HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia government is donating $50,000 to the Syrian refugee relief effort.
Premier Stephen McNeil says the donation will be made to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In a statement, McNeil says he has encouraged other premiers and citizens to provide financial support to the relief effort.
The contribution comes a day after Deputy Premier Diana Whalen said the province had told Ottawa it was willing to accept more refugees, but hadn't heard back.
Whalen says the province indicated to federal officials earlier this summer that it would help.
She says Nova Scotia has the ability to accept more refugees.
The number of refugees allowed into the country became a federal campaign issue with the discovery that a three-year-old Syrian boy whose lifeless body washed ashore in Turkey was trying to get into Canada.
