Today’s newcomers are denied a key part of a successful restart.
“ ... My family and I arrived during a relatively good time to be a refugee. Denton has seen firsthand how the way Canada deals with refugees has changed over the years.
“When I started off it was simply as a member of the Rotary Club in Selkirk, Manitoba, and persuading them to take on a case of boat people,” he says. Denton helped sponsor a family in the 1970s and remembers the process as remarkably streamlined. “Oh, it was simple in those days. All I had to do was go into Winnipeg to a government office and sign my name three times on pieces of paper and that was it… Now it’s unbelievable how mountainous the paperwork is to sponsor someone. That’s the huge difference between then and now.” ...”
“ ... Hyndman notes, how the public perceives refugees changes with government policy and current events. “I think that the wave of pro-refugee sentiment three years ago has been replaced by a tempered kind of suspicion of people crossing the border,” she says.
Denton agrees. “There’s more resistance and more concern being expressed today than there used to be. And I think that’s true right across the planet.”...”
