Now, the country is planning to double that number by the end of 2016, according to the country’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship John McCallum.
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Those factors include inclement flying weather, refugees wanting to say good by to friends and family before leaving and other circumstances. A plane was in the air on Wednesday morning with 298 Syrians bound for Montreal, McCallum said.
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However, McCallum said he is “confident” that Ottawa will meet its overall target to resettle refugees “well before” the end of February.
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The government has promised to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February with the first 10,000 to have landed by year end.
As of December 21, 2,393 refugees, who haven’t yet travelled to Canada, have had their applications processed.
“It starts slow and it builds up”.
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. The majority of them – 1,297 are privately sponsored refugees, which means they have been sponsored either by family members in Canada or private organizations, community groups, churches and mosques.
In his briefing, McCallum said that public servants in Lebanon and Jordan are working to “hit the target that we set”.
It did so after listening to the widespread concerns of Canadians about proper security vetting and whether government and private agencies and individuals sponsoring refugees would be ready to integrate them into Canada successfully in such a short time frame. By the end of February, 25,000 Syrians in total will be resettled in Canada.
“Certain days there will be one flight, other days there will be two or even three”.
There is a flight scheduled to leave the Middle East on Christmas Day and land in Canada on Boxing Day, with there is capacity to bring up to five flights a day before New Year’s Eve.
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Finally, we agree with the point former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper made during the election campaign, that we can not solve the Syrian refugee crisis through immigration and refugee policy alone.
