– Then-immigration minister Chris Alexander admits that fewer than 200 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since the July 2013 promise, saying the UNHCR was slow passing on referrals.
Advertisement
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government recently extended its year-end target to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees until the end of February.
As well as the 160 being transported to Canada by government plane, since November 4, 416 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada in small groups on commercial aircraft.
– The Liberals say they’ll bring in 25,000 government-assisted refugees as soon as possible and encourage the private sector to take in more.
McCallum said about 800 refugees are being screened by security and health officers each day in Lebanon and Jordan.
With security concerns, immigration paperwork and the flight’s late-night arrival, most sponsors and family members will not be able to meet the refugees at the airport, but the government has arranged for the refugees to stay overnight at nearby hotels, Garboushian-Katrjian said. Some US governors said their states would not accept Syrian refugees.
But the government still hasn’t followed through on its election promise to reverse health cuts to refugee care made under the previous government three years ago.
There are two categories of refugees that will make their way to the island: government sponsored and privately sponsored.
Wutzke said it would mainly be families that would settle in Vernon.
“Resettling refugees demonstrates our commitment to Canadians and to the world that Canada understands that we can and must do more”, he said. So authorities are taking a little bit more time to process refugees.
“We’re happy that they’re coming”, an exhausted-sounding Mr. Mirakian said by phone from his home.
“If you start involving indigenous peoples in the development and design of any major operation from start to finish, that’s the way to go”, he said in an interview.
Canada is preparing to welcome its first batch of Syrian refugees as the U.S. debates the issue.
“Canada has been so welcoming, the US doesn’t seem like that”. “I think we all feel empathetic to them, these are people that were just like us and now they’ve lost everything”.
Air Canada has informed the Canadian government that it would help bring refugees to the country.
Number of Syrians the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has registered as refugees from the Syrian war. “And all of the refugees from both Jordan and Lebanon will fly from Amman, Jordan to either Toronto or Montreal”.
Advertisement
Applications to sponsor Syrian refugees have been pouring in since early September, when a photo appeared of a lifeless 3-year-old boy whose body had been swept ashore at a Turkish beach.
