On December 10 last year, as the first planeload of Syrian refugees arrived at Toronto’s Pearson Airport and was greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the official welcoming party that accompanied him featured someone who himself had landed in Canada 43 years earlier as a refugee.
That’s Arif Virani, freshman member of Parliament from the Toronto constituency of Parkdale-High Park, who was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister for citizenship, immigration and refugees in November, and is now assisting his senior cabinet colleague in what is the most high-profile undertaking of the Trudeau regime – resettling 25,000 refugees by the end of February.
“What’s nice about the specific portfolio that’s been given to me is that I’m now the parliamentary secretary to the minister while we’re in the middle of one of the biggest refugee resettlement projects that we’ve undertaken in the country’s history. I’m squarely integrated in that role and I’m sort of working with the minister directly,” Virani said in an interview at his office in Toronto.
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Source: February 08, 2016 – Anirudh Bhattacharyya – Hindustan Times, Toronto
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Congratulations Arif, keep up the good work and best wishes and Good Luck in the Federal Liberal ridings for
Parkdale-High Park. I need a contact in Vancouver for donations to all refugees not funds but other things people need in a home. If u have a contact pls e-mail me on the address below. Many Thanks. Zinat
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