The Canadian government has taken in over 30,000 Afghan refugees since August 2021, and plans to resettle at least 40,000 more by the end of 2023.
In a news release on April 12, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said that communities across Canada continue to welcome Afghans and are “helping them settle in to their new homes.”
The latest refugees came in from a charter flight from Pakistan and landed in Toronto. The group includes “Afghans who supported Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, family members of former Afghan interpreters, and privately sponsored refugees arriving through the humanitarian stream,” according to Immigration.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said that “the Afghanistan resettlement effort is one of the largest and most difficult in Canada’s history.”…