against hate promotion targeting Jews, LGBTQ, First Nations, Muslims and other faith and ethnic groups are the hate laws, sections 318 and 319 of the criminal code. Convictions will mean a criminal record and perhaps even jail. Of the few hate-related section 13 cases that went to tribunal, all were of the vilest hate where calls for the mass murder of Jews, gays, Muslims, First Nations and others were posted. All the other complaints were solved either through negotiation or simply dismissed. On June 6 the vote in the House of Commons was close. The Conservatives using their majority passed the repeal of section 13 by 153 to 136. With only the Criminal Code left for pro …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/181db_2013-06-26-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/181db_2013-06-26-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker quotes Bernie Farber's article describing consequences of repealing section 13, reporting on hate speech cases and legal remedies without taking their own position on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1174", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-02-27", "speaker": "Hon. Andrew Cardozo", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Andrew Cardozo: My question is for the Government Representative in the Senate and regards Bill C-63, the online harms act. I had a meeting recently with members of the Canadian Jewish community, and one of their top concerns was online hate, which has grown exponentially in recent months. Indeed, hate, threats and bullying online have been off the charts, and they are faced by many groups. Yet, there are others who say that freedom of speech must be paramount. Senator Gold, can you tell us how this bill will strike a balance between dealing with this scourge of hate and bullying, on the one hand, and ensuring freedom of speech on the ot …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/182db_2024-02-27-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/182db_2024-02-27-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "media", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes the Canadian Jewish community's concern about online hate without taking a position on it, presenting it as information about what they were told in a meeting."}, {"id": "senate-1175", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-03-20", "speaker": "Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Donald Neil Plett (Leader of the Opposition): Senator Gold, on March 2, anti-Israel protests in Toronto led to the cancellation of an event host by the Prime Minister to honour Italy’s prime minister. Two G7 leaders and they cannot meet safely in Canada. Open displays of hate are taking place on our streets on a regular basis. Terrible acts of violence and intimidation continue to target Jewish schools, synagogues and cultural events. Last fall, the Trudeau government announced $10 million for an expanded security infrastructure program to help places of worship and cultural centres enhance their safety. Leader, how much of the money announced last year has been spent to date? That is, not promised, leader, but spent?"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "funding", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Trudeau government as responsible for inadequate response to hostility toward Jews by questioning how little of the promised security funding has actually been spent, implying government failure to protect Jewish institutions from violence and intimidation."}, {"id": "senate-1176", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-04-30", "speaker": "Senator Plett", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… hey can. That’s what this government did. The Prime Minister is a bully. He has been a bully since day one. His father was a bully before him. He is a bully. When we have peaceful protesters on Wellington, he calls them a fringe group and won’t speak to them. When we have protesters beating on the top of our cars with Jewish hate‑mongering insignia, he has nothing to say."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/195db_2024-04-30-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/195db_2024-04-30-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "politics", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker criticizes the Prime Minister for not speaking out against protesters with Jewish hate-mongering insignia, implying he failed to condemn or respond adequately to the hostility."}, {"id": "senate-1177", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-05-21", "speaker": "Hon. Paula Simons", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… status. Actually, second-class status doesn’t begin to accurately describe the “un-personing” of Afghan women. As a person of Jewish and German descent, I don’t draw parallels with the Nazis lightly, but it is the most apt analogy I can think of here. The Nazis used the term “Untermenschen” or “under men” to apply to Jews, homosexuals, Roma and Slavs — anyone they deemed subhuman. By stripping such people of their very humanity, they were able to rationalize their lethal oppression. (2300) But if we look at the entire scope and sweep of human history, I’d argue that women were the original Untermenschen. We have been fighting for thousands of years, all over the world, to have our humanity and equality recognized. Misogyny is one of the oldest of hatreds. It is a near-universal one, practised by …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/201db_2024-05-21-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/201db_2024-05-21-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes Nazi treatment of Jews using the term 'Untermenschen' as a historical reference point for comparison to oppression of Afghan women, without condemning antisemitism, naming responsible parties for it, or taking a stance on the hostility itself."}, {"id": "senate-1178", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-06-20", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… action, and I’m grateful to everyone in this chamber and to you, Senator Housakos, for your very responsible and measured speech yesterday in support of Bill C-70. Let us move forward; there’s still much work to be done. As difficult as it is for me and for members of the McGill University community or members of the Jewish community or, indeed, any other community who cares about the proliferation of hate crimes and hate speech on our streets — it is sometimes very difficult for us to walk in neighbourhoods we used to call our own. It is not, however, the jurisdiction of the federal government to shut down demonstrations or encampments, legal or illegal, on private property within a province."