Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good question, but I think—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I would agree with Ms. Desloges. We don't know the internal workings of the IRCC. It's very difficult for us to determine how we can improve that process if it's not clear what's being done behind doors.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would agree with “first in, first out”. We should try to look at that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At this point, I would say no. I think the backlog is too great.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's what we are suggesting within our own group, as a matter of fact.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have quite a number of PSR applications that go through. We also like to provide the opportunity to BVOR people as well, because although we support family reunification, we certainly don't want to just stay with a single group or a single family for all the PSRs that come thr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is a good question. I don't really know enough about it. We don't see that taking place at the moment with the refugee people. Every embassy seems to be a different country. We never know what processing times are going to take place at the embassies.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our protocol tells us that we want to bring to Canada the most vulnerable people available to us through the government entities and through UNHCR. About a year ago, I suppose, when the Afghan crisis or the Afghan operation was announced, we certainly had concerns about the divi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we go back to 2015, when Syria was in the forefront of the media...it's no longer there. Donations have dropped off just as much as volunteerism for our group has dropped off. We are a totally volunteer organization, and we run on donations. The donations come from various gro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I could.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The problems with the backlogs.... We sometimes see a bunching up of families. We have no indication of when the families will arrive. As I mentioned earlier, we are a humanitarian organization. The people we are attempting to support in coming to Canada are refugees. They're in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of the committee. One thing you should know is that our group is a SAH and a constituency group based in Antigonish, a small group of 12 volunteers. We've brought in 23 Syrian families or assisted in their