A Tory MP on Tuesday visited the Toronto park where vandals defaced a war memorial on Remembrance Day to highlight a private member?s bill that would toughen penalties against criminals who take aim at memorials and cenotaphs.
?This really is appalling,? Mississauga MP Eve Adams told CityTV at Coronation Park.
?I was at legions yesterday and most people were very shocked, very disheartened. The number one comment that I heard back was that we really need to make those penalties tougher.?
The Victory Peace memorial in Coronation Park was defaced on Nov. 11 with the words ?Canada will burn praise Allah? written in what appeared to be black marker.
City workers were called in to clean the bronze memorial, built in the 1990s. Someone walking through the park on Sunday noticed the vandalism and reported it to authorities.
Bill C-217 has passed and is now waiting to go through the Senate, said Adams, parliamentary secretary to the Veterans Affairs Minister.
Police say they don?t have any suspects at the moment.
The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said it condemns the vandalism, calling it ?senseless? and ?ignorant.?
?We call on witnesses to step forward to assist police in finding the perpetrators of this sacrilege,? Ihsaan Gardee, executive director of the council, said in a statement Monday.
?An act against a Canadian memorial site is an act against our shared history and an act against a sacred space,? Gardee added.
With files from The Canadian Press
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