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Citizenship and Immigration committee I would have to find out the number.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee Similarly in Canada, it's been through our resettlement organizations.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee In total we've had 88 individuals whose cases have been brought forward as privately sponsored refugees, and 60 of those are already in Canada.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee Of all nationalities, not just Yazidis?
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee We did an interview trip into northern Iraq in early October. At that point, we were focusing on Syrians who were government-assisted refugees and privately sponsored refugees. In the last interview trip, I think we also did a few privately sponsored refugees. I would have to f
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee We can certainly get you the total number of privately sponsored refugees. As you know, we don't track by ethnicity. We track by nationality.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee We did track by ethnicity because of the specific circumstances of the motion from the House of Commons.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee This was exceptional. We virtually never track by ethnicity unless we're specifically requested to do so.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm sorry. That's other than for the Yazidis.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm certainly not aware of anything of that nature, and I know that we are just moving to.... Actually, the Calgary Catholic immigration service is hiring a young woman from Winnipeg who is a Kermanji interpreter. She wants to move to Calgary to support.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee As I said during my opening remarks, the local immigration partnerships have been helping us very much by making sure we coordinate all of the various resources that are available—
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think that in each community the local immigration partnerships have been coordinating everybody and have been planning as they go. I don't know if they have a formal written plan.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee There are a couple of other countries that have been doing resettlement efforts in relation to the Yazidis, but I think Canada and Germany are the leaders in terms of the numbers that we've resettled.
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund
Citizenship and Immigration committee We arranged with the International Organization for Migration that, when we were interviewing overseas, we had appropriate translation and interpretation services available. We continue to work with those translation teams in each of our five interview trips. Equally, post-arriva
November 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Dawn Edlund