The Liberal government on Friday is presenting new legislation to be a crime intentionally promoting hatred against recognizable groups in public, using certain symbols of hatred or terrorism, such as swastika, CBC News.
A source with knowledge of the Government’s plan says that the amendment includes symbols related to Terrorist entities The Canadian list containing proud boys, the Hamas and the Iran Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.
If it were, for example, it would commit a crime to encourage someone to hate the Jewish people using Hamas flags or swastika signs outside the synagogue.
The new bill is part of the government’s promise to pay attention to the increase in hatred incidents in Canada, including anti -Semitism and Islamophobia. The government is facing the Conservative criticism that the last two years have failed to take action after community call aid.
Jewish and Muslim groups say they waited too long for additional protection, reporting violence, vandalism and hatred, directed at them, their worship and other buildings. The incidents include shootings, fires, crushed windows and people harassed and intimidated the entrance to worship places.
The total number of hate crimes reported by police increased from 2,646 incidents in the country in 2020. To 4882 2024, according to Canadian statistics.
The CBC News last week provided detailed information about incoming legislation that would include people deliberately intimidating and obstacles to the entry. Worship places, cultural community centers and schools.
The source now says that legislation also seeks to cut politics and bureaucracy, preventing some hate propaganda to be charged and slowed down the trial.
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The proposed amendments will annul the claim that prosecutors must obtain the consent of the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor General for allegations of such crimes, the source said.
There are four crimes of hate propaganda: defense of genocide, public hatred of hate, deliberately promoting hatred and deliberately promoting anti -Semitism.
According to the Criminal Code, there are currently several cases where the consent of the Attorney General is required, including the confiscation of hatred propaganda, obtaining permits, and the dangerous application of the offender.
The draft law may be contradictory and faces questions about the rights of the charter of violated people, which guarantee freedom of thought, beliefs and expression.
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General Sean Fraser told reporters on Wednesday that the Supreme Court has recommendations to balance the right to free language with public security.
He was asked what these legislation meant people who protest for the worship or cultural building used for a political event.
He said the government will still allow you to “protest at issues [protesters] Feeling is very important for the country, without compromising on fundamental security of society, the need to deal with hatred not only for our religious institutions, but also how it happens in our communities. ‘
Fraser said he thought the government had “done a good job” to accept the charter rights.
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The Canadian Muslim National Council (NCCM) stated that the upcoming draft law requires a proper balance. He said no one should be harassed in Canada, but people’s rights should also be protected peacefully.
The organization recently talked about the government’s inability to act after York Regional Police arrested a man for An alleged incident of hate After he threatened to blow up the mosque and kill the Muslim family in Newmarket, ont.
“I feel like I trust the same nightmare over and over again,” said Omar Khamassa, Chief Operational Officer of the NCCM.
“Each time there is another threat, another act of violence, we hear the same promise of change. And yet we are waiting here again.”
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Noah Shack, Director General of the Israeli and Jewish Affairs Center (CRA), said the bill earlier this week is a “much needed step in the right direction”, but wants the government to do more, including laws already in force, filling in gaps in Canadian battles with parameter laws and community security in November budget.
Deputy Conservative leader Melissa Lantman said her party would assess the law when they were submitted, but said they had offered changes for many years and “the Liberals did nothing”.