Syrian Refugees: Refugees and European Immigrants

syrian refugees: The number was driven by more than 30,000 Syrian refugees under a special program launched last year, according to Metro News. Both levels of government have struggled at times in terms of finding housing support programs for the new arrivals."Many of the refugees had large numbers of children, and that was not completely anticipated in the beginning and that created some challenges for finding appropriate housing and for schools," said John McCallum, the federal minister of immigration, refugees, and citizenship. The agency said it was the largest number of immigrants in an annual period since the early 1910s, when a wave of European immigrants arrived in the western provinces. The federal government provides language and job training, as well as social assistance payments for one year. Financial support and what immigration levels should be were part of Wednesday talks, McCallum said."One of the things that I think is really good about these federal-provincial meetings ... is that we have straight talk, we don't hold back on what we really believe. The provinces pay for other services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.