Mr. Speaker, today I rise to express my outrage and disgust as a father. Fourteen-year-old Esti Biran has been missing for over two weeks, since the autistic girl was last seen with no shoes on. Reportedly, on Friday, an anti-Semite began tearing down the missing person posters because she is Jewish.
What kind of sicko would do that? This is a child. It compounds the bullets that have been flying into children's schools, the Molotov cocktails hitting synagogues and the 6,800 anti-Semitic instances, by far a record since the counts began over 40 years ago.
We obviously have to take action to protect our Jewish community from this growing scourge of violence and hatred. It all starts with condemning it and stating that we will not put up with it. A person has no place in this country if they are targeting innocent Jewish children because of their heritage, their religion and their race.
Our Jewish brothers and sisters have a right to feel safe. They are members of the Canadian family. Each and every one of us has a duty to say that enough is enough. We are standing up for our Jewish friends.