Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Allos, I want to thank you as well as your group. Your group has done amazing work in Canada on this issue. It has been one of the largest groups to participate in this initiative.
I want to just tease out some of your thoughts around minority groups and refugee camps. The government has said that they are not using religion as a screen. I appreciate the sentiment behind that, but for anyone who has been to the region, you have to acknowledge that part of the conflict is religiously motivated. There are religious differences in terms of persecution.
I'm just wondering if you could speak to the fact that in prioritizing refugees, looking at the persecution of certain faiths isn't xenophobic. It's not a commentary on the faith itself; it's more the fact that some faiths are persecuted to a larger extent than others. I'm wondering if you could speak a little bit to your group's experience on how you think the process could be changed to acknowledge that there are certain minority groups, certain faith groups, who are persecuted to a larger extent in the region and who are perhaps not being reached by the initiative right now.
We heard from government officials that, for example, only nine Yazidi cases had been looked at in recent times. Perhaps your organization could speak to some recommendations around that situation.