06/02/2026
Yesterday, the Prime Minister launched Canada’s new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion as a response to combat rising hate.
Canada is the leading G-7 country when it comes to Islamophobia motivated murders in the past decade. No other minority religious community in Canada has faced this kind of hate motivated murder in recent memory. Tackling such a problem means taking on hate across the board and working with all communities to build a real plan forward, including on the crisis of Islamophobia.
We will be watching the developments of this council carefully in hopes that it will meet its mandate to tackle all forms of hate, including rightfully standing up for Black, Muslim, Jewish, Indigenous, and Sikh communities, amongst many others.
Our community still heals from the cost of hate.
On June 6th, we will mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist killing of three generations of a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Every year on January 29th, we also commemorate the 6 Muslim men murdered in the Quebec City Mosque.
We are constantly reminded of these incidents, as hatred targeting our community continues to intensify across the country.
Even as the Prime Minister was speaking, our staff was speaking to Hamilton police about a school bus that serviced an Islamic school in Hamilton that was attacked and vandalized with Islamophobic graffiti.
Hate of all forms, including anti-semitism and Islamophobia, must be tackled. We will continue to call for the protection of all communities. We look forward to sitting down with members of this council to ensure our community’s concerns are acted upon.
