{"id":67995,"date":"2015-12-27T19:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67995"},"modified":"2015-12-27T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:34:54","slug":"six-more-planes-carrying-syrian-refugees-to-land-in-quebec-by-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/27\/six-more-planes-carrying-syrian-refugees-to-land-in-quebec-by-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Six more planes carrying Syrian refugees to land in Quebec by year&#8217;s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67822\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12376730_10153899742015649_197264093664511359_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67822\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12376730_10153899742015649_197264093664511359_n.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Syrian refugees who have arrived in Canada (Photo from Prime Minister Trudeau's official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12376730_10153899742015649_197264093664511359_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12376730_10153899742015649_197264093664511359_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12376730_10153899742015649_197264093664511359_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Syrian refugees who have arrived in Canada<br \/>(Photo from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JustinPJTrudeau\" target=\"_blank\"> Prime Minister Trudeau&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL\u2014The Quebec government says about 1,800 more Syrian refugees are expected to land in Montreal by Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil and acting Public Security Minister Pierre Moreau say about 300 people will be on each of the six federal government-chartered flights scheduled to land at Montreal&#8217;s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>They say about 100 of the Syrians will be government-sponsored refugees, with the rest being sponsored privately.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government has pledged to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Minister John McCallum said last week the government will likely not meet its target of having 10,000 of them on Canadian soil by Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The federal website that updates progress says that 2,176 refugees have landed in Canada as of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL\u2014The Quebec government says about 1,800 more Syrian refugees are expected to land in Montreal by Dec. 31. Provincial Immigration &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-67995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-immigration","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995","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=67995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}