John McCallum and Minister of Immigration

Syrian refugees: The Liberal government was aiming to settle 10,000 refugees in the country by Dec. 31, but McCallum said he now expects to meet that goal by mid-January, according to CTV. He also said that, by the end of the business day Thursday, 10,700 refugees will have been fully processed and screened to come to Canada. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship John McCallum announced the latest numbers in Toronto on Thursday morning, stressing that Canadians should be proud of the humanitarian resettlement effort so far. The government still expects to settle an additional 15,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February, McCallum added, for a total of 25,000 since the Liberals took office. On Thursday, the minister stressed that 25,000 refugees have already been identified to come to Canada. Ahead of the October election, the Liberals had campaigned on a promise to settle 25,000 refugees by year end. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.