Justice committee  I think it's very hard for groups to track online hate. I spoke with the NCCM before testifying today and asked for their reporting on online hate against Muslims, and they weren't able to supply comprehensive reporting. This is an organization that's very well organized and does

Justice committee  I would agree that media literacy is incredibly important. I'm also concerned about hate-adjacent speech, the kind of prejudice that can percolate online where it becomes funny to make anti-Semitic comments or racist comments with friends in a joking way. I'm also concerned that

Justice committee  Not to my knowledge.

Justice committee  Do you mean overseas or in Canada?

Justice committee  As I mentioned in my testimony, the evidence that we have from Iran indicates that tens of thousands of pieces of state-sponsored propaganda have been published in state media, which have also then been picked up and repeated by other actors in society. There have been cases of m

Justice committee  Thank you. I think the question of what to do with reporting is a secondary, in a way, to what exactly the standards are against reporting as evaluated. This echoes other comments on the panel. As I mentioned in my testimony, I think there's a healthy discussion right now abou

Justice committee  Thank you. I would like to thank the committee for inviting my testimony today as a representative of the Bahá'í Community of Canada. I'm also appearing as a member of the executive committee of the Canadian Interfaith Conversation, a national body that seeks to foster and promo