I want to commend Ms. Rempel on her thoughts and concern for the Yazidi people.
I have some suggestions of my own. I think the issue at large is how we deal with domestically displaced people, people in their own countries who are displaced or being harassed. A lot of these are stateless governments or they have civil unrest in which there is no proper form of government and redress for these. But we have a definition of refugees that we must work with. How, too, do we see these people?
I think to address the concerns of constituents of my own riding as well as Mr. Saroya's, who brought up the Afghan Sikhs, and others in this House who have brought up other minorities that are being persecuted, from the Caledonians to other groups, the LGBT communities in Iraq, perhaps we could amend the motion by replacing the words “ways for Canada to accelerate the asylum applications of Yazidi victims of genocide” with the words “options on how Canada can best support vulnerable groups in inaccessible regions” and the words “one (1) meeting” be replaced by the words “two (2) meetings”.
I hope this will address the concerns of various groups that exist in this. The scope should be not as to really hearing about the groups' own vulnerabilities, but how legally, mechanically, this government and governments around the world can help these individuals in these communities.
Thank you.