Ms. Naseem Mithoowani at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

I do believe that. I also think human rights tribunals and commissions are well placed to deal with issues of hatred and discrimination. In Ontario, for example, our complaints were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, because there's no provision within the Ontario code that addresses publications versus signs. The Ontario commission used its broader mandate to speak out against the article, calling it Islamophobic and pointing out the harm. That type of empowering of commissions to take on that work and to call out hatred is important to the targeted communities, I agree.