Syrian-Canadian: Iranian Refugees

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: OTTAWA The NDP and a Syrian-Canadian group are questioning why Immigration Minister Jason Kenney chose to accept Iraqi and Iranian refugees when he visited fleeing Syrians in Turkey last month, according to The Chronicle Herald. But Kenney office says there a perfectly good explanation for the decision: Turkey won t let any fleeing Syrians leave the country until the United Nations officially declares them actual refugees and they accuse Kenney of misleading the Canadian public by touting his visit as being in support of Syrian refugees, which currently number about 200,000 in Turkey, when Canada opted instead to take 5,000 Iraqis and Iranians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.