Thank you, Madam Chair.
Samantha Letourneau, a great thank you from me to the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society. You're doing huge and heroic work in the community with no extra resources. It's a huge responsibility. Thank you to your whole team.
We heard on Tuesday from Immigration Canada and a couple of weeks ago from the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia some of the same things you were drawing out. They mentioned that language training is one of the most significant barriers to economic justice and economic security for new Canadian women accessing jobs. They also mentioned child care and transportation. Because you've touched on some of those, too, I'm not going to focus there so much.
However, I still feel that, for the committee, we don't really have a full picture drawn with just the words “access to language is a barrier”. Can you draw us more of a picture of what the economic circumstances are for those women right now? Also, can you project that forward to what their life will be, even into retirement, if they can't get access now to good jobs that allow them to build a bit of security and stability?