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Feds to fold envoys on Islamophobia, antisemitism into new national unity council
The new council will include experts and community leaders to advise the federal government on hate issues and national unity, replacing separate envoy roles amid rising antisemitism.
- On Feb. 4, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the federal government is scrapping antisemitism and Islamophobia envoy roles and creating an Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion.
- After Deborah Lyons resigned in July, the special envoy office has been vacant since her retirement last year, prompting Jewish groups including B'nai Brith to call for filling the post amid rising antisemitism.
- Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, will oversee the advisory council of prominent Canadians, which will write reports, provide advice to the federal government, and combat racism and hate.
- Jewish groups including B'nai Brith have said they urged Prime Minister Mark Carney's office to fill the antisemitism envoy vacancy, while some Jewish community members view separate envoy roles as divisive.
- The 2023 envoy appointments, including Amira Elghawaby, will inform the new advisory council, which Marc Miller said was discussed on Dec. 11, 2025.
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The Carney government eliminates the position of Special Representative of Canada in the fight against Islamophobia, occupied by Amira Elghawaby, and the vacant, special envoy for the preservation of Holocaust memory and the fight against anti-Semitism, and will be replaced by an advisory committee.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney to remove the positions of special representatives against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, appointed under Justin Trudeau
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