Thank you. I will continue.
Here's another: “I am writing today to help”....
For folks who are here, I should say that this is something we have had to fight the government on tooth and nail.
I appreciate that the UN is here today. I know that the United Nations, especially with the refugee resettlement component, is under an inordinate amount of pressure. There are 65 million people on the move—by their own accounts—in the world today.
However, there's a very difficult conversation we have to have as a global community. It's not a conversation that's comfortable. It's not one that's politically sexy, and it's not a conversation that immediately results in a photo opportunity at an airport, and that is, who are the world's most vulnerable?
It's not a great conversation to have, but certainly the point I'm trying to make today, and also trying to convince my colleagues of, is that we need to have a study on this. There are people here who have survived genocide, sexual slavery, and are being told that they don't have the same ability to be eligible to come to Canada as a refugee as somebody who has reached upstate New York.
So I will read another—