Freedom of Religion  Mr. Speaker, the recent hate crime on Gauri Shankar Hindu Mandir in Brampton is just one of the many attacks in recent times against Hindu temples in Canada by anti-Hindu and anti-India groups. As with Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, resulting in hate crimes against our mosques

Freedom of Religion   their best to explain who Quebec and Canadian Muslims were. I am asking every member of the House and every citizen to remember the solidarity that we saw six years ago as we collectively try to combat islamophobia today.

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act   and the work that we all need to do as parliamentarians and as Canadians to fight against hatred and intolerance, in particular Islamophobia. I rise today to participate in today's debate, not just because it is the first day of the session, not just because I am glad to be back

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister's right-hand man in Quebec, had a strong reaction to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby, the federal representative to combat Islamophobia, who once made disparaging comments about the Quebec nation. He said

Government Appointments   and across the country. We must all stand up every single day to recognize and fight Islamophobia. We must see it as our duty to be there for our fellow Muslim citizens, and we will always be there for them.

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, I would truly love to see this meeting happen. It would be a great conversation. I think Ms. Elghawaby would be able to explain how systemic racism and Islamophobia are a reality for people across the country. We all have a duty to listen to one another

Freedom of Religion   and Islamophobia still exist. Extreme right-wing rhetoric has become normalized, which only fuels this radicalization and hatred targeting minorities. The killer fed on such rhetoric, which pushed him to attack. He killed Muslims. We still have a lot of work to do through dialogue and a better

Online News Act   journalists. What has been worrisome about this is that at the same time we have seen a parallel rise, because big tech has not taken any sort of responsibility for the rise in hate, misogyny, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. These two trends are connected

Canadian Heritage committee   and misinformation are not part of it. We've seen a disturbing rise in hate, a disturbing rise in racism and misogyny, a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and a disturbing rise in homophobia and transphobia. This is something we have to take action on. Journalism plays a key

Status of Women committee   taking the ability to choose. I ask that because I feel there is growing Islamophobia in the country. I certainly worry about the many women and young women in my riding who have experienced in Manitoba increased levels of Islamophobia. Would you say that these kinds of debates

Canadian Heritage committee   seeing the rise in hate in all of its toxic forms—more anti-Semitism, more racism, more homophobia and transphobia, more Islamophobia, more misogyny—is in part that those links that community journalists play, that community newspapers play, are being exploded as big tech tries

Canadian Heritage committee  My next question, of course, is pretty obvious. What has the Department of Canadian Heritage done to ensure that there will never be funding again to any organizations that are vehicles of hate, whether we're talking about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia

Canadian Heritage committee   us how much was provided by the broadcast participation fund? My second question is related to the measures that have been taken. We've seen rising anti-Semitism, rising Islamophobia and rising racism, often violent. We had the convoy and the flying of Nazi flags. We have

Canadian Heritage committee  . We've had concerns levelled against Google around homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. At the time, you were asked how many full-time staff work in Canada and you weren't able to give that figure. Could you give it to us now?

Status of Women committee   project you have under way—I believe it's called “Brave Space”—is helping to support Muslim women in particular after recent Islamophobic incidents in our country. I'm wondering if you can speak to us a bit about the impacts of Islamophobia on mental health for young women