November March: Mccallum and Waterloo Region

november march: More than 1,200 have already settled in Waterloo Region, according to The Waterloo Record. More local groups wish to sponsor more refugees, McCallum heard on Thursday. "And they're still waiting," he said. "We're moving as fast as we can. Between last November and March, an initial wave of 25,000 Syrian refugees came to Canada at a federal cost of $319-million. This is a good problem to have in the sense it reflects how generous Canadians are." McCallum said the Syrian refugee process has taught his ministry how to do it faster, while doing the job well in terms of health and safety concerns. "That knowledge can be transferred to other kinds of immigration, family and economic immigrants," McCallum said in a media scrum after Thursday roundtable discussion with more than a dozen stakeholder participants from Waterloo Region and Guelph. "We can become more efficient, which means we can allow in more immigrants with the same amount of money." Canada aims to welcome 300,000 new permanent residents in 2016, up from last year target of 279,200. So McCallum — who, on Thursday, was flanked by Liberal MPs Bardish Chagger , Raj Saini and Lloyd Longfield — is travelling across Canada to gather public input on immigration matters. Come November, McCallum plans to announce how many immigrants will be brought into Canada for the next three years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.