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October 18, 2016

Act now to process refugees, Bishop Crosby tells minister

CCCB president Bishop Douglas Crosby, pictured here in a file photo, urges federal immigration Minister John McCallum to speed up the processing of refugees.

OTTAWA – The president of Canada's bishop conference has written a frank letter to the federal Immigration Minister urging immediate government action to unclog delays in processing refugee applicants in order to preserve "confidence" in the refugee sponsorship program.

Published in Canada
December 4, 2015

Churches ahead of government in resettling Syrian refugees

The private sponsorship of refugees fleeing wartorn Syria is well ahead of government sponsorship at the moment, though the federal government promises to step up the numbers of refugees resettled.

The federal government has rewritten its timeline to bring 25,000 refugees to Canada this year and acknowledges that to resettle them here by the end of February is an enormous challenge.

Published in Canada