Another dimension also needs to be added to this. Ontario is receiving an enormous number of immigrants and attempting to integrate them. When these people arrive in our communities, we need to be able to provide them with services in order to promote their development, integration, etc. It then becomes necessary to rely on departments like Immigration Canada to help us provide the resources that enable us to do this. It's not easy. We are told that inter-departmental cooperation needs to be promoted. We are trying to do this, but the response is not clear.
The other dimension is the devolution of federal services to the provincial level, to the provincial and municipal level and when I say municipal, we need to ask where? In the communities. And our community organizations need to provide services, and delivery services, for which funds are not available.
Volunteers are taking on added responsibilities. Mr. Godin, you were talking about volunteers with the previous group. As Mariette was saying, these volunteers are already exhausted and they are being asked to shoulder additional responsibilities because of these extra services.
In addition, we are being asked to meet this need, but the resources required to do it well, effectively and in a well-organized manner, are not always there. In fact, we don't have the resources to do it.