Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of you for being here today.
My colleague Mr. Tabbara asked about the number of Yazidis who were able to enter Canada from the summer of 2014, when the real violence targeting Yazidis emerged in the area around Sinjar, over the course of the next year. What is known on this comes from an audit that shows that three Yazidis, in fact, entered Canada over that period. Details about this were revealed in reports that emerged in July 2016.
On that point, in fact, I have a question for IRCC. Did the previous government express any interest to your department about admitting Yazidis into Canada, beginning in August 2014, when the devastating violence emerged in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq?