Civil Life in Canada

"[The government's new bill to target use of hate and terror symbols is not a] blanket ban [on any particular imagery]." 

"We see it in our streets. We see it in our parks. We see it in our grocery stores."

"Frankly, we see it almost everywhere."

"This behaviour is not just morally culpable, the impact has reverberations through the entirety of the community. And, I would argue, tears at the seams of the social fabric of the nation." 

"[The bill includes specific language exempting peaceful protest from prosecution and would only apply to conduct where the] motivation [is to intimidate or prevent someone from practising their faith]."

"We have included specific provisions to exempt peaceful protest."

Justice Minister Sean Fraser 

Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled a bill Friday adding four new offences to the Criminal Code. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

"Merely displaying this symbol, in and of itself, is not the sole harm we're trying to target." 

"It does have to be tied with the wilful promotion of hatred. This is difficult, because it could take a thousand different forms, and it's going to be for police on the ground and Crown prosecutors to identify when that threshold has been crossed."

Justice Minister Sean Fraser

 

"It is still necessary to show that there is an intention ... an intention to promote hatred by displaying these symbols."

"It's not even clear to me that this law would do what they want it to do, given that you would have to prove, in a criminal context, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the person displaying the flag intended to promote hatred on racial or religious grounds, obviously, in particular, hatred towards Jews." 

Richard Moon, professor, freedom of expression, University of Windsor 

A group of people hold signs at a pro-Palestinian rally. (Travis Golby/CBC)

 

Warning that the Canadian government's new bill that targets the use of hate and terror symbols is not to be considered a 'blanket ban' on any particular imagery, the Justice Minister explained that it would depend on a variety of factors to be evaluated by police and prosecutors in laying a charge, along with questions over implementation.  

 

The measure represents the first piece of legislation since Parliament's resumption this week, representing one of five changes Prime Minister Mark Carney has prioritized in changes to the Criminal Code for an effort to respond to the viral hate messages proliferating in Canada. Those messages have been amplified and become more pointedly vociferous and sinister in the past two years, when the Liberal government in an earlier iteration chose to do nothing.

 

And in doing nothing, merely mouthing the words that 'antisemitism has no place in Canada' -- those who used an inverted triangle, those who flew the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, championing the groups that Canada lists as terrorists, those who chanted and carried banners shouting 'final solution', symbolizing another Holocaust, who burned the effigy of Israel's prime minister, along with Israeli flags -- were lent tacit encouragement to the  raging mobs accusing Israel of 'Apartheid', and 'genocide'.

 

Immediately on news of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas leading a flood of thousands of terrorists trained and armed with instructions to rape, mutilate, murder at will on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel, it was well understood that the nation being  savagely attacked would respond. Which led Palestinian groups in Canada to quickly organize protests against the Jewish state mounting its response in Gaza in a determined effort to root out Hamas, its leaders, weapons depots, and deadly operatives. Taking to the streets of Canada along with supporters in the thousands, Jew-haters went on a  rampage of hate, threatening Canadian Jews.

 

Blocking traffic arteries, entrances to hospitals and universities, synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses, the protest organizers cited their constitutional rights to free speech. And they were permitted to freely speak libelous slanders, inciting to violence, accusing and indulging in vituperative threats against Canadian Jews, even targeting Jewish children attending parochial schools with taunts and accusations. Police presence meant a minimum of physical violence, but no action was taken against verbal violence.

 

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The new legislative proposal would include criminalizing "willfully promoting hatred against any identifiable group by displaying certain symbols in a public place"; a crime carrying a two-year penalty. Hate symbols defined for the bill's purposes as a Nazi swastika or SS lightning bolts. Defining as well a terror symbol linked to a currently listed  terrorist entity under Canada's designated terrorist lists, including Hezbollah and Hamas. Deliberate alteration of such symbols to be included.

 

The proposed change, according to Richard Moon, professor at the University of Windsor specializing in freedom of expression, raises the question  of assigning motivation to anyone who displays such a symbol. Response to the presence of flags representing Hamas and Hezbollah has Jewish community groups and leaders specifically calling for government action. All such appeals to government have gone unanswered despite the fact that Canada already has anti-hate law legislation.

