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Trends in Refugees A. Trends in the Annual Intake of Refugees a. Trends in Refugee Resettlement In 2017, the Government of Canada allocated a total of 25,000 resettlement spaces divid- ed as follows: 9,000 spaces (36 per cent) for government-supported refugees and 16,000 spaces (64 per cent) for the privately-sponsored ones. [...] According to the online datasets provided by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for the period between January 2015 and February 2020, Canada resettled approximately 153,000 refugees divided as follows: 54 per cent of them being Privately-Sponsored Refugees (PSRs), 40 per cent are Government-Assisted Refugees (GARs) and the remaining 6 per cent belong to the Blended-Visa-Office Referred [...] The reason the PSRs outnumber the GARs for the annual refugees’ intake is because of the government’s 2009 initiative to in- crease the share of PSRs compared to GARs (Wilkinson & Garcea, 2017:4). [...] Upon juxtaposing the composition of refugees in the top five countries of origin, it turns out Syria is the only country of origin whose refugees in Canada are equally distributed among the two main sponsorship streams in the Canadian context: GARs and PSRs (See Table 4). [...] While the second, third and fourth top countries of origin for resettled refugees in Canada (Eritrea, Iraq and Af- ghanistan) were all characterized by a larger proportion of PSRs compared to GARs, the situa- tion was reversed for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the fifth top country of origin.