Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. Thank you to all the attendees today for the opportunity to speak. Ms. Mathyssen, thank you for being a proponent of this national summit. I really appreciate it. I echo what Faakhra said. Regulating online hate is really critical. I really do see that as

Status of Women committee  Yes. Absolutely. I think we call it the unconscious bias or microaggression that folks deal with on a day-to-day basis. As women we've all experienced it. I'm sure everyone in this group discussion has experienced what it feels like, as women, to have to deal with these microaggr

Status of Women committee  The short answer is yes. I think that the online toxicity is a huge contributing factor to the rise in Islamophobia and the rise in racist conduct, quite frankly, beyond Islamophobia. Again, it's just going back to these echo chambers where people are finding themselves in group

Status of Women committee  Sure, I'm happy to speak to the issue. It's been a while since I've been back in the school system. Look, I went through the public school system, right from junior kindergarten through to high school. I grew up in Scarborough, east of Toronto. I guess it's part of Toronto, but

Status of Women committee  Those are the types of strategies that are critical, because they send a message. I think there is a symbolic benefit to it apart from the practical benefits. When the government sends a message at the highest level of government that this is something that's important to our cou

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Normandin. Bonjour. I agree very much with the comments of Faakhra. I think that the majority of Canadians are not hateful people or are not intending to cause harm, but we're all human. This goes for every single one of us on this call, myself included. We have o

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Zahid. I appreciate the question. It's a very big one, which is tough to address in a short period of time. I think maybe I'll start there. It's such a big issue that I think sometimes we're caught as deer in the headlights. We see the impacts, right? We saw the Q

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Sahota. I think the question was what is my definition of a hate crime. As a lawyer, obviously I know that it can be a technical term. There are laws surrounding hate that are enshrined in the Criminal Code. I know there are certain criticisms of the laws and the

Status of Women committee  Good morning, honourable members of Parliament, standing committee members and other guests. In preparing for today, I gave some thought as to what I could cover in the five minutes that have been allotted to me on this most important topic. If I could leave behind one message