Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll just mention that we're not on the ground. The closest we are is in Jordan and in Turkey.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe the best way to put it is that we queue up behind our colleagues at IRCC. They're in the driver's seat and they're looking to deliver on the agenda that they have been provided. Anything that brings the required clarity to the objectives, the outcomes that are sought to be achieved, allows us to queue up and ensure that the processes, which are long-established....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is a limit. I don't think that I can actually give you a number. I know that the surge of 25,000 for Syria meant that we had to put certain activities in abeyance and cease them in order to repurpose our resources. We actually needed additional funding, as you well know. For us, there is only so much capacity in the machinery, notwithstanding that we have highly dedicated people who certainly stepped up for Syria and will step up for this.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It could be higher. I'd have to go back to my team and work out the logistics in terms of the capacity that we have in the machinery to be able to deliver right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  IRCC makes a selection. When deploying as the Government of Canada, we use information to determine what's safe, how we're going to operate in theatre, and what the process will look like. IRCC will make the selection with the UN or by other means. Once they've selected those people, they will refer them to the organizations that will conduct the security screening.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have those numbers. The right people to ask on that question would be the IRCC representatives.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to clarify, in our case, if you're using the number 1,000, we're more than capable of handling that by working with partners to render a decision within that time frame on the 1,000 referrals made by IRCC for screening. In regard to resettling and getting them to Canada, there is a lot of logistics and there are many phases to it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We're not responsible for any of the on-the-ground, in-theatre security requirements. We work solely from Canada and other countries in the immediate area.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's been significant collaboration in bringing together discussion around questions such as what this means and how we enable it. We are relying quite heavily on the experience we gained under Syria, which was managed much in the way that you're speaking to, which was an interdepartmental collaboration alignment, and then everybody's piece in that operational plan came together, was sequenced, and we had quick governance to remedy, if we hit some roadblocks.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know whether it has been in a room. There's collaboration across the departments, but I'm not in a position to confirm that for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I can jump in. I don't know what the German position is or how the approach was undertaken, but I can tell you that when we undertook to bring 25,000 Syrians, we were able to mobilize and do that in far less than a year. That is the process that we're looking to replicate here in order to be responsive to the request by IRCC.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the basis of the current outlined effort, we are pre-positioning ourselves and positioning our resources from within, so we are ready to rededicate and repurpose existing resources for the time being.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are three fronts. We're pre-positioned on all fronts, but on the first one, we already have liaison officers in theatre. We have other ready-to-deploy resources available to go and support the effort as we did for Syria, so we're ready to go on that front. On the screening front, again, we've already pre-positioned and we've built up the capacity to receive the referrals from IRCC and conduct the security screening.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's certainly possible. IRCC begins the process. They are the primary interviewer. We're the recipient of that information. There's certainly an ability to do that. In that particular corner of the world, that remains to be seen. I don't have the actual knowledge of that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In that specific geographic area, I can't speak to whether there's sufficient infrastructure to allow it.