Citizenship Immigration Department and Canada

Syrian refugees: After Harper announcement Monday, the Citizenship and Immigration Department suddenly released statistics they previously said would only be available for a $100 fee later this fall, according to Huffington Post Canada. They now say that as of late July, 1,002 people have resettled in Canada as part of the January commitment. Last January, the government promised 10,000 Syrian refugees a home in Canada over the next three years, but had been refusing for weeks to release information on how many have since arrived. The Conservatives have taken political heat for a seemingly slow and political approach to refugee resettlement, beginning with their failure to meet a 2013 commitment to Syrian refugees in the manner or timeline they'd originally laid out. But under questioning from both journalists and opposition MPs, the government revealed it would not meet that goal, releasing data that showed by the end of 2014, only 700 people had arrived. That year, in response to an urgent call for assistance from the United Nations, they agreed to resettle 1,300 people by the end of 2014, with the private sector responsible for 1,100 people and the government itself taking on the cost and logistics of bringing in the remaining 200. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.