 As-salamu alaykum. Lately, a lot of Canadians have been enjoying evening walks to get a bit of fresh air after long days at home during this pandemic. On Sunday, in London, Ontario, that's what a grandmother, two parents and two children went out to do. Three generations of the Afzul family – Salman, Madia, their children, Yomna and Fayaz, and their grandmother. But unlike every other night, that family never made it home. Their lives were taken in a brutal, cowardly, and brazen act of violence. This killing was no accident. This was a terrorist attack motivated by hatred in the heart of one of our communities. Mr. President, I am horrified by the attack that took the lives of four members of a family and seriously injured a nine-year-old boy on Sunday evening in London, Ontario. We are at heart with their close during these extremely difficult times. And we all hope that the little boy will be able to recover from his injuries quickly, even if we know that he will live for a long time with sadness, incomprehension and anger caused by this flash attack and Islamophobia. This is unfortunately not an isolated case. The great mosque in Quebec, the cowardly murder of Mohammed Aslam Zafis at a mosque in Toronto, the violent attacks against black Muslim women in Edmonton and so many other people across the country who faced insults, threats and violence. They were all targeted because of their Muslim faith. This is happening here in Canada. And it has to stop. Mr. President, we must not get used to this violence. We must not let ourselves be desensitized. We cannot accept that it becomes normal. Every time we are witness to this hatred, we must denounce it. And it starts with small gestures. Words matter. They can be a seed that grows into an ugly, pervasive trend and sometimes they lead to real violence. The jokes that are not funny, the casual racism, the insinuations that are only meant to diminish, the toxic rhetoric, the disinformation and the extremism online, the polarization we see too often in our public discourse and in our politics. As leaders and as Canadians, we not only have to say enough is enough, we must take action. We cannot allow any form of hate to take root because the consequences can be far too serious. We've seen it in Christchurch. We've seen it in other places around the world and we've lived it here at home. Right now, Canadians are outraged by what happened on Sunday and many Muslim Canadians are scared. Last night I spoke with the Mayor of London, Ed Holder, and a representative of the local Muslim community, Nawaz Tahir, to share my condolences and discuss the urgency and the more we must do to keep our communities safe. Mr. Speaker, we stand with the people of London and with Muslim communities across the country. We're going to continue to fund initiatives like the Security Infrastructure Program to help protect communities at risk and their schools and places of worship. We'll continue to fight hate online and offline, which includes taking even more action to dismantle far-right hate groups like we did with the Proud Boys by adding them to Canada's terror listing. And we'll continue doing everything we can to keep communities safe. The fear of the cruel attack on Sunday in London doesn't represent us as Canadians because we know we're stronger in peace than in hate and violence. And we also know we must tell the truth. This hate and this violence exists in our streets, online, or elsewhere. As long as it will exist, we will have work to do. Mr. Speaker, if anyone thinks racism and hatred don't exist in this country, I ask to them this. How do we explain such violence for that child in hospital? How can we look families in the eye and say Islamophobia isn't real? When you listen to the black Muslim woman who constantly looks over her shoulder at the bus stop, fearing someone will pull off her hijab or hurt her, she'll tell you Islamophobia exists. If you listen to the parents who beg their children not to wear traditional clothes for fear of them being harassed or attacked simply for what they're wearing, they'll tell you racism exists. Muslim families have often felt uncertain or even fearful when they go out in the streets wearing traditional garb. The reality is most Canadians haven't necessarily been aware of that fear that far too many racialized and Muslim Canadians would be with them anytime they go outside. If the attack in London has any follow-up or I don't even want to say positive, but any impact on non-Muslim Canadians, it should be this, to understand the anxiety and the fear that our fellow Canadians carry that they shouldn't be. It is on all of us to understand that experience and be there to support and to help. We can and we must act. As Canadians, we've been fighting a global pandemic for over a year now and we did it by coming together, by working together. And that is the only way of confronting the ugly face of hatred. I want all Canadians to know that we are all diminished when any one of us is targeted. We need to stand up to reject racism and terror and work together to embrace what makes our country strong, our diversity. May peace and blessings be upon you.