My wife was a personal volunteer, and we helped somebody in our country. We ended up threatened by one of the five illegal organizations down there. We applied for refugee status in Canada and we were denied four times. We applied a fifth time. Some change occurred in the embassy, and they saw our case and accepted us as refugees. We came to Canada in that way.
I would like to complement the questions with regard to the settlements. Most of the dollars that I've spent on other issues can be spent in retraining people. I live in the Newfoundland House. My friend John is one of our neighbours. Some of our Canadian neighbours are sitting at home because they cannot access education. They have to wait two, three, four years in a line-up to go to college.
We have a good number of young adults, people who don't apply for high school because they're too old, and they cannot apply for college because they have no English and so on. So they can't be retrained in these job situations.
We have a number of entrepreneurs who went to Alberta to set up shop. They could have done it in Newfoundland and provided more jobs. This is something we are proposing at the collegeāa database to help us understand how to go about business and how we can deal with unions, schools, and funding.