There are government-assisted refugees and privately sponsored refugees. Just to focus on government-assisted refugees, once they arrive in Canada, they are assigned to a select number of destinations, including places outside of Quebec or Ontario, where the resettlement agencies have been contracted by the federal government to provide employment support, language training and cultural training. That's for the government-assisted refugees.
To shift our eyes to privately sponsored refugees, that kind of support has been provided by groups—five ordinary Canadians, religious communities, religious associations or cultural and ethnic associations—that may be spread all over Canada, not just in Quebec and Montreal. Some of them might be in very rural areas, including northern Ontario towns or northern Quebec towns. There, those sponsors are required to provide financial support, accommodation and social and cultural support to privately sponsored refugees for up to 12 months.
