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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. My name is Michael Mostyn, and I am the CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, a human rights organization that has been serving this country in both the Jewish and broader Canadian communities for 140 years. As the h

February 26th, 2015Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's an interesting phenomenon. Anti-Semitism in the classical sense has shifted over the years. When you're talking about the time of Nazi Germany, people could go through the streets and say, “we hate Jews”. In the modern sense, we simply don't see this anymore. Across this c

February 26th, 2015Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As well, the actions of the actual state of Iran, when, through its terrorist proxies it targets Jews abroad for murder, are also actions against the Zionist entity. These are innocents. Whether it's Jews or non-Jews who get murdered, that is the rhetoric of this regime being put

February 26th, 2015Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. It's Michael Mostyn. I'll start for B'nai Brith and then I'm going to pass to my colleague.

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. B'nai Brith is Canada's oldest membership-based Jewish organization. Through its League for Human Rights, which maintains an anti-hate hotline and prepares an annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, it is the premier advocate of human rights for Canada's J

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  Engaging the youth is absolutely imperative. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, we want to make sure.... I think that all of us here in Canada support and promote each other's values, the values of tolerance and support of the other. Many groups do interfaith, inter-ethnic w

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  I have one thought, and my colleague may have one as well. Something that I've noticed in speaking to various police panels or national security panels about the anti-radicalization process is that you're just talking about the focus within one community. I think it is importan

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  The only thing I would add to that is I think it's very important to have honest, open conversations. I think there's a tendency in these sorts of dialogues to be very politically correct. You can't get to the root causes of these problems, and dialogues will fall apart because y

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, because there are real issues. I can tell you the Jewish community is extremely fearful about radicalization issues. As I said in my opening statements, we have a police presence at all of our religious institutions all the time now. We see what's being written on t

February 13th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Established in 1875, B'nai Brith is Canada's most senior membership-based Jewish organization. Through its league for human rights, it is the premier advocate for Canada's grassroots Jewish community. B'nai Brith operates a hotline to assist the victim

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  I'll speak to that for a moment. In the proposed paragraphs 430(4.101)(a) to 4.101(d), the term “primarily used” is used for all of these different sorts of properties that are stated in the bill.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  If you are looking at (a) to (d) in the amendments, the words “primarily used for” or “primarily used as” appear before each of these areas. It refers to whether a building is primarily used for this, or primarily used for that. I guess the question that the committee should con

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I do have some other recommendations. The committee should be listening to police and attorneys general, consulting with them as to why a history of case law is not on the public record with respect to the original section here. As I mentioned, in sentencing

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Perhaps I can just jump in quickly to support my friend here. It's interesting to note that for those hate crimes that just took place in Ottawa, there were charges laid under that original section, subsection 430(4). So it is being used. The question is just, is there data to pr

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  I didn't prepare for other sections, but speaking very generally to that, there's always room for improvement. Certainly, I know that police forces all across the country are doing a much better job nowadays of reaching out to community groups of all backgrounds, trying to bett

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn