Trudeau Greeting Refugees at Airport Gets Ton of International News Coverage

Beatty, a former defense minister and now the president and chief executive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, is part of an unprecedented coalition of business and labor groups working alongside the Canadian government to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees over the next three months.

“Canada’s systems are an expression of support to Syrian refugees; but, notably for us, they are demonstrations too of solidarity to countries in the area that are hosting more than 4 million Syrian refugees”, Edwards said.

The first planeload of Syrian refugees from camps in Jordan and Lebanon will arrive in Canada on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday.

Syrian refugees receive welcome bags at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada December 11, 2015. The pair said they had made arrangements with airport security to have the items – and several hundreds more bags – brought to the designated terminal where the government flight landed.

He held up a large yellow sign that read “Welcome to Canada”, saying that even if the arriving refugees don’t see it, the positive words won’t go unnoticed.

“We know the welcome and integration of refugees is a highly complex and multifaceted process, and this initiative is one modest piece of much broader collective and national efforts”, said Simon Brault, the director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, in a press release. Just a few days ago, Republican presidential-poll front-runner Donald Trump proposed banning all Muslim visitors to the U.S.

McCallum is urging other big corporations to do the same.

Global agencies and United Nations welcomed the arrival in Toronto, Canada, of a first group of Syrian refugees for settlement.

In the meantime, Canada welcomed its first arrival of Syrian refugees yesterday, reports the BBC. Many also expressed pride in how the country was opening its doors to the refugees.