Information & Ethics committee  The U.S. has specific legislation about this. We don't. I think it would be useful to have an amendment to the Access to Information Act to deal specifically with that. I mentioned, of course, that the European Union data regulation has something specific about that as well. We h

Information & Ethics committee  That's an issue that has been addressed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. I'm part of the Canadian delegation to that alliance, representing B'nai Brith. I'm on the access to archives project. We've done a lot of work in that area. There are some very elaborate

Information & Ethics committee  We don't have a Holocaust-related archive at Library and Archives Canada or anywhere. There are some private archives but nothing public. I haven't heard them say they are opposed to doing it. They just haven't gotten around to doing it.

Information & Ethics committee  That's related to your motion. I have been trying with my colleagues, as well—Michael Wenig, David Rosenfeld and so on—to get access to these archives. They are there at Library and Archives Canada, but they are not accessible. We can't see them. I mean, it's a related problem.

Information & Ethics committee  We're now entering an era where the survivors are almost entirely gone. There are some left, but not that many. While they were alive, the survivors were a tremendous educational force. In the absence of the survivors, what we have are the archives. The archives loom in importanc

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I'm senior legal counsel to B'nai Brith Canada. I have with me Michael Wenig, who's here to help answer questions. Mr. Wenig has been working with another lawyer at B'nai Brith, David Rosenfeld, on the requested records that we discuss in our brief. He has a

Justice committee  As a follow-up, I'm a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as a representative of B'nai Brith. That's one of the subjects of discussion there. There's this protocol we mentioned. Basically, when you're dealing with international p

Justice committee  I would just like to add this. If you look at the terms of service of the major Internet service providers, they all prohibit use of their service for hate speech. In theory they can deny service, they can take anything down, in terms of the contract. It's a simply contractual ar

Justice committee  One of the things that I was looking at when I was looking at the Canadian Human Rights Act in relation to section 13 is whether the Canadian Human Rights Commission has a public education function. It doesn't. A lot of the provincial human rights commissions do, but I didn't fin

Justice committee  I could produce language, but I realize Parliament has its own drafters. They may have their own views on what the language should be, but I'm happy to do that. In terms of what's in the Broadcasting Act, of course it gets us into the CRTC. I'm not so sure. I don't have any pro

Justice committee  My colleague, Brian Herman, was pointing out to me that there was actually a bill in Parliament to implement that protocol, which only went into first reading. We'll get you that bill as well.

Justice committee  I think it was 2005.

Justice committee  There's no doubt that this law is problematic in the sense that many people, when they hear something with which they disagree, say it's hate speech and want it prosecuted. The way that is defended against is through the requirement of consent of the Attorney General, but what we

Justice committee  I would hope that wouldn't happen.

Justice committee  Yes, this process was developed with the European Union and four of the service providers. They negotiated an agreement with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple whereby these four providers would work with trusted flaggers—NGOs that specialize in this area—and would quickly rea