Immigration Minister John McCallum and Government

election campaign: Immigration Minister John McCallum has now announced that the government cannot meet that deadline and it has been moved back, according to Rabble. That is sensible but it also represents a sleight of hand. In the 2015 election campaign, the Liberals rashly promised to provide for 25,000 government-sponsored refugees by December 31, 2015. Revised plan The revised plan is for Ottawa to sponsor 15,000 Syrians by March 1, 2016 and to rely on private sponsorships, including faith groups, for the remaining 10,000. That means it will take the Liberals 15 months to accomplish what they promised to do in three in terms of sponsoring Syrians. McCallum has also promised an additional 10,000 government sponsorships by the end of 2016. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.