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/216db_2024-06-20-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/216db_2024-06-20-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "education", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker expresses concern about hate crimes and hate speech affecting Jewish communities and others, acknowledging the difficulty and harm ('difficult for us to walk in neighbourhoods we used to call our own'), without naming a specific person or entity as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1179", "year": 2018, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2018-06-13", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s of Bill S-219, An Act to deter Iran-sponsored terrorism, incitement to hatred, and human rights violations, including an annual report of Iranian human rights violations, the Senate now: ( a ) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; ( b ) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; ( c ) call on the government to: (i) abandon its current plan and immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations; (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/220db_2018-06-13-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/220db_2018-06-13-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The passage directly names Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as responsible for making statements calling for genocide against the Jewish people."}, {"id": "senate-1180", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-09-24", "speaker": "Hon. Amina Gerba", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… h, Belgians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss, Finns, Russians, Austro-Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians, and Poles. Close to the bottom of the list came those who were, in both the public and the government’s minds, less assimilable and less desirable, e.g., Italians, South Slavs, Greeks and Syrians. At the very bottom came Jews, Asians, Roma people, and Black people. As you can see, colleagues, it’s an understatement to say that the immigration criteria at the time were discriminatory. What’s more, non-White would-be immigrants are even refused entry to the country on racist grounds. For example, in 1911, Canada almost completely banned the immigration of Blacks and they were not the only ones affected. As early as 1885, Chinese immigrants were required to pay a special tax. Worse still, in 1923 th …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/220db_2024-09-24-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/220db_2024-09-24-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The speaker describes historical immigration discrimination and policies affecting Jews among other groups, without explicitly condemning, naming responsible parties, or taking a position on the hostility itself.", "disagree_on": ["act"], "needs_review": true}, {"id": "senate-1181", "year": 2018, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2018-06-14", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s of Bill S-219, An Act to deter Iran-sponsored terrorism, incitement to hatred, and human rights violations, including an annual report of Iranian human rights violations, the Senate now: ( a ) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; ( b ) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; ( c ) call on the government to: (i) abandon its current plan and immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations; (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/221db_2018-06-14-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/221db_2018-06-14-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The passage directly names Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as responsible for making statements calling for genocide against the Jewish people."}, {"id": "senate-1182", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-10-01", "speaker": "Hon. Julie Miville-Dechêne", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… Chinese, Japanese and Italian, for example. However, these waves were often accompanied by high and low tides. At high tide, we accepted a lot of Chinese immigrants because we needed labourers, but if we thought there were too many, we imposed astronomical immigration costs on them. Chinese immigrants were shamefully discriminated against. Many Jews wanted to flee Germany or Austria just before the Second World War, but the ships that were carrying them were refused permission to dock in our ports. That is also shameful. On the other hand, when Russia invaded Hungary, we opened our doors to the Hungarians. When the Vietnamese boat people were condemned to hell, w …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/223db_2024-10-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/223db_2024-10-01-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical refusal to allow Jewish refugee ships to dock as 'shameful' and objects to this discriminatory treatment without naming specific individuals responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1183", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-10-03", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… the horror of Hamas’ actions didn’t end on October 7, as more than 100 hostages remain in Gaza, including the youngest of two Bibas children. Those hostages have endured one full year of starvation, sexual abuse and torture. Monday also marks one year of the Trudeau government’s overt and despicable abandonment of the Jewish people, both at home and abroad. Here in Canada, October 7 sparked riots in our streets that continue to this day. Protesters masked themselves and called for violence against Jews in the name of “Free Palestine.” Synagogues and Jewish schools have faced arson and shooting attacks. Yet, this government has failed to criminalize the perpetrators and hold them accountable. Abroad, we have failed to stand by our ally Israel in its war against Hamas, as well as Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies. Instead of holding UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, to account for its employees’ participation in the October 7 massacre, Justin Trudeau provides it with more taxpayer funds. At the same time, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly brags about cutting Canada’s supply of defensive weapons to Israel. The war goes on so long as the hostages remain in Gaza, so long as the threat to Israel’s right to exist remains. Canada’s support for Israel and the Jewish people must be unwavering. It is my hope as we mark the one-year anniversary since October 7 that Israel continues to fight for the return of all hostages and for the destruction, once and for all, of Hamas. It is also my hope that Canada will soon again be considered a friend to the Jewish community and their brother …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/225db_2024-10-03-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/225db_2024-10-03-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Trudeau government as responsible for 'overt and despicable abandonment of the Jewish people' and specifically names Minister Joly for cutting weapons to Israel; also names protesters for calling for violence against Jews and the government for failing to criminalize perpetrators."