Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I believe when we called the provincial ministry of citizenship, they were completely caught off guard and they were not completely aware. There has not been any discussion regarding this funding cut, as far as I know. The one thing I would like to ask is this. CIC did a c

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The five pillars and all that. They had a conference and they brought over 50 of their staff to be trained at the OCASI conference. We put a lot of time and energy into being creative and putting in our proposal. Why did they waste all their time and money in training their staff

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I wanted to say is that the landing numbers, as indicated by my colleague, are inaccurate because a lot of clients, when they come to Canada, go where their relatives are. In Ontario there seem to be a lot of immigrants settling. It's easier to adapt. The multicultural compo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I go first on this one? We are told there are some services and agencies, and people can access those services. First, a lot of people who are accessing our services are low-income people. They can't afford TTC, and TTC prices have been going up. Those people don't even ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there is no service in the immediate area. Actually, Northwood was going to Jane and Finch, sending a counsellor, because we provide a lot of itinerant services. A lot of these services would be missing from this neighbourhood. Where we were going and where the clients were,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's true. There is no contingency plan. They are not even talking to us. As I said earlier, they only called us this Monday to say that they would like to come to talk to us about why they eliminated our funding. It's not even about a contingency plan. I don't think this was

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. Reversing the CIC decision will be great, because otherwise all these things that I mentioned will be missing and organizations like Northwood and others will be incapacitated, but more importantly, what's going to happen to the clients? We need to have, as was mentioned

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, everyone. I'll just tell you briefly about Northwood Neighbourhood Services, and then I will talk about five areas: the impact to the agency, the impact to the community, the impact of the cuts to our clients, the cost to the country, and some research-based statis