The accession of the aggressive flight accustomed 163 refugees stands in abrupt adverse to the U.S., which affairs to yield in 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year and breadth Republican presidential applicant Donald Trump acquired a common uproar with a angle to briefly block Muslims from entering the U.S.
The flight accustomed just afore midnight accustomed the aboriginal of two ample groups of Syrian refugees to access in the country by government aircraft.
"This is a admirable night, breadth we get to appearance not just a planeload of new Canadians what Canada is all about, we get to appearance the apple how to accessible our hearts and acceptable in humans who are beat abnormally difficult situations," Trudeau said to agents and volunteers who were cat-and-mouse to action the refugees.
All 10 of Canada's bigoted premiers abutment demography in the refugees and associates of the opposition, including the Conservative party, abounding the affable backward Thursday. Trudeau was aswell abutting by the ministers of immigration, bloom and defense, as able-bodied as Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory.
In the U.S., several Republican governors accept approved to stop the accession of Syrian refugees in their states in the deathwatch of the baleful attacks abhorrent on Islamic extremists in Paris and California.
The aboriginal flight accustomed in Toronto afore midnight and addition will acreage in Montreal on Saturday. The planes, both aggressive aircraft, will backpack a absolute of about 300 Syrian refugees.
Canadians acquisitive to appearance their abutment for the newcomers weren't beat by the actuality that they couldn't do so face to face as the refugees were candy in a defended area. A scattering of humans aggregate at the all-embracing arrivals aboideau at Pearson airport address signs and gifts. Andrew Harris, 51, said he capital to adverse the aflutter messaging about Muslims that has broadcast back the Paris attacks.
He captivated up a ample chicken assurance that apprehend "Welcome to Canada," adage that even if the accession refugees don't see it, the absolute words will not go unnoticed.
The banderole on the foreground page Thursday's Toronto Star, Canada's better apportionment newspaper, read: "Welcome to Canada," with the Arabic adaptation below: Ahlan wa sahlan. "Welcome."
The foreground page included an editorial. "You'll acquisition the abode a little bigger than Damascus or Aleppo, and a accomplished lot chillier. But affable for all that. We're a city-limits that cherishes its diversity; it's our strength," it reads.
About 800 refugees are getting buried by aegis and bloom admiral anniversary day in Lebanon and Jordan.
Canada's charge reflects the change in government afterwards October's election. Former Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who absent the Oct. 19 acclamation to Trudeau, had beneath to displace added Syrian refugees, admitting the addictive angel of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy done up on a Turkish beach. The boy had ancestors in Canada, and the refugee crisis became a above attack issue.
"They footfall off the even as refugees, but they airing out of this terminal as abiding association of Canada with amusing allowance numbers, with bloom cards and with an befalling to become abounding Canadians," Trudeau said. "This is something that we are able to do in this country because we ascertain a Canadian not by a derma blush or a accent or a adoration or a background, but by a aggregate set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but humans about the apple share."
Canada has continued prided itself on aperture its doors to cover seekers. In times of crisis in decades past, Canada resettled refugees bound and in ample numbers. It airlifted added than 5,000 humans from Kosovo in the backward 1990s, added than 5,000 from Uganda in 1972 and resettled 60,000 Vietnamese in 1979-80. Added than 1.2 actor refugees accept accustomed in Canada back Apple War II.
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