Okay. We'll go to questioning in a moment.
You feel that financial assistance to Iraq from Canada is not adequate. I notice in some of the notes I have that Canada pledged up to $300 million for humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq, and $285 million of that has already been committed. One-third of the funds committed were channelled through the International Reconstruction Trust Fund Facility for Iraq, to which Canada had contributed $115 million as of the end of January.
I think UNHCR had recommended we take 500 Iraqi refugees. I don't know if Canada has met its full commitment on that, but I guess it's in the process of being done, because 190 Iraqis sought asylum from within Canada in 2006, followed by 129 in the first six months of 2007.
Anyway, I'll just go to whoever wishes to ask questions.
Ms. Beaumier