Thursday, September 24, 2015

Canadian minister discusses priorities in Middle East

National defence minister wants Canada to prioritize Christian refugees
Jason Kenney, Canada's minister of national defence and minister for multiculturalism. (Photo Credit: forces.gc.ca)
Jason Kenney, Canada's minister of national defence and minister for multiculturalism, says Canada should consider the minorities fleeing from Syria and Iraq the top priority.
"'Some people are in an understandable wave of emotion… telling me that we should just send C-17 aircraft over there to refugee camps and load them up and bring them to Caanda,' Kenney said in an interview with the Jewish Independent. Kenney considers the most vulnerable refugees and internally displaced persons not even in the United Nations camps."
Kenney is worried most of all by the persecuted minorities who are unable to go to the UN camps due to their minority status and the implications of that. Read more here.
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