I have no reason to doubt the comments made by President Obama, by the administration, or by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government. We'd like the United Nations to get in there to specifically validate these conclusions. Before the Israelis or the Americans spoke up, Canada was proactively involved, offering financial support to the UN organization that deals with this. We think that's tremendously important. We'll continue to put pressure on them.
The crisis in Syria and the suffering of the Syrian people will end only when we get a political solution to this challenge. There are almost four million internally displaced people within the country. Obviously Turkey is a NATO ally. It is a much richer country, a much larger country, with a huge population. But when you have two smaller countries, such as Lebanon and Jordan, the percentage of their populations vis-à-vis these refugees is extraordinary. Most meaningful and thoughtful international organizations say we should focus humanitarian support on the poorest of the poor and on the countries that are least able to do it.
We provide funding that goes to all four countries—to Iraq and to Turkey as well. But we certainly did in the case of Jordan. It's one of our closest allies. The stability of the Jordanian government is tremendously important. It obviously has hundreds of thousands of refugees from 1967 who are still in the country. This is putting huge pressure on things as fundamental as water, education, and jobs, which are beginning to be taken by refugees. This poses internal challenges. Those are the areas of our concerns there.