A deal where we reduce immigration but ask people to sponsor as some sort of civic duty.
I'd suggest changing ask to allow, and remove any mention of "civic duty".
The Canadian government didn't go out and ask families to take refugees into their homes -- Canadians applied for permission to take refugees into their homes. And wasn't a trivial process; the vetting of refugee sponsors was probably more detailed than the vetting of the refugees themselves, since the government wanted to make sure that sponsors were going to be able to take care of the refugees and were not going to try to exploit them.
Even with the arduous process for groups to apply to sponsor refugees, the Canadian government had more applicants than their target number of refugees.
I'd suggest changing ask to allow, and remove any mention of "civic duty".
The Canadian government didn't go out and ask families to take refugees into their homes -- Canadians applied for permission to take refugees into their homes. And wasn't a trivial process; the vetting of refugee sponsors was probably more detailed than the vetting of the refugees themselves, since the government wanted to make sure that sponsors were going to be able to take care of the refugees and were not going to try to exploit them.
Even with the arduous process for groups to apply to sponsor refugees, the Canadian government had more applicants than their target number of refugees.