Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It takes the breath away, because we were afraid of those kinds of stories when we heard about the safe third country agreement. We've been dreading, knowing that was going to happen, but we were all expecting it.
I want to thank you all for coming, and for your very articulate and moving statements this morning. I think it's really important for us all to understand how this is something that church congregations enter into only with great and careful consideration. Also, I hope we all have an appreciation of the huge commitment this involves.
I was only very peripherally involved with a sanctuary case, as a supporter of a congregation in Vancouver at Trinity United Church and St. Mark's Anglican Church. It was a single woman from El Salvador with five or six children, which presented huge challenges for that congregation, and it went on for quite some time. I know some of the challenges involved in this, at least peripherally.
I wanted to ask specifically about the situation of l'Église unie Saint-Pierre in Quebec City, the United Church congregation where Mohamed Cherfi was in sanctuary. I think it's the only case where officials entered a church in Canada and removed somebody who had sought sanctuary. I wonder if Heather or others could tell us about that specific case and what happened there.