Thank you very much, and thank you for the reminder that indeed Canada had received in previous years a similar number asylum seekers. I will go one step further to remind all honourable members of this committee that we've done an analysis to see whether the increase in asylum seekers had a correlation with the number of resettled refugees. Thankfully, Canada has not had that approach and remains a valued partner on both fronts. There is no correlation of an increase in asylum seekers meaning a decrease in resettled refugees, and we very much hope that in the years to come, as announced by Minister Hussen, in its resettlement level, Canada will maintain the protection of asylum seekers and a larger program, hopefully, of resettled refugees.
Transitional justice is an extremely important point in the case of communities that have been divided by the conflict, especially when minorities feel that they have been particularly targeted by the conflict. Transitional justice is usually over a much longer time frame than the humanitarian operation, because it requires a process of historical clarification, getting communities together to analyze what happened. There's always an element of criminal responsibility in addition to traditional justice mechanisms, which will be very important in the case of Iraq and northern Iraq, especially for the Yazidi community, so that justice is carried out in a very culturally appropriate manner. It's only when all those elements have been put in place that we think refugees in that place will feel comfortable returning home and resuming their regular lives.
