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The former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. from October 2009 to March 2016, Gary Doer, has revealed during a panel discussion organized by The Literary Review of Canada in Toronto on Oct. 13 that Canadian security agencies responsible for vetting the thousands of Syrian refugees were using a “robust” and “multi-layered” security check process that included consulting U.S. Homeland Security databases.
According to Mr. Doer, “on the Syrian refugee decisions, we consulted with the Americans on everyone to make sure there was not somebody identified as a security risk,” adding that “we had an agreement with Homeland Security and the United States, and a protocol of what we were going through. They would alert us too if there were any security problems that they became aware of—somebody we didn’t know as part of that refugee group that was embedded as a potential terrorist in either one of our countries. There was a procedure in place before the election in Canada and after the election took place in Canada, and it remains between our two countries.”
The website of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada boasts that 35,745 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada during Nov. 4, 2015 and Nov. 27, 2016, while 19,576 applications were still in the screening and processing phase. Among the refugees who have arrived in Canada, 18,863 are government-assisted, 13,260 privately sponsored, and 3,622 are blended visa office-referred refugees. Moreover, the website adds that another 4,264 applications have been finalized, but the refugees have not yet travelled to Canada.
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