One week ago, federal officials said they were optimistic that the objective of bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year would be met.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vouched during the election campaigns that brought him to power that the Liberal government would resettle 25,000 refugees in Canada by the end of 2015.
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Mr. McCallum said that a total of 10,000 refugees will have been processed and awarded permanent-resident status by the end of the year, although he could not promise that all of them will have travelled to Canada by that point.
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McCallum also said that he hopes to engage with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Jordanian government, as well as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist the Canadian government further with the screening process.
Together, Montreal and Toronto’s airports can support up to five 300-passenger flights a day, but McCallum says it’s impossible to predict what the day-to-day schedule will be over the next few days.
McCallum blamed delays on inclement flying weather, refugees wanting to say goodbye to friends and families, and other circumstances beyond the government’s control.
However, McCallum said he is “confident” that Ottawa will meet its overall target to resettle refugees “well before” the end of February. Once the plane lands, the government will have succeeded in bringing in slightly more than 2,000 refugees since November 4.
“This is like a wave, it starts slow and it builds up”, McCallum said.
President Barack Obama has pledged to take in 10,000 Syrians over the course of this fiscal year, and many American states – apparently fearing Islamist extremists will be hiding amid the refugee flow – have said they do not want them.
As of December 21, 1,869 refugees had landed in Canada, with three more flights scheduled between Wednesday and New Year’s Eve. “This reaffirms for me Canada must do its part to urgently resettle some of these Syrian refugees to Canada”, said McCallum. As of December 20, 1,608 have landed.
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Most of the 298 refugees on the Montreal-bound flight are privately sponsored and destined for resettlement in Quebec, Edlund added.
