Absolutely.
I'll point to the number I mentioned: 400 Canadian communities have engaged in sponsorship coast to coast just in the last two and a half years. By contrast, our government-assisted refugees have been resettled to about 32 cities across the country. They go to the major urban centres.
One of the things sponsorship lets us do is diversify the range of communities that can support refugees because they're not as dependent on professionalized services. You don't need a language school as long as your group comes up with some plan to teach language. You can be very creative in what that looks like. The government has to be satisfied that it's a responsible plan, but it's not contingent on a big language school in downtown Toronto, for example.
It addresses, also, that need—not only in Canada; Australia's very serious about this model for the same reasons—to try to deal with depopulation of rural communities, and there are lots of success stories in Canada.