Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
First of all, I find that Mr. Champoux always plays an important role on the committee.
He raises an important issue, but, in my opinion, he misses an extremely important aspect, which is the violence of the extreme right and its repercussions in Quebec and throughout Canada. We need only think of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City, the hate speech against the LGBTQ community, whether in Montreal or Western Canada, or the attack in London, Ontario. I think it's extremely important to talk about hate speech as a whole. The freedom of expression we have in Canada is unparalleled in the world. Freedom of expression is not constrained, except by Web giants like Meta, which has censored opinions at the request of regimes like Putin's in Russia and Modi's in India.
So, censorship exists, but not against hate speech. Meta always says it doesn't have the means to prevent Islamophobic or anti-Semitic speech and hate speech towards the LGBTQ community, but when a dictatorship demands that certain things be censored, as we saw in the case of the murder of Mr. Nijjar, in Surrey, a few miles from where I live, they are censored.
However, the Conservatives don't say a word. They don't say it's unacceptable. When Meta limits free speech, Conservatives don't say a word.
So it's important to discuss all of these issues. I don't think we'll be able to resolve this today, but fortunately, we'll soon be in our ridings for a week and a half, since it will be Thanksgiving, so we'll be able to discuss it and come back here to adopt a motion that will satisfy the majority of committee members.
For now, Madam Chair, I think it's important to have these discussions. Even if we don't have time to reach an agreement today, we can come back to it later.
I have a lot of respect for Ms. Gladu. I want to follow up by saying that violence is unacceptable to any degree. I completely agree with her. The difference is that the extreme right, as we have seen repeatedly in North America, is the cause of over 90% of the violence and acts of hate taking place.
This is something that I think my Conservative colleagues need to understand and speak out against. The rise of the extreme right, the attacks against various communities that are promoted by right-wing dictators and extremist American billionaires, this is something that is a real and present danger to our democracy, freedom of speech and a wide variety of communities and Canadians across this country. When all the violence comes from the extreme right, at 90% levels, we have a duty to denounce it.
Madam Speaker, I would hope my Conservative colleagues are denouncing that violence from the extreme right. It's well documented. There are myriad research tools they can use to document the rise of the far right and the violence that takes place. I would hope they are reflective of that and denounce violence in all of its forms, as I certainly do as well. Wherever that violence comes from, we denounce it.
The real and present danger to our democracy is far-right extremism.
Thanks, Madam Chair.