Going back to my remarks on resistance from the government, I am confident, that the opposition parties—the Conservatives and the NDP—will join hands with us to unanimously support this bill. However, the remarks by the former parliamentary secretary have caused me a bit of concern.
This bill does not try to cover every single property; for example, coffee shops are not covered here. There are so many other properties.
The point I made in my remarks is that hate crimes do not affect the individuals or the families or a particular group, but make the community feel unsafe. To state that hate crimes against a Catholic school board building are different from hate crimes against a district school board building, in my view, is not correct.
So I am not trying to cover every single private property or private business here. I am trying to cover all the public properties, especially where the communities gather—the community centres, the schools, and other places.