Afghanistan committee  Prima facie designation of Afghans as refugees....

Afghanistan committee  I believe there are many innovative approaches that can be used, and that's certainly one that would be very helpful to many of the families we're dealing with—for example, my employee I mentioned.

Afghanistan committee  I believe so, and I believe that we can still institute security and health checks to keep people safe.

Afghanistan committee  There are innovative approaches that governments have used in the past. There were 25,000 Syrian refugees who came in four months because the Prime Minister and the minister made a commitment and pulled out the stops. Whether you do it in the way they're doing it with Ukrainians

Afghanistan committee  Yes, and business process re-engineering is essential. Doing things the way we've always done them and throwing money at them is, in my view, not efficient.

Afghanistan committee  Our position would be raise the cap. If the SAHs are concerned—and we understand their concerns—about equity and so on, lift the cap for a group of five, make it easier for a group of five to do the sponsorship. I'll talk more about how different things are now than they were b

Afghanistan committee  I think the context has been very challenging with COVID, with responding to all sorts of unanticipated events. So I would reframe your question to say what would I like to see the government do. I would like to see the government do what it showed it could do when it pulled out

Afghanistan committee  You can call me Wendy.

Afghanistan committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity. I'm not a specialist in these areas, but in 2015, the IRCC made a number of changes to its normal procedures in order to meet its very ambitious targets that were established for Syrian refugees. First and foremost, Syrians became prima

Afghanistan committee  It's essential. The second point is, as Kaylee mentioned, that the sponsorship agreement holders and settlement organizations do an amazing job, but they're not designed for dealing easily with spikes in volumes. One of the things that is so powerful about private sponsorship a

Afghanistan committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate being invited to meet with the committee in doing its important work. I will not repeat what Kaylee talked about in terms of the humanitarian crisis or the important role that sponsorship agreement holders play. I lead the Diversity Institute