Canada: Janet Dench

Janet Dench: The current measures arent responding at all to the needs of those in the region, said Janet Dench, executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, according to The Star. Canada needs to do its part now, said Dench. So far, only nine government-assisted refugees from Syria have arrived in Canada in 2013, the executive director of CCR said and The Canadian Council for Refugees and the Syrian Canadian Council are asking Ottawa to introduce new measures to help Syrians escape the conflict in their homeland. United Nations data shows more than 4.25 million Syrians are internally displaced. Two million refugees from Syria have fled to neighboring countries, which are hard-pressed to care for them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.