The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that the operation to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada had begun, with 10,000 people due to depart for their new home by the end of the year.
Processing, including security checks, was initiated at a military base in Amman, Jordan – where hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled since 2011.
The resettlement initiative, campaigned on by the new Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, has come under increasing political fire following the attacks in Paris.
There is no evidence, however, that a Syrian refugee was among the jihadists who attacked multiple Paris nightspots on November 13.
