Number one is education. Restricting Black education to February is an injustice, as Martin Luther King would say, injustice anywhere. Number one is education. The fact that for far too long we're still keeping it to February, I think, frankly, we should be ashamed of. It's the same for indigenous people. That's number one.
Number two is that we need to look at the systems and the policy both in the judiciary and in finance. Nobody's holding the bank.... I know the banks. I know them well. I know some of the leaders who are there. Why would a system that applies credit give you credit because you have a different postal address? It's the same credit, the same. We've tested it, and we can test it again and again. That's number two.
Number one is education. We need to take that beyond workshops and conferences and put it into classrooms. We need to put that into classrooms. People have the option to take it to their homes or not, but at least put it into the classroom.
On number two, organizations like banks and insurance companies should be held accountable in some way, shape or form to ensure that the systemic barriers they have.... It's one thing for CIBC to say that they just donated $10 million to the Black community, yet, if a Black Canadian applies for a credit card, he gets nothing, and if he goes to his cousin's house to apply using his address, he gets it. That's still going on, so there are deeper issues there.
Then, of course, we look at the policies of protecting Black businesses. We all know that one with regard to the law and justice.
I could go on, but education is number one. We are here today because of miseducation. Let's be very clear. There are still books on Amazon that say Blacks are from apes. There are books that say indigenous people are savages. There are university professors who still hold those views.
We are here because 11 generations were miseducated. We don't expect one generation to be educated or catch up, but what we do expect is, as they plan to educate the next 11 generations, at some point in time—hopefully it's not 11 but maybe two or three generations—we can truly live in peace, as Martin Luther King said, in a world where little Black boys and little white girls have no issues playing together and their parents have no issues either.