Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is if we have sufficient resources ourselves. That's another element: do we have enough staff?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not saying that we can't now process a couple of hundred. If this is now a program, we will do whatever we can to make this happen for Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I cannot bind my own colleagues in Turkey or in Lebanon, but I know that if there are these offers and there's willingness, we will do everything to ramp up our resources.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —but there are those who are Yazidis and other minorities, of course, who are victims of violence by ISIS/Daesh, so we are working on this. We are, as we speak, not only identifying them but also preparing the dossiers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, but what I can say is that almost all these 50,000 who have been—and these are all Iraqis—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have guidance on temporary protection in various different situations. For instance—but this is a side remark—the Turkish authorities have offered temporary protection to Syrians. This is a temporary measure. If you can't really go into a long-term solution by means of resettlement, for instance, or through proper integration in a host country, we have interim measures so that at least....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's more the general policy. The Yazidi live in many parts of Turkey, particularly in the southeast. They live also in areas that are not so easy for us to reach with our partners, but we encourage them and the local authorities to see they have access to services. The problem, of course, is there are many very traumatized people, and they normally will not find the psychosocial and very specialized medical support.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Ms. Rempel. As for why there were so few, as I said, in terms of numbers, if you look at the segment of Yazidi refugees among the many Syrian refugees, you see there are not that many. Iraqi Yazidi are more numerous among the Iraqi refugee population. Second, not all the Yazidi, as I mentioned earlier, wish to be resettled far from their home area, but I think it's fair to say that now with your stricter focus and your initiative on the plight of the Yazidi women and girls in this House, there will be much more resettlement now thanks to your initiative on the Yazidi.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can directly answer. On your first question, we do submit Yazidis for resettlement, not only out of Turkey, but also, for instance, out of Lebanon. However, the largest number of Iraqi Yazidis is in Turkey. In Lebanon there are more Syrian Yazidis, but for this Canadian program, the plan is to resettle not just out of Turkey, but also, as I mentioned, Lebanon.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will try to hurry up. During the questions, I can also explain a bit about what we do for the Yazidi in northern Iraq among all the other IDPs. This has been an issue. If it comes to Yazidis in Iraq, we provide these protection assistance services on the ground, but we are not involved in the extraction of IDPs out of Iraq to other countries, be they Yazidis or others, because, as you know, we do resettlement of refugees, and that means people who have gone over a border into another host country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members of this House, ladies and gentlemen, it's an honour for me to address this committee today on World AIDS Day. Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to testify on Canada's plan to resettle victims of the atrocities attributed to ISIS, notably Yazidi women and girls.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Will do.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for this question. Again, I can speak out of my own experience. Such an appeal is published so it is for the community at large; however, the UNHCR always goes to a number of member states that have more leverage and have developed a privileged political relationship with the country to at least get their funds.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, this is a wide-ranging question that goes a little bit beyond my mandate. As you mentioned, often nowadays when there is a crisis on the continent, the regional bodies try to engage the African Union in a crisis. It's not only in Kenya, as you've mentioned, but Somalia for that matter, or Sudan, but sometimes you have a hybrid situation also in the UN force.