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Beryl P. Wajsman: To protect Jews, Canada needs to enforce existing laws, not create new ones

Bill C-9 will only serve to add another layer of law on top of a Criminal Code that is already more than adequate

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Canada is not facing a legal gap in the fight against antisemitism, it’s facing a failure of leadership.

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Across the country, Jewish-Canadians are being harassed, intimidated and targeted — not in the abstract, but in real places: outside synagogues, in university classrooms and in their own neighbourhoods.

Beryl P. Wajsman: To protect Jews, Canada needs to enforce existing laws, not create new ones Back to video

And yet, the political response, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, is to introduce Bill C-9 — another layer of law on top of a Criminal Code that is already more than adequate.

The uncomfortable truth is that Canada already has the laws it needs to confront antisemitism. What it lacks is the willingness to enforce them.

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