Tareq Hadhad and Halifax

plane: The moment of my life' The next day, he boarded a plane with another family destined for Yarmouth, according to CBC. He had no idea what to expect when he got off the plane. Tareq Hadhad, 23, arrived in Toronto with a plane full of refugees on a Friday night, the week before Christmas. "At the hotel, the government volunteers told me 'Tareq, your flight will be tomorrow to Halifax.' Actually I wondered, I said, 'What Halifax ' I asked them, 'Is it in Canada '" he said with a laugh. Waiting in the arrivals section was a group of more than 20 people from Antigonish holding signs that said 'welcome' in Arabic. When I saw that view, it was the moment of my life," Hadhad said. "I can't express how this moment and how this touched my heart at the Halifax airport." I'm the celebrity of the town' Hadhad then learned that his new home was a town of 15,000 people — a far cry from the two million who lived in his hometown of Damascus, Syria. He was sponsored by Syrian-Antigonish Families Embrace. "Oh my god. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.