Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would just echo what Dr. Rayale said about the first line of contact and thinking about the intervention points across the journey [Technical difficulty—Editor] and contact and review needs to happen, so it's a multipronged review.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At least at a high level, I think the focus of that role ideally would be one overall to ensure the safety of racialized communities. What does that mean internally? How do we create safer spaces, safer and enabling workspaces? For all, that looks like developing ERG affinity gro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I would completely agree with that. In many ways, the way these conversations move is with continuous research. The research and data collection has to move in tandem with the work of implementation and developing systems and strategies of intervention and combatting racism.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, and in many ways that review taking on an explicit kind of anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens is the way to really move this conversation forward. Anti-racism work requires audits and reviews across the board, including which policies are [Inaudible—Editor] and taken for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The short answer to that is yes. The full answer is that in many ways, the way we thought about the potentiality of employee resource groups is connected to this ombudsperson. What does it mean to create safe, inclusive spaces? Having a person who independently focuses on that w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's exactly what I'm saying: a well-resourced office has the ability to move things forward.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In many ways, building from what was discussed earlier, the big piece is racism moves across levels. There's the interpersonal dimension, there's the institutional dimension that creates the policies and programs, and then there's the systemic dimension all stacked on top of one

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of the jumping-off point for us, we do recognize the work that has been done with the recent release of the diversity and inclusion strategic plan, but in many ways, the work requires us centring on the folks who are experiencing it, who are on the receiving end of the r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My apologies. I think Dr. Rayale is best to take that.