Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of the question of whether it is time for Canada to ban hate symbols, my answer is yes. Fear fuels hate, and it's time now to educate and also provide the reality in terms of where these fears are coming from and set an example for the world that Canada can take the st

Canadian Heritage committee  If I can just add this, day to day we'll be at a hockey game and either seeing bananas thrown onto the ice or pictures of monkeys on placards. In bathrooms that you go into, you may see drawings of hooded Ku Klux Klan members. As Farley was mentioning, it's in the eye of the beh

Canadian Heritage committee  As Farley ended off with, education from a broad spectrum of teaching our young people how to recognize hate from an empathetic perspective and also from our own historical perspective as Canadians is essential for us to get over this and to be well informed. Thank you.

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Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, Chair and members of the committee. My name is Roderick Brereton. With me is my business partner, Farley Flex. Traditionally when we think of hate, we think of the swastikas, the Confederate flags and the N-word scrawled on lockers. Although these are definite,