Mr. Speaker, I want to just put on the record that it was June 13 that I asked a question to the government about the crisis at the time. My question was the following:
Mr. Speaker, the violence in Iraq is growing. Aid groups are warning of a looming crisis that will spin out of control.
This week half a million people—
It has grown since then.
—fled Mosul after a heavily armed terrorist group took over the city. Iraq is already struggling to provide aid to [the] Syrian refugees....
What is the government doing to help with the crisis? Specifically, what concrete steps is it taking to help with the refugee crisis?
What I got as a response from the parliamentary secretary was nothing. He just said they were concerned about this and they felt sorry for the victims.
I asked that question in June, saying that this crisis was going to deepen. It has deepened, and sadly it is going to deepen further. We had commitments at committee when I asked the foreign affairs minister about the following: support for victims of sexual violence, support for refugees and to build camps, support to bring the perpetrators to justice, and also to protect minorities.
We have heard about the military commitment, where is the further humanitarian assistance that they said they were going to pledge?