e-2019 (Discrimination)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons
- Statistics Canada reported a 47% increase in hate crimes committed between 2016-2017, and Canada should be no place to hate.
- In sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code of Canada the government has criminalized the acts of advocating genocide, public incitement of hatred, and willful promotion of hatred; but only when made in a public place, allowing white nationalist groups to meet, recruit, and share hate propaganda within Canada privately; and
- Of the more than one hundred white nationalist groups in Canada, none are listed on the Government of Canada’s Terrorist Entities List.
- Open for signature
- January 30, 2019, at 3:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- May 30, 2019, at 3:59 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Pam Damoff
(Oakville North—Burlington)
May 31, 2019 (Petition No. 421-04060)