Justice Minister Sean Fraser has come under fire from the Bloc Québécois after he reportedly pulled his support for their amendment to his hate crime bill seeking to remove the religious defence to hate speech.
Fraser took questions from Bloc MPs in the House of Commons on Dec. 8, in his first public comments addressing the controversy that emerged last week.
Bloc MP Christine Normandin accused the Conservatives of trying to “sabotage” her party’s amendment to remove the religious exemption to hate speech in the Criminal Code, but said that Liberals are now doing the same.
“We have learned that the Prime Minister’s Office [PMO] has also been been quietly sabotaging the work of the Bloc Québécois and the Minister of Justice,” she added….