Find out how your MP voted in the House of Commons on M-103, the anti-Islamophobia motion

At about 3:50 pm, Thursday afternoon, the following motion was put to the House of Commons:

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should:
(a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear;
(b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and
(c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could

(i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered focus with a holistic response through evidence-based policy-making,
(ii) collect data to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted communities, and that the Committee should present its findings and recommendations to the House no later than 240 calendar days from the adoption of this motion, provided that in its report, the Committee should make recommendations that the government may use to better reflect the enshrined rights and freedoms in the Constitution Acts, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. (Private Members’ Business M-103)

Here is how each MP voted. If you don’t see your MP’s name on the list, it means that your MP was absent — the Prime Minister, for example, and several cabinet ministers were not present — or your MP decided to abstain — Conservative Alex Nuttall, for example was in the House voted neither yea nor nay.

Division No./ Vote no : 237
Subject/Objet: M-103, Systemic racism and religious discrimination / M-103, Racisme et discrimination religieuse systémiques
YEAS/POUR: 201
NAYS/CONTRE: 91

nay/ Aboultaif
nay/ Albas
nay/ Albrecht
yea/ Aldag
yea/ Alleslev
nay/ Allison
nay/ Ambrose
yea/ Amos
paired/pairé Anandasangaree
nay/ Anderson
nay/ Arnold
yea/ Arseneault
yea/ Arya
yea/ Ashton
yea/ Ayoub
yea/ Bagnell
nay/ Barlow
nay/ Barsalou-Duval
yea/ Baylis
nay/ Beaulieu
yea/ Beech
yea/ Bennett
yea/ Benson
nay/ Bergen
nay/ Bernier
nay/ Berthold
nay/ Bezan
yea/ Bibeau
yea/ Bittle
yea/ Blaikie
yea/ Blair
nay/ Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis)
yea/ Blaney (North Island—Powell River)
nay/ Block
yea/ Boissonnault
yea/ Bossio
nay/ Boucher
yea/ Boutin-Sweet
nay/ Brassard
yea/ Bratina
yea/ Breton
yea/ Brison
yea/ Brosseau
yea/ Caesar-Chavannes
nay/ Calkins
yea/ Cannings
yea/ Caron
yea/ Carr
nay/ Carrie
yea/ Casey (Charlottetown)
yea/ Casey (Cumberland—Colchester)
yea/ Chagger
yea/ Champagne
yea/ Chan
yea/ Chen
yea/ Chong
yea/ Choquette
yea/ Christopherson
nay/ Clarke
nay/ Clement
nay/ Cooper
yea/ Cormier
yea/ Cullen
yea/ Cuzner
yea/ Dabrusin
yea/ Damoff
yea/ Davies
yea/ DeCourcey
nay/ Deltell
yea/ Dhaliwal
yea/ Dhillon
yea/ Di Iorio
nay/ Diotte
nay/ Doherty
yea/ Donnelly
nay/ Dreeshen
yea/ Drouin
yea/ Dubourg
yea/ Duguid
yea/ Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona)
yea/ Duncan (Etobicoke North)
yea/ Dusseault
yea/ Duvall
yea/ Dzerowicz
yea/ Easter
nay/ Eglinski
yea/ Ehsassi
yea/ El-Khoury
yea/ Ellis
yea/ Erskine-Smith
yea/ Eyking
yea/ Eyolfson
nay/ Falk
nay/ Fast
yea/ Fergus
yea/ Fillmore
nay/ Finley
yea/ Finnigan
yea/ Fisher
yea/ Fonseca
yea/ Fragiskatos
yea/ Fraser (Central Nova)
yea/ Fraser (West Nova)
yea/ Freeland
yea/ Fry
yea/ Fuhr
nay/ Gallant
yea/ Garrison
nay/ Généreux
yea/ Gerretsen
nay/ Gill
nay/ Gladu
nay/ Godin
yea/ Goldsmith-Jones
yea/ Goodale
yea/ Gould
nay/ Gourde
yea/ Graham
yea/ Grewal
nay/ Harder
yea/ Hardie
yea/ Harvey
yea/ Hehr
nay/ Hoback
yea/ Holland
yea/ Housefather
yea/ Hughes
yea/ Hussen
yea/ Hutchings
yea/ Iacono
nay/ Jeneroux
yea/ Johns
yea/ Joly
yea/ Jones
yea/ Jordan
yea/ Jowhari
yea/ Julian
yea/ Kang
nay/ Kelly
nay/ Kent
yea/ Khalid
yea/ Khera
nay/ Kitchen
nay/ Kmiec
yea/ Kwan
nay/ Lake
yea/ Lametti
yea/ Lamoureux
