Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you so much. These are important issues, and if I had more than eight minutes I would have loved to include them in the things I talk about. These are the things on the mind of the Yazidi community; they're talked about a lot. Amal Clooney is working on the issue of justi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't think there's any problem with involving the UN in the kind of commission I mentioned. The problem is that the UN on its own just will not pursue a project to create this kind of political change. We as financial supporters of Iraq and the Kurds, we who provide the weapon

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Quickly for the last point, when I was director of Yazda in Iraq for a period of one year, some of our staff created that very program specifically for Yazidi women who had been enslaved and had survived. It wasn't the whole community, but it was done with the Baghdad government

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the commission would eliminate the headache on their part of having to figure out how to create the infrastructural development and administrative institutions that have never really existed there. So it's not so much re-establishing administration as it is creating it fo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's a wonderful question. I've been asking that question for several years now. I don't understand. It's heartbreaking, really. But here's what I would say—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The international community wants to give money to pre-existing entities, like UN agencies, that have a limited capacity to do the kind of thing I'm recommending. They don't want to get involved in internal Iraqi politics, because they call that state building and then they say t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry for my long answer.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Iraq is a big country, and I can't offer solutions for the whole thing. The corruption there is a tremendous problem. What I can say regarding these areas that are minority populated, like Sinjar and Nineveh, is that if you had these commissions where, say, several representati

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's not so much that those things are interfering with it; it's that the government neglects this entirely. So you have the Kurdish Regional Government dominated by the KDP. They have their sights set on annexing Sinjar and they try to occupy it. The problem with Baghdad is that

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you so much. I have eight minutes to tell you everything that's wrong with Iraqi minorities and a solution to fix the problem. I'll try to move as fast as I can. Over the past three and a half years since the Yazidi genocide began, I have been repeatedly asked to give lec

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Former—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure I would leave that in the UN's hands. I would recommend that Canada directly engage with the community in Sinjar and conduct its own study on what kind of action it can pursue.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.