Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Central Neighbourhood House

Liberal campaign platform: Initially, they said they would bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of 2015 under the government-assisted refugee program that sees the government take on the full cost of a person resettlement for a full year, according to CBC. The Liberal campaign platform said they would work with private sponsors to do even more. It not what the Liberals promised during the campaign. Finance Minister Bill Morneau says hello to three siblings from Syria at Central Neighbourhood House, a Syrian refugee welcome centre in Toronto on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. They then set a new target of resettling 25,000 people in total by the end of February 2016 2. But under the formal plan rolled out after they took office, they pushed back the deadline to resettle that many government-assisted refugees to the end of 2016. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.