Yazidi Families: Haven T and Delay Things

yazidi families: Now, political instability in the country in the wake of the military failed efforts to seize power last week is expected to delay things more. "We are continuing to work with the government of Turkey to obtain exit permits as quickly as possible and are continuing to monitor the situation," said Sonia Lesage, a spokesperson for the Immigration Department. "However, given recent events, we do expect delays." There are an estimated 549 Syrian refugees in Turkey who have been approved to come to Canada but haven't been cleared to travel, and a further 3,815 applications from that country are in progress, according to The Waterloo Record. Among them are several Yazidi families, a Kurdish minority group whose plight is the subject this week of hearings at the House of Commons immigration committee. Securing exit permits for Syrians in Turkey has been a difficult process already, holding up the Liberal government plans last fall to resettle thousands of people from there as part of their landmark program to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada in a matter of months. Their treatment at the hands of Islamic militants was recently termed a genocide by the United Nations human rights panel, and MPs heard graphic testimony Tuesday about some of those atrocities. They committed crimes against us, they forced us to change our religion, they raped us, they sold us," she told the committee, through a translator. "This continues today against more than 3,000 women and children." That situation is why the Conservatives argue the Liberals should now fast-track the resettlement of Yazidis to Canada. Nadia Murad Basee Taha recounted living in Iraq as militants chased her community up the Sinjar mountains in 2014, a siege that saw thousands killed and taken hostage. "When they took us, the girls and children, we were not simply held prisoner. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.