“We know the welcome and integration of refugees is a highly complex and multifaceted process, and this initiative is one modest piece of much broader collective and national efforts”, said Simon Brault, the director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, in a press release.
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He also said that the defamation suits would not scare him from his path and his fight against corruption would continue. What compounded the crisis for Jaitley and his party was the attack by BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad on the issue.
Trudeau’s pledge stands in stark contrast to the attitude of some in USA, where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a worldwide uproar with a proposal to temporarily block Muslims from entering the U.S.
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All the Syrians to be resettled in Canada will have been chosen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Trudeau’s government will settle 10,000 refugees by the end of the month, and another 15,000 by February.
“Welcome to your new home”, Canada’s Prime Minister told her and her family as they were surrounded by government workers and volunteers who seemed almost as excited to see them as they were to finally make it Canada.
Roughly 600 Syrians from refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon will arrive by plane in Canada this evening.
In a video (above) that has since gone viral, Prime Minister Trudeau chats with a family through a translator before handing them jackets to stay warm for winter.
Another flight carrying Syrian refugees will land in Montreal on Saturday.
Trudeau was eagerly waiting at the airport to welcome the “new Canadians”.
“Canada has been so welcoming”.
Toronto’s mayor tweeted a welcome, while the Toronto Star, the country’s largest newspaper, covered its front page with a “Welcome to Canada” banner headline in English and Arabic, along with an article explaining Canadian weather, ice hockey and slang.
Their first full day in their new country will end on a typically Canadian note: a Raptors game in Toronto, added Youssef.
That promise helped sweep him to power in October’s election. Many also expressed pride in how the country was opening its doors to the refugees. It airlifted more than 5,000 people from Kosovo in the late 1990s, more than 5,000 from Uganda in 1972 and resettled 60,000 Vietnamese in 1979-1980.
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He suggests dozens more planeloads of refugees will arrive in the next few weeks to meet the target.
