Syrian Refugees and Federal Government

Ontario New Brunswick: The government is actively looking for hotels in Ontario and New Brunswick to temporarily lodge hundreds of refugees, according to CBC. Nearly half of Syrian refugees have not found permanent housingFederal government likely to hit target of 25,000 refugees this week The government says it is now focused on ensuring the refugees are properly resettled into their new communities. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum told a Commons committee Tuesday that 48 per cent of Syrian refugees are still in temporary accommodations, while 52 per cent have found permanent housing. That prompts the question of what Canada needs to do to ensure the refugees are properly provided for We posed that to you: How do we properly provide for Syrian refugees What do the refugees need to ensure a smooth integration You shared your thoughts via CBC Forum, our experiment to encourage a different kind of conversation on our website. Please note that user names are not necessarily the names of commenters. Here some of the most intriguing and thoughtful comments contributed to the discussion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.