 

Accordingly, Professor Moon questions whether the government proposal is simply 'performative', since the episodes and symbols new legislation is meant to address are already covered by existing criminal law. In response to the new bill, a spokesman for the National Council of Canadian Muslims, sensitive to any issues that might be addressed to impede the Muslim narrative, insists greater clarity is required on the plan to criminalize the display of terror symbols, since white supremacist symbols "remain untouched". 

 

There are, needless to say, no marches, protests, rallies led by white supremacists interfering with civil life in Canada. 

 

People on both sides are taking issue with some of the signs and social media posts about recent events in the Middle East. (CBC)

 

 

'Canada is Back' Has Morphed Into Canada's Descent Into Hell

"[There is a] distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of hate."

"I don't think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I think that that is something that is looked at very carefully in many places, including Canada. [It is perfectly fine [if people feel strongly about support for Palestinians]."

"The only issue is, I think that we, as democracies, should look at ... when is a line crossed that is between supporting a cause and between changing our values in a way that incites hatred and violence and even glorification of horrendous terrorist attacks."

"That's very, very important." 

Iddo Moed, Israeli Ambassador to Canada

"To all those who saw fit to promote genocide, glorify terrorism and mock the murder of Jewish people, including women and babies -- the police are coming for you."

U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman

 

"Let me be clear about Hamas. Its members are not freedom fighters. They are not a resistance. They are terrorists."

"There are so many people in Canada who are afraid of the escalating tension here at home. We must not let worry, suspicion and mistrust divide us."

"We must remember that it is a short path from mistrusting one's neighbour to entrenching division. A peaceful society does not happen by accident and will not continue without effort."

"Canadians' liberty is not about taking away the freedoms of others but living in a way that expands and strengthens freedom for everyone."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

 

"People are free to state their own opinions, even opinions that I find abhorrent."

"That said, I’m free to state my opinion, which is that Hamas is a sadistic, terrorist death cult and it must be defeated, and I find it abhorrent that anyone in Canada or anywhere else would show their support for Hamas."

"Hamas is not a militant organization. It is not a government. It is not an activist group; Hamas is a sadistic criminal terrorist death cult, and it must be defeated."

"This kind of peace between Muslims and Jews, between Israelis and Arabs [the signatories to the Abraham Accords], would be a nightmare for Hamas and for the dictatorship in Iran, which seek to perpetuate the conflict and the divisions as a source of power. They need to perpetuate the hatred in order to justify their dictatorships."

"It is unthinkable that the IRGC can operate legally in Canada. It can raise funds. It can prepare logistics. It can recruit new followers. Some of the people attached to the highest levels of the IRGC live in Canada today, their very presence terrorizing peaceful Canadians of Iranian descent who desperately want to kick these terrorists out of our country. They are right."

"The terrorists must be kicked out. This organization must be made a criminal entity."

Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre 

Hundreds of people attend a pro-Palestinian rally in Mississauga, Ont. The rally was one of many taking place across North America and around the world this weekend. (Alexis Raymon/Radio-Canada)

 

Canada's prime minister speaks of unity and division among people. He fails to address the scandalous fact that disunity and division runs rampant in Canada. It begins with his own actions, in alienating Canada's western provinces from its eastern provinces. It carries on when protesters arrive in convoys of dissenters to legally express their indignation over an autocratic government that issues diktats and when people object he names them as scum, homophobes, racists. 

The most recent examples carrying on from years of hate-mongering, are the crowds of Canadian Arab and Muslim citizens and their followers, including those illegally in Canada, who gather in numbers to decry and foment hatred against Israel and Jews. The most recent propellant of which is the horrendous slaughter of Israelis in villages and kibbutzim by Hamas terrorists invading from Gaza, causing Israel to launch a defensive/offensive conflict into Gaza to extirpate Hamas and its sibling organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both offshoots of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

In Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia, among other Western collegial democracies, these hate-filled, incitement-to-violence rallies have seen remedial responses from authorities. Canada's prime minister prefers to daintily deplore them, but will do nothing to forcefully put a stop to them. Protesters who last winter arrived in Ottawa demanding he resign merited the calling of the Emergencies Act and police dispersal and trials. That was personal to him, going so far as to freeze their bank accounts.

