Health Minister Jane Philpott and Flight

Minister Harijit Singh Saj: A detailed schedule of the next set of flights is to be released early next week, officials said Wednesday, according to Huffington Post Canada. An average of two flights a day is expected, though some days could see none or potentially as many as four. The next flight, a chartered plane from Beirut expected to be carrying mostly government-assisted refugees, is set to arrive Friday in Toronto. Most are expected to be private charters, though military planes remain on standby. a total of 25,000 are to be here by the end of February. Some people have been turned away, but officials could not provide a number. What started out as a program capable of only handling a few hundred applications a week is now processing upwards of 800 files a day, with nearly 13,000 people referred for interviews to determine whether they are admissible. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.