Ontario gov’t asks feds to bring 5,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by end of year

TORONTO – Ontario is asking the federal government to pledge to bring 5,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year.
Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins also says the provincial government will give $300,000 to Lifeline Syria, an organization that is trying to bring 1,000 Syrian refugees to Toronto.
Hoskins says Canada needs to mobilize both human and financial resources to bring Syrians to Canada immediately to finish their refugee processing here.
Meanwhile, Toronto Mayor John Tory has also pledged his support to Lifeline Syria by sponsoring a family to settle in the city from the war-ravaged country.
Tory says he is sponsoring the family as part of a group of friends, one of whom asked him to help out just days before the photo of a drowned Syrian boy washed ashore in Turkey horrified the world.
Since that image was published, Tory says, he has spoken with several Canadian mayors who want to help with the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

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