Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were lots of examples of domestic violence, lots of examples of sexual abuse. These victims represent a smaller population than what we are talking about, but we don't want to leave these populations out.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we have to look at the pressure on South Asian as well as Asian communities, which are usually seen as model minorities. We talked about a lot of the issues that the Chinese and South Asian communities face. There's a lot of success in this community. People have become M

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My suggestion would be to have significant investment in engaging immigrants in public processes so that there is no alienation or marginalization. We know that second-generation immigrants are also facing job challenges, having been born here or having been brought up here. Stat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think all of the suggestions are good. It has to be looked at in context for me to say it's a good idea. What is it replacing and how is it being replaced is the question, right? If you're having language specific to the professions, that's good. But is it combined with the e

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't provide that, but a lot of our member agencies do. From our personal experience there are certain structural things such as reporting quarterly, disbursements, and staff turnover--you probably know about it more at CIC. Certain branch-related changes might have contribut

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may add quickly, I did say that it's a good idea, but it's a band-aid solution. If you look at the résumé of internationally trained professionals, they have to put where they received their education. There are lots of things in the résumé that may not be valued, not just

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Because we are an umbrella organization, we are able to do some of those things. If we were a front-line organization, we would be tied to doing front-line work a lot, because it's so demanding. Metropolis, which is an immigration-related research group, has a conference that'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's based on each of those themes. For example, take civic engagement; in some municipalities permanent residents can vote in their local municipal elections. Some Scandinavian countries and some other countries across the globe have that kind of set-up. We don't. So some discus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. There's a large number of legal clinics in Ontario, and some of them are ethno-specific legal clinics, so there's one for Africans, one for Chinese and Southeast Asians, one for South Asians, and so on. So the legal clinics do community legal education. Though it's very li

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, many of them do that in a first language. But, again, as in many other agencies, they only reach a small percentage of the population that needs to get the information. Definitely, they need to have more public service announcements and related investments, maybe as part of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it's both sides. Individuals would go and find out.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The community organizations and advocacy groups will do some community education. The individuals will also try to learn. As you said, if you're born here, you still do not seek out some of those things. If you're struggling with jobs and family dynamics, and so on, and settlem

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's one. Most of the CIC-funded programs or the federal government-funded programs for immigration are that way. Other funders do fund family counselling, addiction counselling, and all that. It's fragmented, in a way. Many of the agencies do have family counsellors who help w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the key is that the federal and provincial governments are working together on the local immigration partnership. If you broaden the local immigration partnership council across the province, for example in Ontario, they can look at these other aspects of settlement—menta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The local immigration partnership has started in many places already. Some of them are more than a year old, I think. It is a provincial as well as a federal partnership. What I was saying is it's a good model, because it brings many stakeholders together, but its limitation is