OUCH. All I need to do is close my eyes and imagine myself and my family eating our curds and whey in Aleppo. The Syrian refugees we accepted into Canada need our help and generosity.  They have escaped from a living hell.  
From 1956 to 1979 Canada became the new home for thousands of immigrants escaping oppressive communist regimes.  Hungry, Czechoslovakia, Cambodia, Vietnam.  They did not know the language but times were good and employment opportunities were plentiful.  The Canadian economy of  then versus today is like comparing apples to oranges. It is now almost 2017 and the great jobs of yesteryear have all but disappeared by the way of the robot and globalization.