Conservative Government and International Crises

Syrian Refugee Crisis: Some of that will be covered this year by $16.6 million announced by the previous Conservative government during the election and $100 million coming out of an existing pool of funds to respond to international crises. The document, called "Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rapid Resettlement of 25,000 Syrians Funding Table," says $1.1 billion in new money will be required between now and 2021, according to Huffington Post Canada. No comment from Immigration The document says six government departments will require funds to handle the program, including Immigration, which would need $528.4 million this year and Defence, which requires $98.7 million. A government document obtained by The Canadian Press that lays out the proposed funding model says $876.7 million would be needed in 2015-2016 alone. What not clear from the funding model is how much of the money is connected to the year-end target to bring in that many Syrians in total and how much to the Liberal promise that the government itself would settle that many over a longer time period. The Liberal platform only earmarked $100 million for refugee resettlement this year, in addition to $100 million for the United Nations refugee agency, which is co-ordinating global resettlement efforts. The Immigration department would not provide any detail. "We don't comment on leaked documents," a spokesman for the department told The Canadian Press in an e-mail. "Once final decisions are made, the Government of Canada will provide more details." Election promise The federal government has yet to formally reveal the specifics of the plan to meet the Dec. 31 target of resettling 25,000 people, a commitment made during the election campaign. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.