Mr. Chair, we are working with Food Banks Canada to study this phenomenon. We need to recognize that government-assisted refugees, when they come to Canada, and the income support they receive, puts them into a low-income set-up. It's not unusual that government-assisted refugees would be accessing food banks.
We have been working with our service provider organizations as well to try to understand the phenomenon. In some instances it's possibly a temporary phenomenon as people are waiting for their child tax benefit cheques to arrive. In some instances it's helping to educate the Syrian families that even though the food bank is there and it's a free resource, they shouldn't go there unless they need to and some of them had been going when they didn't need to. There have been some communication issues around that, but we continue to work and study food bank usage in close collaboration with the service provider organizations.