Ottawa admitted that it was harder than expected to bring Ukrainians

More than 5 million Ukrainians have fled their country to other parts of Europe since Russia launched its aggression on 24 February.

The Canadian government has set up specific immigration programs to help Ukrainians who want to go to Canada temporarily or permanently.

Minister Alghabra indicated last month that Ottawa had concluded agreements with airlines to bring these refugees to Canada on charter flights.

But he admitted on Thursday that arranging flights was proving to be more difficult than expected, as refugees were not all in the same place.

We are working on these logistical challenges, but hopefully we will have better answers soon.he told reporters before heading to a cabinet meeting.

Minister Alghabra pointed out that many of these Ukrainians were no longer where they were when they applied for their Canadian visas, making it more difficult to arrange air transport.

Because of these statements, the Bloc’s immigration critic, Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, jumped, who, at the end of the questioning period, felt Liberals were dragging their feet.

” We send flights to different places, we announce it and you can quickly see that people are queuing up to board these planes. it’s obvious! “

According to him, Minister Alghabra is acting as a person disturbed by the situation.

How come there is no plan to deal with these difficulties to remedy them? Actually! Papineau didn’t carehe exclaimed.

According to the latest data released by the Department of Immigration, Ottawa has approved applications for 71,057 Ukrainians and their relatives under the Canada-Ukraine Emergency Travel Authorization (CUATU).

This program is intended to be a fast track to a three -year temporary residence in Canada for people fleeing the war. In total, 180,903 requests were made. Minister Alghabra promised to make charter flights available to AVUCU recipients.