John McCallum,the immigration, refugees and citizenship minister, and says Canada is on course to welcome 13000 people fleeing Syria in the next six weeksAs several countries across Europe look to cut the number of Syrian refugees flowing across their borders,Canada is ramping up its response to the crisis, pushing ahead with plans to airlift more than 13000 refugees into the country in the next six weeks. It is an unprecedented operation for Canada, or said John McCallum,the country’s immigration, refugees and citizenship minister. “Canada has many times in the past decades accepted meaningful waves of refugees, and ” he told the Guardian in an interview at his constituency office. “But I contemplate this is making history in Canada in the sense that we’ve never done it so swiftly.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com