The reality is that there are many more, in addition to the families you are referring to, who have had that experience. Sadly, the experience of crossing borders while Muslim is an experience that a lot of people are far too familiar with in the Muslim community.
Globally, and across Canada, it's unfortunate that it has now become a recognizable phenomena that people can actually be characterized in particular ways. It includes things like people feeling a lack of dignity and feeling fear and anxiety while coming to a place like Canada, which is supposed to be a multicultural society that is welcoming and a global guardian of human rights.
You're absolutely right that this is a problem. The fact that it is such a widespread problem, and the fact that we see it as such a common experience among Muslim communities and others, really points to the fact there are systemic issues here that need to be addressed. They need to be addressed appropriately. They need to be addressed with the proper resourcing and with the proper focus on organizational culture. We see problems, as my colleague, Fatema, referred to, in the types of references and the politics of citations within the decisions that CBSA agents make.
That is far too much power, with very little integrity in the type of knowledge being used, to make the kinds of claims they're making about these families. I do think there is a systemic solution needed here.