 

Pro-Palestinian supporters during a demonstration in Toronto on October 9, 2023. Photo by Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images

Arab Muslims in Canada who promote violence against Jews and Israel, leaving the Canadian Jewish community in fear, and necessitating that precautions against violence be undertaken with a police presence and guards around Jewish institutions fail to reflect the idealized Canadian unity that Justin Trudeau hypocritically promotes, but does nothing to ensure actually exists. Even welcoming into Canadian society people from cultures that nurse ancient tribal and religious antipathies toward others, incapable of adopting Canadian values, is an act of national destruction.

Pierre Poilievre, Justin Trudeau's political opposition in Parliament, calls for Canada to take action on criminalizing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- the acknowledged financial supporter of Hamas -- listing them as a terrorist entity. Hamas is on that terror list, yet Hamas flags and even the black flag of the Islamic State appear prominently in the anti-Israel Palestinian mobs that scream 'gas the Jews', suggesting another try at a 'final solution' and other vile imprecations and threats against fellow Canadian citizens. 

Palestinian groups in Canada came out immediately following the grisly news out of Israel that an invasion of terrorist death-cult operatives from Hamas had invaded border villages, towns and kibbutzes under cover of emerging dawn on October 7 to massacre families in their homes, people waiting at bus stops, stopping cars to kill motorists and passengers, raping women beside the dead bodies of their friends at a music festival, abducting babies, infants, teens, women, the elderly to use them as hostages in exchange for criminal Palestinians in Israeli prisons. A time of wild celebration for Palestinians.

 

This proved to be a week of many revelations for Canadians, prompting many to question the character of our country and its citizenry. Pictured: Pro-Palestinian protestors take to the streets of Montreal on Oct. 8, 2023, mere hours after Hamas launched its initial assault on Israel. Photo credit: The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

 

The scale of the butchery, the evidence of torture, including forcing parents and children to witness the mutilation each was undergoing before delivering the death blows, was beyond mere inhumanity. In Gaza, Palestinians rejoiced and celebrated over the slaughter. Palestinian men and teens used the opportunity of the protective fence that had been smashed through to enter those same villages to not only loot possessions of the dead, but to commit murder themselves, some of them the very Gazans who were permitted employment in Israel.

Palestinians in the West Bank joined the congratulatory celebrations at the great victory achieved by Hamas in murdering over a thousand civilian Israelis. Those celebrations spread throughout the Middle East. That such butchery is inconceivable to a civilized society merely emphasizes that Middle Eastern countries in general, but certainly not all, are firmly anchored in societal dysfunction, emotional and enlightened stagnation of a heritage dating back millennia of tribal and sectarian hatreds.

And that very same syndrome is seen now throughout the world wherever Arabs and Muslims have penetrated, shifting their presence in a great diaspora of migration and bringing with them their heritage and cultural values of Islamist dominance, detestation of social enlightenment as they adhere to the precepts of Sharia, refusing to integrate themselves with the laws and social mores of the countries they now prosper in while spreading the fiction of colonialist victimhood of a people returned to their ancestral home.

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly listen to Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley during a working session at the Canada CARICOM Summit, in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

 

In Justin Trudeau's Canada, disunity and division, hatred and incitement to violence has been normalized. He speaks of justice and fairness, of adherence to the law, of equality and security yet he has allowed Canada to be manipulated by China, he has accepted the presence of people who connive to disrupt life and security for other segments of the Canadian population that they target for eradication and censure. His focus on 'feminism' of a type known only to himself; on the virtues of celebrating the uniqueness of the trans community disruptive in their infantile circus of theatrics further divides parental rights from children's welfare.

There is a vast litany of national failures in Canada now, thanks to the Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau who boasts of a once-proud nation's post-national state of freedom, liberation, equality, diversity and inclusion. Delusional myths of hatefully bickering disunity in a country whose vast natural resources may no longer be exploited in favour of achieving environmental balance which fails to meet the demands of a global society capable of harnessing itself to respect for nature and the environment while responsibly harvesting its resources.

The most recent  riots of celebrations over the barbaric murders of innocent people, the torture of helpless civilians, the anguish over the fate of hundreds of children, women and men of all ages and health conditions in the hands of a remorseless murderous sect of religious fanatics whose public relations enterprise seems to attract the world's population of social deviants and psychopaths viewing the apathy in reaction of other segments of society against the horrors of terrorism sending us into a Dark Age of nihilism.

Le Monde