Canada to send rocket launchers to Ukraine, streamline immigration for refugees
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Canada has slapped a massive tariff on Russian imports, announced a shipment of rocket launchers to Ukraine and unveiled a streamlined immigration process for Ukrainians fleeing Moscow’s military assault. It will still require Ukrainians seeking to flee here to undergo […]
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Canada has slapped a massive tariff on Russian imports, announced a shipment of rocket launchers to Ukraine and unveiled a streamlined immigration process for Ukrainians fleeing Moscow’s military assault.
It will still require Ukrainians seeking to flee here to undergo a visa-application process because the program’s security check could weed out pro-Kremlin Ukrainian citizens who fought a guerilla war against Kyiv for the past eight years.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said a new 35-per-cent duty will apply to all imports from Russia and Belarus, the country’s close ally, in a further economic sanction of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.