Status of Women committee  I'll try. Definitely international students need assistance, which 100% needs to be more equitable and in their own language, so I think services need to be provided from wherever they originate. One more thing that needs to be addressed is access to services and pre-arrival orientation of international students, so that when they come here, they are better informed about the laws—laws around work, and any other information about the nation they are arriving in.

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. I'll begin by answering my question with the manifestations of all of these problems. This is a three-level intersectional problem of being a minority within a minority. I call immigrants minorities. Then I call women minorities within a minority, and single women become a minority within a minority within a minority.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Sidhu, for giving me an opportunity to answer this question, because seniors definitely feel kind of abandoned or alienated in a society where the language is a big barrier. We often come across senior clients who drop in or who call in because they do not understand.

Status of Women committee  It was actually difficult initially for the service providers. As employees, it was very difficult to get used to the technology, or get our hands on Zoom meetings and providing telecare to our clients. If we talk about it from the client perspective, it is very difficult for us to expect an abused woman to call in and to understand how to meet on Zoom.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Sidhu. This is a very important and much-needed question at this time. I'll try to answer it to the best of my capacities. First, what I see as the solution to the problem that we Torontonians are all facing is that one barrier to accessing the services could be a lack of awareness about the resources that are present.

Status of Women committee  That is an excellent step that has been taken. I really appreciate it, and in fact, I think in my heart of hearts that we have all been looking forward to it, especially the immigrant single mothers. It is really, really important, as I mentioned earlier in my presentation, that when an immigrant starts their life in Canada, they look for a job, any job.

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. That's a very important question. I would just like to answer it in two ways. First, with regard to single mothers and immigrant women, it's really important for them to get integrated into their society in two aspects. First is the job aspect, and the second is the social aspect.

Status of Women committee  Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for giving me an opportunity. My name is Puneet Dhillon, and I am the communications and research analyst with Punjabi Community Health Services. The points I am going to share today are coming not only from an academic perspective to help reform the policy and practice, but are also based on my lived experience of over a decade of unpaid work, all of which I enjoyed believing it was normal, and the major part of it I did not.