For the long term, Canada could work with other allies like the U.S., and other European countries like the U.K., to support the creation of an autonomous region for the Yazidis and Chaldo-Assyrian Christians. This is the only way we can survive in the Middle East, because both governments... The central government in Sinjar, allegedly to protect them, they defeated in June, and the KRG had more than 10,000 of its peshmerga they say. The Iraqi government failed, so the Sinjar has to be part of KRG now, and they say, “We're going to protect you”.
When ISIS attacked, many of the peshmerga and local Kurds joined up with ISIS and killed their Yazidi neighbours. The Yazidi lost trust in our neighbours, both the Yazidi and the Assyrians. We hope that.... Iraq is a federal government now. Under the new constitution, if a region wants to have a separate administration, then they're allowed, but they don't accept that because we are Yazidi and we are Christian.
That needs the intervention of the international community to work with the Iraqi government and with the KRG government. It is only by word of mouth that they say they are democratic, but in fact they are not democratic. They are dictatorships. We have seen it with the governments now in place, the local government and the national government.