The Senate has rewritten the government’s hate crime bill to include a ban on anti-Black symbols, but rejected a proposal to criminalize residential school denialism.
Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard’s amendment to Bill C-9 was the only one to pass at third reading on Thursday, after the chamber rejected the report on the bill from the human rights committee.
Her amendment would criminalize public displays of nooses, labelling them symbols of “anti-Black racism.” The bill already included language criminalizing other symbols, including the Nazi “SS bolts.”
