The chief of Canada’s principal opposition Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, has condemned the rising incidence of Hinduphobia within the nation.

Poilievre is the primary chief of a serious Federal social gathering in Canada to handle the phenomenon. In an interview with the native community, Prime Asia, he mentioned, “We have to stop Hinduphobia and nasty comments that are made about Hindus and the vandalism and other violence targeting Hindu Canadians. This is totally unacceptable.”

He additionally known as for bolstering the safety of locations of worship with matching Government funds for guards and cameras and different protections towards non secular violence.

Since July final 12 months, there have been at the least 5 incidents of desecration of Hindu temples in Canada, with the most recent episode on the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir within the city of Windsor in Ontario this month. At the time, Windsor Police Service mentioned it was “investigating vandalism at a local Hindu temple as a hate-motivated incident.” While safety cameras photographs of two individuals have been recovered by investigators there was no additional updates on the matter. No arrests have been reported within the 4 prior incidents both.

These assaults have been condemned by senior members of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet together with Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly and Defence Minister Anita Anand. Anand, in reality, visited the BAPS temple in Windsor on April 13 and later tweeted that she “reaffirmed” to the mandir leaders and the neighborhood that this “hateful and discriminatory behaviour has no place” in Canada. In February, Joly had tweeted, “The repeated vandalism of Hindu temples in Canada must stop.” However, Trudeau himself has but to handle the disaster.

Speaking within the House of Commons in January, Liberal Party MP Chandra Arya had requested Canadian authorities to “take serious note of this alarming trend and respond appropriately.”

“Like Islamophobia and anti-Semitism resulting in hate crimes against our mosques and synagogues causing pain to our Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters, Hindu Canadians are experiencing the same pain due to rising Hinduphobia,” he mentioned throughout a speech on the ground of the House.

On February 14, the goal was the Shri Ram Mandir within the city of Mississauga within the GTA.

Prior to that on January 30, the Gauri Shankar Mandir in Brampton was equally desecrated. Before that, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, situated on the Vishnu Mandir in Richmond Hill, was defaced in July final 12 months. The 20-foot tall bronze statue was located within the temple’s Peace Park. Weeks later, in September, an episode of such vandalization occurred on the entrance entrance to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto.