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Ottawa Centre NDP candidate invoked the spirit of his mother, former mayor Marion Dewar Saturday, in presenting his party’s proposals to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by end of the year and 9,000 annually for the next four years.
Dewar said most Canadians would support the “ambitious” agenda that his party expects would cost up to $74 million for the first year and then $64 million for each of the next four years.
The plan would involve naming a Syrian refugee co-ordinator as soon as possible to organize government resources for selection and settlement of refugees.
Dewar stressed that they did not consider the refugee crisis a partisan issue.
Dewar mentioned his mother’s well-known Project 4000 mission to bring Vietnamese refugees to Ottawa and noted many Canadian mayors are again playing an important role, asking citizens to sponsor a family.
“This is a call to action,” he said.
“We have reached out to the government now because we don’t need to wait until (after the federal election) to start this work,” he said.
“We’re simply saying, let’s work together to make a difference here … this is about really doing what Canadians expect us to do.”
“Time and time again, Canadians have responded to humanitarian disasters with generosity,” Dewar said.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has said Canada will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next three years in response to the UN refugee agency’s global appeal to resettle 100,000 refugees worldwide.
Millions have fled war-ravaged Syria since 2011, but fewer than 2,400 Syrians have been resettled in Canada during the last two years, part of an overall commitment to accept 11,300 people.
Dewar’s announcement comes in response to global shock over the drowning deaths of two young Syrian boys and their mother, who apparently wanted to join family in British Columbia.
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Dewar said most Canadians would support the “ambitious” agenda that his party expects would cost up to $74 million for the first year and then $64 million for each of the next four years.
The plan would involve naming a Syrian refugee co-ordinator as soon as possible to organize government resources for selection and settlement of refugees.
Dewar stressed that they did not consider the refugee crisis a partisan issue.
Dewar mentioned his mother’s well-known Project 4000 mission to bring Vietnamese refugees to Ottawa and noted many Canadian mayors are again playing an important role, asking citizens to sponsor a family.
“This is a call to action,” he said.
“We have reached out to the government now because we don’t need to wait until (after the federal election) to start this work,” he said.
“We’re simply saying, let’s work together to make a difference here … this is about really doing what Canadians expect us to do.”
“Time and time again, Canadians have responded to humanitarian disasters with generosity,” Dewar said.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has said Canada will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next three years in response to the UN refugee agency’s global appeal to resettle 100,000 refugees worldwide.
Millions have fled war-ravaged Syria since 2011, but fewer than 2,400 Syrians have been resettled in Canada during the last two years, part of an overall commitment to accept 11,300 people.
Dewar’s announcement comes in response to global shock over the drowning deaths of two young Syrian boys and their mother, who apparently wanted to join family in British Columbia.
More to come
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