February 21, 2024 Re: Immigration measures in response to the conflict in Sudan

Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship 365 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa ON K1A 0C8 Dear Minister, The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) welcomes the federal government’s actions to support a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Sudan and to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions of people displaced and otherwise affected by violence and insecurity, as a result of the continui. [...] As the people of Sudan face the world’s worst hunger crisis in decades, the UN and its partners are appealing to the international community for a greater refugee and humanitarian response. [...] Canada has demonstrated it has the capacity, through the measures adopted in response to the situations in Ukraine and Afghanistan. [...] a) Include a government resettlement response While we welcome the government’s decision to provide avenues by which Canadians can respond to family members, we regret that the humanitarian pathway is exclusively for people with family links to Canada, and that the responsibility for supporting Sudanese admitted through the pathway is laid entirely on the shoulders of those Canadians with affected. [...] Given the scale of the crisis, the limit of 3,250 applications in the family-based humanitarian pathway is inadequate to the need.