Trudeau’s Liberal government is committed settling 10,000 Syrian refugees by the year’s end and another 15,000 by the end of February.
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McCallum said the government still expects to meet its overall goal of resettling 25,000 refugees well before the end of February. “That is to say, before the end of February, 25,000 Syrian refugees will have landed in Canada as permanent residents”.
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While the Liberals announced in their election platform they would assign additional government resources to process Syrian refugees, that was on the assumption of 25,000 arriving by the end of 2015, not 50,000 by the end of 2016.
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President Barack Obama has pledged to take in 10,000 Syrians over the course of this fiscal year, and many American states – apparently fearing Islamist extremists will be hiding amid the refugee flow – have said they do not want them. There will be no flights landing on Christmas Day, McCallum confirmed, but some may be taking off to begin their journey to Canada.
McCallum told several of his provincial counterparts earlier this month that Canada hoped to bring in more refugees later in 2016.
Mr. McCallum said the government is “moving heaven and earth” to bring in as many refugees as quickly as possible, rejecting the argument that he was “playing politics with people’s lives” by making unrealistic promises to refugees. McCallum held talks with both the Lebanese and Jordanian governments in which he reaffirmed Ottawa’s support for assisting and resettling refugees.
As of December 21, 1,869 refugees had landed with five more flights appearing on the public schedule that are set to land between today and December 31. “And once the wave builds to maximum level, large numbers of refugees are able to fly across the ocean to Canada”.
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A week ago, the government promised a flurry of flights in the last 10 days of the year, but the expected tempo of two or three planeloads of refugees a day out of Jordan and Lebanon has not materialized.
