Our government has invested considerably in helping newcomers settle in Canada. In fact, we have tripled settlement funding to some $600 million today, in addition to about $55 million for resettling refugees in this country. It is an important component of our immigration policy to assist newcomers and to inform them of their rights now that they are here in Canada.
I understand you produce several training resources for immigrant families and help to counsel them as they deal with domestic violence.
What is the key take-away from your work? You travel across Canada, helping young women as they deal with gender-based and honour-based violence, which very much exists in this country. We've heard it over and over, and of course there is the experience you had in the United Nations with the thousands of women out there. It is obviously a very awful thing that is happening throughout North America.