We can talk about women but when we're looking at the family as a whole, part of my role as a critic for family, children, and social development is seeing what's working and not working in communities. In the City of Medicine Hat, they have over 50 Syrian refugee families now using the food bank. One of their biggest issues is the language barrier because there is not the proper training for English as a second language, or even French as a second language.
What can we do better there? The bottom line is that if we know this is one of the greatest barriers, why are we not driving all of our resources into the first barrier that will then help with employment, with integration, and a variety of things.
I want to know a bit more about the language training because I think whether we're looking at men or women, it's a family issue and it's an issue for them to be able to do better in Canadian society.
Can you give me more detail on that?