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Canadian Heritage committee  I related to your initial remarks, because I know many younger children and youth, including my own son.... When we Muslims name our children, we try to pick beautiful names, names that have meaning, but recently I started observing a trend among Muslim youth to be shy or ashamed

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  I think our last recommendation would be to focus on introducing and implementing appropriate tools that would promote equality and inclusion and eliminate racial and religious barriers to employment, because then people feel they are socially and economically empowered and their

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to start with a very general problem that concerns many Canadians who have credentials from overseas and not from Canada. I think that the recognition of foreign credentials, international credentials, should become a much-facilitated procedure. It really takes a l

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  If you don't mind, I would like to add to the comments made by Dr. Pirzada. Unemployment is a big issue in Newfoundland. I know this from my own experience and from the experiences of my close friends. Many of them are very qualified professionals with multiple degrees, graduate

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. Going back to the recommendations that Mr. Pirzada mentioned in his speech, I would like to emphasize four important points. First of all, we need qualitative and quantitative data to find out what kinds of problems we are dealing with, and there are barr

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. You can ask your question.

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk

Canadian Heritage committee  I think awareness and education programs are so essential that they shouldn't be left to the discretion of individual institutions. They should be made a regular, consistent, and mandatory component of the school curriculum and of the annual training of professionals working in t

October 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Dr. Ayse Akinturk