It's really important. Although this conversation has largely played out around themes of protection of religious minorities, it has a much broader application. Schools that are designed for a particular identifiable group in Canada would certainly benefit from protection on the intimidation and obstruction offences, but we also wanted to make sure that we capture hate more broadly, so that if someone is targeted—regardless of whether it is a school or a particular religious community, a particular community of interest—they would nevertheless have the protection of the law where a criminal act is committed against them on the basis of some immutable characteristic belonging to an entire group of people.
This additional protection, whether it's in our schools, in our grocery stores or on our university campuses, is going to heighten the degree of protection that Canadians actually enjoy in their communities, no matter where they find themselves.