Registry of Lobbyists
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Justice and Law Enforcement
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Concrete Amendments to Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act) that will effectively combat antisemitism.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Budget
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Create a federally supported rental-property acquisition fund.
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Policies or Program
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International Development
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Create an oversight mechanism that enables the withholding of funds allocated to the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the purpose of developing a host nation curriculum as a component of its current UN Refugees Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) commitment.
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Policies or Program
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Budget
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Dedicate funding to create a publicly accessible digital archive of all records (government departments and agencies) relating to the Holocaust and then have Library and Archives Canada (LAC) organize and release them as non-redacted copies readily open and accessible to the public.
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Policies or Program
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Justice and Law Enforcement
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Direct the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program (War Crimes Program), either to prosecute in Canada or to elicit extradition from extradition treaty partners or, where appropriate, enter into specific extradition agreements, in cases where the evidence available is such that, in the view of the Program, a prosecution or extradition request would succeed. Revocation of citizenship and removal should not be pursued in these cases.
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Policies or Program
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National Security/Security
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Dissolve Samidoun as a not-for profit corporation.
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Policies or Program
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Justice and Law Enforcement
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Ensure that Canada’s Hate Laws (under the Criminal Code are enforced). Since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, there has been a significant rise in antisemitic attacks against Canadian Jewry. Canada must take hate speech against the Jewish community seriously.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Arts and Culture
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For Canada to maintain its commitment to fighting antisemitism by developing a concrete plan to implement the universal use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antimerism.
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Policies or Program
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Budget
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Help more charitable organizations cover the costs related to the construction of new affordable rental housing projects by revitalizing and improving access to National Housing Strategy (NHS) programs
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Policies or Program
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Arts and Culture
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Include funding in the 2025 budget to develop a 5-year
program to enhance the IHRA literacy of post-secondary students.
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Policies or Program
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Foreign Affairs
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Increase transparency including by facilitating the establishment of a coordination group, with a clear and formalized pathway for civil society to communicate requests to multiple governments for the implementation of targeted sanctions.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Privacy and Access to Information
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Introduce amendments to the Access to Information Act that would mandate the disclosure of all records relations to all records relating specifically to alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada and to any other Canadian citizen or resident who may have been complicit in carrying out the Holocaust and, all other Holocaust-related records (as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) in the possession of the Government of Canada.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Foreign Affairs
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Investigate why the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law) is not being used to combat gross violations of human rights.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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National Security/Security
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Legislate a foreign agent registry.
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Policies or Program
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National Security/Security
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Listing terrorist organizations to the list of entities under Canada’s Criminal Code.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Foreign Affairs
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Propose solutions to rectify the general incoherence of Canada’s sanctions schemes, including by instituting clear and publicly available policy regarding which legislation is used in which circumstances, and ensuring that the various sanctions legislations are used in an internally consistent and cohesive manner.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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International Development
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Reinstate the pause on funding for UNWRA and ensure that conditions must be placed on the renewed UNRWA funding.
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Policies or Program
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Foreign Affairs
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Support the passage of legislation such as Bill S-247 (An Act to amend the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act that would, in the enforcement of sanctions, enable restrictions and prohibitions on activities in relation to family members, making it more difficult for gross human rights violators and kleptocrats to avoid the enforcement of sanctions by transferring, giving or selling their property to family members.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Foreign Affairs
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Support the utilization of the new mechanism to repurpose assets of sanctioned individuals and entities, and facilitate the establishment of a clear role for victims in this process, including a role for individual claimants, and the possibility of using assets to assist victims in war-torn countries and conflict zones.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Industry, Science and Technology
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That the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry work with Canada’s federal research funding agencies to amend their funding agreements with institutions to include, as a component of the agreements, a provision that all activities funded by the agencies are conducted in consultation with the IHRA definition of antisemitism and its illustrative examples.
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Policies or Program
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Foreign Affairs
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The need for Canada to impose sanctions on the political leaders of Hamas (a listed terrorist entity), including Ismail Haniyeh, the Qatar-based head of Hamas's political wing, for their role in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel.
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Policies or Program
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International Development
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Undertake a forensic audit of its UNWRA contributions to determine the amount that is allocated to the creation of host nation curriculums, and conduct a thorough review of the curriculums to ensure that they are compliant with both UNESCO and Canadians standards.
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Policies or Program
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The B’nai Brith Committee for Justice in Canada articulates the interests of the grassroots Jewish community in the promotion of human rights and diversity, and in combatting antisemitism and hate speech. The Committee advocates on behalf of Jewish Canadians for their rights of freedom of conscience and religion. It makes representations to federal, provincial and municipal orders of government and the diplomatic community on issues of concern to the Jewish community, and educates policy-makers, decision-makers and the public on these issues.
Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer, B'nai Brith Canada
Address:
120 Terence Matthews Crescent
Kanata, ON K2M 0J1
Canada
Telephone number:
416-633-6224
Ext.
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