Almost 800 people who survived ISIL now in Canada as refugees: Hussen
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Thursday nearly 800 Yazidi women and girls and others who survived the cruelties of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have now arrived in Canada as refugees.
Hussen made the comment in response to a question from a Liberal MP during question period.
However, Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel says she wants to know exactly who sponsored the 800 and how many of them are actually Yazidis.
Almost a year ago, after intense lobbying by Rempel and private sponsorship groups trying to help Yazidis, the government agreed to support her motion to resettle Yazidi women and girls within months. In February, Hussen announced 400 had arrived, about 300 of them Yazidis.