Syrians and Federal Government

House of Commons: Order this photo By Stephanie Levitz The Canadian Press Thu., June 2, 2016 OTTAWA—Syrians enrolled in language classes in Toronto are being told school is out for summer, thanks to federal funding shortages that are also seeing Syrians turned away from classes in Vancouver, according to Toronto Star. Settlement agencies told a House of Commons committee Thursday that while the federal government did top up their budgets to deal with the influx of over 25,000 Syrians in a matter of three months, the money isn't going far enough. Settlement agencies told a House of Commons committee on Thursday that the federal budget did not take into account the surge in Syrian refugees and the money isn't going far enough. So a difficult decision had to be made, said Mario Calla, the executive director of Costi, which settles government-assisted refugees in Toronto. Our hands are tied, Calla said. Rather than scale back the number of classes altogether, they decided to just stop offering their 27 federally-funded courses over the summer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.