Justice committee  For us, I think for the majority of them, the family unit is no longer there. But also, in the same amount, we found families where the father or mother were present. So we cannot say that's the case, but at the same time, we can see that even those families who stayed together

Justice committee  It's a very small number--0.009%--but somehow they end up getting killed; that is what's different.

Justice committee  For us, even though only a small minority are involved, one young death is too many.

Justice committee  What I mean to say is that the young men who are dying get our attention, then we look at ourselves and ask what the problem is. We found out there is a pond of crime over here, but so many fish get in. So unless we dry out, using every available tool.... Also, we looked at s

Justice committee  No, I don't believe that. I don't believe that affirmative action is the way to go. Sometimes it is counterproductive. One thing we are asking is how we can help those people to qualify. For example, we went to the police. They said that we don't have a qualified person, so sho

Justice committee  The challenge is that the system is not accommodating us, because we are involved, but the system does not go far enough to include us. The existing system that governs us was put in place when we were not here. There is resistance, in terms of the system, to including our ideas

Justice committee  If you go through the community and ask, they will tell you a variety of reasons. One thing I see is that the communities before us had maybe one common issue, so they could successfully integrate into the larger community. Maybe the Vietnamese sort of shared the mainstream ident

Justice committee  I mean economic. Right now, if you are settled, the agencies that do settlement get more dollars and more resources than those agencies who focus on integration. So there is a misplacement of the resources. And then there is a mischaracterization of the youth. Who are they? They

Justice committee  Yes. You're hitting the nail right on the head. For our youth, it's not that they don't belong to a community. As you say, we have a strong community. The reason is frustration with the system, because there are no alternatives offered to them. Within our community we can offer t

Justice committee  Our community has recently arrived and we don't have the means to.... We've found out that the people involved in those crimes are not the main ones; they're usually the lower-level ones. So we don't know who has got in. But in Alberta the top organization recruiting our young on

Justice committee  It's al Qaeda and other groups. Right now we have the al-Shabaab threat over our heads.

Justice committee  Oh, they have the Internet. They have YouTube clips. Right now we have a guy who, from America, went to Somalia radicalizing, and whether it's drugs or whatever, he's glamourizing it: Well, I'm here, I'm young, and you're not doing anything. Do you know who's going there? Engin

Justice committee  That's what those who are involved in the gangs have been telling us. So when we say, “Why don't you get out of the gangs?”, they look at the other side of it or they look at the people who are older than they are, and they do nothing. So for us it's a lack of integration as a co

Justice committee  We're dealing with organized groups. Most of the people who have been killing here come from Ontario, I think especially Toronto. They have organized groups from our community. When it comes to Albertans, we haven't experienced this yet, but it doesn't mean it's not going to ha

Justice committee  What we have learned is there is no Somali gang yet, as such, or we haven't identified one. But they join and are recruited by the other gangs.