Thank you very much for the opportunity.
I'm not a specialist in these areas, but in 2015, the IRCC made a number of changes to its normal procedures in order to meet its very ambitious targets that were established for Syrian refugees.
First and foremost, Syrians became prima facia refugees without having to have the UNHCR designation. That opened up incredible opportunities for both private sponsorship through sponsorship agreement holders, which don't require UNHCR designation generally, and for “group of five” sponsorships. That, for us, is critically important, because we know that UNHCR is not capable right now of processing the volume of applicants that would need to be processed.
Canada still addressed the health and security issues, but we did it in real time much more quickly. That's one of the things that's important.