Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. I'm not sure I understand the question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a challenging question. I know that we're trying to work very much with the government NGOs that are on the ground trying to help resettle people. It's through these NGOs that we need to work, unless we can establish our own direct relationship with the government, which w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's just regarding the Yazidis being hungry. If we hadn't told the Yazidis to contact their caseworker and say that they're hungry, they never would have gotten the help.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I don't agree with that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I believe it would be extremely helpful if every community had volunteers on the ground who could help. We've seen so many wonderful successes within our own program. I think about the communities that don't have these volunteers and how much more difficult it must be for th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've heard other people say 5,000, and 5,000 is a good start. I don't know that we can.... We had 50,000 Syrians brought over. If you don't mind, I'd like to go back to this prioritization, because suffering is suffering, and if we're human and we have compassion, we're going to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, on behalf of Project Abraham and the Richmond Hill Yazidi community, I want to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Government of Canada for having brought survivors of the Yazidi genocide to Canada, where they can survive and thrive. It's only time constraints that