Juno News - Hate crimes on the decline. Liberals pretending otherwise.

00:00:00.000 When Justin Trudeau and the Liberals were elected, they promised evidence-based policy,

00:00:07.360 decision-making, and legislation rooted in evidence, not in ideology. I think most people

00:00:13.600 just kind of shrugged and laughed when he said it, not really believing it. But

00:00:17.560 what about when the evidence says the opposite of what the Liberals are trying to do? That's

00:00:22.800 certainly the case when it comes to combating hate speech and hate crimes. I've done numerous

00:00:28.240 videos on it. This report from the Parliamentary Justice and Human Rights Committee that calls on

00:00:33.960 legislating into human rights law regulation of online speech. But there's another dimension to

00:00:40.180 this. The very premise of that committee's study, the premise of this report, was that hate crimes

00:00:46.320 are on the rise. Let me read literally the first sentence of the description of this report.

00:00:52.840 With the rise of hate crimes reported to the police and the use of online platforms to promote hate

00:00:58.220 hatred, several groups have requested that this issue be studied by Parliament. Right there,

00:01:03.540 the very first words of the very first sentence, with the rise of hate crimes. Except that isn't what

00:01:11.160 the numbers are suggesting. And this isn't just some fringe study that says this. We're talking about

00:01:16.360 data from Statistics Canada. Despite the government ramp up in the fight against so-called hate, which it

00:01:22.600 doesn't define in any of its reports or materials, hate crimes are actually on the decline. The number

00:01:29.060 of police reported hate crimes decreased in 2018 by 13%, which is not an insignificant sum, going down from

00:01:37.000 2073 in 2017, which is a higher than normal year, to 1798 in 2018. Hate crimes against Muslims, according to the

00:01:46.600 report, were down the most with more moderate declines in hate crimes against other groups. And continuously,

00:01:54.360 the largest victimized group by hate crimes is the Jewish community. Anti-Semitic hate is once again the

00:02:00.840 most common type of hatred we see. Why these numbers are important is not to say that hate and hate crimes

00:02:07.560 don't exist in Canada. It's to say that anyone talking about them being on the rise or them being a clear and present

00:02:13.960 danger. Those terms were used by witnesses standing before the Justice and Human Rights Committee's online hate

00:02:20.600 study are not in alignment with what the facts say. What's worse is that we've allowed groups and political advocacy

00:02:29.080 organizations and commentators and pundits and yes, the Trudeau liberals to weaponize the fear of hate. To present this

00:02:37.240 image that Canada is a much more hateful and disharmonious place than it actually is and to use this as a way to

00:02:43.880 wedge in legislation that otherwise no one would go for. Look at the anti-Islamophobia motion M103. That

00:02:51.480 motion was put in because the government said, oh no, but hate crimes against Muslims are on the rise. And

00:02:57.720 that's why a lot of people were too terrified of criticizing it because they didn't want to be seen as

00:03:02.280 Islamophobic. And now we have a Justice Committee report where the premise is inherently disproven by the

00:03:08.840 government's own numbers. Yet still I haven't heard a peep from anyone in the government about it. So when

00:03:15.800 the numbers are saying that hate crimes are down and the legislation is saying that hate crimes are up, you

00:03:20.760 have to question where the agenda is. And unfortunately there is a hate industry in Canada, across the West, 0.65

00:03:28.040 organizations that make considerable sums of money by presenting this narrative. And one of the suggestions that

00:03:35.480 was actually put to the Justice Committee was that third party groups like Muslim groups or gay groups or groups

00:03:41.720 representing minority interests would become the entities to which hate crimes would be reported rather than police.

00:03:49.400 So these groups are ultimately seeking a budget and a mandate to do things that should be the work of law enforcement.

00:03:56.840 And this was actually one of the concerns that I had with the Justice Committee's findings.

00:04:01.400 They embraced that suggestion in one of the recommendations saying that people often feel more comfortable

00:04:08.360 reporting hate incidents and hate crimes directly to civil society organizations. So police forces should

00:04:15.960 work collaboratively alongside these so-called civil society organizations in data collection and more importantly

00:04:23.720 resources need to be allocated to these groups, to these organizations.

00:04:29.960 So what we have now is these groups and special interest groups specifically that stand to benefit

00:04:36.520 from the government presenting this narrative that hate is on the rise when we should be as a country

00:04:41.640 very grateful that it's on the decline. Do we have more work to do as a society? Yes, but that's not coming

00:04:47.240 about through any of the recommendations that big government is proposing. For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.

Juno News - August 01, 2019

Hate crimes on the decline. Liberals pretending otherwise.

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