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: Qablan, 36, along with his wife, Dalia, and their boys, aged 11 years to two months old, received a phone call on Monday morning, informing them that they were selected to resettle to Canada, according to CBC. Their flight is scheduled to leave Thursday for Toronto. "The news spread through our house like a fire! My children are so excited," Qablan told CBC News. "We were waiting and we hadn't heard, but when they called and surprised me, I was so excited and so happy." John McCallum makes surprise visit to Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon'Colossal effort' underway to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year end Provincial support exceeds Canada Syrian refugee target: immigration minister With 10 days remaining to meet the Liberal government self-imposed deadline of bringing the first 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada, there still a long way to go. Mohamed Qablan says he doesn't want to bring too much from his old life in Syria, but he does want his three boys to have a few reminders of where they came from. "We're not taking a lot, just a few things so we can have a few memories," he said. Ottawa says 1,409 Syrians have been resettled, according the latest figures from December 19. But a shaky security situation in southern Turkey has slowed Canada efforts to resettle Syrians sheltering there, despite the fact that Turkey is host to the largest number of refugees, approximately 2.2 million. Charter flights have been moving Syrian refugees to Toronto and Montreal from both Beirut, Lebanon, and Amman, Jordan, where Canadian officials report they're making good progress on processing hundreds of cases a day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.