Summer Meetings: Sponsorship Groups and Canadian Resources

summer meetings: Private sponsorship groups and the government have been trying to find a way to get refugees out of the area for months, but have been stymied by a lack of Canadian resources on the ground, according to Huffington Post Canada. That the Immigration Department is sending in a team is one result of ongoing political pressure on the Liberal government to continue a flat-out push to resettle refugees in the spirit of the program that saw 25,000 Syrians brought to Canada in a matter of months. It the first time Canadian staff will go to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, expressly for that purpose. A Syrian refugee family, sponsored by a local group called Ripple Refugee Project, pose for photos. They're holding an unprecedented series of summer meetings examining how to use immigration policy to help anyone, not just refugees, displaced by conflict come to Canada. This week, the House of Commons immigration committee will apply more pressure. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.