NOTE: Amazing to note that an entire legal process is moving in Canada (the land where everyone is equal) to SOLELY protect Jews and their homeland. Nothing to stop racism again Blacks, Muslims (who are the REAL victims of racism since 9/11). Must me nice to be a Jew and be afforded every protection above and beyond the law.

Original Article here [PDF]

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is skeptical about whether the focus of these hearings on hate speech laws represents a useful step toward the dual and related goals of fighting racism and defending civil liberties. These goals, we believe, ought to be advanced together.

By TOM SANDBORN

VANCOUVER—Some Cana­dian Parliamentarians have recently joined an informal group­ing of legislators engaged in an international campaign to com­bat anti-Semitism. Further to that absolutely worthy end, the Cana­dian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism is holding hearings in Ottawa. Part of their exercise aims at tightening up our nation’s existing hate speech laws (http://www.cpcca.ca/ ).

NOTE: The 2010 B'nai Brith Audit will also lump bad thoughts people had about Jews and Jewish Institutions

NATIONAL POST
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Original Article here

The greatest flaw in B'nai Brith's annual audit of alleged anti-Semitic attacks on Canadian Jews and Jewish institutions is that it lumps the entirely trivial in with the truly appalling. An Internet blog posting blaming Jews for the H1N1 pandemic, for instance, is given equal importance alongside repeated death threats made to a rabbi. An 11-year-old boy "caught passing anti-Semitic notes at school" is seen as on a par with a man who pulled a knife on a Jewish father and his son while hurling racist epithets at them.

This fact alone makes B'nai Brith's final tally -- 1,264 anti-Semitic "incidents" in 2009 -- largely meaningless. This newspaper alone gets dozens of hateful spam emails from random bigots every week. That sort of thing is inevitable in a country of more than 30 million people. If we were to "report" all of these episodes to B'nai Brith, the organization's tally could easily double, or even triple. But that wouldn't mean that anti-Semitic hatred "is on the rise," as the group claims every year.