Rich,

  Did you read the article?
  I don't begrudge refugees their hand outs, but Nabel's family have been treated very well in Canada. Hotels, clothes, friends everywhere, all their needs met.
    As a middle class family having had an easy life in Syria, middle class Canada cannot seem that strange or scary.
 And Nabel had the help of a housing counsellor (lol) to find a place to live within a few months.
  There are tens of thousands waiting five or ten years for a subsidized place in Toronto.
  I very nearly became homeless trying to find an apartment in Toronto in 1985. It was cutthroat. I warned Torontonians, the new global economy was leaving many Canadian-born folks behind.
   I wonder what hundreds of thousands of Jewish Canadians think about thousands of Syrians in Toronto, knowing the horrible things Israel has  been doing in the Golan Heights and Syria for decades, including bombing Syria from time to time.
  Best refugee program: a strong peace movement demanding peace.