Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that his election pledge to accept 25,000 refugees from Syria by the end of 2015 will have to be altered with a new deadline of March 1, 2016 in order to provide sufficient security checks and to deal with transportation and housing issues. Â 10,000 refugees will arrive by January 1, 25,000 by March 1 and 35,000 by the end of 2016. Â The refugees will be restricted to families, single women and children. Â All the premiers of all the provinces and the two northern territories have agreed to this and there has been virtually no opposition. Â On the contrary. Â Housing will be located on military bases and other available sites, and no one will be settled in tents.
The United States has pledged to resettle 10,000 refugees by the end of 2016. However, according to CNN, the governors of 31 US states have announced that Syrian refugees will not  be welcome in their states, including President Obama’s home state of Illinois, and  Canadian  border states Michigan, New Hampshire  and Maine.  Dylan was right.  The times they are really achanging.