Government Information and Canada

private applications: The Liberal refugee resettlement program aims to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of next month, and the original plan was for about 10,000 of them to be sponsored privately, according to Toronto Star. Newly released government information shows that, by the middle of last December, the government didn’t have many private applications in hand. But it remains an open question just how many privately sponsored Syrian refugees Canada will end up accepting. Data tabled in the House of Commons in response to a question from the NDP shows that between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 15, 2015, applications were submitted to sponsor 8,214 people. The ensuing national debate, on whether Canada was doing enough, drew many Canadians to the government private sponsorship program. There was a spike of 551 applications last October, one month after a photograph of a dead Syrian child shone a spotlight on the plight of the 4.6 million people seeking refugee from the violence in Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.