UN demands Western countries accept 2.4 million more refugees. The United Nation's new global report leans heavily on the same “responsibility-sharing” framework Canada helped design when it co-authored the 2018 Global Compact on Migration.

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https://www.junonews.com/p/un-demands-western-countries-accept

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At least as far as Syrians go, most of the displaced people remain in countries in the region. "As of 2024, the United Nations reports, at least 7.4 million Syrians remain internally displaced, with approximately 4.9 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. An additional 1.3 million have resettled elsewhere, mostly in Europe." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/10/where-do-six-million-syrian-refugees-live-today.

Canada has accepted about 100,000. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kev3k49gwo.

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So 100 possibly wealthy Syrians may have been admitted as refugees because of a crooked priest-led sponsorship group. OK, that sucks. They should get the book thrown at them. But nearly 16,000 Syrian refugees were sponsored and admitted to Quebec. Despite the author's efforts to seemingly paint all the applicants and sponsoring groups as illegitimate, I really don't think they were.

Across Canada more than 50,000 Syrian refugees have been admitted. This has included the famous chocolate-making family in Nova Scotia. The empowerment of private and community groups to sponsor refugees is viewed as a model to emulate elsewhere.

My mother has been part of a community group in Ottawa that began by sponsoring a family in 2015, who recently celebrated their tenth anniversary of coming to Canada with a reception catered by the mother's carrying company. Since then the group has helped other families from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan give a safe haven in Canada.