John McCallum, minister of immigration and citizenship, made the announcement when visiting Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan who were preparing to head to Canada.
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“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 31st”, McCallum said in a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.
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However, even if the Liberal government doubles Canada’s Syrian refugee intake to 50,000, they will remain just a tiny fraction of almost 4.4 million refugees who have fled their country’s civil war since it began in March 2011.
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During the election campaign that brought him to power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised that a Liberal government would bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada before the end of 2015.
He says the government still expects to meet its overall goal of resettling 25,000 refugees well before the end of February.
The first flight dedicated to resettling Syrians from Lebanon landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport late on December 10 with 163 people on board.
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.
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.
As of Monday, 1,869 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since early November, according to the government. McCallum held talks with both the Lebanese and Jordanian governments in which he reaffirmed Ottawa’s support for assisting and resettling refugees.
“That certainly remains our target, we are working day and night to achieve it. But there are certain factors outside our control”, McCallum told reporters during a briefing on the Syrian refugee effort.
During his two-day unannounced stop in Jordan, McCallum also visited development projects and refugee centers in the area, the newspaper reports.
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McCallum said the girl and her brothers weren’t able to come to Canada at this time, but thousands more will.
