Canada has pledged to resettle up to 250 refugees annually who qualify as human rights defendersPeople attempting to flee the Taliban climb on a plane at the Kabul airport on August 16, 2021.The refugees — most of whom are described as human rights defenders by the federal government — are the latest to arrive in Canada since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban last year.
"I am grateful for their work to document and prevent human rights abuses and proud that they now call our country home." Ottawa says about 6,750 Afghan nationals have been resettled in Canada since the Taliban took over. They include Afghans who assisted the Canadian military during its mission in Afghanistan.
The refugees also include Afghans deemed vulnerable, such as women leaders, members of religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ individuals and journalists.
Irony..
Shouldn’t they be fighting for their own country?
Who’s paying for that? This is not where I want my tax dollars to go!!
Welcome to Canada. We should be taking in far more. This is what we should have been doing for the last 20 years instead of invading and brutalizing their country.
Good, more reason to leave Canada.
there are people in Bahrain in jail for 10 years, that were tortured, that might want Canada to intervene in their defense, give some publicity to their cases. (see angryarabiya )
So shouldn’t they be defending human rights where those rights are in danger?
Hope they don't need a house, want to go to a hospital or school. We are unqualified as a country to provide any of that
Did anyone in government ask the population if that’s what we want
And the majority will own their own home and their own business all courtesy of our tax dollars within a couple years of arriving. Meanwhile, our own middle/low class are struggling to find the money for rent and nessesities...
I’m sorry but the government can’t take care of the people we have here now, why bring in more when they are only adding to the problem
Just make sure they don’t land up in Toronto…need to go elsewhere
They should run for MPs and MPPs when they get here. We need some defense of our rights in Canada.
Foreigners don't have a 'right' to live in Canada. Poverty doesn't make you a refugee. The melting pot experiment is an utter failure, seeing as how I never stop hearing about how racist Canadians are.
Canada doesn't have the best record at defending human rights defenders. How long until the CPPC call them foreign funded eco-terrorists, or set up a tip-line to monitor their community?
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