No. The messages the government has sent on this I don't think are convincing. I keep hearing “Diversity is our strength”. It's a mantra. It doesn't carry any meaning for me. Why is it our strength? How has government shown that it's our strength? If you don't have an answer to that, I don't think people are going to believe it at face value when you say it.
The protection of any minority, not just Muslims, has to be conveyed by the government. I think it's the government's job to do a much better job of saying, “This is how we protect the most vulnerable or marginalized communities, and this is why we should be doing it.” I don't think putting out more facts is going to sway people who think otherwise. There has to be a much more compelling reason for bringing Canadians, all Canadians, together, and that's the government's job to do.
The othering of minorities happens. As Hamza just alluded to, it's happening at the institutional level. That could be from people who, for political reasons, want to make Muslims the “other”. That has to be addressed.
Parliamentary committees play a role in this. Particularly after the 9/11 era, the individuals and organizations that were asked to speak at parliamentary committees were pulled in from organizations and think tanks that are funded by private donors and private family foundations, not supported by the general Muslim populace or scholars at reputable universities. If you invite pseudo-scholars or partisan ex-Muslims to testify at Parliament, you're playing a role in the othering, and that's not right. House and Senate committees need to start an executive task of source-checking and not just fact-checking, because fact-checking in the modern era doesn't work.