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APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Sarita Bhatla, Director General Refugee Affairs

2016/07/18

22

Robert Orr, Assistant Deputy Minister Operations

   

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Heather Jeffrey, Director General International Humanitarian Assistance

   

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Michael Casasola, Officer in Charge in Canada

   

As an individual

Tarjinder Bhullar

2016/07/18

23

Narindarpal Singh Kang, Barrister and Solicitor The Law Firm of Kang and Company

   

Audrey Macklin, Professor Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

   

Yonah Martin, Senator Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

   

Jasdeep S. Mattoo, Barrister and Solicitor The Law Firm of Kang and Company

   

Office for Refugees of the Archdiocese of Toronto

Martin Mark, Director

   

World Sikh Organization of Canada

Balpreet Singh, Legal Counsel

   

Amnesty International

Gloria Nafziger, Refugee and Migrant Coordinator Toronto Office

2016/07/19

24

As an individual

Murad Ismael, Executive Director Yazda

   

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, Human Rights Activist

   

Foundation of Hope

Paul Tolnai, Acting Secretary

   

Chad Walters, Board Member

   

Or Shalom Synagogue

David Berson, Co-Chair Or Shalom Syrian Refugee Initiative

 

 

Rainbow Refugee

Christine Morrissey, Special Advisor

   

Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture

Dylan Mazur, Executive Director

   

Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International

Mirza Ismail, Chairman

   

As an individual

Gennadii Afanasiev

2016/07/19

25

Michael Bociurkiw, Former Spokesperson Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

   

Chantal Desloges, Lawyer Desloges Law Group

   

Iryna Dovhan

   

Oleksandr Gryshchenko

   

Canadian Council for Refugees

Janet Dench, Executive Director

   

Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association

Brian Dyck, Chair

   

The Right to Protection

Aleksandr Galkin, Director

   

Catholic Refugee Sponsors Council

Rabea Allos, Director

2016/07/20

26

One Free World International

Majed El Shafie, Founder and President

   

Operation Ezra

Nafiya Naso, Representative Yazidi Community of Winnipeg

   

Lorne Weiss, President Shaarey Zedek Synagogue

   

The Arakan Project

Chris Lewa, Director

   

The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention

Drew Boyd, Director of Operations

   

Centre for Canadian-Assyrian Relations

Aneki Nissan, President

2016/07/20

27

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Bruce Grundison, Senior Director Resettlement Operations

   

David Manicom, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister Strategic and Program Policy

   

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Heather Jeffrey, Director General International Humanitarian Assistance

   

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

David Marshall, Team Leader Assessment Mission to South Sudan

   

Samaritan's Purse Canada

John Clayton, Director of Programs and Projects

   

Samaritan's Purse Northern Iraq

Raija-Liisa Schmidt-Teigen, General Director of a Community Center