OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Marc Miller says the government’s widely criticized advisory council on inclusion is meant to unify Canadians in a way previous federal envoys tasked with tackling antisemitism and Islamophobia could not.

“This is an advisory committee that is going to foster dialogue and a space to talk about some extremely difficult issues, chief of which is the current scourge of antisemitism in the country,” Miller told The Canadian Press.

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