UN High Commissioner Refugees and Lebanon

: By the time her mission concluded last June, she was the overseer of the largest such UN operation in the world, with an intake of 1.2 million Syrians, according to Hamilton Spectator. Lebanon, which is smaller than Vancouver Island, had a population of about four million people before the civil war next door displaced millions of Syrians. The official from Toronto began her post as representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in May 2010, catering to 10,000 Iraqis. Kelley compared Lebanon acceptance of enormous waves of people to Canada absorbing nine million refugees. "We were registering, in Lebanon over a two-year period, more refugees every single week than Canada receives in a year," she said. The expat had been working to mitigate the crisis since April 2011, years before a drowned Syrian toddler washed ashore a Turkish beach. They tallied about 10,000 new arrivals weekly. "I would describe it as a very slow and steady burn," she added. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.