Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People

The official announcement was made by Canada’s foreign minister on Monday evening, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.
Canada has doubled to 40,000 the number of Afghans fleeing the Taliban that it plans to take in, the Canadian foreign minister said Monday, fulfilling a campaign pledge made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The announcement, which came a week after Mr. Trudeau’s party won re-election, was certain to be welcomed by humanitarian groups in Canada. They had been pressing the government to do significantly more when it initially committed last month to take in 20,000 refugees after the Taliban swept into power.
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