Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his intervention on the motion before us.
We know other countries have intervened, as he has mentioned. How many people does the member believe Canada can accept? Their lives have been left hanging in the balance, sadly because of perhaps a lack of understanding on how to deal with what is a terrible situation. We know these people are, by any other description, refugees, but somehow our system has not recognized them as such.
Does the member know how many people Canada could accept? Does he know of a creative way of doing this?