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During question period on public safety, the Conservatives said the Prime Minister’s speech on anti-Semitism was hollow and that his new council includes people whose records make them unfit for the job, asking whether the government would take real action to protect Jewish Canadians. The Liberals pointed to their anti-hate bill and funding to protect places of worship, schools, campuses and community centres, and said the opposition should support these measures rather than divide people.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Melissa Lantsman

Conservative
“The Prime Minister gave a weak speech about treating Jewish people badly. His new council to fix the problem includes people who defended illegal encampments, supported terrorist groups, and gave government money to people who hate Jews. Jewish Canadians are being attacked, yet the government put the people who made the problem worse in charge. I want to know if the Prime Minister is serious.”
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister delivered a speech on anti-Semitism so neutered that an anti-Semite would have given it a standing ovation. His solution was a council that includes a lawyer who went to court defending illegal encampments and a former minister whose organization lost federal funding for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and who then lobbied the former government to keep them off the terror list. The council is led now by a minister who wants to ban passages from the Bible and funded these same anti-Semites in his own department. Jewish Canadians are being attacked on the streets, and the Liberals are giving the keys to the very people that fuelled the crisis. I have one question for the Prime Minister: Is he serious?

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Evan Solomon

Liberal

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“People are treating Jewish people badly in Canada, and someone recently shot at my own synagogue. The opposition should stop dividing people and support our bill to protect places of worship, schools, and community centres.”

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Mr. Speaker, there is a dangerous and serious crisis of anti-Semitism, and all the opposition can do is drive more division in the country when we do not need it most. The very synagogue where I was bar-mitzvahed was shot with 20 bullets. We do not need lessons from the opposition as to the seriousness. That is why it is a shame that the opposition opposed our anti-hate bill to protect campuses, places of worship and community centres from this scourge of anti-Semitism. They should stop the divisive rhetoric, join us and protect all Canadians.

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Melissa Lantsman

Conservative
“Canadians do not feel safe, and the government has no real plan to stop violence and threats against Jewish people. I want the Prime Minister to take real action.”
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Mr. Speaker, that minister should ask anyone in Canada, or even the hundred Liberal donors who were in that room last night, if they feel safer today. The answer is no, because what we heard yesterday was hollow. It was reviewing previous reviews and studying studies on a crisis that the government presided over, funded and fuelled. That is not a plan. Nothing he said will stop the bullets from entering the member’s own synagogue or the genocidal slogans that are uttered in the streets every single day against Canadians. Will the Prime Minister finally stand up in the House and meet the moment he so spectacularly failed—

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Evan Solomon

Liberal
“We have a bill and funding to protect Jewish places like synagogues, camps, and community centres. The opposition should support us to protect Jewish people from hate instead of trying to divide people.”

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Mr. Speaker, like all Canadians, I was proud to stand with the Prime Minister yesterday as he named the dangerous scourge of anti-Semitism. He took action, and not with divisive rhetoric. We have an anti-hate bill that will protect our places of worship, campuses and community centres. We have put money into protecting synagogues and camps. Instead of stoking division, and instead of the hollow rhetoric, the opposition should stand with us, protect Jews who are facing unprecedented levels of anti-Semitism and take some action.

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