Hamza Ali and Mohammad Ali

Immigration Minister John McCallum: Ali, one of the artists, shook the ministers' hands and explained the concept behind his gripping paintings of women and men struggling with life and the war in Syria, according to Huffington Post Canada. Immigration Minister John McCallum holds a painting Hamza Ali, 13, presented him with as his father Mohammad Ali looks on at an event in Ottawa, Monday June 20, 2016. Hamza Ali, 13, remembers clearly the day last November when a trio of Canadian cabinet ministers trooped into an ad-hoc art gallery set up in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Immigration Minister John McCallum told Ali he was struck by the symbolism of a painting showing a woman carrying a map of Syria on her back up a flight of stairs, a heavy red sky in the background. "Women do all the heavy lifting," McCallum remarked. McCallum didn't have one — until Monday. That painting now hangs in Health Minister Jane Philpott office in Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.