Justice committee  I'll echo the sentiments expressed earlier about the need for a broader form of critical media literacy as well. Many nations have been very active. I've worked with the Council of Europe on some of the initiatives they've had going on for the last 10 years on anti-hate campaigns

Justice committee  Thank you. I think that, obviously, these are transnational and global kinds of networks. I do think, though, that many other nations have taken it upon themselves to institute policies to curtail hate speech within their domain. I was trying to share, and have done in a full br

Justice committee  Okay. I'm going to jump ahead, but I want to emphasize the fact that the Supreme Court said that hate propaganda denotes any expression that is intended or likely to “circulate extreme feelings of opprobrium and enmity against a racial...group”. I think that's an important area

Justice committee  In my notes, it's “speaking for the unanimous court, Justice Rothstein, with respect to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code”.

Justice committee  It's Whatcott, yes. It's from 2013. It's paragraph 41.

Justice committee  I'm happy to talk more about the recommendations during Q and A.

Justice committee  Thank you to the chair and members of the committee for this opportunity to contribute to the parliamentary study of online hate. I am a professor of sociology and Muslim studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. I specialize in anti-racism and Islamophobia studies. Currently, I'm

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to respond because you have misquoted me. I never said “demonization of Islam should be criminalized”.

Canadian Heritage committee  I said that there are hate crime laws that determine the boundaries of lawful dissent in terms of speech. I said that demonization gets mapped onto the bodies of Muslims who then become victims of Islamophobic violence as a result of those types of ideas. I'm not suggesting it be

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, I think this is an illustration of why there are differences about various kinds of objectives or definitions or things that are going on. The fact that there are people in the community who may have a different understanding of it doesn't mean the standard definitions bein

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. I will add that I specialize in Islamophobia studies and anti-racism. I have been researching Muslim communities in Canada since the late 1990s. More recently, I completed a six-year national study on the impact of Islamophobia on the 9/11 generation of Muslim youth i