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| Canada to welcome 1,200 Yazidi refugees in $21m operation |
| 2017-02-23 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Canada will resettle 1,200 Yazidi refugees who faced persecution by ISIS, the immigration minister said Tuesday. Some 400 have already been airlifted to this country. "Our operation is under way and individual survivors of ISIS have been arriving in Canada for resettlement in the last number of months and this began on October 25, 2016," Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, using an Arabic name for ISIS. "Our government will resettle approximately 1,200 highly vulnerable survivors of ISIS and their family members in Canada," he added. The initiative follows Parliament's resolution last fall to take in Yazidis facing "genocide" in Iraq at the hands of ISIS. The original aim was to bring over women and girls at risk, but Hussen told a news conference that Ottawa had learned that "ISIS has also deliberately targeted boys and as such we are helping to resettle all child survivors of ISIS." Hussen said the The operation is expected to cost Can$28 million (US$21 million). Since coming to power in late 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has resettled 40,000 Syrian refugees. The Yazidis taken in have been subjected to comprehensive security checks and medical examinations, Hussen said. Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking minority with a pre-Islamic religion thought partly to have its origin in the Zoroastrianism of ancient Persia. They are neither Arab nor Moslem and ISIS considers them polytheistic heretics. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Day, dollar? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-23 07:29 |
| #3 Considering that Canada was previously doing the equivalent of taking in Nazi refugees from Nazi Germany... |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-02-23 02:00 |
| #2 Trying to catch up to Obama on that last front, I suppose. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-02-23 00:52 |
| #1 "Since coming to power in late 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has resettled 40,000 Syrian refugees." Since coming to power in late 2015, Prime Minister Justin Turdeau's gummint has spent an approximate shit-ton of money we don't have. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2017-02-23 00:40 |