Trudeau Says Canada Ready to Settle 25,000 Syrian Refugees
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Canada's new prime minister Thursday vowed to make good on campaign promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the beginning of next year and bring home fighter jets battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
In his first interview since taking office on Wednesday, Justin Trudeau told the Radio-Canada network: "The goal is still to have 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada before January 1."
Several government ministries have been mobilized to achieve this goal in such a short time, Trudeau said, adding the federal government would have to work closely with Canada's provinces and municipalities.
The refugees must be given ways to support their families once they reach Canada so they can benefit their community and the country as a whole, just like the "waves of immigrants and refugees that did so earlier," Trudeau said.
He also said his defense minister, Harjit Sajjan, was working to bring home Canadian warplanes from the fight against IS in Iraq and Syria.
Canada last year deployed CF-18 fighter jets to the region until March 2016, as well as about 70 special forces troops to train Kurds in northern Iraq.
During the campaign, Trudeau pledged to end Canada's combat mission in the region, but he vowed to keep the military trainers in place.
The fighter jets will be brought home quickly in a "responsible" manner that is "respectful of our allies," Trudeau said, adding that Sajjan will "look at different options to ensure that we keep our promise" to stop the bombing.
Canada's allies "understand very well that this government was elected on a clear mandate to end the strikes," Trudeau said.
Aside from bringing in refugees, Canada will provide humanitarian aid in the region and focus its military mission on training friendly forces instead of fighting, Trudeau said, emphasizing his country remained "committed to the fight against the IS."
06 November 2015, 14:39
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At least they are thinking of syrians not like your wahabizzz who claims freedom & democracy (as if their country is the ideal in democracy n freedom) for syrians n have kms of empty lands to create shelters for them in these moments of crisis ;)
06 November 2015, 16:02
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Canada per capita has accepted the most in the world! So YES, laud their generosity! How many have the richest neighbour, the defender of sunni arabs in the middle east, Saudi Arabia taken as citizens? Not refugees or legal workers, but citizens? Not just Saudi Arabia but the rest of the satellite Gulf nations? Western Europe, Canada and Australia are not accepting refugees to squat temporarily on their land... they are accepting refugees to be citizens to live in their countries!
Pajama boy... you should know better considering your famous attempts to assimilate! Why not assimilate in Saudi Arabia? Which would be more difficult for you as a Lebanese, assimilating in Saudi Arabia or Europe?
06 November 2015, 16:06
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# per capita when comparing their acceptance of all refugees over the past few years (not just during this crisis). Remember, that Canada is at the other end of the Earth and are not being forced to accept refugees that have already arrived!
06 November 2015, 16:28
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Pajama boy... Yes Lebanon per capita, has the most refugees in the country. Almost 2 million Syrian, Palestinians and Iraqi, in a land of 4 million! Ya Pajama boy, i know exactly the effects that foreign refugees have had on our nation! It was the cause of the civil war in 1975. Refugees have ruined Lebanon and the Lebanese have been made to look like mean, unwelcoming racists by the worlds media which we are anything but! My village home currently shelters Syrian refugees! What have you done ya pyjama? You question if I'm Lebanese? What have you contributed to Lebanon or the refugees in Lebanon?
I comment on refugees that are accepted as citizens! NO refugee in Lebanon becomes a citizen (we simply cant afford to look after lebanese let alone foreign refugees)! I commented on Canada and the other nations accepting refugees as their citizens that they accept as their own... giving them social services like free health and education and unemployment benefits!
06 November 2015, 16:35
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what have you contributed to Lebanon over the past 15 years? I live in Australia and I still pay rates, electricity and water in Lebanon! I financially contribute to my family in Lebanon and more in investment! What do you do as you try to assimilate?
