Bengali people will find a way to come together and step forward to say these things. We see a lot of inequality in our community. Our surveys say that 80% of the women are eligible for subsidy, and only 14% get the tax subsidy, while other parts of the city get 50%. We are not given that equal opportunity. Because we are poor, we need more support, more subsidy, more child care services in this area.
What happens? Poor people always get hit first by the recession. We lost our jobs first. We lost our child care opportunities first. There is a child care centre in town; if you do a survey to find out whose kids are going over there, it's the kids whose mothers have the ability to give money to the child care centre—outside kids, not the poor people's kids, because they are not getting any subsidy right now.
There is a huge backlog. There are people who are eligible for the child care, but still there is no solution coming.