yea/ Lapointe
yea/ Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation)
nay/ Lauzon (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry)
nay/ Lebel
yea/ LeBlanc
yea/ Lebouthillier
yea/ Lefebvre
nay/ Leitch
yea/ Lemieux
yea/ Leslie
yea/ Levitt
nay/ Liepert
yea/ Lightbound
nay/ Lobb
yea/ Lockhart
yea/ Longfield
yea/ Ludwig
nay/ Lukiwski
yea/ MacAulay (Cardigan)
yea/ MacGregor
nay/ MacKenzie
yea/ MacKinnon (Gatineau)
nay/ Maguire
yea/ Malcolmson
yea/ Maloney
yea/ Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia)
yea/ Masse (Windsor West)
yea/ Mathyssen
yea/ May (Cambridge)
yea/ May (Saanich—Gulf Islands)
nay/ McCauley (Edmonton West)
yea/ McCrimmon
yea/ McDonald
yea/ McGuinty
yea/ McKay
yea/ McKenna
yea/ McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam)
nay/ McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo)
yea/ McLeod (Northwest Territories)
yea/ Mendès
yea/ Mendicino
yea/ Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
yea/ Monsef
paired/pairé Moore
yea/ Morrissey
nay/ Motz
yea/ Mulcair
yea/ Murray
yea/ Nantel
yea/ Nassif
nay/ Nater
yea/ Nault
nay/ Nicholson
yea/ O’Connell
yea/ Oliphant
yea/ Oliver
yea/ O’Regan
nay/ O’Toole
yea/ Ouellette
yea/ Paradis
nay/ Paul-Hus
nay/ Pauzé
yea/ Peschisolido
yea/ Peterson
yea/ Petitpas Taylor
yea/ Philpott
yea/ Picard
nay/ Poilievre
yea/ Poissant
yea/ Quach
yea/ Qualtrough
yea/ Rankin
yea/ Ratansi
nay/ Reid
nay/ Rempel
nay/ Richards
yea/ Rioux
nay/ Ritz
yea/ Robillard
yea/ Rodriguez
yea/ Romanado
yea/ Rota
yea/ Rudd
yea/ Ruimy
yea/ Rusnak
yea/ Sahota
yea/ Saini
yea/ Sajjan
yea/ Sangha
yea/ Sansoucy
yea/ Sarai
nay/ Saroya
yea/ Scarpaleggia
nay/ Scheer
yea/ Schiefke
nay/ Schmale
yea/ Schulte
yea/ Serré
yea/ Sgro
yea/ Sheehan
nay/ Shields
nay/ Shipley
yea/ Sidhu (Brampton South)
yea/ Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon)
yea/ Simms
nay/ Sopuck
yea/ Sorbara
nay/ Sorenson
yea/ Spengemann
yea/ Stanton
nay/ Ste-Marie
yea/ Stetski
yea/ Stewart
nay/ Strahl
nay/ Stubbs
nay/ Sweet
yea/ Tabbara
yea/ Tan
yea/ Tassi
nay/ Tilson
yea/ Tootoo
nay/ Trost
yea/ Trudel
nay/ Van Kesteren
nay/ Van Loan
yea/ Vandal
yea/ Vandenbeld
yea/ Vaughan
nay/ Vecchio
nay/ Viersen
yea/ Virani
nay/ Wagantall
nay/ Warawa
nay/ Warkentin
nay/ Waugh
nay/ Webber
yea/ Weir
yea/ Whalen
yea/ Wilkinson
yea/ Wilson-Raybould
nay/ Wong
yea/ Wrzesnewskyj
yea/ Young
nay/ Yurdiga
yea/ Zahid
nay/ Zimmer

Trial hears arguments over whether ‘child-like’ sex doll constitutes child porn

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A forensic psychiatrist says the sex doll at the centre of a trial in Newfoundland had some “breast budding,” but is still “child-like.”

Dr. Peter Collins said under cross-examination in provincial court today that the height of the doll — 120 cm or around four feet — depicts a child.

He says it also came with “little girl panties” from a website in Japan that advertises child-like and adult sex dolls.

Kenneth Harrisson of St. John’s, a 51-year-old electrician, has pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing child pornography and mailing obscene matter.

The doll was on its way to St. John’s from Japan in 2013 when the Canada Border Services Agency intercepted it.

Defence lawyer Bob Buckingham used photos of the doll to suggest it could depict a woman with small breasts.

Trudeau pressed to discipline male Liberal MP who joked about female Tory MP being a stripper

Female Conservative and NDP MPs are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discipline a male Liberal MP who made what they say is an offensive, sexually suggestive remark at a meeting of a House of Commons committee two weeks ago.

The MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and Security were settling down for their meeting on March 8 when the cellphone of Conservative MP Dianne Watts went off.

Watts’ daughter was calling and Watts had programmed her phone to sound a jaunty ringtone whenever she called.

But the ringtone prompted Liberal MP Nicola di Iorio to say, “Where’s your pole to slide down on?”

Though the March 8 meeting of the public safety committee was held in camera, the National Post learned of these details earlier in the week from those present at the meeting and, on Thursday, confirmed the account of the meeting with Watts herself. The press and the public are prohibited from attending in camera meetings. Only MPs, their political staff, and House of Commons staff were present.

All those present — there might have been 20 or 25 — are normally bound not to discuss what is said at an in camera meeting but, given the extraordinary nature of di Iorio’s account, some present at this meeting, provided accounts of di Iorio’s comments. Those individuals asked not to be identified.

Where’s your pole to slide down on?

Watts, however, agreed to speak on-the-record about the incident.

“Clearly, [it was] an inappropriate comment and I was taken aback by virtue of him saying that to me,” Watts said. “I just said, I beg your pardon? And he repeated it!

“Suffice to say, everyone in the room was taken aback by those comments. It was very uncomfortable for staff and other members of Parliament including myself,” said Watts.

“Clearly, when a comment is made to a woman about sliding down a pole, clearly that’s, you know, a reference to a stripper pole and I think that’s how everybody took it,” Watts said in a telephone interview from her riding in Surrey, B.C.  “It was disturbing.”

Conservative MP Karen Vecchio, who also present at the meeting, confirmed Watts account when interviewed by the Post Thursday afternoon. Other MPs also confirmed the account though asked they not be identified.

After what was described as a few awkward moments, the March 8 meeting, held in a Parliament Hill committee room, continued.

After the two-hour meeting, di Iorio caught up with Watts and, while Watts could not recall the exact words, Watts said he acknowledged “by the look on your face” that what he apparently meant as a joke was not received that way.

“I’m paraphrasing … but he said, if you were offended, I didn’t mean it,” Watts said.

Di Iorio’s office, contacted Thursday morning, said he would be available to speak about the matter late Thursday but had not responded to an interview request by 5:30 pm E.T. He was in the House of Commons Thursday afternoon for Question Period

Watts did not pursue the matter further but the chair of the committee, Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, did. Oliphant, interviewed Thursday, said that while he can neither confirm nor deny the incident as it occurred in camera, confirmed that the Liberal whip, Pablo Rodriguez, has information about di Iorio.

Rodriguez, who was in the House of Commons Thursday, did not immediately respond to calls.

“I just think it’s up to the prime minister to decide how to deal with it,” Watts said.

“I was shocked to learn that the prime minister has known about this for two week,” said Vecchio. “Why is this not a priority for this feminist PM?

Similarly, NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson, her party’s critic for the status of women, was disappointed in Trudeau.

“It’s strange  that the PM, given his avowed commitment to feminism and standing up for women in Parliament, that we haven’t heard about this sooner,” she said.

Trudeau has frequently branded himself as a ‘feminist’ prime minister and did so, in fact, several times on International Women’s Day which, coincidentally enough, was on March 8, the same day di Iorio made his comment at the public safety committee.

Trudeau, in the past, has shown little patience with inappropriate behaviour from his MPs. He tossed two male MPs out of his caucus in 2014 for inappropriate sexual advances towards other female MPs.

Coincidentally, di Iorio represents the same riding — Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel — that was represented by one of the MPs, Massimo Pacetti, who was booted from caucus.

Watts was also angered this week when di Iorio spoke in the House of Commons Wednesday to encourage other MPs to raise awareness which helps protect women from unwanted sexual advances or sexual assault in bars.

“I actually felt pretty angry about that,’ Watts said. Given his comments, that was clearly hypocritical.”

Akie Abe, the wife of the Japanese Prime Minister, accused of giving cash-filled envelope in scandal

The head of a Japanese educational foundation at the center of a real estate scandal told parliament he received a donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe via his wife, prompting a fresh denial from the top government spokesman.

Speaking under oath in the Diet for the first time on Thursday, school principal Yasunori Kagoike said that Akie Abe personally handed him an envelope containing 1 million yen ($9,000) in cash during her September 2015 visit to a kindergarten operated by the nationalist group. “She told me it was from Shinzo Abe,” Kagoike said.

Afterward, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reiterated previous denials. “The prime minister did not make a donation himself,” he told reporters. “He did not donate through his wife Akie, nor through his office or a third party,” he said, adding that it was his understanding that Abe’s wife didn’t made a donation in a personal capacity either. Abe said he had already explained himself and referred reporters to Suga’s remarks.

