Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has issued a statement to mark the fourth anniversary of the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec:
It was four years ago that a terrorist attack at the Centre claimed the lives of six people and seriously injured nineteen others.
Trudeau says, “We honour the memory of the victims of this hateful act of Islamophobia and racism. Our hearts go out to their families and loved ones who continue to suffer, and to all the residents of Quebec City whose community has been forever changed by this tragedy.”

The Prime Minister says, “We also remember the first responders who did everything they could, with courage and dedication, to save congregants and ease their pain.”

The federal government intends to declare January 29 as ‘National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia.’
Trudeau says “Eliminating Islamophobia is a key pillar of Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy.”

But the problem of Islamophobia imagined by the federal government isn’t supported by numbers from Statistics Canada. In a report outlining police-reported hate crimes in Canada, from 2014 to 2018, the Jewish community has consistently had higher numbers of victims than Muslims. In 2018, for example, there were 347 reported crimes against Jews and 173 against Muslims.