{"id":68078,"date":"2026-06-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:46:15","slug":"chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair of Carney\u2019s new faith advisory council defends its mandate and membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2258694\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership\">Chair of Carney\u2019s new faith advisory council defends its mandate and membership<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2258694\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership\">https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2258694\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 17:07:00<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller is defending the makeup and initial mandate of a faith advisory council Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday, as it faces criticism from Opposition Conservatives and Jewish advocacy group B&#8217;nai Brith.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"fr\" title=\"Fran\u00e7ais\">Part of this committee is to talk in a way that is open and frank and to tackle issues with a group of people that have spent a good deal of their career being subject to various forms of hate or have been incredible advocates in the field,<\/span> Miller said to journalists on his way to a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"fr\" title=\"Fran\u00e7ais\">Coming together in a way that isn&#8217;t polarizing, I think, is the first step.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carney named former senator Marc Gold, also a previous chair of the Jewish Federations of Canada, as part of the council,\u00a0in a speech at a Toronto synagogue on Monday\u00a0<span class=\"sc-xbpugm-0 bVMJdX\">(new window)<\/span>. There, he also said\u00a0Canada&#8217;s civic compact has failed the country&#8217;s Jewish community, called antisemitism a scourge and tasked the newly struck group with an initial mandate to look into the drivers of anti-Jewish hatred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH | Carney&#8217;s antisemitism speech at a Toronto synagogue:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9but du widget . Passer le widget?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/phoenix\/player\/syndicate\/?sourceId=9.7219788\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fin du widget . Retour au d\u00e9but du widget?<\/p>\n<p>Antisemitism in Canada has surged to new highs in post-war period, Carney says<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney said &#8216;Canada&#8217;s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,&#8217; in a speech on combatting antisemitism and hate on Monday at Toronto&#8217;s Holy Blossom Temple. &#8216;If that covenant fails one of our communities, it fails us all,&#8217; Carney said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the remaining names on the council were released in a statement from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, though with no mention of their background or credentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-s14me8-2 gHacOd\">Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the make-up of the council. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-s14me8-1 jPNEHV\">Photo:\u00a0La Presse canadienne \/ Justin Tang<\/p>\n<p>They are:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Canadian Armed Forces member Martine Roy, a key plaintiff in a successful class-action suit against the federal government that won damages for members of the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2258694\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chair of Carney\u2019s new faith advisory council defends its mandate and membership https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/rci\/en\/news\/2258694\/chair-of-carneys-new-faith-advisory-council-defends-its-mandate-and-membership Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.radio-canada.ca\/q_auto,w_740\/v1\/ici-info\/16x9\/pierre-poilievre-27478.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68080,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68078\/revisions\/68080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}