Richard Marceau
Richard Marceau is vice-president of external affairs at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
The federal government has a central role to play in combating online antisemitism, and legislation can be delayed no longer. Such a law should establish an independent regulator to ensure impartial decisions about what constitutes online hate.
According to Statistics Canada, members of the Jewish community were the target of 55 per cent of all religiously motivated hate crimes, although accounting for only about one per cent of the population.
