A Liberal MP has issued a call to action amid growing antisemitism across Canada, highlighting the recent unprovoked attack on a Jewish woman shopping for groceries in Ottawa last week. Article content

In a statement from Quebec’s Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal), co-signed by 31 of his Liberal colleagues, the four-term member of parliament said Jewish Canadians deserve the same right to feel safe as all Canadians. Article content

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“Regrettably, right now, there is a deep sense of unease, fear and unsafety among many Jewish Canadians across Canada,” he wrote in the statement posted to X.

Housefather, citing Statistics Canada data on police-reported hate crimes, said that while Jews make up only one per cent of Canada’s population, they are the vi

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