Community Groups: Privately-Sponsored Refugees

community groups: That was because of the large resettlement for the Syrians that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had announced last year, according to CBC. So across the country there was a higher number of government-assisted refugees settled. Normally our year is about 250 refugees . So it been quite a larger number than normal, said Kathleen Thomas, the Executive Director of the Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County. That not taking into account the privately-sponsored refugees, which we dont know those numbers, she said. We get a higher secondary migration because of our housing, because of community groups that are here, our ethno-cultural centres that are quite known here, she said. Windsor has also attracted many refugees who moved to Windsor after initially settling somewhere else, said Thomas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.