Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can you specify that question, in terms of what has happened in their own community? Can you specify the...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we all know what happened back in 2014, which was recognized by the United Nations as genocide. Those women and girls, we all know, had been sold, as my colleague recognized, for as little as a pack of cigarettes. I don't think they went on vacation. They have been rape

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the past we've offered the IRCC our help. We've offered to be part of the mission that goes to those camps so that we can identify the Yazidi people at the camps themselves and make the processing much easier for everyone. We can settle the families who have escaped the ISIS m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, 5,000-plus would be much better.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I had that conversation with an immigration assistant for the Prairies and the Northwest Territories. Lethbridge was targeted and they were going to bring some families to that city specifically, but after the Yazidis were consulted and the communications that we have done, the p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are no families to my knowledge in Lethbridge. There are in Calgary, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not to my knowledge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To my knowledge no Yazidi families or single members live in Lethbridge today.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the government needs to co-operate with the existing communities and the people who have vacancies and are known to the IRCC specifically. I think it makes everyone's job easier with socializing, interpretation, and medical issues, in every way possible. I think it makes

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. There was no Yazidi community. There was only one family, and that was 20 years ago.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I honestly don't know. We had a family in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, also. We brought them to Winnipeg. They wanted to be closer to the existing community.