BREAKING： Dominion Society mentioned in the Senate
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Summary
Bill C-9 - an act that would amend the Criminal Code to amend the criminal code hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural spaces - is a response to a recent rise in public racism in Canada, targeted at immigrants and refugees from Eastern Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East.
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to bill c9 an act to amend the criminal code hate propaganda hate crime and access to religious or
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cultural spaces there is no denying the need to fight hate in this country be it anti-semitism
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islamophobia homophobia transphobia or incel-like misogyny we have seen a recent rise in public
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racism in this country that takes my breath away targeted at immigrants and refugees from east asia
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and South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. Political groups
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such as the Dominion Society are now opening calling for campaigns of re-migration. And then
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there is the enduring national shame of anti-Indigenous racism, Canada's original and
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perpetual sin, a hate that helps to drive the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women
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who are all too often targeted for sexual violence because of their racial identity.
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Believe me, I am keenly aware of just how much danger there is in a hateful, hate-filled Canada.
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A dear friend emailed me just the other day to let me know that her synagogue in Toronto
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had been sprayed by gunfire. In 2024, the synagogue at the end of my daughter's street in Vancouver
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was firebombed. For me, as a person of paternal Jewish descent, this isn't a hypothetical debate,
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it's a deeply personal one. What is fueling this wave of hate and hate crimes?