Citizenship and Immigration committee  We see this crisis, as everybody refers to it, as an opportunity for my community. You're right that we did have a huge unemployment rate. We've been successful at generating new investments into our community. We've been supporting companies with the federal and provincial gov

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There will be a need for transferring, to support Toronto and help us. I indicated to you that we have only 43 people per square kilometre. Municipal tax bases are short and we would need assistance during that time frame. If we can get these individuals into gainful employment t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak before the committee today. First of all, I want to put it in perspective, because some may not know where Chatham-Kent actually is. We're in the most southern part of Canada, in Ontario. The important part is that the community