Citizenship and Immigration committee  When we speak about families, it sometimes may not be only blood-related family. In the case of children, when we can demonstrate that the child was in the care.... We have a case with MP Whalen where the child, a minor, was in the care of a person who was being resettled to Canada, and this child was also taken into consideration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a lot of practices in this respect. There are issues, also, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, of where the boreholes have being drilled so that women do not have to do a long commute between their house and where they will fetch water, separate toilets for girls in schools, and lighting, as you have mentioned.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there's no discussion on that because the world has changed, but the IDPs were also present in 1951 when those legal concepts were drafted. The refugee definition is really based on the fact that an individual is not able to avail himself or herself of the protection of his or her state.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of resettlement, I think the overwhelming majority of the 33 countries that are doing resettlement absolutely recognize LGBTQ, sexual orientation and gender diversity as a ground—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thirty-three or 32.9? Thirty-three countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I'm pretty sure, all of them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As UNHCR, we will not say that there is a specific need, because they are already, in comparison to global resettlement criteria, one of the categories that need to be prioritized. What we need not only from Canada but from the world is a larger number of options for those LGBTQ, rape survivors, journalists at risk, indigenous leaders, and human rights defenders to be able to be protected through the solution, which is very particular, of being resettled to a third country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will leave it in the hands of IRCC colleagues to explain why that's a different option for resettled refugees to bring their other family members to Canada. What I want to stress is that, when we do the resettlement of refugees, we ensure that the nuclear family, the composition of the family, is guaranteed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the cases of Syria and Iraq, all the people who arrive in a third country, like Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon, are processed through a registration system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Alors, first of all, most of the refugees and the displaced do not live in camps. There is no such concept as camps.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have offices—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You were not there, but maybe the letters with all the information that I shared previously to the committee could be shared. I'm happy to share it again.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have training for all of our staff. In most of our operations we have dedicated staff to receive LGBTQ. I always give the example of the operation in Lebanon. We had made sure that the LGBTQ community had a code when they were arriving at our registration centre. If they said “tulipe”, they would be screened differently and sent to dedicated staff to review what their needs were, because we needed to be extremely sensitive about how the questions were being asked to identify the LGBTQ community.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —were processed through the UNHCR.