Thank you.
Thank you to the department officials and the minister.
According to Canada's new anti-racism strategy, the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting anti-Semitism has both an “international” and a “domestic” role.
You may be aware, Minister, that I had the original PMB, Bill C-250. It proposed massive penalties for the promotion of anti-Semitism, but in the wisdom of your government, you decided to take my bill.... Bill C‑250 had teeth. It was strong. You have weakened this bill. When I look at what your government has done and not done compared to what my bill would have done, it's night and day.
I'm a little concerned when you start taking bills at budget time, putting them in...and then not following up, because my Bill C-250 had major consequences. I don't see any consequences in the proposed bill, in what you have taken today. I want to know why you haven't followed up on some of my recommendations in Bill C‑250.