House of Commons and Minister John McCallum

question period: He says the government plans to bring in 25,000 government-sponsored refugees from Syria this year and is well on its way to that goal, according to Huffington Post Canada. Immigration Minister John McCallum responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Thursday, March 24, 2016. The minister is telling a Commons committee that the remaining two per cent should be housed by mid-June. That on top of the 25,000 brought in by the end of February in a mix of sponsorships. He says challenges remain in the fields of language training and jobs, but resettlement efforts are proceeding. McCallum says 17,300 of this year 25,000 government-sponsored refugees have already arrived and the remainder will be here by the end of December. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.