Overview
- Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly said Canada is failing Jewish citizens and announced the measures during a speech at a Toronto synagogue on Monday.
- The government launched the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion and directed Minister Marc Miller to chair it with former senator Marc Gold as a member to assess causes and scale of antisemitism.
- Ottawa committed C$75 million to strengthen security at faith institutions, funding physical upgrades and extra security personnel for synagogues, schools and community centres.
- Legislative work continues on Bill C-9, a hate-crime bill that passed the House in March and is now before the Senate human rights committee to create new offence categories and strengthen the Criminal Code.
- Jewish groups gave mixed responses: advocacy leaders urged stronger enforcement and action on radicalization while others called the announcements insufficient compared with demands for an immediate rapid-response task force; B'nai Brith reported about 6,800 antisemitic incidents in 2025, the highest on record since 1982.