Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate your words. Can I make one comment? I think one of the important outcomes of this discussion is that parliamentarians will take a much more active role. This is something that shouldn't be subject to partisan divisions. This is something that re

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We provide a number of interesting sorts of things that have grown out of our existence. One example is that Eduardo Stein, the former vice president of Guatemala, was just appointed as the UN envoy for Venezuela. That was based upon an inquiry that we did into Venezuela and Colo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we're not a service organization. I think there are a lot of those. What we are trying to do, however, is to take a step behind that, which is to begin looking at a way that we can develop the serious financing for those programs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think it's an annual thing. It was a one-time funding of I think about $800,000. That was accompanied by about three or four times that from American foundations as well as from our own think tanks. It's been a composite contribution that comes from a number of sources.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think the council sees itself as a permanent organization. We were brought together for the specific purpose of trying to provide an independent source of ideas and proposals and recommendations around the compact process so that we can get down to serious work.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The third party agreement? Yes, I think right now that it's getting in the way of our being able to solve some of the problems at the borders. I'm going down on Monday—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, sure. I mean, I think—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The United States is still accepting applications. It's much reduced. I think they've reduced by almost 80%—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you have to go to its origins. It came out as part of the follow-up package to the 9/11 border arrangements. We wanted to provide a kind of co-operative management of the system. It's changed. I think the present administration has a very different view of what a refuge

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As a result, it makes it more difficult.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends: safe from what? They are being incarcerated. Their kids are being taken away. I mean, there are a number of very serious default lines in the U.S. policy at the present that—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I think what we're suggesting is that we—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The UNHCR is simply implementing the 1951 refugee convention. If there are refugees applying for asylum or sanctuary, it's the responsibility—