}, {"id": "senate-1184", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-10-09", "speaker": "Hon. Leo Housakos", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… o the sea, and even far worse than that. We’ve seen rallies where they’re saying, “Death to the Jewish people,” “Death to Israel” and even “Death to Canada.” During this period, your government has not had the intestinal fortitude or political leadership to condemn this and call it out. Right across Canada, we’ve seen attacks. Jewish schools are being shot at and others are being evacuated after they’ve received threats, and Jewish seniors’ homes have been targeted here in Ottawa, with angry mobs shouting these awful things. So, Senator Gold, I’ve given up on the Liberal government. However, will you, as Government Representative and as Senator Gold, stand up in this chamber and condemn these hatred exercises being conducted in our streets?"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/227db_2024-10-09-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/227db_2024-10-09-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "names", "act_why": "The speaker names the Liberal government as responsible for failing to condemn hostility toward Jews, stating 'your government has not had the intestinal fortitude or political leadership to condemn this and call it out.' This attributes responsibility for inadequate response to a specific party."}, {"id": "senate-1185", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-10-22", "speaker": "Hon. Jean-Guy Dagenais", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… ry encouraging. Then there are all the other acts of defiance and mischief in Vancouver and Montreal, where the police failed to act. With the implicit approval of your government, are we becoming a country where the safety of our citizens takes a back seat to the right these groups have to protest? They are promoting hatred against the Jewish people."], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/229db_2024-10-22-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/229db_2024-10-22-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "violence", "act": "blames", "act_why": "Speaker accuses the government of implicit approval and police of failing to act against groups promoting hatred toward Jewish people, suggesting weak response to hostility rather than direct responsibility for it."}, {"id": "senate-1186", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-10-22", "speaker": "Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate)", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate): As I’ve mentioned a few times, I find some of these protests appalling, especially when their participants express hate for the Jewish community. However, dear colleague, and very respectfully, as a former member of the Sûreté du Québec, you’re well aware that the federal government doesn’t give orders to the police forces in Ottawa or Montreal. What’s happening is appalling, but it doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Even …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/229db_2024-10-22-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/229db_2024-10-22-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "politics", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker explicitly states he finds protests 'appalling, especially when their participants express hate for the Jewish community,' objecting to the hostility without naming specific individuals or parties as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1187", "year": 2024, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2024-11-20", "speaker": "Hon. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… sis on attracting skilled workers, international students and entrepreneurs with the hope that they will settle permanently in the province. While immigration is vital to Canada’s future, we must also confront the more challenging aspects of our immigration history, including policies like the Chinese head tax and the exclusion of Jewish refugees during World War II. Those serve as painful reminders that Canada’s immigration system has not always lived up to the ideals of inclusivity. These examples are critical for us to remember. They must motivate us to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated. Bill S-286 is important because it recogn …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/239db_2024-11-20-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/239db_2024-11-20-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "disagree_on": ["subject"], "needs_review": true, "subject": "history", "subject_alt": "immigration", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker describes exclusion of Jewish refugees as a 'painful reminder' of failure to live up to ideals of inclusivity, and calls for ensuring such mistakes are not repeated, objecting to the historical hostility without naming a specific current actor responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1188", "year": 2018, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2018-11-08", "speaker": "Senator Plett", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s of Bill S-219, An Act to deter Iran-sponsored terrorism, incitement to hatred, and human rights violations, including an annual report of Iranian human rights violations, the Senate now: ( a ) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; ( b ) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; ( c ) call on the government to: (i) abandon its current plan and immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations; (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/246db_2018-11-08-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/246db_2018-11-08-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The passage specifically names Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as responsible for making statements calling for genocide against the Jewish people."}, {"id": "senate-1189", "year": 2019, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2019-03-18", "speaker": "Hon. Salma Ataullahjan", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… globe. “When the flames of hatred are fanned, when people are demonized because of their faith, when we play on people’s fears rather than addressing them, the consequences are deadly,” wrote London Mayor, Sadiq Khan. (1810) The world has already seen where this sort of rhetoric leads. It was not so long ago that the Jewish people faced persecution and massacre. Just last year, 11 people were gunned down at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. In Charleston, nine African Americans were killed during a prayer service at their church. In Canada, the Islamophobic rhetoric that we increasingly hear regularly in the mainstream is a breeding ground for this kind of violence. Two years ago, we witnessed firsthand an abhorrent attack at a mosque in Q …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/270db_2019-03-18-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/270db_2019-03-18-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "The speaker objects to hateful rhetoric and demonization, citing historical persecution of Jewish people and recent violent attacks as consequences, without naming specific perpetrators of the hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1190", "year": 