Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the committee for your attention to this important subject.
Thank you for this opportunity to examine a topic that might be one of the most important issues our country is facing right now.
I also thank you for the opportunity to share a panel with respected colleagues. It is an honour to work closely with them to fight for a better Canada.
As everyone in this room knows, anti-Semitism is a non-partisan issue that impacts all of us, whether Jewish or non-Jewish Canadians. It is well known that anti-Semitism erodes democracy and, as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has recently concluded, it is a clear threat to national and international security.
My mandate, as many of you know, is to combat anti-Semitism and preserve Holocaust remembrance. It is both a domestic and an international mandate. My mandate does not—