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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Madeleine Jamkossian

citizenship immigration: The burden placed on refugees who have to pay for their travel costs, according to Huffington Post Canada. Those are a few of the issues MPs on the citizenship and immigration committee have heard about as they spent the past month questioning federal officials, private sponsors, resettlement agencies and refugees themselves about the government efforts to resettle 25,000 people displaced by the Syrian conflict. Gaps in dental care under the interim federal health care program. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets and gives winter clothes to Syrian refugees 16 month-old Madeleine Jamkossian, second right, and her father Kevork Jamkossian at Pearson International airport in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2015. In the three months since the Liberal government reached its goal, about 2,580 more Syrians have arrived in Canada as part of the ongoing efforts. An extraordinary amount of government resources were deployed in a period of four months, from November to the end of February, in an effort to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.