Canada: Yazidi Refugees and Canadian Government

canada: By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., Nov. 3, 2016 More than a week after Ottawa announced it would bring in Yazidi refugees within four months, the community and its supporters are still waiting for details of Canada resettlement plan, according to Toronto Star. After a long period of silence, we were happy to see the Canadian government taking action. Ottawa has commited to resettling vulnerable Yazidi refugees in Canada. But they are keeping us in the dark, said Majed El Shafie, founder of Toronto One Free World International, which has teams on the ground in Iraq and Syria who have been helping persecuted minorities in the region. El Shafie, who came to Canada as a refugee from Egypt in 2002, was among 11 community groups and leaders who held a news conference Wednesday calling on the government to provide concrete targets and a timeline of its plan. The government needs to be open and honest about how many they are bringing in, what the process is choosing the refugees and how they are going to resettle them in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.