Through you, Mr. Chair, I would like to reply to the member.
That's a good question regarding the women. We do see that women have that inability to work at the same time as their husbands are working.
In London, through the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership working with the settlement services and the other key players—when talk about the key players, we talk about the system, about employment agencies, educational institutions. We bring them together and we talk about this issue.
We came up with some ideas, not specifically to the women, but in general to the immigrant communities. What are the barriers that impede the immigrants from finding employment? With something like soft skills, for example, which is very small—we take it for granted here—we find that could be a barrier in getting or retaining a job. As a community, we came up with that idea that this is what is impeding the women from getting the work, or impeding the immigrant in general.
We try to work with the settlement services and with employment agencies, and we have created a kind of chart of what you need to get a job, a kind of checklist: I need to do a resume. How do you do a resume? A resume is different from place to place. Where I come from, it's the degree that takes you to employment, but it's different here. There are so many people who come from those kinds of backgrounds.
We try to work with the community, and the immigrants themselves are part of that counsel. They tell us what the problems are and we tell them that we will work together to find the solution for them. By working with the different agencies, we can come up with some plans of how to improve their job search.