Thank you for the question.
I'm so glad to hear there is a summit happening in the summer on this topic, because it's so important.
Some of the recommendations I made in my introductory remarks as well, so I can just repeat them quickly.
For me and for my community, monitoring online hate and online hate groups, hate speech, social media and having restrictions on things like this is really important to discuss at the summit. We have gone through those throughout our talk, so I'm sure everyone here is aware of that.
As well, it's really important that in education—we've talked about this as well—we talk about the curriculum, how teachers, professors, are trained, that they be trained properly, and that the curriculum incorporate diverse voices, which doesn't just mean having a math textbook and having a diverse name or having a diverse picture. That is not really diversity in the curriculum. It's having diversity in the curriculum in a proper way, like Nafisah mentioned before.
When I was attending school, kindergarten to grade 12, and university as well in Alberta, there were not many diverse topics. It shouldn't be up to the teachers to sometimes bring in a topic, or sometimes talk about current events, because oftentimes maybe the teachers are also not fully aware of all of the diverse groups of students that are around them and all the diverse groups that are in Canada. They also bring their prejudices and biases. Oftentimes it can feel as though your teacher is misrepresenting your group. When you're a child, when you're a student, you do not feel great at all when your teacher, whom you look up to, who is in charge of 30-plus students in the class, is maybe spewing hate about Muslim groups or Black communities or indigenous groups, or whatever the situation may be.
Teacher training definitely needs to happen, as well as professor training, curriculum changes, and looking at online hate. Thank you.