In this explosive address, Mike Carney sounds the alarm on what he describes as a growing anti-Semitism crisis in Canada, warning that the country risks failing its Jewish community if immediate action is not taken. The remarks have triggered intense discussion across political circles, social media, community organizations, and international observers.
During his speech, Mike Carney highlighted rising concerns about anti-Semitism in Canada, pointing to attacks on Jewish institutions, growing security fears, and the broader challenge of protecting social cohesion in a multicultural society. His stark declaration that "Canada is failing Jews" has become a viral talking point, fueling debates over public safety, hate crimes, free speech, inclusion, and government responsibility.
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During his speech, Mike Carney highlighted rising concerns about anti-Semitism in Canada, pointing to attacks on Jewish institutions, growing security fears, and the broader challenge of protecting social cohesion in a multicultural society. His stark declaration that "Canada is failing Jews" has become a viral talking point, fueling debates over public safety, hate crimes, free speech, inclusion, and government responsibility.
#MikeCarney #CanadaFailingJews #AntiSemitismInCanada #MarkCarney #CanadaPolitics #JewishCommunity #JewishCanadians #BreakingNews #CanadianNews #HateCrimes #PublicSafety #CanadaNews #Geopolitics #WorldNews
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00:02Thank you. Thank you, Evan, dear friend. Thank you, Leslie. Thank you, Cantor Rosen. Rabbi
00:14Splansky, I'm pleased to hear the news of your father. Thank you in absentia,
00:20although you're very much present with that video greeting. Thank you all for
00:27welcoming me to the heart of Holy Blossom, to the heart of your community. Now, I'm
00:38going to speak, obviously, to this community, but I want to speak to the
00:41nation. Rabbi Splansky much of what she said resonates directly with what I will
00:51say. She said it better. She'll be quicker. So sit comfortably. But let me draw on some
01:03of those traditions. 3,000 years Jewish tradition has taught us that a society
01:12should not be judged by its wealth or its power, but how it treats its most
01:17vulnerable. The Hebrew prophets returned repeatedly to this lesson. Isaiah called
01:26on rulers to learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice. Aid the wrong. Uphold
01:36the rights of the orphan. Defend the cause of the widow.
01:43Amos warned against societies that prosper while neglecting the weak. The message of the prophets
01:52to us was that a just society is sustained not merely by law, but also, and most fundamentally,
02:01by the obligations that we owe to each other. Centuries later, in a different way, Aristotle
02:09described this as civic friendship. By friendship, he did not mean intimacy, affection, or fellow feeling.
02:17He meant something more demanding and durable. The mutual recognition between citizens that each is pursuing a good life under
02:27the same political roof,
02:29and the conditions of your flourishing are the same, must be the same as mine.
02:38And this is the covenant that makes Canada possible. This is the covenant that is being tested today by the
02:47scourge of anti-Semitism.
02:51And I want to speak today about that terrible reality, a reality this community has been facing.
02:58Jewish community across this country has been facing. I want to speak to that reality and how we as Canadians
03:05can restore the full promise of Canadian citizenship to all.
03:13Because Canada was not founded on a single creed, race, language, or faith. Instead, we've held our differences in common.
03:23Beginning after a long period of struggle and oppression with the French and English accommodation.
03:32This deepened with confederation. And it's been carried through successive generations of immigration from every continent and of every faith
03:43and none.
03:45It continues to be traveled in the long journey of reconciliation with indigenous peoples, the original stewards of this land.
03:54The respect, on fait, la celebration des différences est inscrits dans la Charte des droits et libertés,
04:02notamment dans l'article 27, qui indique que toute interprétation de la Charte concordait avec l'objectif de promouvoir le
04:13maintien et la valorisation du patrimoine multiculturel des Canadiens.
04:18Et cet engagement repose sur un conseil que l'un des grands philosophes canadiens Charles Taylor appelait la reconnaissance.
04:30Selon lui, la reconnaissance est plus simple que la tolérance.
04:36Il s'agit plutôt de reconnaître activement que chaque citoyen est constitué en partie de l'identité qui porte en
04:47lui par sa foi, la langue, ses traditions, son histoire et que sa dignité est préservée que si l'on
04:58tient compte de ses aspects de son identité.
05:02Each of our identity includes our faith, our history, our traditions, our culture, as Rabbi Splansky alluded.
05:15We have to hold those at the core because to be recognized, to be truly recognized, is to be received
05:22as who you are.
05:25Pluralism in Canada is not the exception to the framework. Pluralism is the Canadian framework.
