Justice committee  Frankly, I think it's self-evident. These particular crimes, as I noted earlier, are crimes that don't simply impact on the intended initial targets. They flout the very core of Canadian values, and they do so in a way that signals that we are not going to follow through in prote

Justice committee  I'll accept that, but with your permission I'd like to go back to a couple of the points you raised earlier. We have to be careful in the context of this discussion not to conflate hate crimes—major, minor, anti-Semitic or other racist graffiti, and so on—with these particular ca

Justice committee  Speaking for us, we've not done that examination. I don't want to exaggerate the number of cases that there are to examine. You're talking about a very high threshold that has to be met even to contemplate charges in these cases. There's a pedagogical value as much as there is a

Justice committee  I thank you on behalf of CIJA for inviting us into this important conversation. I see friends on all sides of the House. It's an honour to be with you. Just by way of identification, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is the advocacy agent of the Jewish Federations of Canad