By David Leungren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will quickly unveil measures to crack down on on-line extremism within the wake of the homicide of a Muslim circle of relatives, a hate-inspired crime, a Canadian minister mentioned on Wednesday. Four members of the family had been killed on Sunday when a pickup truck jumped off a sidewalk and ran over them in London, Ontario, 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of Toronto. “Our government continues to do what is necessary, obviously working with social media platforms, to combat online hate and we will have more to say on specific measures in the coming weeks,” Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominique LeBlanc instructed newshounds.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will quickly unveil measures to crack down on on-line extremism within the wake of the homicide of a Muslim circle of relatives, a hate-inspired crime, a Canadian minister mentioned on Wednesday.
Four members of the family had been killed on Sunday when a pickup truck jumped off a sidewalk and ran over them in London, Ontario, 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of Toronto.
“Our government continues to do what is necessary, obviously working with social media platforms, to combat online hate and we will have more to say on specific measures in the coming weeks,” Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominique LeBlanc instructed newshounds.
There is not any proof that the suspect, Nathaniel Feltman, has hyperlinks to hate teams.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, going through lawsuits from non secular and ethnic communities that Ottawa has now not carried out sufficient to struggle bigotry and racism, pledged Tuesday to step up efforts to struggle far-right teams.
“We don’t yet know all the causes or causes, but it is possible that there is an element of incitement to violence online,” Trudeau mentioned at a convention on virtual governance on Wednesday.
In January, he requested Heritage Secretary Stephen Gilbolt to paintings with Public Safety Secretary Bill Blair “to take action to combat hate and hate groups online.” It used to be now not right away conceivable to succeed in the workplace of any of the ministers for remark.
In February, Canada designated the far-right Proud Boys birthday celebration as a terrorist entity, pronouncing it poses an energetic safety risk.
Stephanie Carvin, an affiliate professor and safety knowledgeable at Carleton University in Ottawa, mentioned the in all probability non permanent choice is to prohibit extra extremist organizations.
“The problem with targeting these ideologically motivated violent extremist groups is that they have re-emerged,” she mentioned through telephone, calling for insurance policies focused on the far-right motion as a complete.
Christian Liebrecht, professor of politics and safety and terrorism knowledgeable on the Royal Canadian Military College, famous that legit knowledge confirmed that dislike crimes reported to the police diminished in 2019 in comparison to 2018.
Instead of record teams and broadening the definition of applicable habits, Leobrecht mentioned, Canada wishes particular coverage gear to care for the separate phenomena of hate, violent extremism and extremist violence.
“I’m concerned that we’re making a very big hammer that mixes all of these … which may score political points but doesn’t actually address the problem,” he mentioned in a telephone interview.
(Additional reporting through David Leungren; Additional reporting through Steve Shearer, Peter Cooney and Diane Kraft)
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