One of the members of the committee, Ms. Kwan, recommended the revival of the source country system. This is an older refugee resettlement program that would help what we call IDPs, or internally displaced persons, people who are in places like Hong Kong, or let's say there was an [Technical difficulty—Editor] family trapped within Iraq or elsewhere. It allows us to resettle them in Canada. With that refugee system comes something very important: We're able to issue travel documents for an individual, which would [Technical difficulty—Editor] a passport. I think short-term, and maybe long-term [Technical difficulty—Editor] the source country refugee resettlement system to provide them with travel documents to come to Canada.
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