Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. We're focusing very closely on rehabilitation of local communities, so that's working with organizations such as the UNDP in terms of its stabilization programming. We're contributing funding to that. We're part of that stabilization working group that's looking at ho

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One key area that our programming is focusing on is policing, starting to introduce the concept of civilian policing. The plan is that Canada will deploy up to 20 Canadian police officers. We have about five who have now been deployed to Iraq. We'll be deploying more, to start in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Post-Daesh Iraq, again, remains an area that requires quite a bit of stability, stabilization support, so part of our efforts working with coalition members is to engage in stabilization programs to make the communities safe. That obviously requires political will on the parts of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and honourable members of this committee. I have been asked to provide an update on Canada's engagement in Iraq and to outline the current situation in the country. I hope this will provide some useful context for today's discussion on the Yazidi resettl