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Great White North
Canada opens its doors to 10,000 Syrian refugees
2015-01-08
[CSMONITOR] Canada is coming to the rescue.

The country announced Wednesday that it will be opening its borders to a total of 10,000 refugees from Syria and 3,000 from Iraq over the next three years, The Globe and Mail reports.
Bad move, eh?
Come now, what are the odds that one of these 10,000 would be a bad apple?
That figure is only a fraction of the people who have been displaced by conflicts in the Middle East: There are about 6.5 million internally displaced people or IDPs out of Syria and about 400,000 out of Iraq, according to the latest data from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Still, the announcement is a welcome relief for other countries in the region, most of whom been hosting a near-constant flow of refugees since the Syrian civil war broke out four years ago.
Posted by:Fred

#3  I wonder how many of these 10K are Syrian Christians who are escaping with their lives? I would be OK with them getting asylum
Posted by: BigEdLB   2015-01-08 17:16  

#2  Tempted to change the headline to 2000 terrorist sympathisers.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-01-08 17:14  

#1  So that's the way it happens. "There are about 6.5 million internally displaced people or IDPs out of Syria and about 400,000 out of Iraq." It would seem that there are enough displaced people, that they could take their countries back from the thugs who are currently occupying them. Canada has no obligation to take 10,000 Syrian refugees into their country.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-08 08:24  

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