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Amnesty International and Nicholas Keung Immigration

: The survey by Amnesty International found that 80 per cent of 27,000 respondents would welcome refugees with open arms and take them into their own homes, according to Toronto Star. Based on a scale of 0 to 100, Globe Scan, the consulting firm commissioned for the study, came up with the Refugees Welcome Index based on responses to standard questions to measure participants' attitudes toward refugees. By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., May 19, 2016 A survey of citizens in 27 countries ranks Canada fourth among the world most welcoming countries for refugees after China, Germany and the United Kingdom. China topped the ranking with a score of 85, followed by Germany , the U.K. and Canada , with Australia rounding off the top five. People are ready to make refugees welcome, but governments' inhumane responses to the refugee crisis are badly out of touch with the views of their own citizens, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty said in a statement. These figures speak for themselves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.