The alleviation, I don't know. There's always the question of bilateral dialogue. But I can tell you this much, Bangladeshi minorities would be very happy, if there's an election, if Canada were to send trained election monitors or support the formation of a Commonwealth election monitoring team. They would be very happy if the government would monitor all the funds that were going in from here to see that a percentage of this is going to the beneficiaries who are from religious and ethnic minorities. They would be very happy if you built capacity in the ministry.
How to do these things? I've put these things down because my background was, once upon a time, in development. Capacity-building is one thing, but that's a very long and not necessarily a successful exercise when it's time bound. If you could improve the lot of all Bangladeshis, then there would be less of a compunction to turn to violent ways of getting justice or what you think is justice.
You have to think of protecting the minorities within a larger framework because the minute there are special quotas for a minority—and I am against quotas—or special affirmative action or whatever, that will draw even more attention to themselves, and this is not what they want.
They say that if you're going to uphold our rights, you also have to see that there is a climate for this kind of thing and that it's a long-term thing. You could start with the educational system. Let them learn the alphabet and let them become literate. There is not much. There are government-run madrasas that do teach the curriculum as well as religious studies. But the Quomi madrasas, such as the ones the Deobandis run are absolutely and strictly religious education, and Ms. Grewal will know.
We have that in the country of our origin, too, so it's the education system. There are two books on the madrasas that have been written by Pakistan, but still.... West Bengal has madrasas and they are controlled by the government. They are regulated and government-run in some cases.
You have to start with the next generation.