05:32Our secularism is open.
05:36The state takes no side in the matters of belief and the institutions of public life are not captured by
05:42any faith or identity.
05:44In Canada, state neutrality doesn't empty the public square but ensures that no conception of the good, including humanism or
05:53atheism, is privileged by state power and that every Canadian has the freedom of conscience to live and live fully
06:01as they believe.
06:03And that means the state, government, above the responsibilities we all have as citizens, and we all have responsibilities as
06:12citizens, but above all, government has a special responsibility to ensure that no culture, faith, race, gender or identity is
06:22threatened or suppressed.
06:25And it goes further than that, it goes to the responsibility of ensuring that everyone can be their whole selves
06:33in Canada.
06:35Our fundamental insight as Canadians is that unity is not uniformity, that our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not
06:43risks to be managed.
06:45And in Canada, faith, language, heritage, tradition aren't concessions to citizenship.
06:51They are the expressions of our citizenship.
06:56In Canada, the visibility of our differences is the substance of our mutual respect.
07:04This is how we hold ourselves together.
07:08Now, I don't pretend that this is always easy.
07:11Differences generate friction.
07:14Accommodation of competing claims is real work sometimes.
07:17We'll always have legitimate debates about where those lines properly fall, but those debates are part of how a pluralistic
07:26country sustains itself.
07:29And today, in Canada, that nature is being tested, as one of our communities is being particularly and brutally targeted.
07:40Across our country, anti-Semitism has surged to levels not seen in the post-war period.
07:47Last year, over two-thirds of all religion-motivated hate crimes were directed at Jewish Canadians who make up only
07:571% of the population.
08:00I'm afraid this room knows what I'm about to say all too well.
08:03You've lived it.
08:05But I want everyone to hear it.
08:08Anti-Semites in Canada have fired bullets at Jewish schools.
08:11They have thrown firebombs at synagogues.
08:14They've attacked community centres.
08:16They've targeted Jewish-owned businesses.
08:19Harassed Jewish patients at hospitals.
08:21Drove Jewish students from common spaces on our university campuses.
08:27They have desecrated our Holocaust memorials.
08:31Their parents canadiennes doivent désormais se demander s'il est prudent d'envoyer leurs enfants dans une école juive.
08:44Les Canadiens pratiquants y réfléchissent à deux fois avant de porter une kippa dans le métro.
08:52Et le même fleuve sévit en Europe et aux États-Unis.
08:57Ils frappent également le Royaume-Uni, où les attentats terroristes de Heaton Park et de Golders-Green ont profondément ébranlé
09:07les communautés juives.
09:10Et en Australie, où, en décembre dernier, 15 personnes ont été assassinées à Bondi Beach lors de la première soirée
09:20de Hanukkah.
09:23Let me personalize this.
09:27Last October, Evan, Solomon and I, and others, we attended the opening of the Chabad Jewish Centre at the University
09:38of Ottawa.
09:39Remember that?
09:39Lovely, sunny day.
09:42This student centre was made possible by the philanthropy of one of Canada's leading entrepreneurs, Harley Finkelstein,
09:50who, as a student, had benefited from the teachings and the friendship and hospitality of Rabbi Chaim Boyarski.
09:59And the rabbi remains at the heart of Jewish student life at that university.
10:05It was a joyous event, otherwise joyous event, but it occurred under heavy police presence and it was interrupted by
10:13angry shouts of some passers-by.
10:17Only a few weeks later, only a few weeks later, I would next see Rabbi Boyarski on a bitterly cold
10:25Sunday afternoon in December as we lit the first menorah candle at Ottawa City Hall and mourned the victims of
10:35Bondi Beach,
10:36which included his friend and Chabad colleague, Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
10:44The pain, the threats, the fears can appear relentless.
10:52The horror and shame are global.
10:55Our actions must be local.
10:58And they start, they start with clearly admitting that Canada's civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians.
11:08And they extend to all Canadians, recognizing that if that covenant fails one of our communities, it fails us all.
11:19Since being elected a little over a year ago, our government has been acting, first and foremost, on the most
11:27fundamental responsibility of government, protecting our citizens.
11:32We've introduced six new pieces of legislation to bolster public safety and to combat anti-Semitism specifically, as well as
11:42other forms of hatred.
11:44Foremost amongst these six bills, Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, addresses directly the rise in anti-Semitism, hate
11:55-motivated violence, and the targeting of communities.
11:58It significantly strengthens the civil code, the criminal code, sorry.
