A key way to help an LGBTQ refugee get accepted into Canada is to sponsor them. Private sponsorship, a distinctive Canadian achievement, is one of the ways we can help protect refugees from around the world. See a good brief overview by the Canadian Council for Refugees. Since 1978 groups of Canadian private citizens have sponsored more than 200,000 refugees for resettlement in addition to federal government resettlement programs. Sponsors fund the first year of resettlement

A recent article published in the National Post discusses the issues surrounding Canada's disappointing announcement about the number of refugees it will take in over the next few years. The upshot: opportunities for LGBT refugee resettlement are diminishing. Most sexual or gender minority refugees resettled to Canada are government-sponsored. Only a small number of those resettled to Canada are privately sponsored, such as those affiliated with ROAR. There will be no increas