Catherine Dauvergne and University British Columbia Vancouver

Australian immigration law: She also recalled how Canada reacted rapidly to the call for help from ethnic Albanian refugees in Kosovo during war in the Balkan countries, bringing in 250 people a day between May 4 and 23 in 1999, according to Huffington Post Canada. The response to Syria hasn't met that standard, said Dauvergne, an expert in Canadian and Australian immigration law. "The government is doing very little and the commitments it is making are being largely transferred to the non-for-profit sector, so this response has been markedly different than in the past," she said. Catherine Dauvergne, the dean of law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, said Liberal and Tory regimes in the 1970s and early 1980s embraced the mission of assisting 60,000 Indo-Chinese refugees fleeing Communist regimes after Saigon fall in 1975. "Canada led the world in terms of a response by the government and the response from the Canadian population," she said in an interview. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says Ottawa has resettled 22,000 Iraqi and 2,300 Syrian refugees to date, and the federal government has set a target to accept 23,000 Iraqi refugees and 11,300 Syrians. As an example, she points to amendments in 2012 that allow the minister to designate which countries are safe and which are not, creating different procedural rules for each group. However, Dauvergne said changes brought in under the Conservatives through the Balanced Refugee Reform Act and other legislation have made it generally harder for refugee applicants to stay in the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.