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Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be the IOM.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have taken note of your concern. In some instances, as you know, we are not necessarily agreeing with the concerns that were raised. For example, we have shared with this committee two letters on the selection process for the LGBTQ and what has been done for refugees who are in need of resettlement, and what, from the training to the complaints mechanisms, is available to them.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not sure what we are speaking about, because the 1,200 Yazidis and all the survivors of Daesh who came to Canada—

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As you know, the resettlement program is for refugees. Those you are speaking about were still in their country of origin, northern Iraq, Kurdistan in other terms, and were still under the jurisdiction of their own government.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I didn't say that. I said they have chosen to remain in Iraq, in northern Iraq, and some of them are crossing into Turkey. Some of them had decided to go to Lebanon. I met some of them there. It's their choice where they...if they felt safe in northern Iraq, that was their decision.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By the time they had reached northern Iraq, it was a safe place, yes.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They were receiving appropriate medical treatment. Some of them had special needs, which required—

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not suggesting that. I said that by the time there was a request to the UNHCR to see whether a program could be established for specific cases, they were in northern Iraq, which had been stabilized and where they were receiving care, perhaps not sufficient care but care nonetheless, from the Kurdistan authorities, the UN and the NGO community.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have approximately 600 colleagues on the ground.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Let me clarify again that the resettlement program to Canada is for refugees, so it's for those who have crossed—

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, and that's going to be my response. We are not looking at whether a woman has been raped as part of genocide or has been raped in another context. A rape survivor is a rape survivor. If she needs to be resettled to have access to medical care, we are not going to look—

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The UNHCR has been mandated by the General Assembly to look at the global compact on refugees. I'm not in a position to comment on the global compact for migration.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Forty-five per cent are from sub-Saharan Africa. We are speaking about Somalian, South Sudanese, Congolese, Burundians—

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —and Eritreans. That's 45% of the need. I would say that you have another one-third that are from Syria, who are currently located in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt mainly. The rest are from other regions of Asia and Central or Latin America.

September 27th, 2018Committee meeting

Jean-Nicolas Beuze