1. 005 Syrian refugees were admitted to Canada. This figure consists of 15,412 government-assisted refugees, 2,405 blended visa-office referred refugees, and 9,763 privately sponsored refugees. See Citizenship and Immigration Canada;Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) reports that between 4,2015
2. Warm Embrace of Refugees;' Canada;The New York Times 3. people of Canada" the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, awarded annually in recognition of outstanding work on behalf of the forcibly displaced. See United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;Efrat Arbel & Alletta Brenner, Bordering on Failure: Canada-U.S. Border Policy and the Politics of Refugee Exclusion,1986