Thirteen-year-old Emad Mishko Tamo made a video appeal to Trudeau that was posted to social media by the Yazidi Association of Manitoba last month. Article Continued BelowHesso says they’d hoped for a much longer meeting with Trudeau, so Emad could talk more about the plight of other Yazidi children and bringing more refugees to Canada. “It was not the meeting that we were looking for,” said Hesso, who is a spokesperson for the family. During the short meeting, Hesso said Emad gave Trudeau a list of some of the issues he hoped the government could address. More than 1,000 had arrived in Canada and 81 per cent of them were Yazidi, the email stated.

Source: thestar February 04, 2018 14:06 UTC