Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. Certainly, for the language, training to better prepare immigrant women to succeed in their careers or on their Canadian journey is vitally important. I would call for the resources that are required, every step of the way, for settlement

Status of Women committee  Thank you, again, for the question. Language is one of the ways they communicate with people to understand the culture of the country that they now call home. It is important to make sure that language training and the investments in those individuals who require language learni

Status of Women committee  I mentioned the statistics earlier on. The program for the women's entrepreneurship project was established in 2018. The program supported over 798 women entrepreneurs, connected 338 clients to mentorship opportunities, provided one-on-one coaching to over 760 individuals and eng

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. Certainly the mentorship and networking opportunities provide that emotional and collegial support for immigrant women. There's another area I actually want to talk about. I think there is also a need to have the support for occupational-sp

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. I can definitely speak from my own personal experience of being a racialized minority woman. They definitely have a lot of impact on the individual's emotional self-esteem and mental health state, especially when they are spoken to versus b

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Thank you for that comment, because if people have low self-esteem, certainly their motives or enthusiasm to go further will be repressed. Their opportunities to look for a promotion or even their career development will definitely be repressed.

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for that question. There are numerous steps toward the ideal state, of course. One that I think is important, and that I think was mentioned by a previous speaker, is to look at adequate funding to support settlement agencies to carry those programs so that we w

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Chair. Good morning, and thank you for inviting me to present today. I'm speaking from Vancouver, the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, especially the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Our organization was founded 50 years ago, and to

Finance committee  Thank you so much for the questions. It's amazing that we are able to serve the vulnerable people who come to Canada. Certainly, many of them come with not one but multiple issues for which we need to provide wraparound services. Whether they are Syrian refugees, Afghan refugees

Finance committee  Thank you so much. Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to present today. My name is Queenie Choo, as mentioned, and I am speaking to you from Vancouver, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Musqueam, Squamish

Health committee  Absolutely. The escalation of issues in this area has certainly called for a lot of support, especially financial support, to make sure that people's mental health is supported and is well. Certainly, the crisis line, crisis counselling and helpline have increased fourfold from

Health committee  Thank you very much. I really feel that everyone has a right to safety, respect and inclusion. This is very real for us, for every Canadian. I think this is so important to ensure for people of all ages, no matter where they come from, and also for people of the racialized commu

Health committee  Certainly racism in all its forms, especially anti-Asian racism, has been hitting a peak and is going to climb during COVID and also beyond COVID, unfortunately. It's not just about people of colour, though. It's also about looking at people who are xenophobic, classist and misog

Health committee  Absolutely. Certainly, when we're facing the COVID-19 pandemic situation, it affects all of us, including newcomers in Canada. They've been facing a lot of settlement and cultural barriers, let alone that they have to think about their safety and the concern about COVID's spre

Health committee  I think, above all, it's what you just said. I mentioned we need to acknowledge and examine systemic racism across all institutions. We need to collect race-based data in consultation with the communities so that they understand what was collected and how that is being used for i