I can offer only my thoughts based on the information we were provided during the dialogue.
My understanding is that what we are witnessing here is the phenomenon that is often the case in many immigrant-absorbing countries in which communities of immigrants are placed or tend to stay together in closed communities and remain in closed clusters within the absorbing country. Many of the social patterns and social practices that have characterized those communities in the countries they come from are still entrenched within their communities even after immigration.
From the work we are doing on the committee, we can sometimes see models that may be somewhat successful in managing to change cultural and social practices through education and through agents of change within the communities themselves; programs that in a sense can recruit leaders from the communities and train them to become these agents of change for their own communities.
Canada is certainly not the only country that is facing such challenges, but our impression was that the programs Canada is employing so far are really short of what Canada can do, as a welfare country and a country with resources.