A year ago, Canadians got their first glimpse of where our country could be headed. On Oct. 7, 2023, a designated terrorist group whose charter calls for the slaughter of Jews massacred 1,200 innocent people in Israel, including eight Canadians. Babies were burnt alive in their cribs and young adults were massacred at a music festival.

Shortly after, revellers and anti-Israel protesters took to the streets in Canada. In the following weeks and months, as their rhetoric grew more antisemitic and their calls for “peace” came with cheers for violence against Jews and Israelis, many Canadian leaders stood silent.