{"id":66767,"date":"2015-12-09T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66767"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:31:08","slug":"federal-government-starts-handing-out-new-funding-to-settle-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/09\/federal-government-starts-handing-out-new-funding-to-settle-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government starts handing out new funding to settle refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51836\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51836\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal MP John McCallum (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal MP John McCallum (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McCallumj1\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA\u2014The federal government has begun allocating millions of dollars in funding for Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Minister John McCallum says groups who have formal contracts with the government for settlement services will get a 25-per-cent increase in their funding this year.<\/p>\n<p>That amounts to a $3.6-million boost specifically to ensure they can support refugees as they are arriving.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals have promised to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year&#8217;s end and a further 15,000 by the end off February.<\/p>\n<p>Plane-loads of newcomers are expected to begin arriving in Toronto and Montreal in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals say over the next four years, a total of $335 million will be used to support Syrian refugees both in Canada and abroad as the needs arise.<\/p>\n<p>Of that, $94.5 million will be used to provide income support directly to Syrians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014The federal government has begun allocating millions of dollars in funding for Syrian refugees. Immigration Minister John McCallum says groups &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}