Humanitarian Crisis: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The Conservative MP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale is travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Israel and Jordan this week and Thursday visited the Jordan-Syrian border to see how Jordan is spending Canadian funds to cope with the humanitarian crisis. While there, his group was alerted several hundred refugees were crossing the border and they went to observe it. , according to Hamilton Spectator. He said the refugees, which were directed into receiving camps by Jordanian border authorities, consisted of people "who had been bombed out of their neighbourhoods and have been walking for days. They went to friends' houses first and then the conflict reached them there. It's been one humanitarian disaster after another for them and they're just trying to survive." MP David Sweet has had a first-hand look at the Syrian refugee crisis caused by the civil war engulfing the Middle Eastern nation. "It was a heart-wrenching experience," Sweet said in a phone interview from Amman, Jordan. "There was an older gentleman who walked for three days with his children and grandchildren. They were just in tears. Many had walked their shoes off. It's something that affects you for the rest of your life." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.