Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is saying it may admit up to 50,000 Syrian refugees into Canada by the end of 2016.
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The way the Syrian refugee crisis galvanized Canadians prompted news editors across the country to select it as Canada’s news story of the year for 2015.
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In addition to Allouch, it said the airstrike killed “a large number of commanders of Ahrar al-Sham and Faylaq al-Rahman”. Government supporters also celebrated his death, blaming his group for regularly shelling residential areas in Damascus.
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.
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Nonetheless, he said he was “very confident” that 10,000 or more refugees will be processed as permanent residents by the end of the year and that 25,000 refugees would be in Canada before the end of February.
Canada has vowed to double its intake of Syrian refugees next year.
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.
The disclosure cast doubt over whether Ottawa will be able to meet its goal of resettling 25,000 by February 29, despite assurances by the minister.
Not including Wednesday morning’s arrivals, the total number of landed refugees as of this week was 1,869.
Of those refugees already here, McCallum said 339 are government-assisted refugees, 1,297 are privately sponsored refugees and 233 were “blended” cases.
During his two-day stop in Jordan, Mr McCallum visited development projects and refugee centres.
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.
That is why we believe it is vital that, aside from welcoming refugees, Canada participates fully in both military and diplomatic solutions to end the conflict.
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The UN refugee agency, the Jordanian government and the International Organization for Migration will be helping to speed up the vetting process, he said.
