Mr. Speaker, there is an interesting trick in debate that the member just used to hide the fact that there are supporters of this bill. There are religious communities that have supported this bill from inception, including the Jewish community. I find it curious that the member would only survey communities of faith that serve his argument in this moment.
I would say, with respect to the other communities of faith that I have personally engaged with, along with my team and my department, we did hear concerns, but from what we heard, we know that we can accommodate those concerns by building language into the law that would ensure that the practice of a person's faith would not be treated as a hate crime. We are willing to make that change. Part of the reason we are here is that, upon our efforts to do so at committee, we were met with continued Conservative obstruction.