Canada Will Be ‘Flexible’ With 1,000-Person Cap on Palestinian Visa Program: Immigration Minister

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa’s 1,000-person cap on temporary resident visas for Palestinians looking to escape the Gaza Strip is not set in stone. Mr. Miller, in an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play, was adamant the federal government’s stated 1,000-person maximum for its temporary resident program is not absolute. “It is conventional for a number of these programs to have an internal number that is established,” he said. “This was one that we thought at the outset—in the context of something being done in a relatively short period of time understanding that it’s a war zone in Gaza—was something to manage flow, understand what the numbers are, and then you know remain flexible on the fly if we do see numbers that exceed that.”...