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Language Skills: Showler and Language

language skills: In an interview with Ottawa Morning, Showler said the biggest barrier to finding work, and integrating into Canadian life, is language, according to CBC. They can't get enough language skills within the 12 months to find work that would support a family of five, six or seven. Peter Showler is part of a group that has helped four Syrian families resettle in Ottawa. Showler said English as a second language training ESL can't help refugees if they can't get to the classes. The mother ends up staying home for the first six or seven months because they're taking care of a young child because they can't get into daycare. Often what happens is the father gets into ESL quite quickly, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.