With the overall budget—although the federal government has said it has provided $38.6 million extra to help with the Syrian refugees—I think the bulk of that has gone into transportation and hotels. What's left for settlement services is very small. We have been told in our budget that 5% of our existing budget could be allocated to Syrian refugee initiatives, but that means we have to cut something else.
We don't want to set up this dynamic where all the other immigrants feel that Syrian refugees are special. What about the other refugees? What about the other immigrants? It's difficult for agencies that don't get additional funding, but to be fair, IRCC is looking at additional summer programs. Decisions haven't been made as to what we can do with summer programs.
It's very short. There are only two months in the summer that we can do something with either the children or the women. More than half of the government-sponsored refugees have children under 14 years. We're looking at a huge youth population. It's great for the demographics of Canada in the long run, but in the meantime, we have to invest something in the youth programs.