Citizenship and Immigration committee  —to identify the number of gays and lesbians that Canada has brought in?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not at all. It would be very complicated, over many years.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we created a program for just that—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —sub-descriptor, we could.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it could be done. There are 70, 80, 90, or 100 countries in the world where, to varying degrees, members of the LGBTQ community are severely persecuted, subject to criminal prosecution, and so forth. With regard to the Chechen situation, this is an emerging situation. W

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I mentioned, this was designed to be a temporary program, so we haven't done a formal evaluation of it. We hear both from the Rainbow Refugee Society and from a number of the sponsorship agreement-holding organizations they are working with that this has led to a significant i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've spoken to them. The attempt was to build these community supports, build these bridges, enhance sensitivity, and ensure the specialized support needed. Again, through our conversations with Rainbow Refugee Society and with stakeholders across the country, we think there has

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I think there's certainly a broad understanding. I served as Canada's representative in Geneva for several years, and I know that in many fora Canada was at the forefront of ensuring that the needs of the LGBTQI community were highlighted in the programming of UNHCR. There

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. UNHCR programming certainly is alive to this issue.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. We get asked this question by members of this committee with regard to every group that is and should be a priority. It was a very acute question under the previous government, and it remains one now. It would be a very major undertaking, with considerable consultation with

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't keep statistics based on sexual or gender orientation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. We have a number of integration-related programming initiatives in Canada to continue to build the capacity inside Canada to ensure the successful integration, welcoming integration, of LGBTI persons. This has been going on for a long time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. LGBTI persons come into Canada with the active encouragement of Canada through the private sponsorship programs and through our government-assisted refugee programs. I don't want there to be any confusion that—while we don't ask every single refugee their sexual orientation a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry—the first question is with regard to the referral categories from UNHCR?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a very broad category. We could certainly inquire as to whether between our operational data and UNHCR data we could extract that information.