Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. I'm going to say this in English. I would like to give my time to Jovana and Chiara. Jovana and Chiara, with the FCJ Refugee Centre, are the experts on the question of claimants. They advise us at the association on our human trafficking project. At the Association

Status of Women committee  Under the resettlement assistance program for government-assisted refugees, we are mandated to provide that housing, and IRCC does fund temporary housing in those communities. When we're resettling refugees, we tend to be really good. Where we're not really great is with refuge

Status of Women committee  This is a really great question. It's something that is a really special part of our work at the Association for New Canadians. As you mentioned, we are located in nine communities, including eight communities that are outside of the urban core. Those offices are sometimes in r

Status of Women committee  There were a lot of services that the Yazidi community members were provided with when they were resettled to Canada. There were about 1,100 Yazidis who were resettled to four communities across Canada: London, Ontario; Toronto region; Calgary; and Winnipeg. These communities r

Status of Women committee  I would like to add that I think it's very important to work closely with francophone communities. In Newfoundland and Labrador, one of the big problems is that not many services are available in French. Many people who have come through Roxham Road or from Haiti or other francop

Status of Women committee  There is a lot there to unpack, probably more than I have time to do today. I'll start with the WAGE funding. The funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada has been absolutely instrumental in the work we are doing. I think it's worth noting that their fund for sexual reprod

Status of Women committee  That funding allowed us to amplify the voices of our survivors to help them be part of the decisions. As an organization, we work with many of the partners at the table today, but also others, and we actually train people on human trafficking and provide systems of support. I w

Status of Women committee  To your comment, a lot of us actually were talking about how we work together, so to any of my peers on the call, please feel free to also jump in. I'll answer the question in two parts. When I was working in Cairo, a lot of our cases were cases of human trafficking. What I sa

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Hello, bonjour, honourable members of the House of Commons. Thank you for inviting me here today. My name is Monica Abdelkader, and I use the pronouns “she” and “her”. I am the director of the resettlement and settlement services at the Association for New