{"id":32223,"date":"2014-11-19T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32223"},"modified":"2014-11-20T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T01:20:03","slug":"canada-govt-answers-question-on-yolanda-immigration-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/19\/canada-govt-answers-question-on-yolanda-immigration-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada gov\u2019t answers question on \u2018Yolanda\u2019 immigration measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10359\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10359\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After several months, the government of Canada has finally released a statement to answer questions raised by a Toronto newspaper regarding special immigration measures enacted last year to help Typhoon Haiyan victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApproximately 1,540 Filipinos entered Canada as a result of the special measure . . . as of October 2014,\u201d a Citizenship and Immigration spokesman said October 16 in an emailed statement to the Toronto Star.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made following an open letter to the minister published by the Star.<\/p>\n<p>The long-standing questions were also raised during a scheduled Question and Answer with Alexander on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>After a year since the typhoon hit several provinces in the country including Tacloban and its neighboring villages, a total of 519 cases are still being processed while ome 269 applications were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Chris Alexander said during that time that they were supposed to provide \u201cimmediate relief\u201d to the victims through a fast-tracking program announced several days after the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months, the government of Canada has finally released a statement to answer questions raised by a Toronto newspaper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8681],"class_list":["post-32223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-canada-govt","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}