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Immigration Canada: Do the math: Canada has a compassion problem, according to Globe and Mail. Canadian mean-mindedness is back Lorna Dueck is host of Context TV , seen Sundays on Global and Vision TV. The Syrian-Iraqi refugee crisis is one of the worst of our lifetimes, and the numbers and practice of how Canada is responding are so confusing that its drawing no public engagement. What we do know is that 1,100 Syrian refugees have been allocated to be sponsored by the end of this year in Canada through 85 sponsorship agreement holders . Immigration Canada has yet to respond to an appeal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for 100,000 Syrians to be resettled, and there is no numerical plan yet in place for how Canada intends to respond to this crisis in 2015. More Related to this Story (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.