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Normalized Relations and Iran

government: Kwan, denied that it is giving priority on the basis of religion or ethnicity to refugees for resettlement, according to Globe and Mail. It said it ceased tracking areas of focus in November, 2015. By law, Canada is required to process all cases referred by the UN. The government, in its response to Ms. At the time, Liberal immigration minister John McCallum told The Globe the government would scrap them. They also included categories that resembled criteria usually associated with selecting immigrants for economic migration, such as those who had run a business in Syria but were not connected to the governing regime, those who spoke English or French, and families whose children were under 10 years of age. The areas of focus, which were never made public, did not just target religious and ethnic minorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.