Marco Mendicino PC MP (Italian: [ˈmarko mendiˈtʃiːno]; born July 28, 1973) is a Canadian politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence in the House of Commons since 2015.

In his statement, he wrote, "As a matter of principle, I have been consistently outspoken in my condemnation of the unjust targeting of the Jewish community, which is facing a tidal wave of antisemitism."

He faced a major battle for the nomination after Conservative MP Eve Adams crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party.

Mendicino secured the support of former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae and nearby incumbent MP Judy Sgro.

[11][12] On January 30, 2017, Mendicino was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada serving under Jody Wilson-Raybould.

With his counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, they agreed to strengthen collaboration on combating foreign inference, tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse online, countering violent extremism and terrorism, strengthening democratic institutions management frameworks for disaster management, addressing irregular migration, and sharing best practice and produces in identifying security threats.

[21] During Germany's presidency of the G7 in 2022, Minister Medicino met with his G7 colleagues, where they discussed support for Ukraine, deterring Russian foreign interference, terrorism, and cybercrime.

[26] In June 2023, Minister Mendicino added the Severe Hate-Motivated Incident Support (SHMIS) Stream to the Security Infrastructure program.

"[29][30] In response to questions from Liberal MP Rachel Bendayan he said:[31] We invoked the act because it was the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement that existing authorities were ineffective at the time to restore public safety at all of the ports of entry you mentioned.Mendicino then addressed the media's questions surrounding cabinet confidence, and whether this provision would be lifted for the purposes of the public inquiry that is written into the Emergencies Act, called the Rouleau inquiry.

[32] On April 27, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons that "police were clear that they needed tools not held by any federal, provincial or territorial law.

"[34] On 11 May 2022 RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki stated under oath to the DEDC committee that "while her agency was consulted, it never requested nor recommended the [Emergency Act]'s use".

[35] On 17 May the interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell testified at PROC committee that he did not request the invocation of the Emergencies Act from the government.

DEDC committee co-chair Fortin was unable to get a direct answer to his questions about what steps the federal government tried taking before invoking the last resort.

[44] In the interview, Mendicino stated: “We’ve always been up front with the fact that there is foreign interference, that we need to be eyes wide open and vigilant about it”.

[45] On March 10, 2023, Mendicino held a press conference to announce that the Liberal Government would begin consultations on foreign influence registry to combat Chinese interference.

[46] He took questions from the media surrounding the lack of timeline for the project, and why Canada is not acting faster, when other commonwealth nations have had established registries for foreign influence for years.

[54] On January 16, 2024, Canadian officials said they would abide by whatever the International Court of Justice rules in South Africa's genocide case against Israel.

Under his leadership, millions of dollars were allocated to SIP and other programs aimed at supporting the Jewish community amid a rise in hate-motivated crimes.