Pro-Palestinian rallies in Toronto and Vancouver have spurred debate about how to deter potential encouragement of acts of hatred
and publicly called on local police to investigate any incidents of hate speech. Federal Conservatives went one step further and demanded police charge anyone in Canada who is cheerleading the recent killing of more than 1,300 in Israel.
Barbara Perry, an antisemitism and policing researcher who leads the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Ontario Tech University, said a new criminal offence to glorify acts of terrorism is needed to protect Canadians from speech that stokes more violence in this country and to defend against the potential escalation of terrorism here and abroad.
Melissa Lantsman, a deputy leader of the Conservative Party, said in an interview this week that anyone in Canada who is exalting the killings of Israelis should be charged. Peter MacKay, the justice minister at the time, said his government decided against including glorification as a new crime so the issue would not hold the legislation up in Parliament as a federal election loomed.
“It’s chicken and egg though, isn’t it? If you don’t have the section , how can you ever prove it?” he said Thursday.into criminal law. Fearing a surge in antisemitism, politicians there have recently banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations in some areas, including the whole of France and within Berlin proper.
“In my opinion, except for where speech is inviting or inciting hate and violence – which the Charter does not protect and is already an offence – the criminal law is not a particularly useful tool for combatting people’s abhorrent ideas.”and Ontario calling for a separate state to be carved out of India’s Punjab province held rallies and symbolic votes with flyers and billboards that included images of Talwinder Singh Parmar surrounded by a stylized Canadian flag.
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