Syrian refugees begin to arrive in Canada at Pearson International Airport in Mississauga on Dec, 10, 2015.
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In the midst of Canada’s first efforts to resettle Syrian refugees into the country, Canada’s children are sending in heartwarming video messages to welcome their new neighbors, some of which have been compiled in the video above.
Are the first of 25,000 Syrians to be They arrived in Toronto.
The government said earlier this week that more than 11,000 refugees’ applications had been processed, and that chartered civilian flights would be used for most of the airlift.
“They step off the plane as refugees, but they walk out of this terminal as permanent residents of Canada with social insurance numbers, with health cards and with an opportunity to become full Canadians”, Trudeau said in an Associated Press article.
His department’s website (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/milestones.asp) said that as of December 3, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 8,554 Syrians to Canadian officials for interviews.
Former Canadian Cabinet minister Perrin Beatty remembers when he was part of a government that accepted more than 60,000 refugees who fled the Vietnam War for Canada in 1979 and 1980.
There were questions at the daily White House press briefing about Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim-visitors ban.
The country’s Immigration Minister, John McCallum, informed that all of Canada’s 10 provinces approved the measure to accept refugees.
Air Canada has informed the Canadian government that it would help bring refugees to the country.
McCallum urges others to do what they can to make the refugees welcome.
This morning CN Rail announced it was donating $5 million toward refugee resettlement with the money focused on housing.
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In the meantime, Canada welcomed its first arrival of Syrian refugees yesterday, reports the BBC.
