Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank the minister for coming to this meeting so that we can listen to the update from the government. My questions are many.
First of all, I'd like to let you know that we're all very proud of our place of origin. I am, and I hope you are. As time goes on, there's a lot of violence against women, especially Asian women, and not much has been done by the government. I brought it up in question period, but there's no definite answer about actions.
We talk about shelters. Again, in the Lower Mainland, especially in my city of Richmond, women are crying for help because they want to get into the shelters, and of course, the shelters are crying for money. You may have beautiful plans, but if the money doesn't go directly to the organizations in need, there's little....
Then there's the alienation of the western provinces. You can see a lot of money being pumped into other provinces but not to the western provinces.
I have so many questions. I hope that you can briefly answer all these questions instead of just giving us a speech of your own.