Toronto, March 28 -- Canada's House of Commons has passed a new law that seeks to criminalise the public display of symbols linked to designated Khalistan terrorist organisations when such displays are used to promote hatred. The move marks a notable shift in Canada's approach to handling extremist symbolism and hate-related offences, especially in the context of rising concerns from various community groups. The bill, which remains to be passed by the Senate, creates a new intimidation offence for conduct intended to provoke a state of fear in a person in order to impede their access to a building used primarily for religious purposes or by an identifiable group and for intentionally obstructing or interfering with another person's lawful access to the same places protected under the new intimidation offence, said officials. It also creates a new hate propaganda offence "of wilfully promoting hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in a public place, certain terrorism or hate symbols" and a hate crime offence "motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression", said officials. Full report on Page 4...