E/CN.4/2004/18/Add.2 page 25 (h) The Government should conduct an overall assessment of the situation of the Afro-Canadian community, in the areas of employment, habitat, health and education. The cultural and linguistic diversity of the community must be fully taken into account in the preparation of a specific programme of action; (i) Law enforcement agencies should be subjected in particular to urgent review, with emphasis on their behaviour, composition and training systems, which should reflect Canada’s multiculturalism. Special attention should be paid to providing training in interculturalism for those agencies’ staff; (j) The Government should reinforce its political, legal and judicial safeguards to ensure that anti-terrorist measures do not lead to an aggravation of racism, discrimination and xenophobia; (k) The resurgence of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia requires not only vigilant attention and repression but also measures to promote dialogue between the communities concerned; (l) The Special Rapporteur invites the federal Government and provincial governments to implement all outstanding recommendations by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; (m) Now that the Canadian Government has recognized the situation of Japanese-Canadians as a special case, which has led to the grant of financial compensation, it should in the same spirit restart consultations with members of the Chinese community in Canada in order to consider the possibility of compensating the descendants of persons who paid the head tax or members of their families who were affected by that measure; (n) In consultation with communities of African origin or their descendants, the Government of Nova Scotia should re-examine the conditions of their relocation, particularly from Africville, taking particular account of their situation regarding human rights and economic and social conditions with a view to granting them reparation; (o) The Canadian Government should make a greater effort to improve its communications with and to pay closer heed to the communities concerned and should set up appropriate mechanisms to that effect. Notes 1 See Employment Equity Act 1995. However, people supposedly belonging to this category prefer to identify themselves as “members of racialized groups” or “equality seeking persons”. 2 According to Statistics Canada, the word “aboriginal” is defined as follows: “… those persons who reported identifying with at least one aboriginal group i.e. North American Indian, Métis or Inuit and/or those who reported being a Treaty Indian or a Registered Indian as defined by the Indian Act of Canada and/or who were members of an Indian Band or First Nation”.