21. Stresses that national, local and regional authorities are called upon to play an ever-expanding role in the process of integrating women immigrants with pro-active policies and to conduct a more intensive open dialogue so as to communicate and cooperate with immigrant communities and networks, and calls on the Member States and the European Union to support these efforts financially and by means of exchanges of information so that, in particular, problems such as housing, "ghettoisation", crime, access to public and social services, health services, childcare, etc. can be tackled, and stresses also the role of organised immigrant co ...[+++]mmunities and of the NGOs, which provide advice, information and support for immigrant women.

21. Stresses that national, local and regional authorities are called upon to play an ever-expanding role in the process of integrating women immigrants with pro-active policies and to conduct a more intensive open dialogue so as to communicate and cooperate with immigrant communities and networks, and calls on the Member States and the European Union to support these efforts financially and by means of exchanges of information so that, in particular, problems such as housing, "ghettoisation", crime, access to public and social services, health services, childcare, etc. can be tackled, and stresses also the role of organised immigrant co ...[+++]mmunities and of the NGOs, which provide advice, information and support for immigrant women;

You spoke of ghettoïzation, would such a channel be too ghettos?

My question of Honourable Senator Sparrow is this: In the committee study, was any attention paid to what I would describe as the ghettoization of society, the ghettoization of communities?

Furthermore, negative trends are obvious in depressed rural areas, in old industrial districts as well as in many urban areas affected by unemployment, underemployment, discrimination, segregation, violence and the ghettoisation of entire neighbourhoods which have become more and more deprived and cut off from the society around them.

The Bloc would like to ghettoize French and isolate Quebec linguistically by disregarding the situation in the other provinces.