Thank you, honourable Chair and distinguished members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak and hopefully contribute to resolving the difficult questions before you all.
My colleague Raija-Liisa and I will be sharing our allotted time. There are two questions we will address. First, are some refugee groups more vulnerable than others? We would like to offer testimony and evidence to this question. Second, how should Canada respond? We have distributed a brief, which details four recommendations.
I'd like to turn it over to Raija to continue.