Here in Canada? I'm not that familiar with it, but I have done some stories in the past with regard to the psychological support services being cut. In fact, I work at the courthouse full time, and one of the security guards there is a Rwandan woman whom I got talking to. She said that she had been getting therapy but that it had been cut. Whether that's true or not.... I believe her. I have no reason not to believe her. I didn't see her again at the courthouse. I don't know what happened. Whether she lost her job, or quit her job, or changed jobs, I don't know. I lost touch with her.
I often see homeless people on the street, and maybe this is sort of a racist thing on my part, but if they are people of colour or black, I automatically assume that they are refugees who came here and got lost in the system somehow. A lot of them are Africans. I wonder if that is what happens if they don't get the psychological support or don't have the family support they need.
One of my friends came here from Rwanda to do his master's in journalism at Carleton. He ended up having a psychological episode on the streets of Toronto, on a bus, and the police had to be called. I was very grateful that they didn't shoot him, which we know can happen. He ended up being diagnosed here as bipolar. He went back to Rwanda and continues to have psychological difficulties.
I think that if we are going to accept refugees here from countries that have been torn apart by war—and right now we are accepting a lot of Syrians who are escaping exactly that—we owe it to them to provide psychological support, to provide at least somebody who they can talk to about what they are going through.