The main reason we decided to do this study is because we found that there was abuse in Canada's immigration system of women primarily. It does go the other way as well with men.
We found that it was very important to focus a specific study on this issue to ensure that we close those gaps where people can use the system so they can abuse a person. For example, somebody meets a lovely young lady from another country around the world—and I'm not going to mention a country—and brings her here with the condition of PR and they get married and move forward. One of the conditions of course is that she stays in that marriage and doesn't use the system to fly from the country. But that sort of almost mis-balances it in some situations as some people can abuse that and we use that as an abuse of the person they are bringing over. The person being brought over doesn't have an avenue—where do I go? I'm here because my husband brought me here and now he's abusing me. I need to go out there. I need some help.
I'm going to ask you this question. We thought that one of the ways we can reach people is to focus a little bit on those who come to Canada. We are focusing on those who are being abused but we want to focus on some of the women who came here and succeeded. I'm wondering if in your opinion, sir, you feel that these people who have come here, these women who have come primarily and thrived in our country, got jobs here, they integrated and raised their children with Canadian family values and good strong contributing Canadians, if you feel that they can be useful in a mentor capacity to women, to newcomers in Canada?