Thirty-two Liberal MPs have issued a statement to condemn the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada, after the latest attack last week saw a Jewish woman stabbed in an Ottawa grocery store.
The MPs, among whom are a few current and former cabinet ministers, said Jewish Canadians have the right to feel safe in the country but currently there is a “deep sense of unease, fear and unsafety” among many of them.
The signatories noted that while Jews represent slightly more than 1 percent of the population, they are the victims of 70 percent of religious-based acts of hate. The 2021 Census documented 335,295 Jews living in Canada, whereas there were 920 police-reported hate crimes targeting Jews in 2024, according to Statistics Canada….