BAGHDAD, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A Canadian delegation opposed to U.N. sanctions against Iraq, led by a member of parliament, is visiting the country to assess their effects on the ground, a member of the group said on Thursday.

"Our group is against this Canadian policy and we want to change it, and one way of trying to change it is to be witness to what is happening and to report back," Raymond Legault said.

"We have been reading reports about children dying from the embargo and lack of medicine and the lack of school supplies and we want to see how it is really on the ground," said Legault, of the Montreal-based group "Voices of Conscience."

"We got a lot of input about what is going here. It is very easy to see that there is no money to repair cars, there is no money to repair buildings, there are few resources compared to the situation before the war and the sanctions."

The nine-member group is led by MP Svend Robinson of the New Democratic Party, and the President of the Quebec Federation of Women, Francoise David.

Last November, Canadian government officials held talks in Baghdad to urge Iraq to accept a United Nations Security Council resolution to end a stand-off over arms inspections.

Canada supports the idea of keeping the sanctions in place until Iraq complies with all Security Council resolutions.