Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. We think it's important to strike a balance between freedom of expression and the safety of religious and racial minorities in Canada. I'd like to reflect what Mr. Ahmed said. Clearly, aligning international standards would certainly help, because w

Public Safety committee  We certainly welcome any investment that promotes Holocaust remembrance, but we would also very much like to see an improvement in school curriculum, particularly at the high school level. As well, we would like to see the broadening of the mandate of the special envoy preserving

Public Safety committee  I do—

Public Safety committee  Go ahead.

Public Safety committee  Canada has to support the two-state solution as it has done recently in reiterating that Canada has to denounce efforts to portray Israel as an apartheid state, and Canada has to push for democratic expression in Palestine to allow the Palestinian people to finally have voices th

Public Safety committee  I'm going to let Michael Mostyn begin this. I'd be happy to add a few words, but it's been his file.

Public Safety committee  We do get reports of threats, rarely actual violence on campus, but we should all be worried. This year's audit revealed the number of violent incidents against Jews in Canada went up from nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021—a 733% increase. While at McGill, the board of trustees annulled

Public Safety committee  My name is Marvin Rotrand. I'm a former Montreal city councillor, now national director of the League for Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada. Indeed, we do oppose all forms of discrimination while we concentrate on anti-Semitism as our main mission as an organization. We have exis