Heath Minister Eric Hoskins (St. Paul’s) says Ontario will accept roughly 4,000 of the 10,000 Syrian refugees set to arrive in Canada by the end of the year. It is not clear if this includes refugees who are privately sponsored like the 50 families who will be placed in Guelph. Mr. Hoskins said that since Ontario accounts for about 40 percent of the country’s population, it is prepared to take in that proportion of refugees.
PACE OF ENTRY SEEMS TO HAVE SLOWED
Governments have been considering army bases and in Ontario decommissioned hospitals as accommodation But Mr. Hoskins said they may not be needed. “We have sites identified. Some of those sites have taken the extra step of ensuring they are prepared to accommodate the refugees, but we’ll see if that type of facility is in fact required,” the minister said. “It will depend partly on the numbers that arrive.” It appears the pace of entry has slowed as the federal government plans are shaped
