To Remind One

Prior to his election in 2015, Justin Trudeau offered parkas rather than military or medical aid to children fleeing from ISIS rape gangs and characterised the Tories' prioritisation of the Yazidis and Iraqi Christians as refugees as "disgusting".


After an embarrassing vote that forced his hand, Justin allowed a sliver of a percentage into Canada as refugees.

He did not show up for a photo opportunity.


Over a week ago, a Yazidi refugee recognised her ISIS rapist on a bus in Ontario.


These Yazidis:

Speaking with Gatestone about the situation of Yazidis, Saad Babir, Yazda's media director, said that there are two types of aid urgently needed by Yazidis at Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in northern Iraq: psychological support for the victims of genocide, and basic services such as healthcare, food, water, electricity, heat, new tents -- and even firetrucks and ambulances. Babir explained that many Yazidis have died in IDP camps due to a lack of the latter two. On May 25, for example, a 17-year-old Yazidi girl burned to death, while three of her siblings were severely injured, when the family's tent caught fire in one of the camps.

Dawood Saleh, a Yazidi author and activist who fled, was in Sinjar when ISIS launched the genocide there in 2014. "Yazidis have lived in the camps in Iraq for four years now," he told Gatestone. "Most of the tents they live in are temporary and could not last for more than one or two seasons. These tents could be fully burned in 30 seconds," he said. ...

Both Babir and Saleh emphasized that Yazidi camps are not getting sufficient support. "To the best of our knowledge," said Babir, "although the UN Refugee Agency and some other international NGOs are providing some funding, the camps are not receiving any financial support from the Iraqi or Kurdistan regional governments, except in rare cases." ...

Pari Ibrahim, founder and executive director of the Free Yezidi Foundation, also noted that not enough Yazidis have been recommended by the UN for resettlement in Western countries.

Babir suggested that the US help Yazidi victims through resettlement programs similar to those undertaken by Canada, Australia and Germany. He also stressed the service Yazidis have loyally provided for the American military:

"The US government should help Yazidis because many Yazidis have been kidnapped and murdered by ISIS because of their work for the US army as interpreters. We think that it is time for the US to help us now, when we need it the most."

"They are all in need of urgent psychological treatment," Saleh added. "The US should help Yazidi families to get out of Iraq. For them to have to live in Iraq is like suicide."
As one Yazidi displaced person from Iraq said in an interview with the Ezidi Press in 2015: "No matter what we do, this country is our grave."

Countries like Canada and most in the EU are quite quick to take in and then not vet migrants with questionable identification and then fund their lives at the expense of native taxpayers. Indeed, Canada has only detained 643 illegal migrants out of the nearly 10,000 who entered Canada as of March 2018. Canada and the EU are not as eager when the migrants are Yazidi or Middle Eastern Christian, indigenous peoples who have valid and identifiable fears for their safety.

How can this be construed as anything other than deliberate? Any country that singles out a group with a legitimate fear for its safety while casually allowing in others is guilty of moral and political antipathy.



Also:

An independent review of the Immigration and Refugee Board says there are persistent and systemic problems with the organization that handles asylum claims and appeals, problems it says can’t be fixed without a major shift at the top.

The review released Tuesday is the result of a year-long analysis of the arms-length agency, which manages asylum claims and appeals. It was conducted by Neil Yeates, a former deputy minister of the Immigration Department.

It found a long history of problems in managing spikes in asylum claims and backlogs — and the current influx of irregular migrants is no exception.

Yeates recommended fundamental changes to the way the board operates, including a new management structure that would bring it under the authority of the minister of Immigration, managed by either a new refugee protection agency or an asylum system management board.

“A key observation arising out of consultations … is that the efficiency of the asylum system in Canada has suffered as a result of the lack of active, coherent and accountable management across the entire continuum of its activities,” the report said.

(Sidebar: feature, not a bug.)




(Paws up)