Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I believe so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would all have come from the UNHCR, but I need to repeat that those were only several of a number of areas of focus that the previous government asked the United Nations to provide to Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, it would be a very complicated question to answer as to whether or not Canada should implement in a systematic way the tracking of ethnicity, religion, and sexual minority status in our refugee system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could, that would—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not at all. If we had a program that was dedicated to one group and we were asking for referral specifically from one group, as we have done under a number of public policies, for example—one of which I cited and I was deeply involved in the operationalization of, in India for Tibetans—then, of course, that's a very isolated program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the principles of privacy collection, governments don't collect systematic information from people unless it is of direct relevance.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So, for example—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  People are vulnerable for a large set of different and complicated reasons. We have the vulnerability criteria laid out in the UNHCR handbook. We sit and work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with other resettlement countries, on a regular basis to establish which populations we are working toward.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The department was asked to track whether resettled Syrian refugees were members of vulnerable ethnic or religious minorities, or members of the LGBTI community as part of identified areas of focus.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it was the tracking of vulnerable ethnic or religious minorities, or members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual community, as part of a number of identified areas of focus.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the department can provide a copy of the report received under the previous government. The department analyzed the report in somewhat of a similar fashion as it has been doing recently to update advice and provide comment and expertise to the minister of the day. There was no decision taken to proceed at that time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To my knowledge there was no formal decision taken. An analysis was undertaken of the basic context. It was quite a preliminary one, and there was no decision to proceed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I've read the transcripts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Those two categories were two of a number of areas of focus.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.