Citizenship and Immigration committee  It reads: The committee recommends that the government immediately implement a program to allow conscientious objectors and their immediate family members (partners and dependents), who have refused or left military service related to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Or you can have somebody amend it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A recorded vote, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, to be clear, to my knowledge, Canadian Forces have not participated in a war that was not sanctioned by the United Nations. Some of our soldiers might be in an exchange program with another country and would therefore have to go into Iraq. Our soldiers did not particip

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Trost, if you have something to say, put your name on the list and say it. Until then, give me the courtesy.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, this motion clearly states the war is not sanctioned by the United Nations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could we have a recorded vote, Mr. Chair?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to answer that. If I did say anything to the member to offend him, I apologize. As you can understand, this is an issue that has a lot of folks--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for coming to enlighten us and give us some background on what's happening. I have one question. There was a backlog in Damascus. Did you put in extra staff and efforts to clear that backlog in the last 365 days, and if so, how many people?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Have you considerably reduced the processing times in Damascus in family class and parental class in the last year, and if so, by what percentage?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So if I were to say you have shortened your processing time by about 20% in Damascus, would you disagree with me?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In other words, you cleared the decks in the last couple of months, anticipating that we were going to deal with Iraqi refugees.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Scoffield, I'm going to ask this again. You cleared the decks; you got extra staff in there anticipating that the Iraqi refugees would have to be dealt with. Yes or no?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Will your dealing with these Iraqis increase the intake from Iran or any other cases or countries that the Damascus office covers?