Yazidi genocide moves onto McCallum’s plate

What happened and what comes next after the heated summer study on vulnerable people wraps up.

Immigration Minister John McCallum and his cabinet colleagues are under pressure to repeat the government's headline-grabbing Syrian refugee resettlement initiative for other persecuted groups, particularly Yazidis from northern Iraq.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

July 27, 2016

The whirlwind parliamentary study of the plight of Yazidis and other vulnerable groups has finished, and the witnesses and committee members are looking to Immigration Minister John McCallum to make the next move. The emotional and often partisan study by the House Im...

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