The allegations have dented Abe’s popularity and may prompt him to delay calling an election due by the end of next year. Questions over how the foundation, known as Moritomo Gakuen, was able to purchase publicly owned land in Osaka for a fraction of its market value have dominated parliamentary discussions for weeks.

‘Bit Surprised’

Kagoike said he called Akie the month after her visit to seek help with buying land to build a new elementary school. He said he received a faxed response from her staff, who told him they contacted the Finance Ministry about the issue and were unable to comply with his request.

Government spokesman Suga said he regarded many parts of Kagoike’s testimony to be wrong. Akie’s staff had contacted the ministry without her instruction, according to Suga. He denied that this amounted to involvement in the land deal and said the issue wouldn’t affect the Abe administration.

Kagoike said he was “a bit surprised” later to find the foundation had been able to buy the tract for 134 million yen, which was a discount of about 800 million yen. When asked whether there was political involvement in the deal, he told lawmakers that he thought there was.

Renho, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, said the fax raised suspicions that Akie had intervened in the deal, adding that she should be called to testify in parliament, according to Kyodo News.

Kagoike first made the allegations of the donation in a meeting with opposition lawmakers last week. Suga said at the time that he had “absolutely no idea” what Kagoike based his remarks on, and Abe’s denials prompted lawmakers to summon the school head to clarify the matter under sworn testimony. The prime minister has also said he’d step down if any link emerges between himself and the real estate transaction.

Financial markets had little reaction to the latest remarks. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average closed 0.2 percent higher in Tokyo, while the yen gained 0.1 percent against the dollar at 7:13 p.m. local time.

Used Name

Kagoike told lawmakers he had at one point used Shinzo Abe’s name while fundraising for the school, without gaining his permission. Akie Abe had been set to act as its honorary principal, but dropped the plan as the scandal came to light.

A poll conducted by the Yomiuri newspaper on March 18-19 found that support for Abe’s cabinet had fallen to 56 percent from 66 percent the previous month, as __news emerged of links between Moritomo and Defense Minister Tomomi Inada. Inada said this month that she acted for the foundation in a law case years ago, after retracting earlier remarks denying she represented the group.

Inada also said Kagoike attended one of her political fundraising parties. Abe has already denied in parliament making a donation directly or through his wife.

The Tsukamoto kindergarten is known for making children bow to portraits of the emperor and recite a 19th century imperial decree on education — practices dropped elsewhere after Japan’s World War II defeat. Last month, the kindergarten apologized for using expressions that “could cause misunderstanding among foreigners.” Kyodo __news agency reported that the principal had been questioned over alleged slurs against Koreans and Chinese.

Lawmakers summoned Kagoike to parliament under his real name, which is Yasuhiro Kagoike. The school operator told lawmakers he had been a “big fan” of Abe, but had decided to make his case public after the prime minister referred to him in parliament as “extremely pushy.”

Police arrest Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in bomb threats of U.S. Jewish targets

Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centres and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in a case that stoked fears across the United States.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but said his motives were still unclear. Israeli media identified him as an American-Israeli dual citizen and said he had been found unfit for compulsory service in the Israeli military.

“He’s the guy who was behind the JCC threats,” Rosenfeld said, referring to the dozens of anonymous threats phoned in to Jewish community centres in the U.S. over the past two months.

The Anti-Defamation League says there have been more than 120 bomb threats against U.S. Jewish community centres and day schools in the U.S. since Jan. 9. Those threats led to evacuations of the buildings, upset Jewish communities and raised fears of rising anti-Semitism. The threats were accompanied by acts of vandalism on several Jewish cemeteries.

The threats led to criticism of the White House for not speaking out fast enough. Last month, the White House denounced the threats and rejected “anti-Semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms.”

Rosenfeld said the suspect allegedly placed dozens of threatening phone calls to public venues, synagogues and community buildings in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia. He also placed a threat to Delta Airlines, causing a flight in February 2015 to make an emergency landing.

Rosenfeld said the man, from the south of Israel, used advanced technologies to mask the origin of his calls and communications to synagogues, community buildings and public venues. He said police searched his house Thursday morning and discovered antennas and satellite equipment.

“He didn’t use regular phone lines. He used different computer systems so he couldn’t be backtracked,” Rosenfeld said.

After an intensive investigation in co-operation with FBI representatives who arrived in Israel, as well as other police organizations from various countries, technology was used to track down the suspect who had made the threats around the world, Rosenfeld said.

In Washington, the FBI confirmed the arrest but had no other comment.