Certainly, Minister.
Mr. Chair, British Columbia was one of the provinces using the three-year rolling average where the amount of allocation dropped. That meant that service provider organizations generally for all settlement services had a cut of between 1% and 8%. When we had the large amounts of money specifically for Syrian refugees, we targeted that money not under that settlement funding formula, but to where the Syrian refugees were actually settling and being permanently housed.
Our staff across the country have been working closely with the service provider organizations to identify the needs of the refugee population, in particular, and identifying funding priorities. As funding amounts of money have been approved, that money has been pushed out the door to meet those needs.
For example, in British Columbia, at the end of fiscal year 2015-16 for the Syrian refugee arrivals, and for the full year of 2016-17, there's been an increase of funding for language training of $3.28 million. That's allowed the creation of 69 language classes and about 1,242 seats for the Syrian refugees who were there. That's actually been targeted at the specific communities where we know that Syrians have resettled and also where there were wait lists.