I can continue.
When it comes to barriers and racialized populations, our agency can add gender to the context of this discussion. I'm quite sure that Fatima can support it, and Anila, obviously; they also serve women. When you add those three components and connect them with the value of equity and fairness we should be utilizing when supporting our clients, from the funding decisions to all of us who work with clients directly, you can appreciate that there is a huge quantity issue and quality issue when working with racialized immigrant women.
When I talk about quantity, I'm talking about the number of services that exist and that are being funded by IRCC specifically for women. In line with that, there is the quality component, which is the value of equity and customized adjusted services, from child care to all kinds of other issues, including family violence issues that we have been increasingly dealing with. There is the fact that there are a limited number of organizations that exist to provide services for the most vulnerable women who are racialized as well, and the full understanding of that fairness component that every individual IRCC brings to Canada should deserve and should receive as part of their successful integration and how that affects the well-being of those children they bring up to be responsible citizens of this country.
That issue in itself speaks about a huge lack of attention to the gender issues. Globally, all women and in particular [Technical difficulty--Editor] on IRCC funding decisions. We are probably the biggest settlement agency with a gender-specific focus in Canada, and we have tons of different bridging programs that support immigrant women for equitable employment. We have offered those program models' outcome measurement frameworks—vetted programs models—to IRCC to spread across Canada, so that all the other centres can use those programs. However, very few of them have been reciprocated.
What can you do with 30 clients you serve through any of those bridging programs when there are 3,000 women who should have access to those programs, and that's maybe even in the city of Calgary—forget about other cities?
So race, coupled with gender, is a big issue that has been very poorly dealt with by IRCC historically.
I will allow Fatima to....