Commentary
One of the first major pledges of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon forming government in 2015 was to bring in a large number of Syrian refugees within a short period of time.
There was both political and public will to see this happen, as Canadians watched with concern as war in Syria caused a growing refugee crisis.
But there was one set of voices that at one point in the process wanted to temporarily pause the rush of arrivals to Canada. They weren’t anti-immigrant voices. In fact, it was the opposite. Refugee resettlement agencies were, for a brief period, calling on the feds to slow things down….