(Canadian Press) The NDP’s foreign affairs critic acknowledges the challenges related to Canadians being held in northern Syria, but says the federal government must step in to bring its citizens home.
New Democrat MP Heather McPherson says the arbitrarily detained Canadians, including many young children, are barely surviving in deplorable conditions, with no end in sight.
McPherson joined several human rights advocates at a news conference calling on Ottawa to take responsibility for citizens languishing in squalid camps.
More than three dozen Canadians are among the estimated thousands of foreign nationals held in Syrian camps by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the strife-torn region from the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
