Thank you.
I see, Alda, that you have a point you want to make, and I'll stop a little short to give you that time. And I appreciate what you said in terms of their need for infrastructure, food, and jobs. That's the main thing.
Obviously, as Paul Baba said, Canada is a shining example when you compare it to what the rest of the world is doing. We take about one-tenth of the refugees into the country, and we've increased the number of Iraqi refugees by more than 50% for 2008. But more can and perhaps needs to be done, and it's a question of how you do it.
I find interesting some of your comments that we use sponsorship because it's obviously cost-efficient. We certainly need to look at that area.
But one of the things you've said today that we haven't heard, or at least I haven't heard, in these hearings is about looking at the potential of resettling the many who are outside the country. When you compare what we're doing worldwide for refugees to the numbers of those who are displaced, it's really a drop in the bucket in simple terms. But to try to resettle the people and maybe use the resources to provide the infrastructure for that to happen--is the country in a position where realistically that could happen in the short term or the near future? That's my first question.
Perhaps, Alda, you can finish off with what you had in mind, and then I want to hear from Mirza, if I could.
And I realize that you get a balance.... We've put some $400 million to date into helping out in that area. You might be wanting to put that into Syria or Jordan, or actually into working in the resettlement area itself.
Go ahead.