A scaled-down group, including Sen. Kim Pate, intends to head to northeastern Syria in late August to gather information about Canadians held in squalid camps and prisons
The federal government has rebuffed an offer from a civil society delegation to travel to northeastern Syria on Ottawa’s behalf to repatriate detained Canadians.
The Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps and jails run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the strife-torn region from the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Given that the revamped mission set for August will be more of a fact-finding trip, Lane does not plan to go.
Neve said in an interview that the government’s “seemingly implacable refusal” to assist the return of the men to Canada “is in our view, frankly, disgraceful.”
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