I came across an interesting fact in a book by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow called The Story of French. It says that in Syria there are 294,000 children who are learning French. This was published in 2010.
I'd like to talk about the largest humanitarian tragedy of our time. Why not sponsor and settle some of these children here? The report that recently came out from Save The Children highlighted the lost generation of Syrian children. Four out of five refugee children in Lebanon do not go to school. Enrolment rates in Syria are down to 50% from pre-war levels of almost 100%. There are 2.8 million children out of school.
When we look at the history of your department, particularly in the Trudeau and Clark years, the department managed to resettle 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in 18 months. The department was headed by politicians—