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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and February Canada

election campaign: If all goes to plan, the PM will preside over 10,000 entrants before the year end, and 25,000 by the end of February, according to Huffington Post Canada. Canada is being lauded internationally with very little downside and, I may as well be clear, with very little risk to the country itself. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in top form for the occasion, welcoming them with an embrace. "You're home," he said. "Welcome home." It marks a tangible outcome to months of talk and promises that began early in the election campaign. From a PR perspective, it has been a master-class in how to help in a crisis from far away. These initial feelings have carried over as Canada looks set to deliver something that looks a lot like what the Liberals initially held forth during the campaign. Last summer, while almost all western countries -- even Germany, which will end up taking many multiples of Canada number -- were dithering over how many more refugees they could accept, the Liberals made the solid promise of 25,000 by the end of the year. It sounded incredibly generous at the time, it sounded impossibly ambitious -- to many people it sounded impetuous and reckless. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.