As part of its resettlement program, Canada plans to double its intake of refugees to 50,000 by the end of next year, Canada’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship John McCallum said on Sunday.
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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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During his journey, McCallum saw off the first refugee flight out of Amman to Toronto on December 20, after earlier meeting with refugee families in both Lebanon and Jordan, who are hoping for a new life in Canada.
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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.
That means almost 1,000 refugees per day would need to arrive in Canada between now and December 31 to meet the government’s target.
During his two-day unannounced stop in Jordan, McCallum also visited development projects and refugee centers in the area, the newspaper reports.
The press conference also let McCallum play Santa Claus to the resettlement agencies to help them prepare for those who have yet to arrive, promising $15 million out of the $678 million over six years already set aside to bring the Syrian refugees to Canada.
According to the most recent statistics from the Canadian government, 1,186 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since November 4.
“The effects (of the refugee crisis) will continue in 2016 to have a major impact on the political agenda in Europe and the world”, said Gilles Carignan, vice-president of information and assistant editor of Le Soleil.
“Our fundamental target will be hit”, McCallum said.
That deadline was pushed back to the end of February last month.
McCallum held talks with both the Lebanese and Jordanian governments in which he reaffirmed Ottawa’s support for assisting and resettling refugees.
Why the February target is still feasible is because of the amount of time between now and then, McCallum said.
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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.
