The community has a lot of barriers. As I said, the barrier that I see us facing is that we're not invited to the table. I think inclusion promotes diversity and it also promotes somebody feeling proud to also be part of Canadian society. One of the things that I'm always trying to push is that diversity is a two-way street. We all can learn from each other, and the problems that Somali women face in this society.... Obviously, there's a different culture and a lot of them may have come with large families. Some of them lost their husbands during the war, so they came as single mothers who are protected refugees in this country.
How do you work when you have eight children at home? How do you start a business if you have six children at home? That could be a huge barrier. If we give people the skills, the opportunity to see how things are done, how you get out of poverty, how you start a business, how you can have the mindset and grow so that you can take yourself from a low income to middle class, or to buying a home, I think that's our biggest challenge. It's reaching out. We don't see enough reaching out to our communities.