Interim Accommodation and Minister John McCallum

McCallum: I don’t think the need to spend one or two weeks in interim accommodation will be a devastating experience for them, given what they have come from, McCallum told a news conference Wednesday, according to The Chronicle Herald. That being said, we’ll attempt to make that interim process as quick as possible. Those conditions will still be better than what people have left behind in Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey, where nearly all of the Syrian refugees coming to Canada are living, said Immigration Minister John McCallum. When the resettlement program was rolled out in November, the government said incoming refugees would spend a couple of nights in hotels near the airport before transiting on to their final destinations. Ordinarily, those refugees are welcomed by settlement agencies that run temporary housing facilities, and they stay there for a few weeks before a permanent home is found. For those with private sponsors, there would likely be homes ready but what would happen with government-assisted refugees — those whose costs are covered entirely by government — was always a question mark. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.