Canada opens refugee processing centre in Jordan with 3 cabinet ministers on hand

A trickle of Syrian refugees seeking to leave Jordan flowed into Canada's processing centre in Amman on Sunday, the first day of operations at what will eventually become the hub of much of the Syrian refugee resettlement program.

Ninety people were put through a multi-step process, some under the eye of three federal cabinet ministers who travelled to the Jordanian capital to see firsthand how their plan to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of February actually looks. "We have learned also there is positive things to report in terms of progress," said Immigration Minister John McCallum as he stood in the cavernous military exhibition facility now being leased to Canada by the Jordanian government. More...

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