Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll answer that one. Part of the 10% cut to our funds on April 1, 2015, the majority of the funds that were reduced, was for information and outreach. We chose to keep the majority of our funding for the actual settlement work itself, so that's been a consequence. To Carl's po

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll respond first. As I think I mentioned in my remarks, 15 years ago the YMCA, with grant support from the United Way, started trying to do some work specifically with newcomer youth, with teens. As you indicated, teenage times are turbulent even in well-established formalized

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had a cut on April 1, 2015. We did not have a cut on April 1, 2016, but there was no increase as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, may I have a couple more?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In our grants committee with the immigration partnership council, we're receiving some applications from organizations like the Muslim Social Services committee that are identifying these cultural issues and looking to provide some intervention on it. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can tell you that on April 1, 2015, our agency, which is primarily a federally funded organization for settlement in the region, received a 10% funding cut. Since then, our intake has increased by 30%. That's without the Syrian refugees. That would be the primary basic settleme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, MP Tabbara. Yes, I've had the opportunity to be in Waterloo region for 19 years and to be part of what Chair Selling talks about, the collaborative approach to community needs. The YMCA has been the primary funder for federal immigrant services and settlement, and langu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  [Technical Difficulty—Editor] representing the YMCA. The YMCA is one of the primary federally funded settlement organizations in our region. We also pilot one of the CLARS, one of the language assessment and referral services, on behalf of the federal government in our region.