Very quickly, I'd like to speak about the issue of cyber-vandalism and the reporting of that, which was something I brought up before.
If someone were to, on a hate-motivated basis, physically vandalize a structure belonging to the Armenian community, I would know how to report that fairly easily. If someone were to graffiti something onto my community centre, I know exactly who to phone from the police and how to report that.
However, if someone vandalizes or hacks into my website and replaces the content with the same sort of propaganda that they would have spray-painted onto my community centre, I have no idea to whom to report that properly. For instance, the website may be for a Canadian organization but hosted in the United States or in a different country. The perpetrators could be from anywhere in the world, and there's no way of identifying them. They have complete anonymity. We don't know if they've ever even entered Canada.
They may steal data from us. They've stolen email lists, for instance, and sent hateful messages to people on those lists. We have no idea, again, to whom that should be reported properly. There should be some information provided to community organizations on how to report these sorts of incidents properly. These should be tracked in the same way that physical vandalism has been; otherwise we under-report the incidence of hate crime in Canada.
I think that's one thing I would very much recommend, that the committee work with law enforcement, especially federal law enforcement—I think they're best positioned to deal with this—to figure out how this reporting should be done, and to which law enforcement agencies, and to ask them to prioritize dealing with these types of incidents as well.