Canada’s policing landscape reveals a troubling inconsistency, a corrosive double standard that erodes public trust: assaults on Jewish citizens often draw sluggish responses, while those on Muslims prompt swift condemnation and action. Consider the Montreal debacle—a Jewish father beaten in Dickie Moore Park before his terrified children, his kippah tossed into a splash pad like discarded refuse. Police took nearly an hour to arrive, allowing the assailant to vanish, and only arrested him days later amid public furor spurred by community outcry on social media.
Contrast this with Ottawa’s swift response to an unprovoked attack on a young Muslim woman aboard public transit, punched and bombarded with Islamophobic slurs as passengers watched in stunned silence. Authorities immediately labeled it hate-motivated and launched an investigation, reflecting a government commitment to combatting hate crimes. No delay, no limbo—just urgency, as if the system awakens only for select victims.
This disparity is not aberration but pattern. Statistics Canada reports Jews—under 1% of the population—endured over 900 hate crimes in 2023, roughly 70% of religion-based incidents, while Muslim-targeted crimes, numbering around 200, saw faster police action. Yet responses to antisemitic violence often lag, fostering a climate where aggressors act with impunity. Muslims face brutal attacks too, but policing pivots faster, bolstered by vocal leadership. Both communities deserve equal protection; only one consistently receives it.
The irony stings in a nation priding itself on equity: one community’s cries echo unanswered, another’s summon swift shields. Such two-tiered enforcement is not oversight—it is antithetical to justice. If Canada fails to apply equal urgency to all victims, it risks fracturing society into a hierarchy of suffering, dividing rather than uniting against bigotry’s tide.
Sources Referenced
- Statistics Canada, 2023 Hate Crime Report
- CTV News, Montreal, July 2023: Dickie Moore Park assault coverage
- CBC News, Ottawa, June 2023: Transit attack reports
- X posts aggregated from community reports, July 2023
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August 18, 2025 at 8:49 am
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There’s also two tier sentencing for crimes based on group identity. This treatment of criminals by our courts demonstrates the incoherence of an ideology that claims the dire need for and necessary implementation of ‘equity’ (same results like same sentencing) but defends inequity (privilege and exemption based on inherited characteristics… the very definition of racism). Two tier sentencing also demonstrates the incoherence of an ideology that labels the principle of ‘equality’ (same treatment) as ‘white privilege’ in order to defend inequality of treatment (exercising blatant racism in the name of fighting racism is called ‘anti-racism’).
This is why words matter: when an ideology uses terms that mean something virtuous for public consumption – like equity and equality – but actually mean their exact opposite in practice. Welcome to the world of institutional woke where shared rights and freedoms go to die.
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