Canada: Privately-Sponsored Refugees and Sponsorship Works

canada: As the federal budget comes down in Ottawa, this should be a top priority, according to Metro News. The global migrant crisis is, with or without our help, finding a way into Canada. But without sufficient money and resources, the agency that manages it is struggling with a backlog of potential sponsors, and leaving Canada in danger of breaking its global promise. While the right and humane thing is for Canada to match rhetoric with policy, there is one more reason to spend the money to clear the backlog private sponsorship works. For government-sponsored refugees that number is 10 per cent. Speaking in front of the Commons immigration committee Monday, Minister Ahmed Hussen said 53 per cent of privately-sponsored refugees had found full-time employment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.