US EditionFeds to fold envoys on Islamophobia, antisemitism into new national unity council
Canada replaces dedicated envoys with a new council to address all forms of racism, amid a record 6,219 antisemitic incidents reported last year, government says.
- 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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Canadian Jewish groups decry axing of antisemitism envoy in favor of ‘rights, equality and inclusion’ advisory council
Canadian Jewish groups are denouncing a government decision to replace the country’s antisemitism and Islamophobia envoys with a new “Rights, Equality and Inclusion” council. The new advisory council, announced by the Canadian government on Wednesday, is billed in a press release as aiming to “foster social cohesion, rally Canadians around shared identity, combat racism and hate in all their forms, and help guide the efforts of the Government of…
Canadian Jewish groups warn Carney government after antisemitism envoy eliminated
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Ottawa Replaces Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia Envoy Roles With Inclusion Advisory Council
The Liberal government is dissolving the roles of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia envoys, and creating a new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion to “combat racism and hate” instead. Culture Minister Marc Miller says the two envoy roles will be merged into the new advisory council, which he said will be more broad in focusing on national unity, while still recognizing anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “It’s about folding in those two…
The government abolishes the positions to combat Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in order to create an advisory council to combat racism.
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