Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for listening to us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have an initiative called the Iraqi International Initiative. This initiative is asking the world, and citizens of the world, including governments such as the Canadian government, to support it. This initiative is to pressure the Iraqi government, the president of the Iraqi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a sponsorship group here from the Iraqi community. The only thing is that the period of time the process takes generates frustration for the people...and the numbers of people they can sponsor, of course. Yes, they are willing and they are hopeful that this process will t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to be here and to share with you our frustrations. As an Iraqi Canadian, I have a personal story to tell you. My cousin, a female lawyer, left Iraq under the threat of the militias and the civil war taking place in Iraq, a