Excellent advice, Layla!   It is as you say a sad story and this unfortunate Syrian refugee faces challenging times ahead to regain some social status, affluence and self respect

The Hungarian refugees in 1956, the Vietnamese refugees in 1979 and hundreds of thousands of others successfully met the same challenges here, regained their social and economic status, became proud and happy contributors to their new country, and enjoy the freedoms, rights, peace, security and opportunities that Canada offers and the places they fled did not.

The key thing to ensure a successful transition to Canada is to adopt a genuine interest in this country, identify with it, learn about it, engage in its social and economic life, and above all learn the language of the country without which the other challenges will be impossible to master.
   
If instead he doesn't bother to learn English and sits around waiting for Canada to become Little Syria and for the next government hand out, he will fail.