Can Canada's queer community sponsor more queer refugees?

I have a new piece up on Xtra.ca today, which takes a look at the capacity of queer groups across the country to assist in private sponsorship. While I filed it a couple of weeks ago, and it didn't get posted until today, the timing was great because of an editorial at the Globe and Mail on the very issue. It says that the community should step up, and my piece now shows that the issue is capacity.

It does seem that I've become somewhat of an unofficial expert in refugee policy in Canada thanks to all of the coverage I've been doing on the various aspects of the issue, and I'm glad that I was able to build on that to do a substantive piece like this one on the issue.