On teaching English in British Columbia, let me say that large families come here. There can be a single mom with seven kids. Now, if there is no child-minding at the site, for those moms it becomes difficult to go to school, because there is no child-minding and they don't have day care for those kids. That's where we are trying to encourage the best practice of having sports things, where the mom is learning English and the child also is learning something. There, you are encouraging the mom to integrate. If there is none of this, that's where there are difficulties for a lot of people in going to English classes.
Also, in British Columbia a lot of jobs are ethnic jobs. It's like, okay, I'm learning Chinese so it can be easy to work in my community, but it becomes difficult for me to go and learn English.
As well, a lot of courses in British Columbia, like where I went, to VCC, put people in the same class. There are immigrants from Africa who speak French and can decode very well how to speak English, but they don't understand it. They can speak it and they decode their English, mais they can't understand it. The Chinese who come here and who have Ph.Ds can write it, but they can't speak it.
But they put all those people in the same class, and after that, they say, “Oh, you pass”. There are a lot of Africans who they say have passed, but they can't decode and they can't understand. This is where you're trying to make up the best way for this, to ask for this, and to put people in those classes who are at the same level.
Also, there's a problem in that the ELSA classes go to level four, and there are people who come to Canada and we know they are speaking at level four, but they don't have writing at level four. They're not able to get into those classes.