Most Ukrainians coming to Canada will want to return home: immigration minister
CTV
Canada has not set a limit on how many Ukrainian refugees, wishing to come temporarily, it will accept for one main reason — most want to return home, Canada's immigration minister says.
"One of the first things we heard from the Ukrainian-Canadian community is that the vast majority of the people who want to come to Canada don't want to stay," Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser told CTV's Question Period on Sunday.
"If we learned anything about Ukrainians who are fleeing this conflict, it's that they love their homeland and they want to go back when the war is over."
The federal government announced two new programs for Ukrainian refugees earlier this week: one for those wishing to stay permanently and another for those who want to come temporarily, referred to as the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel.
It comes as Canada has accepted 6,265 Ukrainians since the beginning of January, Fraser says.
