What concerns me about the motion is this section:
develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered focus with a holistic response through evidence-based policy-making
If the purpose of the motion is to condemn systemic racism and Islamophobia, why leave it open to the potential of policy making? The motion condemning antisemitism in 2015, which is being used a benchmark for M-103, made no mention of a government approach or policy making, it was purely to condemn the rise of global antisemitism.
While I am not a fan of the undefined use of a key term in the motion (Islamophobia), the reference to future policy-making is of concern to me. Under the Charter, all people are entitled to equal rights, protection and benefits under the law. When we start to legislate special policy for individual groups to increase or change that general protection, we stray from that principle.
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