Mr. Ali, there are several things that my wife and I are speaking about to people at the provincial level regarding Islamophobia in the court system. On a federal level, one measure I would like to see is the ability for a judge to include a vehicle as a weapon when they say there's a weapons ban. Currently, it doesn't apply to a vehicle if a vehicle is used in an index crime. It applies to guns, knives and explosives. The perpetrator of this crime specifically said he wanted to inspire people to use vehicles because guns are harder to come by in Canada than, say, the U.S.
The Criminal Code can be modernized to reflect the reality that people may use non-traditional weapons. It should be under the purview of a trial judge to include that in a weapons ban. That's one measure I would be pushing for.