The protests usually occurred at real estate sales which happened in community centers and less often in synagogues. There was nothing inherently anti-Semitic about these protests
"We weren't there because it's a synagogue, we were there because we were protesting against a real estate show," said Ghada Sasa, who was at the protest over the weekend.
The UN, alongside Canada, consider Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to be in violation of international convention,
However under this new legislation, these protests are hate crimes because they occur near religious or cultural centers where the occupants constitute an identifiable minority.
This doesn't help stop bomb threats or 99% of the 4800 hate crimes per year that happen in Canada. It just protects Zionists.
Although the exact wording hasn't been released, the news coverage says
To avoid infringing Charter rights, the source said, there would be an exemption so people can advocate and protest as long as it's lawful.
So unlike the Ontario one, it seems that protests are not prohibited?
even for schools, some have pointed out that the protest laws would ban the teacher's unions from picketing their own school.
So it has to be done carefully to permit reasonable protests like labour action and prohibit unreasonable protests and intimidation.
That seems quite reasonable, unless I'm missing something.
What you're missing, is that like the Toronto anti protest law, this law is meant to stop people protesting genocide and ethnic cleaning.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/real-estate-thornhill-event-1.7133251
The protests usually occurred at real estate sales which happened in community centers and less often in synagogues. There was nothing inherently anti-Semitic about these protests
However under this new legislation, these protests are hate crimes because they occur near religious or cultural centers where the occupants constitute an identifiable minority.
This doesn't help stop bomb threats or 99% of the 4800 hate crimes per year that happen in Canada. It just protects Zionists.
Although the exact wording hasn't been released, the news coverage says
So unlike the Ontario one, it seems that protests are not prohibited?
even for schools, some have pointed out that the protest laws would ban the teacher's unions from picketing their own school.
So it has to be done carefully to permit reasonable protests like labour action and prohibit unreasonable protests and intimidation.