High commissioner says the number of persons displaced by conflict is skyrocketing and Canada needs to set an example for the world by helping them
Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on June 16, 2020.The head of the UN refugee agency says Canada should take its United Nations Security Council loss as a message to step up its contributions to peacekeeping and foreign aid.
“Canada certainly is a country that deserves to be in that position, just like the others by the way. I think Ireland and Norway also. But it should be, in my opinion, an encouragement to do more and to do better,” Mr. Grandi said in an interview.Louis Bélanger, a spokesperson for International Development Minister Karina Gould, said Canadians “should be proud” of the foreign aid vision the government has put forward.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer accused the Trudeau government of “selling out” Canadian values in pursuit of the seat, pointing to Mr. Trudeau’s handshake with the Iranian Foreign Minister earlier this year after the regime admitted involvement in the crash of a passenger plane in January that killed dozens of Canadians.Mr. Grandi said that, with displacement figures “skyrocketing,” he will step up his own advocacy efforts, but he admitted that sometimes his words seem to fall on deaf ears.
“I can only tell them, at least be united, because the lack of unity is perhaps what is most detrimental to peace and security worldwide these days,” he said.
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