First Batch of Afgan refugees arrive in Canada

​By a Staff Reporter: The first batch of Afghans, given refuge by the Canadian government as they supported its mission in Afghanistan, arrived in the country on Wednesday. While the exact number of those refugees or where they arrived was not disclosed, more are expected in Canada over the weeks ahead. A statement jointly released by the country’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship Marco Mendicino, foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau and defence minister Harjit Sajjan, said Ottawa “has been seized with the urgency on the ground and is working as quickly as possible to resettle Afghan nationals who put themselves at great risk to support Canada’s work in Afghanistan”.