Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird: Humanitarian Crisis

humanitarian crisis: By any definition, whatever else we face in Syria the one thing we know for certain is that this is a humanitarian crisis of the first proportion, Rae said, urging the Conservative government to step up its efforts to help displaced Syrians in the Middle East and increase the political pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to CTV. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada has taken real and significant action to help the people of Syria, but acknowledged that those efforts will never be enough given the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and Canada must do more to address the deadly conflict in Syria and the resulting humanitarian crisis, Liberal MP Bob Rae said Tuesday evening as he kicked off an emergency debate on the issue in the House of Commons. Rae, who introduced the motion to debate the Syrian crisis, said the 1.5 million Syrians who are now residing in refugee camps in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and other nearby countries, present a security risk to the region as potential targets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.