'You are home': Canada's Justin Trudeau welcomes Syrian refugees

[demmiblue]

Source: Mashable

"You are home. Welcome home," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told some of the 163 Syrian refugees who arrived at Toronto's Pearson airport late on Thursday night.

The families were part of the first dedicated Canadian government flight to relocate Syrian refugees from the Middle East. Dozens of Canadian volunteers were waiting for their arrivals, offering a warm welcome to make their transition to a new home halfway around the world a little easier.

The first family to enter the reception center was Kevork Jamkossian, a gynecologist from Aleppo, his wife Georgina Zires, a lab technician, and their 16-month-old daughter Madeleine.



"We really would like to thank you for all this hospitality and the warm welcome," Jamkossian told Trudeau through an interpreter. "We felt ourselves at home."

"We suffered a lot. Now, we feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise," Jamkossian said.

Read more/view video: http://mashable.com/2015/12/11/canada-syrian-refugees-justin-trudeau/#EdOkfrahJuqH


THIS, this is how it is done! This is the kind of world I want to live in.

[marmar]

1. K/R

[monmouth4]

2. How wonderful. Best wishes to these people and I love Justin Trudeau, this is how a leader acts..

[newfie11]

3. Wish my country had that compassion and common sense

But no we have idiot trump spewing hate and fear a long with the normal prejudice found in this country!

Ugly American term come to mind!

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Me too!

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. K&R

[erronis]

6. Thank you Canada for showing how it can and should be done.

Thank you M$M for inflaming the hatred of the US RWingers and giving us such a poor choice of Republican candidates.

[patsimp]

12. easy - ignore all security concerns, add to the deficit, ignore the people waiting to immigrate

through the proper channels and there is the solution.

[demmiblue]

8. Go away. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Gone by a 7-0 Vote.

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[demmiblue]

16. Very nice, jurors!

[randys1]

26. Well done jury...We must oppose ignorant hatred whenever we see it.

[LanternWaste]

9. The historical process of acculturation happens regardless of individual hope..

The historical process of acculturation happens regardless of individual hope or bias against a specific faith.

[marmar]

11. Don't go away mad. Just go away.

[patsimp]

13. i'm not mad

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

29. No, you're just a troll. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. We get it, Justin. You are absolutely perfect.

You look like a GQ model, your wife is gorgeous, your kids are perfect, you're well-spoken and athletically talented, you are the leader of the most polite nation on earth, and now you're showing us how welcoming and open minded you are while your neighbor to the south is currently contemplating electing Fascist Shrek as its leader.

Is there anything you want to add, Justin? When's your birthday?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau

Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada.....

Crap. You were born on Christmas. The mother fucker was actually born on Christmas.

Justin, were you born just to make us all look worse?

, of course. Very cool on his part. Too bad Canada's so damn cold.

[FSogol]

14. Al least he isn't walking on water. He's staying humble by using the canoe.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

30. LOL Ok, that was funny!

nt

[demmiblue]

17. !

[Duval]

19. You are a riot, Tommy!

Thanks for the chuckles!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. I would love to move there if it was a simple as moving around between states.

I live in Maine, so it is virtually the same climate wise (southern Canada that is). My great grand parents were Canadian (maybe my grandfather even was, I'm not sure). I have no idea why they moved here. That place makes more sense to me than the US does.

[randys1]

27. And the comment "You are home" is just perfect, isnt it!

Yes, cold sucks, big time.

Canadians are good though.

[Hekate]

18. KnR

[saidsimplesimon]

20. Bravo Canada & Trudeau!

[bulloney]

21. Trudeau offers calmness and comfort to the refugees.

Then again, he's in a position where he can do that because his country doesn't spend most of its time and resources destroying and killing, then telling the victims of said acts to go screw themselves because they may terrorize Amurika!

[niyad]

22. k and r

[arthritisR_US]

23. I stand with my PM. We can't take away what these

families have had to endure but warm hearts and open arms can aid in the healing.

[demmiblue]

25. Indeed!

I just wish that there were more warm hearts and open arms.

[arthritisR_US]

28. So do I mate!