§01 — What is on the record

The instrument is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, adopted by Canada in 2019 within its Anti-Racism Strategy. On Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022 the government announced a companion Handbook; Canadian Heritage published it on 31 October 2024. Around it sits a larger apparatus: Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate ($273.6M over six years, launched September 2024), a Budget 2024 $90.5M antisemitism package, and a Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism (Deborah Lyons).

Much of that package is not in this case’s frame, and the case says so plainly. Funding for the physical security of synagogues, schools and community centres ($32M), and for hate-crime data and police/Crown training ($41.2M), addresses a real and rising danger by material means; it is not a sentence-craft problem and the series does not treat it as one. The frame is narrower: the part of the effort that works by defining — the standard, and who holds the pen.

The measure (Budget 2024 / Action Plan)	In frame here?
$32M · security infrastructure for Jewish community sites	No — material protection of people
$41.2M · hate-crime data, police & Crown training	No — enforcement capacity
$7.3M · Special Envoy; Holocaust remembrance & education	Partly — apparatus (see §05)
The IHRA definition + 2024 Handbook as the standard	Yes — this is the case