Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Credit: Adrian Wyld) OTTAWA — Opposition Conservatives say a deal between the ...

MPs voted to remove a long-standing religious exemption to Canada’s hate-speech laws Tuesday after heated exchanges in the Commons and lobbying by religious groups to retain it. In a fiery Commons ...

The federal government’s flagship anti-hate bill has hit a roadblock to becoming law after a heated dispute between the three main parties broke out over a Bloc Québécois proposal to end a religious ...

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The Bloc has pushed for years for the religious exemption to disappear, even tabling a bill in 2023 to that effect. At the time, the Quebec party pointed to comments by Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui ...

Currently, the law exempts hateful or antisemitic speech if the speaker expressed 'in good faith' an opinion 'based on a belief in a religious text' You can save this article by registering for free ...