“Tonight they step off the plane as refugees, but they enter the terminal as permanent residents of Canada.”
Speaking to a press contingent – and some freshly minted Canucks – at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau demonstrated some A1 grade humanitarianism by personally greeting Syria’s first wave of new migrants to the nation.
“This is something we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin colour or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share.”
The response from Trudeau? Of course: “You are home… welcome home.”