Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made world headlines this week when he called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the USA, and Beatty said that Trump’s “rancid” remarks would “drive Canadians in the other direction” to be more welcoming of Syrian refugees.
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“Canada has been so welcoming”. But that is behind you now.
25,000: Refugees the Liberal government has committed to bringing to Canada by the end of February 2016.
“To us on the outside, [it] seemed inexcusable and unexplainable, and we welcome the fresh wind that appears to be blowing through”, she said.
“This is a wonderful night, where we get to show not just a planeload of new Canadians what Canada is all about, we get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome in people who are fleeing extraordinarily hard situations”, Trudeau told airport workers and volunteers standing by to meet the refugees. Canada’s government debt is approaching $1.3 billion with interest accumulating at a very frightening rate.
– The Conservatives pledge that if re-elected, they will allow a further 10,000 Syrians in over the next four years, continuing a focus on those being persecuted because of religion.
The eldest Khabbaz and his wife have three children, two of them teenagers, according to their sponsors. It is a humanitarian crisis of monumental proportions, one which Canada has a responsibility to act on as quickly as possible. The Canadian government will provide health care, travel expenses and language classes. Alan Kurdi’s parents had applied to Canada for asylum, but the request was turned down.
Initially, the promise was to bring all of them in by year’s end, but the government was forced to spread the commitment over a longer time period because of the logistics. Churches, universities and whole communities have been pitching in to help raise money, and find housing and employment for the refugees.
But it backpedaled last month, citing logistical issues and following criticism that Ottawa had been moving too fast, amid security concerns heightened by the deadly terror attacks in Paris.
United Nations bodies working with refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon and eastern Europe are running out of money, making camp conditions harsher.
Those who will be considered refugees include families, women deemed to be at risk, and gay men and women. Those files were transferred to nearby countries, leaving visa officers scrambling to handle them and the start of a surge in Syrian refugee applications.
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The Etobicoke-based registered charity is the primary agency providing furniture to Syrian refugees who will resettle in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) between now and February.
