It was announced Wednesday afternoon that the first government airlift of Syrian refugees would arrive Thursday night. Many groups don’t necessarily have the resources to process large amounts of clothes that may or may not fit or suit the refugees they are welcoming to the country.
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In the wake of the Paris attacks that killed 130, the Trudeau government has slowed – but not discarded – the refugee policy that originally planned to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by January 1, 2016.
Two Canadian government flights carrying the refugees will reach Toronto today and Montreal two days later, Trudeau said.
His department’s website said that as of 3 December, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 8,554 Syrians to Canadian officials for interviews.
– Canada closes its embassy in Damascus, a move that would come to have major repercussions for refugee resettlement out of the Middle East as that visa post handled the majority of the files for refugees from other countries who had sought temporary safety in Syria.
They will be greeted at Pearson International Airport in Toronto by none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The refugees will be a mix of government- and privately sponsored people.
Malik and her husband are part of several families to join forces to sponsor Syrian refugees through a Muslim community group – the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at.
Most Canadians hoping to welcome their first Syrian refugees to their community will have to wait a little longer.
Registered refugees living in Lebanon.
These responses are in marked contrast to the “politics of fear” that characterizes mainstream media’s depiction of Canadian responses to the arrival of Syrian refugees.
The debate in Canada over the acceptance of refugees echoes what’s happening in much of the Western world, where the desire to satisfy the humanitarian instinct clashes with concerns over security-especially in the wake of the attacks in Paris and elsewhere, and fears over the dangers the refugees may pose.
You can follow in the footsteps of great Canadians who started out as refugees.
“I want to re-emphasize that we have fully restored the interim federal health program for our Syrian refugees… both the basic benefits and the supplementary benefits will be available to all of them”, he said.
To meet the 25,000 goal, about 10,000 would be those who have private sponsors at the ready and in many cases, those files were already in the immigration system because of the previous Conservative commitments.
They later went further, saying they’d bring in that many people by the end of this year.
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12,538: Refugee resettlement applications in progress.
