Immigration Minister John McCallum said Wednesday that once refugees arrive in either Toronto or Montreal, they will be transferred to a resettlement assistance centre in one of 36 cities across the country.
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But officials are still hopeful the federal government can hit its amended target of bringing in 10,000 by the end of the year, with another 15,000 following in the early months of 2016.
The agency has been in charge of facilitating the movement of millions of migrants, including refugees, for 60 years and Canada is among its major partners.
“Not all of our families are Syrian, we’re working with Syrian and Iraqi families”.
Young, wealthy Canadians from Atlantic Canada were the most optimistic that refugees would have a positive impact.
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“It’s urgent in the sense it sends a good positive signal to others that if Canada can do it, perhaps they should look at also following suit in that sense”.
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“We are processing people at the rate of 400 per day, so that’s 800 per day if you combine the two countries”, said McCallum.
Sammer Mian helped ready a home for Syrian refugees in Milton.
Ghalib Baten, Imam of the Milton chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama, said members offered “amazing” support for a plan to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees.
Together, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon are hosting close to 3 million of the 4.28 million UN-registered refugees who have fled Syria since the war began there in 2011.
The removal of the funding cap, which was imposed originally to keep transfer payments in line with inflation, has been at the top of the First Nations wish list for years. “The Koran specifically also says that if someone requests refuge, it’s incumbent upon you to give them refuge”. While the UNHCR is not a registered Canadian charity, because it’s a United Nations agency, your donations are still tax receipted.
Ms Bennett said they would “apply what budget it will take to do it right”.
Resettlement is a arduous and time-consuming process for both the newcomers and those organizing the transition.
An announcement about the timing of the first arrivals of planeloads of Syrian refugees could come within hours. States don’t have the authority to close their borders to refugees, but they can make placement of the refugees hard by withholding services.
McCallum said in November that the government would “expeditiously” reinstate full health care for refugees, a service that suffered drastic cuts under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
Amanda Cheung, the IWC’s special refugee initiative co-ordinator, says their group is following a co-sponsor model and are matching private sponsorship groups with candidate refugee families that have links to Hamilton.
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“We will ensure that after their first arrival that we have transportation available and that we assist them to where they are going to be going next in their journey in Canada, but we want to make sure that their first arrival in Canada is one where they feel very welcome”, she said.
