URGE GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE ACTION ON OUR RECOMMENDATIONS
In the aftermath of the unthinkable terrorist attack that took the lives of three generations of the Afzal family in London, Ontario, a unanimous consent motion was passed in the House of Commons that stated the following:
That, given that,
(i) Canada has been devastated over the last decade by repeated acts of violent Islamophobia, including but not exclusive to the Quebec City Mosque Attack, the IMO Mosque Attack, and the London Terror Attack,
(ii) Canada has been deeply affected by Islamophobia at a federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal level,
(iii) ...
NCCM RECOMMENDATIONS: NATIONAL ACTION SUMMIT ON ISLAMOPHOBIA
Le français suit.
NCCM Recommendations: National Summit on Islamophobia
More Muslims have been killed in targeted hate-attacks in Canada than any other G-7 country in the past 5 years because of Islamophobia.
That fact sunk in outside the London Muslim Mosque on June 8 of this year, when thousands of Londoners gathered in the aftermath of the terror attack that took the lives of four members of the Canadian Muslim community in an unthinkable act of Islamophobic violence. The thousands that gathered that day were there to show their solidarity, pray, and stand ...
Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May is one of Canada’s best known parliamentarians and is a life-long environmental advocate.
Prior to running for elected office, she worked as a lawyer, a governmental policy advisor and was for seventeen years the Executive Director of Sierra Club of Canada (1989-2006). The ninth leader of the Green Party of Canada (2006 – 2019), she was the first Canadian Green to win election in 2011. Once she broke through the psychological barrier that Greens cannot get elected in a First Past the Post system, sixteen other Greens have been elected federally and in ...
Peter Julian
MP Peter Julian was elected in 2004 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for the riding of New Westminster-Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada. Over his 20 years in Parliament, he has held significant roles within the NDP, including National Caucus Chair, Official Opposition House Leader, and Shadow Finance Minister. He currently serves as the House Leader of the NDP, Health Critic, and Deputy Critic for Finance.
In 2022, during the "Freedom Convoy" protests—a movement marked by anti-vaccine and anti-government sentiments, often supported by far-right ...
Brenda McPhail
Dr. Brenda McPhail is the Acting Executive Director of the Master in Public Policy in Digital Society program at McMaster University, a program designed to educate the next generation of digitally-savvy policy actors in Canada. As the former Director of the Privacy, Technology and Surveillance Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (on leave), her work has supported litigation at courts up to the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as legislative reform, and public education relating to the ways in which privacy rights are at risk in contemporary society. She has ...
Lex Gill
Lex Gill is a fellow at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto) and a lawyer at Trudel Johnston & Lespérance, a Montreal-based firm specialized in class actions and public interest litigation. She has argued at every level of court in Canada and has a special interest in complex files involving constitutional law and state liability. Lex is a former Supreme Court clerk to Chief Justice Richard Wagner and has taught a series of upper-year public law seminars at McGill University's Faculty of Law. She is a member of both the Ontario and ...
James L. Turk
Professor James Turk is Director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University. With an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University, an M.A, from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Professor Turk has been a Knox Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
He writes and speaks extensively on freedom of expression, academic freedom, intellectual freedom, civil ...
Ricky Veerappan
Ricky Veerappan joined the OPP in November 2021 following his retirement from a 34-year career as a police officer with York Regional Police. He currently serves as an OPP Special Advisor in the Office of Professionalism, Respect, Inclusion & Leadership. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Joseph L. Rotman School of Management Police Leadership Program and holds a master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Management, specializing in Political, Ethnic, and Security Issues, from Royal Roads University.
Emily Laidlaw
Emily Laidlaw is a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and Associate Professor. She researches in the areas of technology regulation, cybersecurity and human rights, with a focus on platform regulation, online harms, privacy, freedom of expression and corporate social responsibility. She is author of the book Regulating Speech in Cyberspace: Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Prior to joining the University of Calgary in 2014, Dr. Laidlaw spent almost ten years in the United Kingdom where she completed her ...
Matt Hatfield
Matt is OpenMedia’s Executive Director. His previous work focuses on bridging the gap between good policy and messy political reality, with 5 years experience leading international digital rights advocacy at IFEX, and previous experience with the UN Environment program and Canopy Planet. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia, and a Masters of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto. He loves cats and swing dance, and only infrequently attempts to combine the two.
Mercedes Stephenson
Mercedes Stephenson is Global News’ Ottawa Bureau Chief and the host of the network’s flagship national political affairs program The West Block. Leading Global News’ coverage from the nation’s capital, Stephenson interviews the biggest names in Canadian and international politics.
Hailing from Calgary with a background in Military and Strategic Studies, Stephenson has distinguished herself as one of Canada’s foremost voices in political, defence and foreign policy journalism.
Stephenson has covered major political and leadership conventions and scandals, ...
Amira Elghawaby
Amira Elghawaby is a journalist and human rights advocate. In January 2023, she was appointed as Canada's Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia.
As Canada's Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Ms. Elghawaby serves as a champion, advisor, expert, and representative to support and enhance the federal government's efforts in the fight against Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination, and religious intolerance. She promotes awareness of the diverse and intersectional identities of Muslims in government Canada and provides advice to the ...