Foreign Affairs committee  The contribution from Saudi Arabia was $500 million, which was made for only Iraqi IDPs, and only for Iraqis inside Iraq. So we could not use it for the small number of Iraqis who had crossed the border and become refugees. I think that's quite an important distinction to make. It was made predominantly to stabilize the situation with the country, and it did enable us as a humanitarian community—because a lot of the money filtered down to our partners—to stabilize the situation and respond.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I think it's easier for me to talk in 12-month figures. We need over $420 million U.S. to run our operations in Iraq for the year of 2015. We have received about $200 million of that. It costs us around $26 million each month to run the assistance. We provide three kinds of assistance.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll speak to this one. We run a very coordinated response. There is something called a “rapid response mechanism”, which is a conglomeration of UN agencies and NGO partners who, when we know that new places are open for access or we have new areas of displacement, provide a coordinated response package.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, very much. The map that you have in front of you will show three distinct areas. The top area is the Kurdish area that we've just spoken about, where we have easy access. I say that I know roughly 95% of what is going on there. From Baghdad in the south we have quite good access.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. I'm just about done. The stakes are high. To stop the cycle of sectarianism and violence, the basic needs and rights of Iraq’s population must be met. Food security is security, and the two should not be separated. Thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. I’m honoured to be here today as a representative of the United Nations World Food Programme, a voluntarily funded organization whose work has so often been made possible by the generosity of the people of Canada. Canada is a key partner in combatting hunger, and consistently a top donor to WFP's global operations.