Citizenship and Immigration committee  —I personally trusted the advocates who chose those women.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I didn't need any assurance. I trusted the advocates. They knew them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They knew them. They didn't need to validate identity.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was not “somebody”. It was the chief of staff to the Minister of National Defence.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do understand that. They were issued by Global Affairs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I conveyed them. I received them from the chief of staff to the Minister of National Defence, and I conveyed them to trusted advocates who helped women get out and lives were saved.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had a rolling list of names and, as much as we could, we put those.... They wrote back and said they were in the system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are these women a danger to soldiers? Do you want to help me understand that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I didn't say that. I said the trusted advocates I was working with knew these women.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I didn't determine that. I was doing what I could with the resources I had.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't put it that way. I would say that there were a number of impacts.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I commend you for your work as a parliamentarian on this file.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The letters that were conveyed via my office came from Global Affairs Canada. If any promises were made, those promises were made by the Government of Canada. I had nothing to do with the wording of that letter. The fact that the chief of staff for the Minister of National Defe