I'll give you an example of a simple pre-arrival service that I think has been fairly effective. In Durham region we developed an immigration portal, which is an online local resource about Durham region and its eight municipalities. On that portal is all the information you would ever need to learn, earn, settle, create community, and be successful. We track our statistics fairly carefully regarding from which countries of origin we are getting our hits. The important piece of the model we developed for our portal is that it was created and is sustained to this day by over 80 organizations that serve the needs of newcomers in the community. The 80 organizations are from business, settlement, education, and wherever. We come together quarterly to ensure that information is up to date, relevant, and of value obviously to someone who lives in the community but also for someone who is in their country of origin and is shopping for a community. We believe it's been successful.
