Business of Supply  On this side of the House, we stand completely opposed to such policies and have implemented policies that are vastly different. That includes challenging Islamophobia. That includes funding for the security infrastructure program to protect places of worship. That includes Bill C-63, which would tackle Islamophobia head-on and help keep all Canadians safe.

Business of Supply  It is alarming and distressing to hear numerous accounts of hatred against people in our public forum, for example. This includes a rise in both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Hatred has no place in this country, in Canada. All people must feel safe to express themselves, whether it be online or off-line. Can the Minister of Justice please discuss how the online harms act would help keep us safe from hatred?

Business of Supply  Speaker, it would do so by entrenching a definition of hatred that has already been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada; by ensuring that hatred is identified and one's exposure to it is reduced via putting a responsibility on platforms; by ensuring that one can complain to the Canadian Human Rights Commission if one believes that one is the target of online hate speech; and by ensuring that the penalties for hatred, including the anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that were just mentioned by the member, are addressed with more significant penalties on summary conviction and on indictable offences. We have a scourge of hatred in this country, and we have to address it.

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, hate is on the rise in Canada. In fact, at our committee right now, we are studying anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. We could study anti anything these days. I believe there is so much going on in the world that people just want to express their anger, and there is a lot happening. It is alarming ,and it is distressing to hear numerous accounts of hatred against people in our public forum.

Business of Supply  This is critical toward keeping people safe, now more than ever, when hatred is on the rise, whether it is the anti-Semitism the member just spoke about, whether it is the Islamophobia we have seen with such fatal consequences, whether it is attacks towards the LGBTQ2 community or whether it is attacks against indigenous people in the Prairies. This is rife right now.

Business of Supply  Today I subbed in at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, which is currently looking at the issues of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. It is quite obvious that Jews across Canada are reporting a terrifying increase of hate directed toward them as an identifiable group. One of the recommendations that emerged at today's meeting was to ban symbols of hate.

Canadian Heritage committee  You can characterize this however you want, Chair, but you can read back the comments in Hansard. We are talking about racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia. It's all in here, and that's what I'm talking about. Quite frankly, I think my comments are constructive, and I would actually welcome the conversation of whether we should include directly, in this proposed study, Islamophobia, because I believe that to be a scourge.

Canadian Heritage committee  I would just ask the member to add Islamophobia and anti-Semitism to the motion, and let's move forward. I think that's what he's getting at.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I was saying, given the charged nature which we currently live in, with the division that unfortunately is a real scourge on our great country, I think it's important that we parse our words very carefully. As I said, I believe that specifically we should be calling out Islamophobia as well as anti-Semitism. I was just talking about the Liberal member, Anthony Housefather, as well as our Melissa Lantsman and Marty Morantz—

Canadian Heritage committee  If there is not a mention of it—I thought I saw it, but maybe I did not—there should also be a specific call for the protection against Islamophobia as well.

Justice committee  There is always a way to wrap up your explanations. It's anti-Semitism, but it's not. It's anti-Islamophobia, but it's.... The reality is this, sir. Anti-Semitism can exist by itself. It exists by itself. It has for 5,784 years. There are more people out there who have tried to destroy the Jewish population.

Justice committee  I'm not sure to whom to direct it, but it's on this concept of equivalency. We often hear Canadian leaders also mention Islamophobia when they talk about anti-Semitism. I just wonder if that is at all helpful to the conversation about how we manage anti-Semitism. Maybe I will direct that question to you, Mr. Oberman.

Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1  This is alongside $7.3 million to address the rise in anti-Semitism and $7.3 million to address the rise in Islamophobia. Expressions of both have been rising for some years, but have broken out in a more ominous way since the onset of war in the Middle East. In addition to our government's historic investment in strengthening public health care over the past year, I am pleased to see our new national pharmacare plan announced, with $1.5 billion over five years to ensure its effective rollout, while providing, as first steps, support for reproductive health care and diabetes care.

Pharmacare Act  I was eating my dinner in the lobby and was horrified to hear the member throw out these accusations of Islamophobia, which are very serious accusations against members, with no basis. I think that is unparliamentary. The member is providing no support because she is talking utter nonsense. If I were to casually say that a member is anti-Semitic, Islamophobic or anti-Christian, I think you would find that unparliamentary.

Canadian Heritage committee  Many Canadian young people are standing up against genocide and Canada's complicity in it. We should be, as parliamentarians, condemning anti-Semitism along with condemning Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. That is not what today's motion purports to do. To me, the fact that 30 minutes ago the same party chose not to look into the rise of far-right extremist hate really undermines the sincerity of the motion ahead of us and indicates that they're keen to get clicks on social media rather than actually get into taking on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and other forms of hate.