The federal NDP is advocating for the federal government to ban the show of three completely different hate symbols, which chief Jagmeet Singh says are getting used to mobilize actions.
Invoice C-229, tabled by NDP MP Peter Julian final week, would prohibit the “show or sale” of symbols or emblems such because the Nazi swastika, the Ku Klux Klan’s insignia, and the Accomplice flag.
“It’s very clear what they stand for and it’s very clear they should have no place in Canada. That’s why we’re limiting this to a really particular set of symbols,” he stated throughout an interview on CTV’s Query Interval airing Sunday.
“Hate is being emboldened ... hate could be very very similar to a fireplace. As soon as it’s allowed to take maintain, it spreads and it begins consuming all the things.”
He stated hate symbols are showing in public extra ceaselessly in Canada, most not too long ago on the trucker convoy protests in downtown Ottawa.
“There was a time within the States with Trump the place that actually was taking place and now we’re seeing a few of that resurging right here. To think about swastikas, to think about the Accomplice flag, and KKK sort of paraphernalia in Canada. These two different symbols had been on this protest…it’s simply one thing that we don’t need to see in Canada,” he stated.
If the laws passes, anybody who's discovered to have contravened the regulation might face a jail sentence of a most of two years. It will amend Part 319 of the Felony Code, which already bans the general public incitement of hatred and the wilful promotion of hatred.
In the identical interview, Singh stated each the Conservatives and the Liberals are treating the escalating convoy tensions as a “sport” to attain political factors.
“I believe on each side – the Conservatives are clearly utilizing this, they’re weaponizing this convoy, they’re utilizing it for political acquire. The Liberals are additionally not harmless right here, they’re additionally taking a look at this as a wedge situation,” he stated.
Singh added that the Conservatives particularly are “emboldening” a few of the worst of what’s been seen on the protests.
“They’re not making it clear that it’s fallacious to have organizers of this to be overtly divisive and hateful,” he stated.
A number of Conservative MPs, together with interim chief Candice Bergen, have attended the rally and brought pictures with members of the convoy.
Nonetheless, Bergen has denounced racist behaviour and violent acts occurring as part of the protests.
Members of the Black parliamentary caucus issued an announcement Friday concerning the protests, additionally calling for the banning of symbols of “hate and terror.”
“We're disturbed and alarmed by the protests of the previous days in Ottawa and Gatineau. The ‘Freedom Convoy'’ protest turned a chance for White supremacists and others with excessive and disturbing views to parade their odious views in public,” the assertion reads.
“These shows of hatred and violence offend Canadians and don't have any place in our nation.”
New Democratic Occasion Chief Jagmeet Singh speaks with the media following caucus, in Ottawa, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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