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Foreign Affairs committee No. These are the head to heads.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee It started off with...just have the internationals the first day, and then they went for a week head to head, and it's the head to head part.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee All I would say is I don't think we have the details and the information on applications. I think really in terms of the policy question and statistics, the question would probably be best addressed by Citizenship and Immigration. I don't think we're in a position to comment.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee Depending on which organization you're talking about, it's coming from a variety of different sources. In terms of the political opposition coalition, they get funding from western countries and from countries in the region. On the military side, there are countries or also indiv
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee It could be.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by “enforced disappearances”.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee Okay, basically, it's detentions by the regime. I just hadn't heard the phrase “enforced disappearances” before. I'm sorry, what was your question, then?
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee I'm sorry, I don't have any information on that, but I don't doubt it at all, and I don't doubt that it would be increasing. That's the nature of the regime. As you mentioned, they've always been like that and they're under threat and there is no question they would step it up.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee We haven't really seen it much in the refugee camps. There is security. I think criminality and other issues are a bigger problem than the war carrying over into refugee camps. Where we've seen the spillover is more in Lebanon, and it isn't in camps, where we're seeing Alawite—s
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee This whole nightmare started with Syrians on the street demanding more rights. They were legitimate democratic demands that they were asking for. There is still a strong force for that even within the more formalized Syrian opposition coalition. I know what you're getting at. Th
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee The short answer to the second question is yes, increasingly so. We're seeing, increasingly, this becoming a much more sectarian Shia versus Sunni kind of conflict. Certainly with the influx of foreign fighters linked to al-Qaeda and others who are on a religious mission, it's a
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee It's certainly a concern for us. It's been pressure on Jordan. A lot of countries have been giving a lot of money to help stabilize the situation in the refugee camps.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee Who stands to gain from the talks? Hopefully, the Syrian people stand to gain from the talks, if there's some sort of settlement or at least some interim confidence-building measures to access, for example. But as I said earlier, I think our expectations are very low that there
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak
Foreign Affairs committee In terms of what we could do about it beyond trying to work out humanitarian access, there's very little at this point.
February 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dennis Horak