2019, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2019-03-19", "speaker": "Hon. Marilou McPhedran", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… This was a terrorist attack that does not fit the popular stereotype of terrorist attacks. As we saw just a year ago, on January 29, in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, when six Muslims at prayer were murdered, this is terrorism fuelled by notions of white supremacy and Islamophobia. Less than five months ago, at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, 11 Jews were murdered by a shooter who invaded their Shabbat morning service. The Internet is riddled with language of hate and threats of terror from those who are the haters. Words matter, and the words we use to describe these events matter. Genocide starts with words. Language has the power to shape thoughts, and thoughts the power to shape actions. Uttering by words can be an indicator of bigotry, and bigotry can be the basis of justification for …", "… obligation to all of those who have lost their lives to hatred and who live their lives in fear of threats to use words that convey the truth of what is happening around us. We must define such attacks on places of worship as terrorism. We must identify and expose xenophobic haters and hold them accountable. Targeted attacks based on race are on the rise in Canada. We need to pay close attention to hate speech, whether directed at Indigenous peoples, Jews, Muslims or others seen as different in some unacceptable way to the haters. Thank you. Meegwetch . Visitors in the Gallery"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/271db_2019-03-19-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/271db_2019-03-19-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "violence", "act": "condemns", "act_why": "Speaker objects to the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue and the hostility toward Jews, calling for identification and accountability of 'xenophobic haters' and attention to 'hate speech' targeting Jews, without naming a specific person or party as responsible."}, {"id": "senate-1191", "year": 2019, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2019-04-11", "speaker": "Hon. Marilou McPhedran", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… million Tutsis were slaughtered, enabled by a lack of action by the international community — well-documented inaction by Canadians like retired Senator Roméo Dallaire and Dr. James Orbinski of Doctors Without Borders, who refused to abandon Rwanda. Colleagues, let’s recall the words “never again,” taken up after the Holocaust of the Second World War, when millions of Jewish people, along with people with disabilities, Roma and homosexuals, were murdered with vicious, hate-driven efficiency. From the horror of mass atrocities, Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin built the word “genocide” from the ancient Greek word “ genos ,” for “race” or “tribe,” and the Latin word for “killing,” “ cide. ” He helped to draft what became the first UN human rights treaty, the Genocide Convention of 1948, which was not activated until 1951 — after 20 countries, including …", "… g from the evil but familiar genocidal techniques of murder, rape, mutilation and burning whole communities, escaping into neighbouring Bangladesh. (1640) The joint motion of both houses of Canada’s Parliament last fall made us the first country to officially name this as genocide. For those who remain in Myanmar, the attacks are ongoing, as the Government of Myanmar has continued its persecution of the remaining Rohingya and, just as happened in the Nazi Holocaust, the attacks are extending to other ethnic groups, such as the Kachin, the Kayan, the Shan and the Chin minorities in Myanmar. The volume and pace of refugee arrivals in Bangladesh made this the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, with a concentration of refugees in Cox’s Bazar, a camp on the coast of Bangladesh, among th …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/280db_2019-04-11-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/280db_2019-04-11-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "The passage describes the Holocaust and murder of Jewish people as historical context for discussing genocide and international responses, without taking a position on contemporary hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1192", "year": 2019, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2019-05-01", "speaker": "Hon. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… e Canadian Jewish Heritage Month. This is a time to celebrate Jewish culture and to reflect on the significant contributions that have been made and continue to be made by many. Yom Hashoah, today is Holocaust Memorial Day. (1410) Today I recognize the late Philip Riteman: A husband, father, successful businessman and Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to promoting the message, “It is better to love than to hate.” During the Second World War, Riteman and his family were captured by occupying Nazi forces in Poland and sent to Auschwitz. Only Riteman — prisoner number 98706 — survived. His parents, five brothers and two sisters were among the millions of Jews and Gentiles murdered in the Holocaust. By the end of the war, Ritema …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/282db_2019-05-01-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/282db_2019-05-01-e", "corpus_type": "wide", "subject": "history", "act": "reports", "act_why": "Speaker describes historical Holocaust facts and honors a survivor's memory without taking a position on contemporary hostility toward Jews."}, {"id": "senate-1193", "year": 2019, "chamber": "senate", "date": "2019-05-09", "speaker": "Hon. Senators", "source": "sencanada", "passages": ["… s of Bill S-219, An Act to deter Iran-sponsored terrorism, incitement to hatred, and human rights violations, including an annual report of Iranian human rights violations, the Senate now: ( a ) strongly condemn the current regime in Iran for its ongoing sponsorship of terrorism around the world, including instigating violent attacks on the Gaza border; ( b ) condemn the recent statements made by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for genocide against the Jewish people; ( c ) call on the government to: (i) abandon its current plan and immediately cease any and all negotiations or discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran to restore diplomatic relations; (ii) demand that the Iranian Regime immediately release all Canadians and Canadian permanent residents who are currently …"], "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/286db_2019-05-09-e", "url_official": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/286db_2019-05-09-e", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "side": null, "role": "", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "wide", "topic": "", "subject": "law", "act": "names", "act_why": "The passage directly attributes hostile statements calling for genocide against Jewish people to a named person (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) and a named state (Iran/Iranian Regime), explicitly condemning these statements."}]