Welcome to Canada’: Syrian refugees arrive in Calgary to tearful family, smiling, sign-toting strang

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Welcome to Canada’: Syrian refugees arrive in Calgary to tearful family, smiling, sign-toting strang
Topic Started: Nov 25 2015, 07:38 AM (246 Views)
Darcie	Nov 25 2015, 07:38 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Sixteen Syrian refugees were welcomed to Calgary on Monday by tearful family members they hadn’t seen in years, and a throng of smiling strangers who brought signs, warm winter clothing, teddy bears, toys, and candy to the airport. After fleeing war-torn Syria, living in Lebanon for a year and three days, and spending countless hours on an airplane, Antoine Yousef, his wife, his wife’s sister, his 80-year-old mom, and his three-year-old twin daughters couldn’t stop smiling as they walked through the arrival gate at the Calgary International Airport on Monday afternoon. Stuffies and a brown paper bag full of snacks were thrust in little Elena and Maysa’s hands by strangers as their emotional parents hugged relatives including cousin Ashour Esho. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/welcome-to-canada-syrian-refugees-arrive-in-calgary-to-tearful-family-smiling-sign-toting-strangers Just looking at the pictures is explanatory. 023



Bitsy	Nov 25 2015, 08:24 AM Post #2
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	And this is why they come Quote: “I’m so proud for my daughters to be raised here in Canada, in this great country. You have democracy, freedom, friendly people, everything,” Yousef, who worked as a pharmacists in Syria, said in Arabic through his cousin Esho, who acted as a translator. ...we are more alike than different.



friendshipgal	Nov 25 2015, 11:00 AM Post #3
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	Well, it's now down to 10K by the end of the year as they no doubt realize the timeline was too ambitious. 10K was originally promised by the previous gov't. but noo doubt the decision to extend the timeline was a political calculation due to the blow back, still it's a good thing IMO.



Dialtone	Nov 25 2015, 12:19 PM Post #4
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	It is a good thing, but why didn't he change his ill thought out vote getting date sooner ? Everyone with an ounce of common sense knew Jan 1 was an impossible task, and still as just last week he was determined to achieve his goal regardless of outcome. Maybe his wife gave him a slap on the side of the head to knock some sense into him. http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/trudeau-wants-to-stick-to-jan-1-deadline-to-admit-syrian-refugees-1.2662486



friendshipgal	Nov 25 2015, 01:35 PM Post #5
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	Dialtone Nov 25 2015, 12:19 PM It is a good thing, but why didn't he change his ill thought out vote getting date sooner ? Everyone with an ounce of common sense knew Jan 1 was an impossible task, and still as just last week he was determined to achieve his goal regardless of outcome. Maybe his wife gave him a slap on the side of the head to knock some sense into him. http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/trudeau-wants-to-stick-to-jan-1-deadline-to-admit-syrian-refugees-1.2662486 It was good political strategy probably from Trudeau's advisers as it's pretty much in line with the CPC plans so the opposition can't say much about it now. He can now play it as 'listening to Canadians' . Correction: that should be 'handlers' not advisers :MapleLeaf: Edited by friendshipgal, Nov 25 2015, 01:44 PM.



Bitsy	Nov 25 2015, 01:35 PM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Kudos to Trudeau for recognizing that Canada would be better served by pushing back the timetable for resettling the promised number of refugees. There are some who will see this as breaking a promise or a mistake in judgment but I think most will see it as the stand of a principled leader who puts his his country, after careful study, before his own personal personal priorities. :beer:



FuzzyO	Nov 25 2015, 01:54 PM Post #7
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	I wish this could have happened so that they were here at the beginning of October, giving them some time to accustom themselves before having to contend with the cold and the difficulties it brings.



wildie	Nov 25 2015, 01:56 PM Post #8
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	So now what happens to the those who have been delayed? Will they be left, freezing, out in the middle of a field somewhere?



FuzzyO	Nov 25 2015, 02:02 PM Post #9
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Well the others are to arrive by end of February, but that will still leave thousands living in awful conditions.



Darcie	Nov 25 2015, 02:07 PM Post #10
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Certainly not the first or last time that refugees have been left out there. The have countries want to keep their status quo and some even don't want to help any at all. Nothing has changed in all the years I have worked in this milieu.



Bitsy	Nov 25 2015, 02:31 PM Post #11
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	wildie Nov 25 2015, 01:56 PM So now what happens to the those who have been delayed? Will they be left, freezing, out in the middle of a field somewhere? I would think they would remain where they are, refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon where most have been for at least 2 or 3 years. Edited by Bitsy, Nov 25 2015, 02:31 PM.



Bitsy	Nov 26 2015, 12:54 AM Post #12
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	friendshipgal Nov 25 2015, 01:35 PM It was good political strategy probably from Trudeau's advisers as it's pretty much in line with the CPC plans If you can ll less than half the number of refugees resettled by next September (2016), yes it is the same plan :sign10: Cheers Edited by Bitsy, Nov 26 2015, 12:55 AM.



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