I wonder if you could comment on the question of dealing properly with vulnerable people as an international legal question and a problem that the international community faces as a whole. To my way of thinking, this is not a problem per se in Canada's immigration and refugee law. More specifically it relates to problems in the international environment, where we see a refugee convention in place since 1951 that defines vulnerable peoples who have been displaced in a very specific way as those who have fled their country of origin. That's the criterion.
However, we have millions of peoples—40-plus million, in fact—who are internally displaced. Also, there is a convention in place on stateless peoples. It goes back to 1960, but there are only 86 signatories.
Excuse me, there are two conventions. The one I'm referring to has 86 signatories. It's not taken nearly as seriously as the 1951 convention.
Would you say it's fair to look at this problem as something that the entire international community has to look at more? How do we deal with displaced peoples in general? We have 65-plus million now. This is a record number. I think the discussion ought to be broader. We ought to talk about this as something that is challenging for the entire international community. Perhaps Canada could take a lead in raising this.
There are stateless minorities, such as the Rohingyas in Myanmar, the Haitians in the Dominican Republic, and the Bedouins in Kuwait who lack citizenship well, and there are the Nubians in Kenya. On and on we can go with examples. There are just people who lack citizenship.
There are also people who have citizenship but who have been displaced. I wonder if the international legal order and the international community is equipped with the mechanisms necessary to deal with this very serious problem.