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Originally Posted by octothorp 
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How? The proposed motion does not change any laws! How does this make it easier for someone to 'make me feel the pain'? ...
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It paves the way.
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...the government should: ...(b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and (c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada, ...
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The motion condemns an expression of personal feelings in all of its forms. This is broad enough to cause some serious damage potentially. Islamophobia, antisemitism, and other discriminatory views are feelings. You may hate these anti-whatever views as they deserve (I do), but you should not be condemned for it by the government. In other word, the government doesn't need to legislate anti-hate, because it is just another form of hate. For example, in all modern dictatorial regimes (including USSR and China), without exception, freedom of speech was/is 100% constitutional, yet ANY critique of the ruling party resulted in severe repercussions - mass killings, imprisonments, camp labour and other forms of persecution based on the laws and interpretation of laws derived from government official condemnation of such critique through their leaders' speeches, plenum decisions and newspaper articles.
Any employer that had to go through a Human Rights Appeal tribunal hearing would agree with the enormous breadth of their power of interpretation of evidence and a very onerous burden of proof that's placed on the complainant already.