Justice committee  I understand that, at the end of May, there will be an international parliamentary forum looking at disinformation and fake news that will be taking place here in Canada. We hope they will be able to address these sorts of things. One has to be constantly on guard for this. We'r

Justice committee  I think it is a question over education at all levels. That's why we constantly urge political leaders, community leaders at all levels of the government, to speak out and advise people about this.

Justice committee  I'm not sure, but the election might have gotten in the way of that. I noticed on LEGISinfo that it's there, and it just went through first reading. We certainly will provide the protocol.

Justice committee  We are a small organization relatively speaking, with modest resources, so we can't necessarily deal with individual complaints. We do have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week hotline, which is how we record a lot of our data, together with reaching out to police forces across the countr

Justice committee  One thing we need to do is to look at a question that has been raised at this committee before, which is if you leave it to individual groups representing their communities to record and analyze the data, there is perhaps a chance that the data or the analysis will be somewhat sk

Justice committee  For those who may not be aware, I think it's a concept of pre-clearing groups or organizations that are regarded as somewhat expert in the field so that if B'nai Brith Canada, for example, is a trusted flagger and we go to a provider and say there is anti-Semitic content here, it

Justice committee  Certainly. This is the trusted flagger.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We thank you and the committee for allowing us to appear today. You know my colleague David Matas, our senior legal counsel, who will speak to some of the detailed aspects of the thoughts that I'll be introducing. We won't go into some of the broad comme

Justice committee  Our organization is not aware of any analysis like that, Mr. Fraser, but I go back to the basic point that we're making. That is to say, if you leave these sorts of offences as indictable, it is quite clear to those who are considering acting in this way—and to the public who wou

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I think the point we're making there, Mr. Rankin, is that the problem we have is with the hatred offences and the fact that they are already hybrid. The difficulty is obtaining Attorney General consent. It has been our experience that attorneys gene

Justice committee  There used to be a civil remedy to incitement of hatred. That was where I raised the point briefly about section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, but we've lost that remedy. That's one of the concerns we have, but I realize that's outside the scope of the legislation.

Justice committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Rankin. We have reflected on that. I must say that in all of this we do have a dialogue with Department of Justice officials where we sometimes discuss with them our concerns and some of the rationale for why they have drafted what they have. Thi

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and we thank the committee for allowing us to appear this evening. My colleague Leo Adler, our senior legal counsel, will elaborate on some of our key points, particularly the legal issues. I just wanted to give a brief introduction. You have

Justice committee  Mr. Chairman, we thank the committee for inviting us to appear. My colleague David Matas, our senior legal counsel, will elaborate on some of our key points, particularly on the legal issues. B’nai Brith Canada is this country’s oldest national Jewish organization, founded in 18