First United Church and Refugee Family

Justin Trudeau: Every inch of the home on Westcourt Place has been scrubbed clean, painted and furnished by a group from First United Church, who agreed last November that they would host a refugee family here, according to The Waterloo Record. But this townhouse has sat empty for months. There lentil soup ready in the freezer, an infant car seat in the living room, and handmade quilts on the beds. The refugee family from Syria — a farmer, his wife and five children, who live in a refugee camp in Turkey — has been cleared to arrive. It appears to have run out of steam, after fulfilling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ambitious election promise to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees here earlier this year. Yet, despite the desperate need of refugee families to come to Canada, and despite the enormous generosity of groups like the one that prepared this home in Waterloo, the Canadian government is now processing only a trickle of refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.