Posted AT 4:48 AM EDT on 16/03/07
Ottawa cool to Iraqi exodus
Despite urgent entreaties from Washington and the United Nations refugee agency, the Canadian government is giving no indication it is willing to fling open its doors to refugees fleeing war-torn Iraq.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says the exodus of hundreds of thousands of desperate Iraqis is the largest population movement in the Middle East in 60 years and there is no end in sight "in the face of extreme violence marking today's Iraq.
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