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Canadian Heritage committee Sorry, I don't....
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee Unfortunately, I didn't get your question. I was listening to the French. I'm sorry.
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee On the education issue, yes. In the education system, I do believe that it's very important that there are curricula to teach students how to address discrimination, to battle discrimination, and to understand these concepts. Training in the school environment is very important.
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee The data that we have, and what we're talking about right now, is based on the survey that we initiated recently. The survey was not going around for that long. It's been less than a week. We had more than 600 responses. We collected these data from the community members, and so
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee I want to add that if Iranian Canadians are going to be considered a visible minority officially, if they're going to be grouped as a visible minority, then that would be a path to address some of the issues that you mentioned in terms of equity and all of that. As well, funding,
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee Based on the experience that we've had in the Iranian Canadian Congress for the past few years, the issue with the reporting.... I'm going to start with the banking issue. Usually we see that people are not comfortable reaching out to officials. That's why they reach out to us f
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee Yes, I can provide more details.
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you, Pouyan. First, we believe that a systematic review of our Criminal Code legislation in regard to hate crimes and hate speech is long overdue. Numerous sources have reported that a significant part of the problem in prosecuting hate crimes is that the Criminal Code lim
October 25th, 2017Committee meeting
Soudeh Ghasemi