Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would concur with my colleague about making recommendations, other than to say that we're fully prepared to support the initiative with our colleagues at CBSA and IRCC.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To date there have not been any discussions, at least from my branch, with other countries as this relates to the Yazidi issue, but I think my colleague would agree that we had a very successful process in place that was established through the Operation Syrian Refugee, which we plan to build on for this upcoming requirement.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I concur with the comments by my colleagues.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our role is really around the security screening. While the other side of other departments or branches in our agency would look at threat assessments, that information, as indicated by my colleague here, would make its way up to the respective policy centres and lead departments in terms of their ability to assess the security on the ground.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would obviously respond with our colleagues in terms of referrals provided by IRCC. As and when they are ready to provide the applicants for screening, then we would be readily available.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we'll be able to deliver.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd have to leave it to my IRCC colleagues to respond. My realm is limited to the security screening support of my colleague Denis Vinette and IRCC.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I'm director general of the security screening branch in CSIS. My branch is responsible for providing advice and assessments to other government departments in support of their review of applications for status in Canada and for government security clearances.