Canadian Heritage committee  I'm going to reiterate the examples. I think it was testimony from a Ph.D. who was wearing a hijab, and she is very eloquent. She is very well versed on the topic of race and the kind of issues she'd face, because that's her scholarship. She was saying that after she gets her Ph.

Canadian Heritage committee  Statistics Canada distinguishes between discrimination based on gender and discrimination based on religion. However, they do not really see a connection between an act of racism based on race and one based on religion, because the perpetrators of hate crimes do not really distin

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure about statistics for the particular scenario you're describing, but Narges just mentioned that when she was trying to find a job, just because she was wearing a hijab she was not hired. The moment she took it off, she got a job.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not sure that they do, but discrimination, hate speech, and violence in the recent statistics were rising even more for women who are Muslims. I think that's particularly because they're just visible.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  We mentioned examples of how that can be achieved in many points in the recommendations. There are so many. Some of them are about funding for starting a conversation within the community, or funding for media, because this is a huge issue, particularly for the new Arab communit

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  They could do so many things. First they could make sure that they don't need to report because they are not facing discrimination in the first place. The second thing is to give them the tools to be empowered, to make sure they know their rights, and that means funding for o

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, and they could perhaps criminalize hate speech and Islamophobia in the first place.

Canadian Heritage committee  What kind of reports do you mean?

Canadian Heritage committee  I think they talk about it among themselves. Perhaps it's normalized, so they don't think of it as something that really needs to be addressed. We're not doing anything about it, and so we do not have to have high expectations with regard to why people are not reporting. If you

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's important that the people who are in a position of power have this understanding. We sometimes get direct training about anti-oppression and anti-racism. We get it as racialized people. We don't need that training. We need the people who are dictating policies, the people wh

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.