Mary Jo Leddy: The Embassy Q&A

Discussing the reasons why Canadian churches provide sanctuary to refugee claimants, and the ways in which the immigration system falls short

By Sarah McGregor

Published August 11, 2004

Canada's refugee system "squanders" social capital by making it both difficult and time-consuming for refugees to gain citizenship, according to Mary Jo Leddy, of the Ontario Sanctuary Coalition and Romero House, a refugee support network in Toronto. Ms. Leddy speaks from experience when she says that years down the road newcomers to Canada remember if they were gladly received into the country, or stymied by streams...

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