BVOR Briefing Note May 1, 2019 our data show that the clear majority of

We present these three moments as first, the creation of the program under the former federal Conservative government led by PM Harper; second, the uptake of the program during the Syrian resettlement initiative promised by the new Liberal government of PM J. [...] Trudeau; and third, the current moment in which the question of the sustainability and global replication of the program is top of mind. [...] The Three Moments of BVOR Sponsorships Moment 1: Creation The BVOR program arose out of the previous government’s desire to solve a problem: it was a response to the de facto family reunification dimension of private sponsorship (Black 2013). [...] The challenges of the program are visible in its uptake with only – 153 arrivals in 2013 and 177 in 2014 despite government aspirations of 200-300 arrivals in the first year and 400-500 in the second year. [...] In this Syrian-focused moment, the BVOR program offered Canadians a pathway to respond to a crisis much in the same way the original creation of the private sponsorship program in the late 1970s permitted Canadians to sponsor Indochinese refugees entirely unknown to them and exponentially increased admissions through the program beyond the original intent (Molloy et al.