Amjad Al Rashdan and Syria

Al Rashdan: They are one small group among thousands who have fled war-torn Syria, and have now found their way to Canada, according to CBC. A comfortable, suburban life Amjad Al Rashdan says life became unbearable in Syria. Liberals say they are 2 weeks away from 10,000 refugee arrivals as year ends "Everything has been perfect," Amjad Al Rashdan told CBC News. "I feel like Syrians and Canadians are brothers, family." There are five in the Al Rashdan family: Amjad, his wife, Ghouson, and the three children, Basel, 10, Shatha, six, and Idress, four. Amjad Al Rashdan said the family once led a wonderful life in a suburb of Damascus. Food and gas were almost unaffordable, travel became slow and difficult. He worked as a veterinarian, restaurant owner, and in food security with the government. "My life was very good," he said through an interpreter. "I had a good position in the Ministry of Agriculture, and I had a restaurant near Damascus." But once the civil war broke out in 2011, he said, life became unbearable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.