That ties into what I was saying earlier in my speech. These people are left to fend for themselves; yet they represent a workforce that is right here and that has potential. We tend to think that asylum seekers do not necessarily have any job skills or education. However, at L'Hirondelle, we help people who are very highly educated. They have university degrees, but they do not have access to any employment support.
That is a real problem because these people immediately find themselves in a very vulnerable situation. For example, we deal with cases of homelessness and extreme vulnerability. Those are the kinds of situations that we are currently dealing with on the ground. People who are left to fend for themselves do not have access to services that are essential to their workforce integration and their economic contribution.
