Why has Canada's program brought zero Gazans to safety?
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When announced in December, it seemed like a new immigration program would allow Canadians with extended family in Gaza to finally bring them to safety. More than three months later, not a single person has arrived in the country.
And it's not for lack of trying. Thousands have applied, and hundreds of applications are stuck in bureaucratic purgatory. Even Canada's minister of immigration has said Canada is "failing" Gazans. So what's gone wrong? Is the government to blame? Or is this the fog of war at work?
GUEST: Yara El Murr, reporting in The Guardian
CORRECTION: Eman al-Atbash is 29, not 20.
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