Citizenship and Immigration committee  Excuse me, if I may add to that, it was ceased during the time the previous government wanted to look at a review to see how effectively it was working. After that time, there was an election. So it was actually ceased prior to the election, or during that period, to review how i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To track Yazidis?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were certainly many discussions with the previous government about how we do the tracking and why we do the tracking. There was no request to systematically track ethnic and religious minorities in our resettlement program.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, to my knowledge, there was no request to systematically change the way we track.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To my recollection, that's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to get back to you on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll return and let you know.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As soon as possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that we repealed the source country class primarily because it was quite ineffective. We had a list of countries and regulation that we would consider, where applicants could go directly to a visa officer as opposed to through a referral, but it was very difficult and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would add that family ties were an important consideration. Those might be the kinds of things that were on that list.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I might just add to clarify, we do track based on nationality.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Therefore, we'll know, for example, that if the Yazidis were coming in, they were coming in as Iraqis. However, we would not track by ethnicity or the type of persecution, largely I think for reasons that go to the protection of the individuals in question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could just take a step back in speaking about the vulnerabilities and how we assess them and in what context, I'll just give a reminder that we base our refugee resettlement program on the vulnerabilities as identified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak to specific caps in specific regions at this point, although we could certainly get you that information. The reference to caps applies to private sponsorship applications, and the reason—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't speak to that region at this time, but I'd be very happy to provide information to you on the caps that are used for the private sponsorship program. What I would emphasize is that the cap is really about processing efficiencies and backlogs, the issue being that we do