Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Rosemary McCarney

: Aid is for a wide range of things: for water, for sanitation, for shelter, for certain amount of clothing, especially for cold seasons, Harper told reporters, according to Toronto Star. Iraq now has 2.7 million people who have been displaced from their homes, a humanitarian crisis that is difficult to comprehend, said Rosemary McCarney, president and CEO of Plan Canada, a Toronto-based charity that assists children. Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged the additional funds during a surprise visit to Iraq Saturday that began here in the Iraqi capital and then took him close to the frontlines in northern Iraq. It almost inconceivable to fathom the numbers of displaced in this region, in Iraq and Syria, as a result of conflict, said McCarney, who was part of the delegation that travelled to Iraq. Some of them have been displaced two or three times. Those numbers are not going down and these people are not going home, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.