Citizenship and Immigration committee  Today, about 350,000 Yazidis remain in the IDP camps in northern Iraq, and about 67,000 in Greece and Turkey. Of those Yazidis who were taken into captivity by ISIS in 2014—mostly women and some children—1,200 to 1,300 remain in captivity, mostly in Syria. We believe some of them are also in Turkey.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We work all around the displacement cycle, from internally displaced to near areas, to programs in Greece, to supporting asylum, to a volunteer program in Denmark, to integration activities from language to family support, to diaspora programs supporting the diaspora to work and create projects back home, and to return to repatriation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since 2003-04, I've interviewed migrants preparing to board boats and rafts in Tunisia, in Egypt and in Libya. I've spoken to them upon arrival in Spain, Greece, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and I've spent a lot of time with policy-makers, immigration officials and scholars working on these questions. I'd like to address the following questions: What sort of people are likely to become irregular migrants?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Commissioner Therrien, who was here today, provided a lot of information about the European context, and how political parties comply with privacy rules. He didn't name specifically that in Italy, they do x, y, and z, or in Greece, they do the following.... He could have said that in Greece, I have the contact for so and so, a commissioner who could provide you with that information. You never know what you're going to get until you start to process off.

Foreign Affairs committee  They may have interests in whatever for scientific reasons. They are never a threat to the sovereignty of either Italy on the one side, Greece on the other, or Algeria to the south. Then the other thing to remember is that the Arctic and the Antarctic are very different. The Antarctic, of course, is ice-covered land over which there is some dispute, which many of these countries are part of an international convention to resolve.

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Therefore, if we take all the debt that the Canadian economy is supporting, we are in a worse financial position today than is Greece. The government just assumes that all of its good luck will continue. Oil prices have doubled. The American economy is roaring. The world economy has picked up. Interest rates have been at historic lows.

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Second, the member knows, of course, that most of the jobs being created are in the public sector. We need private sector job creation to pay for those public sector jobs. If we look at Greece before it went into its economic death spiral, it had the same type of trend. It had a reducing debt-to-GDP ratio, and then it suddenly skyrocketed. When we hit the debt wall, that figure instantly begins to change, something the Alberta government experienced in the 1990s when it hit the debt wall.

Finance committee  Gluskin Sheff's chief economist David Rosenberg amassed all of the debt of households, businesses, and governments in Canada and found it's three times the size of the entire Canadian economy. It's a ratio that puts us above Greece when you put all that aggregated data together. Do you worry what will happen to the Canadian economy as rates start to drift up over the next several years?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sometimes they die in the Maritsa River. Some families and also children have died in the Maritsa at the border of Greece and Turkey. On the other hand, I want to say, there is no opposition party in Turkey. They do everything together, because their option is, if they don't, a lot of people are tortured or detained every morning.

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  In the short term, borrowed money, the huge deficits buried in this deficit budget, hides the impending collapse of the Canadian economy. We can just think of Greece or Cyprus. Without economic growth, there will be no money to pay for the debt that is piling up on the backs of our children and their children. There will be no money to pay for health care, pensions, affordable housing, or cleaning up the environment.

National Defence committee  In fact, that leads me to how, as an organization, we do a tremendous amount in terms of heightening awareness of what the alliance does, where it does it, and how it does it, and what the peculiar circumstances of each of our nations are so that we make sure that members from Greece and Turkey appreciate what the high north looks like and what the challenges are, and why they should be concerned about it, in the same way that we hope you will go to Greece and Turkey and see what issues they are concerned about.

Finance committee  Rosenberg, did a calculation a month ago now showing that the combined Canadian debt—personal, corporate, and government—as a share of GDP is higher than debt levels in 15 or 20 other countries, including Greece, Italy, and Spain. Do you not believe that the government should look at the overall debt burden of the Canadian population when determining how much the federal government can afford to borrow?

The Budget  In fact, when we take the corporate, personal, and government debt of Canada and add it together, it is 300% the size of our entire economy, which is, this month, for the first time ever, the biggest in the OECD. We have now surpassed Greece as the most overall indebted people in the entire OECD. What does that mean? It means that when interest rates go up, our families, our businesses, and our governments will be under a great deal of pressure.

Official Languages committee  We are graduates of programs like French immersion, but our children aren't guaranteed the same rights and access to learn French as well. I live here in Vancouver. I can outline my backstory very quickly. My mom was born in Greece. She went to Paris to become a French teacher. She moved to Vancouver where she met my father who is a sixth-generation Canadian from the west coast. My mom is a multicultural, multilingual, internationalist, and my dad was a meat-and-potatoes, anti-French west coast guy.

National Defence committee  There's always been a challenge. We went through years of challenge with the brewing conflict between Turkey and Greece. There have always been challenges within the alliance, so this isn't necessarily something new. There is enormous propensity for any nation that starts to go down a different path to disrupt NATO's ability to make decisions in certain areas because it's a consensus-built organization.