12:03It significantly strengthens the criminal code by creating new offenses for intimidation, obstruction at places of worship, schools, community centers,
12:15and other institutions used by identifiable communities.
12:21We've also confirmed the importance of the operational definition of anti-Semitism that the International Alliance for the Mémoire of
12:33the Holocaust has formulated, and that Canada has adopted in 2019, in the cadre of the Canadian Stratégie Canadian de
12:43lutte contre le racisme.
13:02We're advancing our work to confront hate online and violent extremism, including, and I'm limited to, but including through the
13:12Canada Centre for Community Engagement and the
13:15Prevention of Prevention of Violence, the Centre leads Canada's work on countering radicalization to violence, and supports prevention, research, front
13:24-line intervention through the Community Resilience Fund.
13:29Last year, the government announced more than $36 million for projects to counter violent extremism, including early prevention in schools
13:39and communities, and work to understand and to respond to extremist movements online and offline.
13:48A few weeks ago, we committed an additional $75 million through the Canada Community Security Program, for synagogues, for Jewish
13:58day schools, for community centers, and for institutions of every faith community whose safety is at risk.
14:05It pains me that we had to commit $75 million to this.
14:13Any dollar to this.
14:16We're working with provinces, municipalities, and our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to coordinate protection.
14:25I would like to take this time to commend Chief Kerr, Deputy Commissioner Larkin, Chief Demki, the Toronto Police Service
14:38today, and all your efforts for enforcement.
14:54And when Royal Assent comes on Bill C-9, we're going to give you additional laws to enforce soon.
15:03Thanks, Robert.
15:06Morning.
15:15Bye-bye.
15:24Almighty.
15:26собой.
15:27Hannah.
15:27total
15:40It's not enough to protect.
15:42The deeper work is the renewal of the Canadian Covenant itself.
15:48And to that end, I'm pleased to announce today the launch and the membership of Canada's
15:56new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion.
16:01It will be chaired by the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Mark Miller.
16:08The Council has a clear mission to combat racism and hate in all their forms, and to
16:14guide the Government of Canada as part of our efforts to build a fairer, more just, more
16:19inclusive society.
16:22I'm honoured to announce that Senator Mark Gould, one of Canada's most collaborative,
16:27effective, principled voices on the scourge of anti-Semitism, has agreed to join that Council.
16:41And I am directing that the first responsibility of that Council is to address anti-Semitism
16:49from four different directions.
16:52First, the Council will assess the nature, the scale and the drivers of anti-Semitism in
17:00Canada, including across our public institutions, our workplaces, our campuses, our public services,
17:08our professional bodies, our online spaces.
17:12Because these are the places where the habits of civic life are formed.
17:18And where if those habits fracture, the fracture quickly spreads.
17:23Secondly, the Council will coordinate a whole-of-government approach to anti-Semitism, because combating anti-Semitism
17:32is the responsibility we all share.
17:35It will ensure that federal workplaces, federal policies, federal public safety programs, and
17:41community initiatives are aligned in protecting Jewish Canadians, confronting hate, and promoting
17:47inclusion.
17:49Third, the Council will improve research in the collection of data on hate incidents.
17:56It will build stronger data-sharing systems, so all orders of government, all police services,
18:02are working from the same facts and with the same alignment.
18:06And finally, the Council will measure clearly the impact of our efforts, so that we can reinforce
18:14investments in education, in prevention, training, and community safety.
18:18Those particular investments that are actually delivering real results.
18:25And are helping to build a safer, more inclusive Canada.
18:31Now, particularly with respect to the first two items.
18:34I want to be clear about what these measures are and what they are not.
18:41They are not curtailments of freedom of expression.
18:45They are not constraints on legitimate criticism of any government, on any subject, anywhere.
18:50But they are.
18:52They are the basic standards we owe one another in our shared public institutions to ensure
18:58that no Canadian community is driven or even discouraged by those institutions by hatred.
19:07Now, institutional measures, even the strongest ones, cannot do the deeper work of true recognition
19:14alone.
19:15That deeper work falls to each of us as Canadians, and to all of us in how we treat each
19:22other.
19:25As the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, Eli Wiesel, once observed,
19:31the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
19:37Time has come.
19:39Canadians must stand up for each other.
19:41That means all Canadians must speak out when we see anti-Semitism creep into our social
19:47media feeds, our classrooms, our workplaces.
19:51Because history teaches us that hatred metastasizes when a society grows indifferent to it, when intimidation
20:00becomes routine, when conspiracy becomes discourse, when citizens choose to look away.
