Filipiniana News – January 2016 RHYME & REASON An Open Letter to the Immigration Minister Dear Minister McCallum: First of all, this is to congratulate you on your appointment as the new Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Your and your party's election platform and promises, especially with respect to immigration policies, have given many people great hope for a better, fairer and more humane Canada. Thank you for your leadership in the government's valiant efforts to admit and resettle as many Syrian and Iraqi refugees to Canada as soon as possible. We understand that resettling refugee families to Canada is literally about saving precious lives hence the extreme urgency of Canada's response to this great humanitarian crisis. We also understand that targets and timelines need to be adjusted but are glad that the noble objective of saving as many lives as possible, remain. We trust that the current focus on Syrians and Iraq