Ontario’s $10.5m to move Syrian refugees to Canada

…As Premier Wynne seeks Harper’s help to ease migration of the refugees

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CANADA: ARE you a Syrian in danger or being tormented by the dreaded ISIS?

And you are not save where you are right now?

If you are reading this anywhere in the world – where you are hiding – definitely there is good news for you!

The Ontario government of Kathleen Wynne in Canada has offered to help refugees from the war-torn (and trouble spots) in the Middle-East with $10.5 million (N1.19 billion).

She said – going by the pitiable and unbearable plight of the refugees – her government would spend the money to welcome 10,000 displaced Syrians.

Syria, under President Bashaar al-Assad, had plunged into war since 2011 with several hundred thousands of elderly ones, men, women and children dead and multitudes displaced.

Wynne, who noted that Ontario Province cannot directly move the Syrians into Canada due to an existing federal law, promised that her government would make use of relevant bodies and organisations that are in better positions to sponsor refugees to Canada.

The attention of the world shifted more to the Syrian refugees barely two weeks ago when the photo of a three-year-old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, went viral, showing the dead body of the toddler by the river bank in Turkey.

The gory picture was greeted with outrage and condemnation, particularly when the father of the boy blamed the Prime Minister Stephen Harper government for refusing to grant their request to migrate to Canada to join their family members who had agreed to sponsor them.

They claimed they applied last May, but the Harper government refuted the

claim.

The Premier said that the fund would be used to settle the Syrians in the province, adding that $2 million would also be earmarked for prompt humanitarian aid overseas.

A highly disturbed Wynne, on seeing the picture of the drown boy, lamented the plight of the Syrians and said the world cannot standby and watch the sufferings of the refugees.

But she added that all efforts to be carried out by her government would need the backing of the Harper-led Federal administration – in line with the extant law regarding immigration.