Sean Kilpatrick and Minister John McCallum

government plans: The minister is telling a Commons committee that the remaining two per cent should be housed by mid-June, according to Brandon Sun. 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. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA - Immigration Minister John McCallum says 98 per cent of government-sponsored Syrian refugees have now found permanent housing. 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.