Sean Fraser: “The law is designed to target some of the most frequent causes of concern we hear in our engagement with communities…”

This isn’t easy work, which is why I’m going to take the time necessary to fully understand the recommendations of the committee and the evidence that underpins those recommendations.

The new law is central to the federal government's public safety strategy and was specifically crafted to keep the country and its people safer by addressing their concerns.

We live in a complex world where people need to be able to freely express themselves, but we also recognize that there’s a unique responsibility to ensure that there are harms that we are aware of, that we’re hearing about from teachers…

We expect, by the end of the week, we could see the Combating Hate Act, which is being debated in Parliament behind me at this very moment, and the Protecting Victims Act, which is at the final stages of the Senate, to potentially become…