Thank you very much for the question.
In terms of implementing legislative improvements to prevent or mitigate the possibility of such future such horrific actions, I would argue that the existing provisions within the Criminal Code are sufficient. I think our organization has put forward some recommendations for governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels to take concrete actions to address the growing climate of Islamophobia and hate we have seen and our organization has documented, in addition to what has been documented by Statistics Canada. They have noted that, between 2012 and 2014, hate crimes in general against most communities—well, against Canadian Muslims—have, in fact, doubled, when hate crimes targeting other communities have either stayed the same or decreased.
Two of the proposals we have for the federal government would be for all members of Parliament to support Motion No. 103 put forward by member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, which would call for three things. One is to acknowledge that there is an environment of fear. The second is to condemn Islamophobia and other forms of systemic racism and discrimination; and finally, to strike a committee to study the issue from an evidence-based perspective, to do a analysis of community needs, and to look at context as well.
The other recommendation we have is to establish a national day of action and remembrance on January 29. To my knowledge, this is the first time in Canadian history anybody has gone into a house of worship and killed people. We've had other mass shootings such as the École Polytechnique, in which 14 women were horrifically killed. Other mass shootings have targeted people who were known to the perpetrator, or they had some affiliation, but this is the first time we've seen this.