Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Thank you, sir. I'm just going to start my timer here. I don't want to make the same mistake as last time. Thanks for having me again. I'm going to speak mostly from the report that I shared with the committee last week about displacement drivers in the NTCA countries, the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm very glad that you framed the question that way. If you look at the proximate triggers and the catalysts for the 2015 migration crisis into Europe, that was because the carrying capacity, or the coverage capacity, of the humanitarian aid to host states in the Middle East dec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I might respond in English—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I mentioned earlier, it's 10 countries approximately, but on the domestic politics in the countries under question, again, look at Viktor Orban's Hungary. Look at Austria right now. Look at the government and rule of law in Poland. These are places where xenophobic, right-wing

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Lloyd Axworthy knows a lot more about the dynamics of diplomacy and international politics than I do, obviously. With respect to the work of the World Refugee Council, one of their mandates is to think outside the box about how to address global displacement crises. Again, we hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to defer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Canada should focus on the comprehensive refugee response framework as it's been negotiated painstakingly between host and donor states. Very briefly, and somewhat politically on this idea, Canada will run squarely into Europe's interests on migration controls if you try to tak

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd reiterate what I said: that a world of well-governed and well-managed migration is in every state's interest and that it meets basic criteria of upholding and protecting vulnerable people's rights.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a very important question, and the dynamics are very important. I've spent several years working in irregular migration systems, as we call them, in north Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, and now increasingly in Central America. The very basic fact of irregular migr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I still think we're moving between the GCR and the GCM—the two compacts—a bit in the way that we're discussing this. If Canada wants to do something about the situation on the border with Mexico and the U.S., the provisions in the compact that allow them to do that are to addres

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As a political scientist, I'd say that the entire purpose of these states pulling out or saying that they won't support the global compact on migration is domestic political gain, and the audience there is the domestic audience. You're talking about Hungary, Austria, the Czech R

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —based on anti-Semitic tropes about who controls multilateral institutions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Australia is a pioneer of a policy that was first called the “white Australia policy”, which then became known as the “Pacific solution”, which was to excise their territory from the refugee convention so that they could indefinitely warehouse refugees on small islands.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Detain.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not a group of states that we want to align ourselves with, in my opinion.