Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would absolutely support this motion. We need to do this work before the new year. We have heard from the witnesses; there is ongoing and additional information that would be useful and helpful to inform the committee, and more to the point, to inform the government, I hope, in terms of further action.
It was always my view from the summer study we embarked on that this would be a first phase of the work that needs to be done, and that the initial phase of resettling the 1,200 Syrian refugees was only just a very beginning into the crisis and the genocide before us. There's much work to be done, and I would absolutely support this.
To that end, I know we're running out of time, so I'm going to raise a point of order at this juncture, that we have a discrepancy in the information provided to us by the IRCC officials. I'm deeply disturbed by it. The issue is the number of people who have been rejected. It sounds to me as though the number of people whose applications have been rejected might be greater. We need to receive the information from Mr. Elias so that we can ask the officials to provide us with an accurate response on that, and I would ask—