I would like to add one small piece to this. I don't want us to forget that it was only 60 to 65 years ago that one of the worst mass genocides in modern history took placeāthe murder of six million Jewish men, women, and children. There are people alive today who still suffer because of that. The thought that there are people out there who would continue to promote these kinds of hateful acts is incredible to me. Two or three days ago, only ten miles from this very chamber, at the Jewish Memorial Gardens in Ottawa, there was an invasion of our sacred burial space. Swastikas and horrible racist and anti-Semitic terms were scrawled on Jewish headstones. This was on the same weekend that I was coming to Ottawa to attend an unveiling of one of my family members. The impact that this had on our community, I can't even begin to tell you. Is this something that we want to allow to continue to happen? It is this balance that we have to consider, and I would like you to keep this in mind.
I have pictures of this desecration, and I'll pass them along, with the permission of the chair.