“CN will join with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and other business leaders to direct funds to assist the needs of refugees”, says CN board Chairman Robert Pace. America’s population is more than nine times the size of Canada’s, making that a much smaller commitment than Canada’s in per capita terms.
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There’s a ton of worldwide news coverage today of Canada’s prime minister welcoming Syrian refugees to the country.
All of the Syrians on board are sponsored by private groups, many of whom had filed the necessary paperwork months ago in order to bring in some of the estimated 4.3 million Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war in that country.
The country’s Immigration Minister, John McCallum, informed that all of Canada’s 10 provinces approved the measure to accept refugees. The first family was Kevork Jamkossian, a blacksmith from Aleppo; his wife, Georgina Zires, a sales clerk; and their 16-month-old daughter, Madeleine. “You are home”, Trudeau said, according to the New York Times.
“You are home”, Trudeau said.
About 800 of them are being screened by health and security officials daily in Jordan and Lebanon, before they can be transported to Canada. A handful of people gathered at the worldwide arrivals gate at Pearson airport bearing signs and gifts.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump caused a worldwide furor with a proposal to temporarily halt Muslims from entering the U.S.
Are the first of 25,000 Syrians to be They arrived in Toronto.
Canada has long prided itself on opening its doors to asylum-seekers.
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Watch this heart warming video where Canadian children send out a message to the refugees.
