The federal government "has yet to appreciate the gravity of the threat" of antisemitism today and there needs to be a co-ordinated action plan to counter the problem, says former special envoy Irwin Cotler.

"We can't continue to work in silos here or say it's the others' responsibility," Cotler said in an interview with CBC's that aired Saturday morning. "No, this is an integrated and collective responsibility."

Cotler, who was appointed in 2020 by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Canada's first special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, spoke with host Catherine Cullen on Friday — one day after an alleged assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue in northern England.

U.K. police initially said the assailant then began stabbing

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