Human Resources committee  That's an interesting approach. Some research has been done on practices elsewhere. In Britain, for instance, major developers are required to build a certain amount of affordable housing when they get approval to build a housing estate. I think something like that has also been

Human Resources committee  That's right. We get 30,000 new people a year, and most of them are immigrants.

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, I didn't realize that there was a particular party aspect to this, but perhaps I haven't done enough research on it. In any case, there were a number of local problems in regard to housing. The council of the Region of Peel sets policy for housing. The municipalities

Human Resources committee  Fifty per cent of the population of Peel region is immigrant.

Human Resources committee  Our organization was set up by the Social Planning Council of Peel following a forum on child poverty. That was in 1997. Since then, we have done a number of things. We have made a video about poverty and flogged it around schools. We have opened some community gardens. We have

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure. There are 300,000 South Asians among that group as well as a large number of black people from the Caribbean. They are talking to us about the problems they encounter with getting jobs, holding jobs, and all the things that go with the constant put-down, I think, of

Human Resources committee  The Peel Poverty Action Group is composed chiefly of people who are cash poor. We're already at the bottom of the barrel, so we have no fear from the economic recession. We can't get into any worse shape, except for a large number of people cramming into the same barrel. What th

Human Resources committee  Thank you.