Yes, but just to qualify one part of it, I referred specifically to racialized immigrant women who are at the lower end of the ladder.
Yes, it's a fair characterization of what I said. You have a number of these individuals who have come into the country at the age 49 or 50 and cannot speak either English or French. Many of them are at home with their respective relatives and do not get the chance to get out into the community even to be able to articulate with others in the language, so that they can even pick up a couple of words. Then as they age, they still cannot speak. This is a fact, that many immigrant women who have been 25 or 30 years in this country cannot speak English or French. Yet they need help; they need assistance; they need services.
What we are saying is that we need more in-depth study on this particular issue so that it will help you as policy-makers to put systems and structures in place to make the funds available that will allow them to grow old in this country and feel comfortable.