Canada Immigration Refugee Board and Peter Showler

passport: It has not been determined if the passport is authentic or a forgery, according to CTV. Greek officials said the man linked to the passport entered the country through Leros in October. Peter Showler, the former chair of Canada Immigration and Refugee Board, says there a big distinction between refugees resettling in Canada and the hundreds of thousands of displaced people streaming into Europe. "There a vast difference between the outpouring of 700,000 refugees pouring into Europe with no security screens, and the kind of security screens that are in place for every refugee that is resettled from the Middle East," he told CTV Canada AM. Concerns over the refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria are ramping up, after a Syrian passport was found lying close to the body of a suicide bomber in the deadly Paris attacks. Leros is one of the islands used as a gateway to Europe by refugees fleeing the violence in Syria and Iraq. In a statement to CTV News on Monday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum said that "effective security screening has always been paramount" in the government refugee resettlement plan. "The government is committed to a rigorous, balanced and compassionate response to this humanitarian crisis," said McCallum. "This operation will be done without compromising security," he added. The Liberal government says it is still planning to resettle 25,000 refugees in Canada before the end of the year, despite calls from the Official Opposition to adjust the timeline. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.