Canada’s opportunity for refugees

How Canada can boost its humanitarian aid.

A view of the one of the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, pictured in 2010. Dadaab has been housing refugees for 25 years. The average length of displacement globally today is 17 years.European Commission photograph by Daniel Dickinson

Opinion

BY KEVIN DUNBAR

June 29, 2016

“I don’t want to sit around and wait for assistance. I want to work. I want to be able to support my family.” This was a message I heard clearly from Ahmed, a father I met in Jordan who fled the conflict in Syria and is now living as a refugee. This is a universal sentiment. These could be t...

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