Canada’s Immigration Minister John McCallum said on Wednesday that Canada’s plans of bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year may not come to fruition.
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The cause of the delay, he said, included poor flying weather, refugees wanting to say goodbye to family and friends, and other circumstances beyond government control.
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Canada’s recently elected Liberal government campaigned on a promise to accept 25,000 refugees by the end of the year. “The issue is whether all of those 10,000 Syrian refugees will have arrived in Canada will have their feet on Canadian soil by December 31”.
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He said there was a “good chance” that there will be 10,000 refugees by year end, but it wasn’t a guarantee because there were only eight more days to bring some 8,000 refugees into the country.
John McCallum, who was in the Jordanian capital Amman, meeting Syrian families preparing to board flights to Canada, told one family: “Everyone in Canada is waiting to meet you”. McCallum says there will be many, many more flights over the coming days.
McCallum also announced Wednesday the government would provide $15 million to agencies in 23 communities to help provide housing and supplies for arriving refugees.
Three more flights are scheduled by December 31st.
Of the 1,869 Syrian refugees that have arrived in Canada since November 4, 339 are government-assisted, 1,297 are privately sponsored and 233 are part of a blended VISA program, Dawn Edlund of the ministry said at the news conference.
With a week left until the end of the year, a plane carrying 298 refugees on its way to Montreal will push the current total to above 2,000. “I am humbled by their plight and know Canada’s hard work to resettle displaced Syrian refugees as quickly as possible is having a positive and significant impact”, said McCallum.
Mr McCallum also toured development projects and refugee facilities during his two-day visit.
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“The crisis continues to have an enormous social and economic impact on the host countries, with many local, municipal and national services such as health, education and water under severe strain”.
