Canada chose 15 per cent of Syrian refugees from refugee camps: Oliphant

Conservative MPs Larry Miller and Erin O’Toole want to know why the Immigration Department never provided a breakdown to the Public Safety Committee of the Syrian refugees who came to Canada from refugee camps.
Syrian refugees, pictured Sept. 2, 2015, arriving in Greece by boat.
Of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have so far come to Canada, 15 per cent were chosen from refugee camps and 85 per cent from outside of formal refugee camps, Liberal MP Robert Oliphant, chair of the House Committee on Public Safety and National Security, told The Hill Times last we...

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