Mr. Chair, over the years, a lot of people have been displaced from Iraq. There are different communities, be they Christian or Muslim, that have written to individual members of Parliament asking that we take up their cause. We invite them to tell us what is happening, be it in Iran--where some people have sought refuge--be it in Oman, be it in Jordan, be it in Syria or in Lebanon.
The last letter that I did receive--actually we all did--was from a colleague, Mr. Vellacott, who is a Conservative member, asking that we deal with this. I have spoken to a few stakeholders in this issue, and this is one of the reasons I'm bringing it forward. I think since we're dealing with refugees, and we have people from different parts of Canada coming to talk to us, this is a country that is in, if you want to call it, a moratorium--we're not shipping people back. As we have a war happening in that place right now, we should deal with the situation and get to hear from people and give some advice to the minister. If we're going to move and bring in people from that part of the world, as we've done recently from Nepal--we're bringing 5,000 Bhutanese in, as we did from Kosovo. This is something for this committee to listen to the stakeholders on and to work with groups on to make sure that if we do move in that direction, we have heard them and the committee supports the minister in doing so.