I think it's important we recognize that efforts at community engagement to combat radicalization toward criminal violence do link with the effort to combat discrimination within mainstream society as well, along with the effort to promote integration of Muslim youth. We also have to recall that violent extremism is not the exclusive franchise of any one particular community, as we have so recently seen. It's important for that office, and for the adviser in that office, to have credibility, to look at radicalization to extremist violence of any kind.
It's also a concern that it's increasingly politically popular to demand that Canadian Muslims adapt and demonstrate fidelity to “Canadian values” without concomitant assurances of security, inclusion, and equality. One police officer who works at the Ottawa Police Service says something that I cite regularly, that inclusion is the key to public safety.