Public Safety, Policing, & the Justice System

Threats against minorities platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Make it a criminal offence to intentionally and wilfully obstruct access to a place of worship, schools, and community centres
  • Make it a criminal offence to intentionally and wilfully intimidate or threaten those attending services at a place of worship
  • Significantly increase the annual budget for the Canada Community Security Program

    "Significantly increasing the annual budget of the Canada Community Security Program in order to help protect vulnerable communities and places of worship." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

Conservative

  • Impose tougher sentences for religious property mischief
  • Impose penalties for masked rioters

    "Protect places of worship and stop antisemitic riots with tougher sentences for religious property mischief and penalties for masked rioters." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Create an Anti-Hate Crime Task Force to protect threatened religious and cultural communities, including Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Hindu, and other religious communities

    "Create an Anti-Hate Crime Task Force to protect all threatened religious and cultural communities, including Canada’s Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Hindu, and other religious communities." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Direct CSIS to implement threat reduction measures, including communicating with Jewish communities about antisemitic threats
  • Direct CSIS to communicate with Chinese, Sikh, and other communities targeted by foreign threats

    "Direct CSIS to implement threat reduction measures, including communicating with Jewish communities about antisemitic threats, along with Chinese, Sikh and other Canadian communities targeted by foreign threats." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Streamline access to the Security Infrastructure Program for places of worship, and community and cultural centres
We don't have any Bloc policies on Threats against minorities.
We don't have any NDP policies on Threats against minorities.
We don't have any Green policies on Threats against minorities.

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