Doing the right thing: Trudeau said Canada welcomed those fleeing war and persecution. Pictured is a scene outside the US embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
TORONTO: A group of Canadian technology company founders, executives and investors on Sunday called in a letter for Ottawa to immediately give temporary residency to those displaced by a US order banning the entry of people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The open letter said US President Donald Trump's executive order, which temporarily bars travellers from Syria and six other countries and also puts a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States, had already "impacted several in our community."
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