Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, Ms. Chow, we approached the City of Toronto as well as the Ontario government to find out if we could access some funding to continue this, and then also to find out if there were perhaps some discussions. From our understanding, no: no for funding and no discussions. S

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. For us, certainly, the indication was that OCASI--. Certainly ACAS has and continues to be engaged with OCASI, the Ontario network, in trying to make sure there's no duplication of services. What we try to do is, if individuals we find do not fit our criteria of niche needs,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With regard to immigrants and where immigrants settle, it's quite easy to find those statistics, they exist already. We know not only that the CIC keeps track of that, but Statistics Canada also has that kind of information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for that. That point is actually pertinent to this discussion, in part because one of the things you've heard already is the complexity of servicing multiple needs with, in our case, one worker. The challenge around that is that we have to adapt. When we have workers we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. If I may, one of the things that we found with regard to allocation of money.... As we know, statistics can be used in multiple ways, and the challenge is that landings don't give an accurate picture. Ideally what you should be doing is where the immigrants

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From where we sit, no, there isn't. The uniqueness of the community we serve is that people who arrive anywhere across the country tend to migrate to Toronto, in part because this is where the LGBT community is most prominent.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, we have two suggestions that we think would be helpful. If there could be more transparency to funding assessment processes, individual agencies such as ours could have a better understanding of how funding is allocated or how to utilize the funding. Also, sh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members. I wanted to speak a little bit about the challenges we face in our community, in particular the East and Southeast Asian LGBT communities. Historically, our organization was born because of a need, because there was no