Citizenship and Immigration committee  So I would say then—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I'll wrap up. We have a world on the move. Migrants are in the middle of a perfect storm. Therefore, in a perfect storm, what do you do? You grab the high ground. The high ground is what you're doing: the policy that knows how to integrate migrants and make them feel at ho

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —back to a positive narrative about migration and learn to embrace and manage migration. I'll stop with that, except to leave you with one thought:—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Migration is not—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What is my advice on that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we do what we can to support you on that. It's very difficult sometimes. They don't have travel documents, and we try to link them up with their authorities. Right now we have the problem in Libya. We've taken 21,000 Africans from the detention centres back home. We've encou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The exit permit is a question of negotiation with wherever the refugees happen to be. We've sorted it out with Libya now. The CNN story on the slave markets brought us all together around a common purpose to try to empty those 31 detention cells and bring them home. Therefore we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, I want to commend you again for the number that you are taking in, which, relative to your population, is one of the largest in the world, and this year may be the largest. Continue to encourage others by showing how it works in Canada, because you prepare the terr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It's a unique honour for me to have this opportunity to have an exchange with you. I've discovered, over a long period of time, that when I became an ambassador, I spent too much time in the offices of the administ