More than 7,500 Canadians signed up in the first three months of the year to get family out of Gaza through a federal visa pathway that lawyers have described as onerous, chaotic and nearly impossible to complete. The numbers obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom of information request are "shocking," said Debbie Rachlis, an immigration lawyer based in Toronto. She said they show that thousands more Canadians are scrambling to rescue family members from the Israel-Hamas war than... Read this story
