Trudeau’s Political Games With The Canadian Jewish Community Part 2

At all events, I very much doubt that this appointment will induce the Trudeau government to adopt the following measures for starters:

1. Depoliticise the prosecution of hate crimes by removing the requirement for the Attorneys General to consent to their prosecution.

a. In the alternative, impose upon them the legal duty to publish in writing, the specific reasons for withholding consent

b. Further, and at all events, impose upon them the legal duty to publish their guidelines to the police departments and/or to the provincial prosecutors of the criteria to be used in determining whether or not they should pursue every case at hand at hand and bother to submit them for their consent.

2. Revisit and amend sections 318, 319 and 320 of the Criminal Code to remove the unwarranted loopholes that make it unnecessarily difficult to secure convictions and strengthen their deterrence dimension.

3. Where the provinces will not, the federal government assume the prosecution of

a. Clergy, who preach, teach and incite hatred against Jews and others 

b. Academics who spew antisemitism or other kinds of hate within and without classrooms and in the alternative, progressively cut the federal funding to universities and other educational institutions that are indifferent to antisemitism and for that matter to any other type of hatred and intolerance on their campus and are unwilling to take the necessary and effective measures to deal with the problem.

Where, on being put on notice to do attend and resolve these problems where one such institution fails to do so, the federal government should progressively cut whatever funding to which the institution would be otherwise entitled to receive.

4. Investigate the foreign funding of schools, universities and any other kind of institutions that propagate values, thinking and practices that are contrary to the fundamental values, rights and freedoms cherished by Canadians, and /or teach customs and behavioral codes forbidden by law including antisemitism. Where proper grounds are established, the government must prohibit such funding.

5. Forbid the entrance and establishment in Canada of any organisation that is antisemitic and/or has already been declared to be a terrorist one by countries the organisation previously operated.

6. Penalise and where necessary ban social media that disseminates antisemitism or for that matter propagates hate and intolerance against any community or individuals

7. Apply rigorously vigorously and consistently the IHRA definition of antisemitism in all matters throughout its operations.

And this is just for starters.

Until the Trudeau government engages and addresses the foregoing problems in a forthright manner with respect to the foregoing issues, the appointment of the Envoy is just another insidious cynical political ploy.