UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander: Alexander says the money for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will support efforts to improve health and living conditions, as well as protection, for refugees and internally displaced people in many regions, according to Times Colonist. The announcement comes on World Refugee Day and after the UN agency said the number of refugees around the world has topped 50 million for the first time since the Second World War and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says Canada is contributing $50.7 million to the United Nations refugee agency for humanitarian assistance. It separate from previously announced Canadian aid for people hit by the crises in Syria and South Sudan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.