Citizenship and Immigration committee  So far, I appreciate...I will not try to be politically correct. I appreciate the Prime Minister is trying to fulfill his campaign promise to bring 25,000 here to the country. I appreciate that he is trying, but it's not about fulfilling this promise. It's about saving the most v

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the government has failed big time in helping them. Absolutely. This will bring me to my next point. Even if the government brought only nine cases of Yazidis, what is nine cases of Yazidis? What will this do for a community that is facing genocide? With all due respect, I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think so. If we have an honest and healthy discussion and we hear about all perspectives of the story.... Quite honestly, you have to understand that we have a very big problem in Canada. It is called political correctness. Political correctness is the very cancer in our

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, in regard to the UNHCR, I don't think we should count fully and completely on the UNHCR. It's important there are other NGOs that are respected and have high accountability and integrity. I'm not saying not to deal with the UNHCR. I am a refugee that came through the UNHCR

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I mentioned them because we have to have a dialogue with them for them to do more, as we are. That's what I meant. I meant countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and so on, to speak with their governments to encourage them to do more to help the refugees on the ground si

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Quite honestly, all our information is through our people on the ground. For example, in Jordan, many of the refugees came from the Zaatari camp in Jordan. All our information is from working with different NGOs on the ground and here in Canada. We have been working with a report

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I'm 100% sure of of my evidence. If you can prove me wrong, please do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think they should be in direct contact with their communities here and overseas, communicating with them. One Free World International had a petition, and we met with the Minister of Immigration—he is a great man—and we presented to him a proposal to bring 400 Yazidi girls to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I had one meeting with him, briefly. After that I received a call from his chief of staff with some of my lawyers, and after that it's been really silent. We didn't get anything.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We tried to communicate with him in different ways, including other ministers in the cabinet.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They are sex slaves, and we rescued them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We received a call from his chief of staff, and after that, the chief of staff did not follow up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, Mr. Chair, I would like to thank you for this opportunity. As I told you yesterday, you were one of the four Liberal MPs in Parliament who voted for the recognition of genocide, and I want to thank you for that. Ms. Michelle Rempel, I thank you for being one of the