(Canadian Press) Six Canadian children are set to leave a Syrian prison camp and fly to Canada without their mother who cannot come with them because federal officials have not completed her security assessment, advocates for the family say.
The federal government gave the Quebec woman until Sunday to decide whether her children would join other Canadians on the repatriation flight expected to depart any day now or remain with her in Syria, said Alexandra Bain, director of the group Families Against Violent Extremism.
“I’m shocked. It doesn’t make any sense,” Bain said Saturday in an interview. “It’s not how I expect Canada to behave.”
