Justice committee  To my knowledge, I don't know of any organization internationally leading a campaign on online hate. The closest one is FATF coming out of 1989. It originally was focused on the war on drugs and money laundering. It's now focused on anti-terrorism financing due to 9/11. It does

Justice committee  That's a great question. So far, most of the research on these organizations promoting hate has come out of a number of research studies being done in the United States. There's a 2011 report called “Fear, Inc.”, and Christopher Bail's work, Terrified, which talks about fringe gr

Justice committee  Yes, please. I have a few remarks regarding section 13 on the combatting. What we found in developing our archive project was that at the Canadian national level, there are very few places through which you can actually have an articulated construction of Muslims in Canada. Let

Justice committee  Let me go back and think about a whole-of-government approach. On the one hand, I would simply endorse many of the comments that Ms. Mithoowani has already remarked upon regarding section 13. I wanted to clarify my invocation of the financial action task force implicitly linking

Justice committee  I want to begin by thanking you for inviting me to address the committee today. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but I'm here virtually, in the capacity of director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto where I am also professor of law and history.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have two that I can give you. I think multicultural education at the grade school level has been framed in terms of the good new story that is multiculturalism. When I receive law students in my critical race studies course, they don't know how to talk about race, racial politi

Canadian Heritage committee  It would certainly involve federal and provincial coordination on that matter, yes. I will also suggest that public universities offer an important site for thinking about diversity at a more systemic level. They're often the best place for thinking about the complexity of our

Canadian Heritage committee  First, let me say thank you to the committee for inviting me to speak to you today. In the interests of time, I'll cut through some of the introductory remarks I was going to make. I do research on Islamic law and the treatment of Muslims and Islam in Europe, North America, sout