I think the answer to the last part of your question is absolutely yes.
I'm not sure that Canada is in the same situation, relative to the poverty and the marginalization, that a number of European constituencies are in with regard to the marginalization of youth. I'm not a specialist in the area of social work, and I don't want to venture too far into this, but I know from my colleagues in social work who are working with ethnic and indigenous communities, some of whom are the more marginalized segments of our society, that there is a need, clearly, to engage in educational activities that bring individuals more into the mainstream of the engagement with their communities.
In my presentation I alluded to the need to work with youth and women. The green paper also alludes to this. In 1993 I worked with the United Nations in Cambodia, and then again for the Asia Foundation. I did a report for them on their funding of NGOs in Cambodia in the elections. What we found, universally, was that the women's NGOs were by far the most effective. These were all funded internationally by various international NGOs. They were by far the most effective in terms of reaching out to the communities and changing—or influencing, shall we say—perceptions within those communities. If you want poverty, Cambodia certainly fits very much into that context, as does Haiti. I think it goes without saying that this is a reality there.
I don't think Canada is in exactly the same level of desperation. I don't think we have a Paris situation of marginalized Algerian Muslims, in particular. Could that develop in the Canadian context? Yes. But I don't think we're that desperate yet.