Citizenship and Immigration committee You haven't been there, okay. I've been there. So when this happened, once again, we were hoping that through the Kurdish community we would be able to have a stable life for them. So we brought medication. We started a project—
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have to respond to you.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm sorry, but I just have to respond to you if you don't mind.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I cannot answer your next question unless you allow me to respond to you.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I will respond to another part of your question, sir. You said I never went to the previous government and criticized them for the Yazidi situation. I presented my proposal to Minister Chris Alexander twice, two months before the election. So I went to the previous government and
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's because they approved our proposal. Minister Chris Alexander approved our proposal.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're talking about the first trip we did, when the attacks on the Yazidi were starting. We were there at the very beginning. One of our main concerns was that we didn't know how the Kurdish region would deal with the refugees. In the beginning, our first choice always is not to
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I agree with you. All of the recommendations we read today are wonderful, but it's a matter of action. It's one thing to say, “Yes, we agree with your recommendation”, but it's another thing if the government will listen to us or not.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I agree, and I have no comment.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee I believe the time is immediately, but the time frame in the next two months if we can start to move. If we can start right now, and we start to receive the first refugees within a timeline, I would say between a month and a half to two months.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, from my side.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee Absolutely, yes. We have their co-operation.
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee Absolutely. It's important, absolutely. If you read the proposal, we covered as much as we can—
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie
Citizenship and Immigration committee —but in the last two years, quite frankly, at least we are doing something about it; at least we are on the ground. I am going to the region in a few days. We are dealing with the locals. We have gone there many times. We deal with ORAT, which is an organization that has its own
July 20th, 2016Committee meeting
Rev. Majed El Shafie