![]() Provided $85 million over four years, starting in 2022-23, to support the launch of a new Anti-Racism Strategy and the Action Plan on Combatting Hate.Reappointed the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and announced $5.6 million over five years with $1.2 million ongoing to support the special envoy’s work.Doubled the Government of Canada’s annual contribution to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.Today, the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez reiterated Canada’s pledges and outlined the government’s ongoing efforts to combat antisemitism and promote Holocaust awareness, remembrance and research. Continue supporting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and to promote the alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.Ĭanada’s pledges also included commitments to counter online antisemitism by introducing new legislation, along with strengthening the Canada Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code.Promote awareness about the Holocaust and antisemitism in Canada.Combat antisemitism, Holocaust denial and distortion, hate crimes and all other forms of racism and to protect at-risk communities. ![]() The Government of Canada strongly condemns the alarming rise of antisemitism at home and abroad. Last year, at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism in Sweden, Canada committed to implement and fulfill the following pledges: This is an important reminder for all Canadians to combat antisemitism in all of its forms. Unfortunately, Jewish communities across Canada and around the world continue to be threatened and targeted for who they are. Antisemitism, racism and hate in any form have no place in Canada. ![]()
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