Canada offers to take in Philippine victims of Ketsana
AFP
OTTAWA- Canada will fasttrack the immigration of Philippine citizens "directly and significantly" affected by typhoon Ketsana seeking to relocate here, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Thursday.
"Effective immediately immigration officials will begin expediting applications from individuals directly and significantly affected by the typhoon," Kenney said.
Ketsana has brought devastation across Southeast Asia since killing 277 people in the Philippines last weekend.
Some 330,000 Canadians trace their roots to the Philippines, representing Canada's third largest ethnic minority, according to a 2001 census.
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