The migrant crisis has been put under the microscope recently after an image of a dead Syrian boy on a Turkish beach rotated through the media.
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Harper was in Victoriaville, Que., where he committed an additional $10 million over five years to the Kanishka Project. The revelation rattled Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s re-election bid. “German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stepped up to the plate, and the world looks upon the generosity of her country with admiration”.
The biggest lapse came for the settlement and integration of newcomers, which includes financial support and essential services for refugees coming to Canada.
On Thursday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau told in Vancouver that he was “encouraged” to hear that Harper said a plan to aid refugees would be forthcoming. Instead they get rid of roadblocks.
A new Canadian approach to the Syrian refugee crisis overwhelming the Middle East and Europe could see teams of civil servants and security staff deployed into two countries struggling under the weight of the problem – Lebanon and Jordan.
Canada’s immigration department returned more than $350 million to the federal treasury in unspent funds over a three-year period, a sum that included millions for processing refugee applications and helping asylum-seekers settle into Canada. Some advocacy groups have called for the government to just increase the number of refugees it will accept directly and fund that commitment fully. The situation is especially dire in Lebanon, a country with strong ties to Canada thanks to a large diaspora population.
Sozan Savehilaghi said Canada should redirect the funds it is spending on military intervention in Syria to assist refugees. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
A new iPolitics poll Friday from Ekos Research suggested the Conservative message is in their supporters’ comfort zone – and may chew into the Liberal flank. They fell to 26 percent earlier this week.
We are a nation capable of taking this on and doing so with expediency. In the USA, which has allowed fewer Syrian refugees than either Canada or Australia, the holdup seems primarily due to a fear of letting in terrorists, as well as the growing fetish for border walls in general. It airlifted more than 5,000 people from Kosovo in the late 1990s, more than 5,000 from Uganda in 1972 and resettled 60,000 Vietnamese in 1979-80. Many are in refugee camps, awaiting resettlement to countries around the world, while thousands of others are fleeing the camps, unable to wait.
But the number of refugees has declined since Harper became prime minister in 2006.
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Harper said that his Government would reduce the Employment Insurance (EI) rate from CAD1.88 per CAD100 (USD75) of insurable earnings to an estimated CAD1.49 per CAD100 in 2017.
