EDITORIAL: Mark Carney has failed to confront Jew hatred

Liberal government has done little up to now to combat the wave of antisemitism spreading across Canada

Published Jun 01, 2026  •  Last updated 6 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto on Monday June 1, 2026. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Toronto Sun

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave an eloquent speech in a Toronto synagogue Monday acknowledging Canada’s failure to combat an unprecedented explosion of Jew hatred across Canada, but we already know eloquent speeches won’t stop antisemitism.

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Nor will Carney’s creation of a new “Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion” — the only real news in his announcement — chaired by Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller to “combat racism and hate in all their forms.”

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In the real world, nothing the Carney/Justin Trudeau government has done up to now to combat the wave of antisemitism since Hamas launched its terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has stopped the targeting of Jews across Canada.

That includes what Carney described as the centrepiece of his government’s public safety legislation — the Combatting Hatred Act — which has yet to receive royal assent.

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto on Monday, June 1, 2026. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Toronto Sun

Too little, far too late

The prime minister’s emotional denunciation of antisemitism has come far too late.

The claim that his government is “building a country in which Jewish Canadians can be visibly fully and joyfully Jewish in public life, in school, at work, on the street, in their synagogue, in the academy and the arts” is factually absurd.

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Not when two-thirds of all religion-motivated hate crimes in Canada last year were aimed at Jews, who make up 1% of the population.

Not when Jewish day schools are being shot at — as if schoolchildren are responsible for Israeli government policies.

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Turning a blind eye to antisemitism

Ever since Oct. 7, 2023, our governments, our courts, our universities, many public sector unions and so-called “civil society” itself have turned a blind eye to the idiotic claim by antisemites that “anti-Zionism” (opposing the belief in a Jewish homeland) is not “antisemitism” even though all they do is blame and harass Jews in Canada for every conflict in the Middle East.

Carney should be confronting the antisemites in his own party who know full well that their biased vilification of Israel encourages violence against Jews in Canada.

We agree with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre that Carney should apologize to Jewish Canadians for federal policies over the last decade that “have let in terrorists and antisemites through our policy of open borders” and their “soft-on-crime policies (that) allow violent antisemites to be released back on to the streets to terrorize Jewish communities.”

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