Conservative government aims to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by September 2016
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announces $25M plan to deal with refugee crisis
CBC News Posted: Sep 19, 2015 2:45 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 19, 2015 6:11 PM ET
Chris Alexander says Conservatives will speed up Syrian refugee resettlement
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has confirmed the federal government will speed up the process for refugee resettlement in Canada,
bringing in "thousands more" Syrians and Iraqis by the end by 2015.
The Conservative government would
complete the resettlement process of the 10,000 refugees it previously promised to accept by September 2016 — "a full 15 months earlier than anticipated," Alexander told reporters in Toronto's Scarborough area on Saturday.