If I could simply add to it as well, from the relative experience I have in terms of working with young people and early newcomers in cities, areas, or regions like the greater Toronto area, or Montreal, or Vancouver, where there are high concentrations of newcomers, I think we now have a very good breeding ground for recruitment, simply because the root cause is poverty.
If how we're settling newcomers and their families into our country isn't being addressed.... We still have all of these barriers that could be changed right now, both at the provincial and federal levels, so that newcomers could be integrated properly and would have more economic options.
The root cause is really the lack of access to economic opportunities in this country. When you have areas like where our centre is located--at the catchments of Erindale and Cooksville--where nearly 56% of the population are actually born elsewhere.... If I drive around some of those areas where newcomers are settling, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that social problems are now brewing and occurring.
It has now become a wonderful breeding ground for recruitment of young people, beginning with the youngest of our immigrants. The fact is that 80% of those we serve under our alternative measures program are children of immigrants who have been in trouble with the law for less than a year.
In fact, just before I came in here--and the reason I was late--I was dealing with a newcomer who recently arrived in July and got in trouble with the law in October. Now the whole family is a mess. It doesn't take very long.