Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled new legislation Friday introducing four Criminal Code offences, including one that would make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols.

If passed, the Combatting Hate Act would target symbols used during the Holocaust, such as the swastika and SS lightning bolts, or associated with the government's list of terrorist entities , which includes the Proud Boys, Hamas and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

It would, for instance, make it a crime to promote hatred against Jewish people using Hamas flags or swastika signs outside a synagogue.

It would also make hate-motivated crime a specific offence and crack down on people willfully intimidating and obstr

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