Minister John McCallum and Military Housing

Canada Cost savings: Bringing in 25,000 people between November and the end of February cost $319 million, with the biggest costs being transporting and welcoming people to Canada, according to figures released by the Immigration Department, according to Toronto Star. Cost savings were achieved because transportation was cheaper than expected, temporary military housing was never used and neither was a contingency fund, Immigration Minister John McCallum told a House of Commons committee. By The Canadian Press Thu., June 9, 2016 OTTAWA—The first year of the Liberal government marquee program to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees came in about $136 million under budget, the government said Thursday. The reason we spent dramatically less than we said we would is because we were dramatically efficient, he said. It was divided up into five phases. The original budget for the program was $678 million spread over six years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.