Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to echo Mr. Clayton. I'm not well versed on that. Whether the government is doing enough or not enough, I can't speak to that. I just know that with regard to privately sponsored refugees, through the despair, people are sacrificing everything they can to make sure the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I could speak to my own personal family. I had an uncle who was in Syria when Khabur fell. He remained there to help the internally displaced people to evacuate the region and try to find accommodation and shelter in Hassakeh. His daughter is now living in Sweden, his son is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We need to find a solution—and this is the bottom line here—and the source country class is an interesting idea. It needs to come back. Hope is diminishing on a daily basis. The longer we wait and the longer we delay these things, more and more lives are being lost, more and more

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. We support all of the recommendations that you put forward. We also want to add to it. I know that a green zone was mentioned in discussion at the last meeting. To us, the green zone is the Nineveh plains region. We have already started a Nineveh plains protection un

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, honourable members and guests. My name is Aneki Nissan, and I am the president of the Centre for Canadian-Assyrian Relations. I have come here today to discuss the fate of the Assyrian community in Iraq and Syria. The Assyrians are a transnational ethnic communi