Citizenship and Immigration committee  Wow, that's a big question. I am not going to give a long, involved answer to that. What I would say to you is that we do know that in hiring practices there is systemic bias, not in all businesses, of course, not with all employers, but there is systemic bias built into many hir

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, that's another complex question, sir, but one that I will try to answer. Mr. Allen spoke to the process of regulation and foreign qualification recognition. It is an extraordinarily complex one in this country. We have hundreds of regulators across Canada who are provinc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That goes back a little bit to what I spoke to earlier today when I talked about in my perfect world, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that issue is true across the country, unfortunately. Lack of child care or the ability to access child care is a hindrance. Sometimes, though, I'd have to add that there are cultural implications to that. There may be women from cultures where it isn't appropriate for th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would agree. Very quickly, I would focus on pre-arrival, restructuring settlement so there is more pre-arrival and less post-arrival. To your point, Mr. McCallum, I would focus on building the capacity of those smaller communities to help them track. It could be through the Ma

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, yes, I do. To add to what Kristyn just said, I was lucky when I was with MOSAIC and running our language centre for over 10 years that we had a licensed child care centre. I will tell you that in those 10 years, it was constantly oversubscribed. There were never enou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, and as a matter of fact that is one of our key strategic focuses. We do all our work through partner organizations, whether that is some of the settlement agencies around the province, most of which are in the Lower Mainland, but there are a couple outside in the smal

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's always a more difficult question for us, because we don't provide services to immigrants. We provide services to employers. How we track is through our partner organizations in B.C. such as S.U.C.C.E.S.S., MOSAIC, and ISS. They track specifically through programs that they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The outcomes in terms of—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is incredibly high. I'll speak to one, and again what I'd like to preface that with is I'm not taking complete attribution because when your work is done in partnership, everyone plays a role. I'll give the example of the mentoring program that we have had under way now for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's going back in my memory then, sir. Where I've seen a difference in my province...there are a couple of things. One of the things is that unfortunately in British Columbia the numbers for immigration are dropping. From my perspective that is detrimental to British Columbi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. In my perfect world there would be no need for immigrant employment councils. In my perfect world Canada would continue to attract skilled people from around the globe. These newcomers would bring their energy and their innovation to our provinces. Employers would ha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's a privilege to be here with you today. Given that my colleague Mr. Allen was so succinct, I will try to be the same. I've been in the business of helping immigrants attach to the labour market for longer than I usually care to admit publ