N. whereas conflicts in the region have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and not all of them have been granted the status of refugee or Internally Displaced Person (IDP); whereas many are in urgent need of assistance to ensure that their basic needs are met, as well as the need for access to education for their children in their mother tongue,

N. Whereas conflicts in the region have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and not all of them have been granted the status of refugee or IDP; whereas many are in urgent need of assistance to ensure that their basic needs are met, as well as the need for access to education for their children in their mother tongue,

Several Member States provide shelters for particularly vulnerable groups in the form of refuge homes for women and children who are victims of domestic violence (France, Germany and Spain), special housing schemes for homeless people (Denmark, Luxembourg, Greece, Spain and Sweden), preventing cutting utility supplies (France), rehabilitation of accommodation of migrant workers (France), developing supported housing, i.e. housing plus care and services (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and UK), and housing assistance to single mothers (Greece).

Reform will only support a system that keeps the state out of the homes of Canadians and maintains the freedom and responsibility of parents to care for children while providing some form of assistance to only those parents and children truly in need.

Finally, a two income couple earning $60,000 and paying for third party care outside the home will have to pay $10,000 less in federal taxes than the single income family raising their children at home.