Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, $2 million in cash.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. The diaspora is organized under the Syrian Canadian Council. Their main goal I think is to collect money for blankets, for food, for clothing to go into the camps outside of Syria. Inside of Syria—again, it's very hard to get anything inside without having connections with

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't tell you that amount for a couple of reasons. A lot of times they're collecting blankets and clothing, and they send containers over.

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly, yes. Money-wise, it's very difficult. If you go through different cities, I think they've raised probably around $200,000 or $300,000 in the last year.

Foreign Affairs committee  No.

Foreign Affairs committee  He's just come out.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, he's a Canadian citizen.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. He came back.

Foreign Affairs committee  But he's 90, so he wanted to die in Syria. We convinced him to come home. If he stayed there, he'd probably—

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, this is all on the record.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, I will give you all the sources.

Foreign Affairs committee  I've been speaking to the local coordination committees. These are cases they documented. They are a council inside Syria that organizes the protests but also identifies bodies. They document that, and they also document all the atrocities that are happening.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks for having me today. I just want to give you a little bit of background on what's happening in Syria. I'm going to start off with some statistics, and the statistics I'm going to read out to you are of documented people. These are people who have been identified, not pe