Ottawa's hate-motivated attacks can't be solved by police alone

The man who allegedly assaulted a Muslim woman in a “hate-motivated” attack on an OC Transpo bus in Kanata, has been arrested and charged by Ottawa Police  – and the swift action should calm down concerned citizens. Cyrus Amir Souaid will have his day in court.

But what’s troubling about these attacks is that much as politicians, including Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, strongly condemn these violent incidents, and most of us are appalled by them, they keep occurring. Many such attacks have taken place in the city and across the country.

Indeed, not long after the Kanata assault, the Ottawa Police revealed another man yelling slurs at a Muslim woman, in yet another “hate-motivated” incident at a Carling Avenue gas station, was charged with assault. And Joseph Rooke,