Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to both of the witnesses. This is extremely helpful and will inform our final recommendations.
I want to turn to Ms. Watts from the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia.
I'm elected on Vancouver Island, so exactly the other side of the country, but the stories you're telling are resonating with me. In my riding of Nanaimo—Ladysmith, I've heard that the language barrier is one of the biggest challenges facing new Canadians, and women in particular. The Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society is doing fantastic work and they are providing language training, but we're seeing that it's just not up to them alone to carry the whole load, and, as you say, they're not funded to do this.
We're also hearing from them that, even if language training is available, their female clients have difficulty finding transportation to be able to access that training and have difficulty accessing child care. I would like to hear you say really clearly whether you see that increased federal investment in both public transportation and the universal child care system would remove some of those barriers to immigrant women being able to attend language training class, which would then allow them to get into the workforce.