Citizenship and Immigration committee  He's sitting here among women. I'm Salma Siddiqui and I'm here today in my capacity as the president of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations, accompanied by my colleague Tahir Gora, secretary general. Let me begin by commending the Government of Canada

Citizenship and Immigration committee   and Tahir Gora who represent the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations. We have Kamal Dhillon, author of Black and Blue Sari, and Denise Spitzer, who is the Canada research chair in gender, migration, and health from the University of Ottawa. I assume you're

Citizenship and Immigration committee  And Tahir Gora, the secretary general, is here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning.

Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination   a few: Ali Qamar, Sam Forrest, Hashim Tanvir, Qasir Dar, Faisal Javaid, Reema Zuberi, lrfan Siddiqui, Linda Casselman, my parents, and my siblings. I would like to thank community activists for their efforts in raising awareness: Asif, Aman, Fasih, Tahir, Justin, Shehzad, lrfan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Gora. Mr. Gora has submitted his brief to us, and it will be translated. The document will be distributed to the members of the committee as soon as it is available in both official languages. Before I give the floor to Ms. Desloges, I would like to welcome

Points of Order   to address this serious problem. Under their watch, demand for food banks has gone up 25% since 2008. Government assistance and action have been ineffective and have not solved any of the problems. I would have liked to see the gora food strategy such as the one put forward by my

Citizenship and Immigration committee   this is important in a context where our society is increasingly relativist and, in a rush to respect other cultures, we often overlook the fact that there is a reason why our own Canadian culture has developed in the way that it has. Much has been made, as my friend Tahir just mentioned

Citizenship and Immigration committee   to the definition of “barbaric”. Is that an appropriate term to use in this case? Mr. Gora.

Citizenship and Immigration committee   is coming from a party whose leader, the Liberal leader, did not want to call these practices barbaric. We will say exactly what this is. They are barbaric cultural practices and they have no place in Canada. Starting from Mr. Gora, could you please comment on the semantics

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Mr. Gora, it's quite disturbing to hear of the cleric in the Toronto area, I believe you said, who made the comment that if he had a choice between Islamic law and Canadian law, he would follow Islamic law. Of course, that's his interpretation of Islamic law; I don't

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Gora.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. We're over time, Mr. Easter. On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank Mr. Tod, Mr. Gora, Ms. Shahida, and Mr. Neumann so much for your informed and informative comments tonight. We certainly appreciate it. Your perspectives are certainly

Public Safety committee  Good. Thank you, Mr. Gora.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Falk. Mr. Gora, thank you. Mr. Easter, you have the floor, sir.