If he is re-elected this fall, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is promising to provide support for a new three-year, nine-million dollar program to support persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East. Harper says the program will also support organizations working to protect places of worship and religious artifacts that Islamic State militants are threatening to destroy. (Harper says a re-elected Conservative government will continue to champion religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities as a pillar of Canadian foreign policy.)

Date: 2015-08-10
Placeline: MARKHAM, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 14 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << also over the next 4 years in terms of religious minorities who are facing persecution and death at the hands of Isis we will also be accepting 10,000 additional refugees from Iraq and Syria >>

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