Good interview on the CBC this afternoon with Raj Sharma (
https://twitter.com/immlawyercanada). I know nothing beyond that he's an immigration lawyer who formerly worked resettling refugees. He has serious concerns about Canada's timeline and is basically of the same view as I am with "what's the rush, why the arbitrary deadline". To be fair he did say that they'll never be 100% sure on screening since they never are. These people have no I.D., no history and their countries don't have any records to check against.
This was also interesting:
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blo...-over-timeline
While the UNHCR welcomed the Canadian announcement to settle Syrians, “I am afraid I cannot talk about Canada’s program,” spokeswoman Ariane Rummery said in an email from Geneva “until we know more about the modalities.”
One of the reasons things were going so slowly was that Canada has not yet provided the UN with the numbers of refugees it wants the agency to identify for resettlement from each country, a UN spokesperson in Beirut said.