I want to go back to what I said about having an analysis that encapsulates the reality of racial communities, gender issues, people with handicaps, and our first nation communities.
I think it's crucial in Canada to avoid the errors and the mistakes made in other places. I don't want to see Canada falling into a situation where you have a suburb like we saw in Paris a few years ago, where people had to rise up because there was crass social injustice, discrimination, and marginalization. And we do indeed have in Canada now some seriously alarming signals, where in the majority of big urban areas the overwhelming majority of people under the poverty level are from racialized communities or first nations, or are single mothers. In my view, that situation will have serious consequences for our social cohesion in this country.
As we said, we need to engage those communities in meaningful dialogue, but we also need to put forward serious legislation, strategies, and policies that will address that injustice. On employment equity, for example, we do have legislation in the federal government; but, boy, we know that racialized communities, women, and people from first nations communities don't have access to those jobs. We know there is a reality in terms of racism and racial profiling in this country, and I think it's important to address those issues and concerns.