Justin Trudeau and Pearson International Airport

refugees from Syria: Justin Trudeau greets a family of refugees from Syria as they arrive at Pearson International airport, in Toronto, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. "There is an element of make believe in all this that keeps the focus on the make believe and not the substance," he said in an interview. "And to what purpose That the thing — they are doing something that the public approves of, according to Huffington Post Canada. And yet the public focus is not going to be on what they are doing but on the manipulation around it." Van Kessel was the director general, refugees, for the immigration department when the Canadian government evacuated 5,000 Kosovars and fast-tracked the resettlement of more than 2,000 others over a period of several months in 1999. Gerry Van Kessel says he frustrated by the game he feels the Liberal government is playing by constantly affixing and changing targets for their Syrian refugee program. Van Kessel said as soon as he, and other former immigration officials, saw the government Syrian plan, they knew bringing over more than three times that number of people in just four months couldn't be done. "It became a political issue for them." What happened since has been nothing but politics, he said. "It became a political issue for them — nervousness around the fact that they are seeing they are not meeting their promise so they keep pretending they are meeting their promise," he said. During the election campaign when refugee policy became an unexpected issue, they pledged that what they would do if elected — "immediately" their platform said and they would work with private sponsors to do even more. Changing promises In March, the Liberals had called for 25,000 Syrians to be brought to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.