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Tuesday 01 Mar 2016 - 17:22 Makkah mean time-21-5-1437
Toronto, (IINA) - Canada’s immigration minister announced on Monday that the country has reached a significant milestone with the arrival of 25,000 Syrian refugees, the Guardian reported.
Immigration Minister John McCallum said that the country would continue to integrate Syrians into the community. McCallum was at Toronto’s Pearson airport as the last two government-arranged refugee flights were arriving as part of the Liberals’ $501 million settlement plan.
The refugee resettlement program was launched in November after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power and promised to bring in 25,000 government-sponsored refugees by the end of 2015 amid an intense debate in the West over what to do with people fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq. Trudeau later pushed back the date by two months.
In the U.S, the Obama administration plans to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees. However, several Republican governors have tried to stop the arrival of Syrian refugees in their states in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris and California.
Canada’s commitment reflects the government’s change after October’s election. The previous Conservative government declined to resettle more Syrian refugees, even after the international community moved to resettle refugees after the haunting image of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, surfaced.
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