I'll fill in for Nuzhat. I know she had to leave.
Thank you for your question. It's a very important question.
We've been talking about diversity within racialized communities. As an organization that serves South Asians, we know first-hand that South Asian communities often are mistaken as a monolith. We're not. There is so much diversity within our communities. The same goes for the Muslim community. There's even more diversity there in terms of the countries people come from, the colour of their skin, the culture they practise, the language they speak, their socio-economic status and their belief system within Islam. Islam is a spectrum of different beliefs. Everybody doesn't have the same belief. There are schools of thought within that belief system. It's extremely, extremely diverse.
I think the best way to go about creating policies, programs and curricula is to have it be community-led and to work with Muslim leaders and diverse Muslim organizations—we've had a diversity of Muslim organizations here on the panel—and see how they want those policies, programs and curricula to be created and developed. Just as it's so important for policies within indigenous communities to be indigenous-led, the same goes for the Muslim community for any policy or program that is created. As an outsider from the community, you're not going to be able to understand the diversity and all the different opinions. I'm a Muslim person and I don't even know all of the different opinions. I can't be a representative of all Muslims in Canada.
I think that is something that should be taken into account and policy-makers should be mindful of.