Ottawa needs ‘focused’ online hate plan after Marouf controversy, Jewish advocates say
“For us, it isn’t the delay” by Hussen that’s troubling, said Marvin Rotrand, national director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League of Human Rights. “What’s important is we must ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”
They have also expressed support for statements from Hussen and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who have promised to strengthen the process for funding projects going forward.But they add more needs to be done, both in further limiting taxpayer funding to groups that espouse hate speech and fast-tracking proposed online anti-hate legislation.
This summer, a lawyer acting for Marouf asked for his client’s tweets to be quoted “verbatim” and distinguished between Marouf’s “clear reference to ‘Jewish white supremacists'” and Jews or Jewish people in general. In September, he delivered a statement on YouTube that called for the takedown of Canada’s “Zionist” government and for Trudeau to be arrested and jailed on grounds that it was the prime minister, not Marouf, who was spreading hate speech.
But advocates say that commitment should be extended to all Crown corporations and regulatory agencies, including the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
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