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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Bhutanese Refugees

Jason Kenney Dept: OTTAWA - Government officials are bracing for the possibility Canada is asked to take in people fleeing the ongoing conflict in Syria, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We're talking about millions of either convention refugees or non-registered de facto refugees or internally displaced persons in Syria," Kenney said after announcing the expansion of a resettlement program for Bhutanese refugees and Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday March 7, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick But a large-scale resettlement program won't resolve the growing refugee crisis, Kenney admitted. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.