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Public Safety committee  Thank you. I will be sharing my time with Mr. Matas. We thank the committee for inviting us to appear. I will provide some introductory remarks. My colleague David Matas, our senior legal counsel, will elaborate on some of our key points on the proposed legislation. B'nai Brith

February 8th, 2018Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Canadian Heritage committee  The only thing I have to add to my colleague's remarks is this. You were talking about education and talking about tolerance and understanding. The only way that can happen in real-world terms is to also ensure that we teach history, because that's the reality. I think if student

October 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. As opposed to certain terms of racism—such as anti-Semitism, which may have been confusing at one point, but on which there is now an international consensus, and the Ottawa protocol process was part of that—“Islamophobia” is a confusing term, unfortunately, at the mo

October 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Actually, another incident that my colleague mentioned was that last February an imam in Montreal three times called on Allah to annihilate every single last Jew on the earth. This was done in front of his entire congregation. It was only when video of this incident

October 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I'll be speaking first. Thank you.

October 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Canadian Heritage committee  We'll be splitting our time. Thank you, Madam Chair. We thank the committee for inviting us to appear. My colleague, David Matas, our senior legal counsel, will speak to elaborate on some of our key points. We have documentation available and can provide additional materials

October 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  We'd be happy to get back to you as well. The only thing I would add is that an offence such as this is a very cowardly offence. This is something that's usually done under the cover of darkness. I know you were talking about your experiences in the past. Unfortunately, we live

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  “Does something like this really matter to them?” To go to Richard's point, the fact that a non-religious building—for example, a building that's within the Jewish community—is being targeted, like a JCC, is because it's Jewish. It's very important for society to acknowledge when

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  If I can just add to that, I think it's very unlikely that that would occur. If the commission of the mischief is motivated by bias, and they have to show that as an essential element of the offence, why would the police charge somebody when they know there's less chance of a con

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Do I think it's going to stop the hate? No, I don't, unfortunately. Unfortunately, I don't know what Criminal Code provisions you can propose that are going to stop the hate. Certain individuals are prejudiced and act out their bias against identifiable groups. That is not someth

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Sure. I had just suggested changing the wording from “primarily used for”, which are the three words that are in the paragraphs, and suggested an alternative description, because I don't think this is where you want to get really narrow. I think this is where you want to be broad

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  It was paragraph 718.2(a). That's the punishment that can come into sentencing. When we look through that as it applies to general mischief, there are a few cases—but not many on record—that apply in particular to mischief to property for religious institutions, which is what w

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  I don't think the park bench would be covered.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Michael Mostyn

Justice committee  Correct. It could be in that example. The reason I raised the example of the anti-Semitism that took place in North York is that our community, the Jewish community, does in fact self-identify 365 days a year, because of the fact that Jewish households have mezuzahs. Often, with

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