20:06We must learn from that history.
20:09And as Canadians, we must learn from our own times, about love and indifference.
20:18The real world has come.
20:19The 21st century over the period of the past, the 2020 years over the period, more than a million
20:23people have stood on the ¿noi-honored foot in Canada.
20:28We come from Europe during two wars, 2001, the countries are engrossed by conflict, between
20:34the regions of the country in combat, poor poverty and persecution.
20:40They came with their history, their beliefs, their language, and their hopes.
20:46They came with a heritage that has since become the one from Canada, and the pact that they
20:53have concluded, that pact that has since their own essence of Canadian citizen.
21:02That pact, her immigration to Canada is clear.
21:06We welcome the peoples of the world, and all their diversity, and all that splendour.
21:13We don't welcome the world's hatreds.
21:16When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story.
21:20You leave behind your animosities.
21:23Now, we haven't always lived up to all of that pact.
21:291939, the MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, sailed
21:36up the Atlantic coast, seeking refuge.
21:40Cuba turned them away.
21:41The United States turned them away.
21:43And Canada, we looked away too.
21:46The ship returned to Europe, hundreds, hundreds of those passengers were murdered in the Holocaust.
21:53The St. Louis is the face of the Canadian promise denied.
21:57And Prime Minister Trudeau rightly apologised for it in 2018.
22:03The covenant we must renew today is in part the covenant we failed to honour then.
22:10And what does this moment require?
22:15It requires that we do not transpose foreign conflicts onto each other.
22:20It requires all of us, as Canadians, to stand up and protect our fellow citizens.
22:26It requires all of us to raise our voices in disgust and defiance when we see the ugly face
22:32of anti-Semitism.
22:34It requires that no Canadian child goes to school, being seen as a representative of any foreign
22:41state.
22:42Cela implique qu'aucun Canadien vaincant à ses occupations quotidiennes ne doive assumer
22:49la responsabilité des actes commis par un gouvernement où qu'il se trouve.
22:56Qu'il soit dans le métro, dans un magasin, l'hôpital, à l'université, dans une synagogue,
23:03une mosquée, un goudoir ou un temple.
23:05Cela exige de ténèr les débats politiques au Parlement et dans l'espace publique et
23:12non de cibler les entreprises privées, les domiciles et les communautés.
23:19The covenant runs in every direction.
23:23Anti-Semitism breaks it, Islamophobia breaks it, Burning Churches breaks it, Transphobia
23:28breaks it.
23:29The targeting of any Canadian for their faith, their origin, their identity breaks it.
23:34Now, I want to be clear, particularly to the Jewish community, naming those other assaults
23:42is not equivalent.
23:45The crisis of anti-Semitism in Canada today is specific, it's severe and it demands a
23:51targeted response.
23:52And that is what our government is fully committed to.
23:59It's also the case that for all Canadians to remind that the covenant we are renewing
24:06is comprehensive.
24:08It protects all of us by binding all of us.
24:12That's its strength, its source of legitimacy, it's all of our responsibility.
24:19So let me close where I began.
24:24Canada was summoned into being by peoples who learned imperfectly and over time to hold
24:31their differences in common.
24:33It hasn't always been easy and we have at times failed.
24:38We failed Indigenous peoples.
24:40We failed the Acadians and the French settlers.
24:43We failed the passengers of the MS St. Louis.
24:48Each failure has taught us something about what it means to be the country we aspire to
24:52be.
24:53That means protection.
24:56It means outlawing and policing hate.
24:59It means preventing radicalization and addressing institutional biases.
25:05It means restoring Canada's promise by ensuring that each of us has the space and confidence
25:12to be their whole selves and to thrive.
25:16Canada promises a country in which Jewish Canadians can be visibly, fully, joyfully Jewish in public
25:23life, at school, at work, in the street, synagogue, in the academy, in the arts, in every place,
25:32every place, because all of Canada is theirs.
25:39Canada promises a country in which Indigenous peoples, Muslim Canadians, Black Canadians, Sikh
25:44Canadians, Christian Canadians, Queer Canadians, every Canadian can be visibly themselves without
25:48fear.
25:50Canada promises a country where our differences are nurtured, not managed.
25:54Where our differences are honoured, not suppressed.
25:57Our differences are lived out in common, not pushed to the margins.
26:04That's the covenant we're renewing today.
26:07That's the covenant that we all, as Canadians, must honour with our actions.
26:12Thank you very much for our time.
26:15Thank you very much.
26:16Thank you very much.
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