My recommendation is that the communities themselves should be empowered to bring about change. This is work that should be taken over by the thriving Muslim communities here. We have a large Muslim population. I don't see this happening. I don't see round-table conferences in mosques or in Islamic organizations in which this issue is being discussed, regarding the concerns or the way that we can deal with it.
One of the recommendations was interfaith dialogue, which is an important component. I'm very involved in that as well, where the communities talk to each other. We need to speak with those communities that have faced racism and discrimination before us.
Every immigrant community that has come into Canada—the Italians, the Jewish community, the Irish community—faced its own sets of challenges. We need to sit with them and figure out how they dealt with it. There were no laws in place. There were no motions in place to help them.
I don't believe that a government motion or any kind of a study is going to help this. I believe we have to take responsibility as Muslim communities to discuss and debate this problem, to find the solutions from within, and then ask the government how they can help us.