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Justin Trudeau and Liberal Party

logistical challenges: The election winner, Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party, outlined the most ambitious agenda, to bring 25,000 refugees to Canada by year end, according to Hamilton Spectator. Trudeau has extended the deadline eight weeks out of prudence over the logistical challenges. In Canada election campaign, rivals responded with pledges to accelerate their resettlement. It is a small adjustment to a generous response that serves as a rebuke to the senseless xenophobia heard lately in the United States, and that should serve as a model. A timeline published by the government shows an amazing parade of beneficiaries: waves of Poles, Italians, Jews and Ukrainians in the first half of the last century; a quarter-million displaced persons from Europe fleeing Nazis and Communists in the Second World War; 37,000 Hungarians in 1956; 11,000 from Czechoslovakia in 1968 and 1969, fleeing the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion; 60,000 boat people from Vietnam; and Kosovars, Bhutanese and others in more recent years. Canada has long welcomed refugees and immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.