Before I pass to Dr. Zine.... One of the recommendations we were asking for in the end was to look at creating specific language around a long-standing and continued grant program so that resources could be delivered to, for example, training hate crime units across Canada on how to counter online hate and how to lay charges.
The Fort McMurray mosque has been targeted numerous times, as we lay out in our brief, with threats to burn it down, including very recently after the New Zealand attacks, when folks were posting in Canada about having a pig roast at the mosque—really disgusting and abhorrent things. To our knowledge, no charges have been filed against the perpetrators.
In large part it has to do with a lack of training and also the very high threshold of the Criminal Code, but obviously, training around how to interpret and how to lay charges under the Criminal Code and section 319 would be helpful.